Dr. Jesse T. Holmes
Family practitioner
Dr. Jesse T. Holmes, who maintained a family practice in Baltimore for about 35 years, died Friday at his Ashburton home of congestive heart failure. He was 72.
Dr. Holmes came to Baltimore in 1958 to serve an internship at the then-Provident Hospital. He retired from practice in March.
Born in Bay St. Louis, Miss., and reared in Gulfport, Miss., he at tended Clark College in Atlanta for two years before serving as a naval officer during World War II. After the war, he earned a medical degree at Howard University in Washington.
Services were set for noon today at the March Funeral Home, 4300 Wabash Ave., Baltimore.
He is survived by his wife of 36 years, the former Irma R. Demas; two sons, Benjamin and Paul Holmes, both of Baltimore; two daughters, Carolyn Holmes of New York City and Regina Holmes of Miami Beach, Fla.; and a brother, Laurence Holmes of Berwyn, Pa. William J. Plunkett, a retired railroader, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at his Wyman Park residence.
He was 90.
He began his career in 1920 with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad as an office boy and eventually became chief clerk in the coal traffic department, supervising railroad personnel in 17 cities. He retired in 1970.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 9 a.m. today at St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church, Hickory Avenue and 37th Street, Hampden.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, the former Margaret Grogan; a daughter, Peggy Bauersfeld of Rodgers Forge; a brother, James Plunkett, and a sister, Catherine Parvis, both of Baltimore; and three grandchildren. Brandt Jones, a retired communications analyst for a defense contractor and a retired Navy senior chief petty officer, died of prostate cancer Sunday at his home in Columbia.
He was 56.
He belonged to the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia and was volunteer executive director of the Baltimore Chapter of the Compassionate Friends.
A memorial service will be at 8 p.m. today at the Leroy M. and Russell C. Witzke Funeral Home, 5555 Twin Knolls Road, Columbia.
He is survived by his wife, the former Betty Fowler; his daughter, Donna Eber of Columbia; his mother, Claudia Jones of Baltimore; two brothers, William Jones of Finksburg and Robert Jones of Baltimore; and a grandson.
A son, Bruce Jones, was killed in a 1978 automobile accident. Harry F. Jones, a retired specifications writer for an engineering firm, died Sunday of complications of leukemia at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 76 and lived in Cockeysville.
He had previously lived in Easton.
The native of Scranton, Pa., was a 1941 graduate of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., and served in the Army in Egypt during World War II.
He was an elder of Havenwood Presbyterian Church in Lutherville.
A memorial service was set for 2 p.m. today at the Lemmon Funeral Home, 10 W. Padonia Road, Timonium.
He is survived by his wife, the former Dorothy Miller; a daughter, Judith A. Williams of Spruce Pine, N.C.; and three grandchildren.
Baty Darnell Hall
Retired hospital worker
Baty Darnell Hall, a retired Navy chief petty officer and retired staff member at the Union Hospital in Elkton, died Sunday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital of complications after bypass surgery. He was 65 and had moved from Elkton to Mission, Texas, in 1993.
While stationed in Hawaii with the Navy in 1957, he became interested in square dancing and in 1959 started a square dance club in Annapolis, the Thunderbird Twirlers. He called square dances for the club and for the Dublin Dancers and the Circle Stars of Perry Hall and many other area clubs.
In 1974, he and his wife, the former Joanna LaBorne, who survives him, started a round dance club, the Banjos in Perry Hall.
A memorial service was set for 3 p.m. today at the Naval Station Chapel in Annapolis.
Other survivors include two daughters, Linda Poorman of Elkton and Sherrie Rausch of Hilton Head, S.C.; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Miriam E. Reiter, a retired nurse, died Sunday of respiratory failure at Stella Maris Hospice. The former Catonsville resident was 88. A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 11 a.m. today at the Stella Maris Hospice Chapel, 2300 Dulaney Road, Towson. Survivors include a nephew, Charles L. Reiter III of Catonsville, and a niece, Mary R. Coakley of Westminster.