Margaret T. Moler
Writer, editor
Margaret Thomsen Moler, a writer and editor, died May 19 at her Stoneleigh home of complications of cancer. She was 57.
At the time of her death, she was working on a book about doctors and the need to take responsibility for the direction of your medical treatment.
Earlier, she was a free-lance writer for University of Maryland Baltimore County publications. After returning to the Baltimore area in the early 1970s, she was editor of the Goucher Quarterly, an alumnae magazine.
The Baltimore native was the youngest child of the late U.S. District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen and his late wife, Carol.
She was educated at the Calvert School and the Roland Park Country School, where she was a star field hockey and lacrosse player and president of the student body.
She was the third generation of her family to graduate from Goucher College, where she was a member of the academic team that was national winner on the College Bowl television program. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
After she and Kenneth L. Moler were married in 1959, she was a teaching assistant in the writing program at the Harvard Business School. Before the marriage ended in divorce and she returned to Baltimore, she was active in the League of Women Voters in Lincoln, Neb.
For many years, she was a volunteer for Pets on Wheels in the Baltimore area and made weekly visits with her dog, Echo, to the Meridian Nursing Center-Long Green.
Last fall, she and Echo appeared on a local television show to promote the Pets on Wheels program.
A memorial service was conducted yesterday in the Goucher College Chapel.
She is survived by a daughter, Kathryn Griffing Moler; and a son, Mark Cathcart Moler, both of Stoneleigh; a sister, Grace Thomsen Babcock of Fallston; a brother, George E. Thomsen of Baltimore; six nephews; and a niece.
Memorial donations may be made to the Roland Park Country School, Goucher College or to Pets on Wheels.
Donald W. Schriver
Retired police officer
Donald W. Schriver, a retired Baltimore County police lieutenant who later sold computer components, died May 24 of emphysema at his home in Timonium.
Mr. Schriver, who was 60, retired in 1975 as aide to Ellison W. Ensor, then the chief of the county force.
He joined the force in 1955 and served in Cockeysville for five years before becoming a detective in 1960. He had several other assignments before becoming aide to the chief in 1967.
After his retirement, he worked briefly in the County Courthouse and then began a sales career, mostly with Imigitron Sales Co., that lasted until his final retirement in 1990.
Fond of golf, he was a member of the Hunt Valley Golf and Country Club for many years and headed the county police details at the Ladies Professional Golf Association tournaments at Pine Ridge.
Born in Baltimore and reared in the Idlewylde area, he served in the Army in Germany during the Korean War.
He worked for a short time for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. before becoming a police officer.
A member of several police organizations, including the Baltimore County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 4 and the Retired Baltimore County Police Officers Association, he also belonged to the Towson Lodge of the Elks, the Parkville Post of the American Legion and the Parkville Memorial Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He is survived by a nephew, Jerry W. Kalista of Forest Hill; and two nieces, Kathy K. Widmaier of Towson and Karen A. Bierly of Parkville.
Services for Mr. Schriver were held May 27 at the Lemmon-Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home in Timonium.
Marvin Tapper, who operated an automobile service center in the Milford Mill area of Baltimore County for 34 years before retiring in 1988, died Thursday of cancer at his home in Boca Raton, Fla.
Mr. Tapper, who was 66, had moved to Boca Raton 4 1/2 years ago from his home in Owings Mills. His business was called Tapper's Auto Service Center, on Liberty Road at Milford Mill Road.
The Baltimore native was a member of the Menorah Lodge of B'nai B'rith and the Winands Road Synagogue Center.
Graveside services for Mr. Tapper are to be held at 1 p.m. today at the Eternal Light Cemetery in Boynton Beach, Fla.
He is survived by his wife, the former Yetta Gertz; two daughters, Brenda Scheuch of Delray Beach, Fla., and Sherie Leister of Finksburg; two brothers, Bernard Tapper of Delray Beach and Murray Tapper of Randallstown; and five grandchildren.
