George B. Pearce
Annapolis Realtor
George B. Pearce, Realtor, salesman and former office manager, died Friday of complications during surgery for an aneurysm at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. He was 61.
He worked for Davidsonville Realty and Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Annapolis after retiring in 1986 as an office manager for Safeway Stores Inc. in Landover, where he had worked for 20 years.
He was born and reared in the Washington metropolitan area and graduated from the University of Maryland College Park with a business degree.
An avid history researcher, he was working on a history of Davidsonville in Anne Arundel County, where he had lived for 21 years.
He was a member of several organizations, including the Davidsonville Ruritan Club and the Anne Arundel County Historical Society.
Services were set for noon today at Christ Episcopal Church, 122 Owensville Road, West River.
His marriage ended in divorce in 1988.
Survivors include two daughters, Pamela A. Jordan of Pasadena and Susan E. Pearce of Edgewater; a son, William S. Pearce of Denver; three sisters, Esther P. Palmer of Sterling Heights, Mich., Carolyn P. Magdeburger of Austin, Texas, and Virginia P. Updegraff of College Park; and a granddaughter.
Memorial donations may be made to Anne Arundel Medical Center, West Garrett Place, 275 West St., Annapolis 21401.
Andrew E. Smith
Retired salesman
Andrew E. "Jimmy" Smith, a retired brewery route salesman and courier, died Saturday of heart failure at St. Agnes Hospital. He was 77 and lived in Arbutus.
He was known throughout his neighborhood for his generosity and volunteerism.
"He was never too busy to take someone to a doctor's appointment or pick up a prescription. He enjoyed visiting the homebound and doing whatever he could to help. He was helping people up until last week," said his daughter, Margaret Balsamo of Columbia.
The Baltimore native was a member of the Arbutus Community Association, the Seagram's Retiree Club and the Brewery Workers Retiree Club.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church, 4414 Wilkens Ave., Baltimore.
He is also survived by his wife, the former Irma Mae Moore, whom he married in 1939; a son, Richard G. Smith of Catonsville; a sister, Lillian Porter of Easton; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Arbutus Community Association, 1349 Stevens Ave., Arbutus 21227.
Lewis Scheffenacker
Salesman
Lewis E. Scheffenacker, a retired salesman, died Oct. 28 of heart failure at the Delaware Care Center in Milford. He was 83.
The former Roland Park resident retired in 1977 and moved to Bethany Beach, Del.
Born and reared on Guilford Avenue, he attended city schools and graduated in 1932 from St. John's College, where he was an All-American lacrosse player.
A recovering alcoholic, he was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous in Bethany. "He considered it the major accomplishment of his life," said his daughter, Eve Scheffenacker of Baltimore.
His wife, Harriet, died in 1980.
A memorial service is set for 1 p.m. Saturday at the Southern Delaware Library, Kent Street, Bethany Beach.
Other survivors include a son, Lauren Scheffenacker of Bethany Beach; a sister, Mary Froelich of Atlantic Beach, Fla.; and three granddaughters.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 424 E. 92nd St., New York, N.Y. 10128.
Margaretta A. Diggs
Hospital supervisor
Margaretta Austin Diggs, a nursing supervisor at the former Hospital for the Women of Maryland, died Saturday at Church Home of a circulatory illness. She was 95.
The former Margaretta Austin was a native of Baltimore and a graduate of Eastern High School. In 1921 she graduated from the nursing school at Women's Hospital, which later became part of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center.
During World War II, she was a volunteer nurse with the Red Cross mobile blood bank. After the war she was a member of the Franklin Square Hospital auxiliary.
Mrs. Diggs, who had lived in Towson and the Thirty-Nine Hundred North Charles Apartments, was a member of First English Lutheran Church.
Her husband, Austin Campbell Diggs, died last year.
Services will be private.
Survivors include a daughter, Margaretta Austin Diggs Nes of the Charlesbrooke area; a brother, John K. Austin of Reynoldsburg, Ohio; and a granddaughter.
Philomena Bucklen
Glen Burnie resident
Philomena Zazilia Maccani Bucklen, a homemaker, died Wednesday of cancer at North Arundel Hospital. The Glen Burnie resident was 61.
Her husband, Arnold V. Bucklen, an Army master sergeant, died in 1978.
Services were set for 12:15 p.m. today at the Fort Meyer Chapel adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Survivors include a son, Dale G. Bucklen of Westminster; two daughters, Sylvia G. Ender and Melina D. Bucklen, both of Glen Burnie; two brothers, Richard Maccani of Salzburg, Austria, and Arthur Maccani of Bregenz, Austria; three sisters, Gertrude Lindner of Salzburg, Hildegard Deaver of Palm Springs, Calif., and Irmgard Gregory of Long Island, N.Y.; and four grandchildren.
W. Earle Purdum
B&O; accountant
W. Earle Purdum, a retired accountant for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, died Saturday of heart disease at St. Agnes Hospital. He was 88 and lived in Catonsville.
Born in Germantown, Montgomery County, Mr. Purdum was reared in Baltimore and attended the Polytechnic Institute. He was an Army officer during World War II and the Korean War.
He was a member of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore.
Services were set for 1 p.m. today at the Leroy M. and Russell C. Witzke Funeral Home, 1630 Edmondson Ave., Catonsville.
He is survived by his wife, the former Dorothy M. Anseman; and a son, Spence W. Purdum of Freehold, N.J.
Alice Marie Fillhart
Stevensville resident
Alice Marie Fillhart, a homemaker, died yesterday of kidney failure at the Meridian Nursing Center-Spa Creek in Annapolis. She was 74 and lived in Stevensville.
The former Alice Marie Bancroft was a native of Weston, W.Va.,
Her husband, William Henry Fillhart, died last year.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Kent Island United Methodist Church in Chester.
She is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth J. Coyle of Port Orange, Fla; a brother, Braden Bancroft, and a sister, Lenore King, both of Western Maryland; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Jessye S. Pearce, 91, a retired Baltimore department store employee, died Oct. 29 at a hospital in Camp Hill, Pa., of injuries from a fall at her home in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Services were private. Her husband, Arthur C. Pearce, died in 1979. Mrs. Pearce is survived by a daughter, Natalie Kintzer of Camp Hill, Pa.; a brother, William Warner of Seven Valleys, Pa.; two granddaughters and three great-grandsons.