Jacques Kelly

Franklin A. James, manager of a Harbor East Hilton hotel, has died at 43.

They couldn’t silence Billie Holiday’s 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 Bank’s 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. “Vi” 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, Baltimore’s 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 “Watch Out for the Big Girl,” died of kidney failure Tuesday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore. He was 50.

Joanne Souris Deitz, who rose to become Baltimore County’s 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 can’t 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. “Wilkie” Wilkerson Jr., a retired St. Paul’s 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.

“Winfield was cheerful and vivacious,” said Baltimore musician Paul Johns. “He 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 “Minnie” 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 daughter’s Ashburton home.

Frank Falkenhan was the owner of an old-fashioned hardware store in Hampden and also a master plumber.