Lillian Gottschalk
Medical receptionist
Lillian Lorraine Gottschalk, a retired medical receptionist for the Johns Hopkins University, died Friday of cancer at the Meridian Multi-Medical acute care center in Towson. She was 70.
Mrs. Gottschalk, a lifelong resident of the Baltimore area, was a homemaker until 21 years ago when her husband, lawyer Carl Gottschalk, died of cancer.
She then worked as a receptionist for the Johns Hopkins University allergy research clinic at Good Samaritan Hospital. About 1989, she retired and took a part-time job with the dermatology clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was employed there until December, when her illness kept her from working.
Mrs. Gottschalk wrote in her spare time, kept journals and had two articles published in travel magazines.
Before she began working, she helped the Catholic War Veterans Women's Auxiliary with community service.
Born Lillian Kirchner in Baltimore, Mrs. Gottschalk was a 1941 graduate of Elizabeth Seaton High School. She lived in the city until the early 1970s, when she moved to Baldwin. In the early 1980s, she moved to Towson.
A Mass of Christian burial for Mrs. Gottschalk will be offered at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Belair Road and Willow Avenue, Overlea.
Mrs. Gottschalk is survived by three daughters, Mary Cashour of Bel Air, Judy Valle of Perry Hall and Margaret "Peggy" Mannone )) of Bel Air; two sons, James Gottschalk of Jarrettsville, and Carl Gottschalk of New Freedom, Pa.; a sister, Helen Rosenfeld of Miami; a brother, Robert Kirchner of Bel Air; and 12 grandchildren.
Francis P. Gayhardt
Linen service official
Francis P. Gayhardt, retired vice president and general manager of the Bugle Linen Service, died May 28 of complications of emphysema at the Howard County General Hospital.
Mr. Gayhardt, who was 87, had been a resident of Catonsville for many years before moving to Clearwater, Fla. About six years ago, however, he moved back to the Baltimore area, living at the Heartlands, the Ellicott City retirement community.
The Baltimore native retired about 20 years ago after many years of service with Bugle.
He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and for many years had been a sports fan, with a special interest in the Orioles.
He is survived by his wife, the former Evelyn C. Hines; two sons, James G. Gayhardt of Heidelberg, Germany, and Donald F. Gayhardt of Annapolis; a daughter, Mary P. Heim of Columbia; nine grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
A Mass of Christian burial was offered Wednesday at St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church in Catonsville.
Jean Husman
Hospice founder
Jean Carter Husman, a former librarian who helped found the Hospice Services of Howard County, died May 28 of a brain tumor at her home at Heritage Harbour near Annapolis where she had lived since 1993. She was 65.
She had worked for many years as librarian at the old St. Joseph Hospital, which was then in the 1400 block of N. Caroline St. The hospital was relocated to Towson in 1965. She later worked at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital and retired in 1976.
The former Jean Carter married Burris F. Husman, a professor at the University of Maryland College Park, in 1967. The couple made their home in Howard County where in 1978 she helped organize the Howard County Hospice, now known as the Hospice Services of Howard County.
Dr. William Flowers, an internist who served on the hospice board, recalled her as a "very kind and gentle person who had a great deal of compassion and who cared about the hospice program."
After Mr. Husman retired in 1981, the couple moved to the Northern Neck of Virginia, where she helped established a hospice program.
Mrs. Husman was born and reared on Monastery Avenue in Southwest Baltimore. She attended city schools and graduated from Western High School in 1946.
She was a deeply religious woman who taught Bible study. She had been a member of Abiding Savior Lutheran Church in Columbia for many years and had recently become a member of Riva Trace Baptist Church in Annapolis.
She enjoyed the theater, traveling and playing tennis.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by her mother, Helen M. Carter of Baltimore
Memorial donations may be made to the Heritage Harbour Health Group, 801 Compass Way, Suite 201, Annapolis 21401; or Hospice of the Chesapeake, 8424 Veterans Highway, Millersville A memorial service was held Wednesday at Riva Trace Baptist Church in Annapolis.