Jacques Kelly
1,690 stories by Jacques Kelly
- Franklin A. James, manager of a Harbor East Hilton hotel, has died at 43.
- They couldnāt silence Billie Holidayās voice, a voice that took her from an Upper Fells Point alley to New York City concert halls and into the annals of history as a performer and civil rights icon.
- Frank Brooks Coakley, a pioneering Black manager of the old Maryland National Bankās Mondawmin branch who became a homeownership specialist for Baltimore and Maryland, died of cancer Feb. 23 at Gilchrist Care Towson. He was 78.
- Violet R. āViā Ripken, the matriarch of a baseball dynasty and a revered member of the Aberdeen community recalled for her philanthropy, has died just short of her 83rd birthday.
- George Phillips Jr., a a substance abuse counselor and member of the '80s pop group Starpoint, has died at 68.
- The Royal Theater on Baltimore's Pennsylvania Avenue was a magnet for the top Black performing artists of the 20th century.
- Baltimore-born Chick Webb was a sensation as a jazz drummer in the 1930s.
- Leslie Starr, a musician and avid birder, has died at 70.
- Ted Patterson, a retired television and radio sports reporter and talk show host for 45 years and an author of baseball and football histories, died Thursday. He was 76.
- Herman Heyn, Baltimoreās curbside astronomer, who set up a telescope at the harbor in Fells Point and explained the starry skies to thousands of curious stargazers, has died at 90.
- Jimmy Jones, a club musician known for his 1993 hit āWatch Out for the Big Girl,ā died of kidney failure Tuesday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore. He was 50.
- Joanne Souris Deitz, who rose to become Baltimore Countyās chief purchasing agent and was named the 1970 Towson Woman of the Year, died Feb. 5 at Mercy Ridge Retirement Community in Timonium. She was 90.
- Joseph Edward Rolfes, a retired travel agency owner and World War II Navy veteran, has died at 94.
- In Baltimore County's Turner Station neighborhood, the former home of Henrietta Lacks is being restored and renovated.
- Samuel Abraham Baroody, who owned a trucking business and was a leader in Kingsville in Baltimore County, has died at 93.
- Barbara Elizabeth Moulden Vogel, a foster parent to 30 children who recalled her firm but loving ways, died Saturday at her Perry Hall home. She was 83.
- Preston T. Hebron Jr., a retired Anne Arundel County Public Schools principal, has died at 77.
- Baltimore's master sign maker will be making the replacement of the Domino Sugars sign in the Inner Harbor.
- John C. Jeppi Sr., the former owner of the Broadcasting Institute of Maryland who covered sports for radio years ago, died of COVID-19 pneumonia Jan. 17 at his Mays Chapel home, The former Ruxton resident was 83.
- Dr. Hubert Taylor Gurley II, a retired Johns Hopkins Hospital administrator, has died of Covid-19 at 77.
- Heide Marie Grundmann, who fought to save Leakin Park from a highway and was a Gwynns Falls Trail advocate, has died at 82
- Only the exterior walls of the former Grand Central nightclub stand as the Mount Vernon property is redeveloped.
- Baltimore police have arrested Lawrence Scott, wanted in a rape case.
- Dr. Robert Padousis, a retired Rosedale dentist, Vietnam veteran, and collector of classic cars, has died at 82.
- Baltimore missed out on a snow event Tuesday, but that does not mean that a small amount of white precipitation canāt bring the region to its knees.
- Odell Thomas Henry, a retired steelworker who served in the Berlin Airlift of the 1940s and lived in Gwynn Oak died on Jan. 17.
- Albert R. āWilkieā Wilkerson Jr., a retired St. Paulās School for Boys teacher, has died at 84.
- Gilchrist Hospice Baltimore is building a 22-bed center on the former Memorial Stadium grounds.
- Southern District shooting detectives are investigating this incident and are asking anyone with information to call (410) 396-2499 or call Metro Crime Stoppers At 1-866-7lockup
- Pauline Vollmer, an influential gardener and donor to the Cylburn Arboretum, has died at 104.
- āWinfield was cheerful and vivacious,ā said Baltimore musician Paul Johns. āHe was outgoing to people.
- John Roemer, a teacher and former head of the American Civil Liberties Union in Maryland, has died at 82.
- Dr. Samuel L. Myers Sr., former president of Bowie State University, has died at 101
- The long-vacant Odel''s nightclub on North Avenue is being restored to become home to two nonprofit organizations.
- Guy T. Hollyday, an environmentalist and author of a history of his Stone Hill neighborhood, has died at 92
- Robert Rogers Cassilly Jr., the patriarch of his Harford County family who served in World War II and the Vietnam War, died Jan. 4 of old-age complications at his Bel Air home. He was 95.
- Dr. Robert H. Heptinstall, retired head of the Johns Hopkins Department of Pathology and a kidney disease expert, has died at 100.
- Waverly's long-neglected 19th-century town hall is being renovated into apartments and retail spaces.
- George F. Goebel, a magician who owned the A.T. Jones theatrical costume firm, has died at 88.
- Mary Wanamaker āMinnieā Watriss, a painter, gardener and equestrian, died of a stroke Dec. 18 at Sinai Hospital. She was 89 and lived in Butler in Baltimore County and in coastal Maine.
- Crystal Hardy-Flowers, who founded the Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center in Sandtown-Winchester, has died of complications of COVID-19 at 55.
- John F.X. O'Brien, a former Maryland state delegate and state personnel secretary, has died at 84.
- James Timothy Gorman, a retired pharmaceutical salesman who became an advocate for awareness of Multiple System Atrophy, the disease that took his life, died Dec. 26 at his Lutherville home. He was 64.
- Despite months of pandemic and disruption, Baltimore saw a host of projects quietly move forward in 2020.
- George D. Mitchell Sr., property manager and member of politically active African American family, dies
- Joseph C. Hauf III, engineer who created models of historical Chesapeake Bay sailing craft, has died at 91
- The market has changed several times, but none was as rapid and dramatic as the one that leveled it in the early morning hours of March 25, 1949.
- Amalie Adler Ascher, a gardener who wrote about flowers and flower arranging, died of respiratory failure complications Nov. 13 at the Edenwald Retirement Comminuty.
- Mae Ellen Cuffee, a retired Social Security Administration claims adjuster who was an accomplished cook, died of dementia complications Dec. 18 at her daughterās Ashburton home.
- Frank Falkenhan was the owner of an old-fashioned hardware store in Hampden and also a master plumber.