Paul H. Whitmore
Printer
Paul H. Whitmore, a retired printer who was active in the cultural life of Annapolis, died Tuesday of respiratory failure at the Annapolis Nursing Center. He was 82.
A gift of a printing press when he was 7 defined his life's work.
He and his brother, John, who was 9, began printing handbills and publishing a newspaper as youngsters in Southern Maryland, an activity that eventually grew into the Whitmore Printing Co., with printing divisions in Denton and Sherwood on the Eastern Shore.
The firm moved to Annapolis in 1946 and was sold in 1970, although Mr. Whitmore continued working for it until retiring in the 1980s. He was a member of the Vanguard Players in Baltimore, an activity that led him to meet the woman he would marry, Alice Reid. They were married in 1940 and settled in Annapolis after World War II.
He was a co-founder in 1948 of the Colonial Players in Annapolis. He served on the boards of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra and Historic Annapolis Inc., and was a life member of Kiwanis International.
During World War II, Mr. Whitmore served with the 8th Armored Division in Europe as a radio operator, and at war's end was discharged with the rank of staff sergeant.
Services are planned for noon today at St. Anne's Church, Church Circle, Annapolis, where he was a parishioner and vestryman.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Anne M. Whitmore of Baltimore and Jane W. Davies of Canberra, Australia; a sister, Marcia W. Keen of Baltimore; and two grandchildren.
Marlin C. Kendall
Dispatcher
Marlin C. Kendall, who worked for Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. for 35 years, died Thursday of a heart attack at his home in Northeast Baltimore.
Mr. Kendall, 73, retired in 1984 from the utility, where he was a dispatcher in the electrical department.
Born and reared in Baltimore, he attended Elementary School No. 60 and Lafayette Junior High School.
From 1941 to 1943, he worked at the Montgomery Ward department store in Baltimore.
During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps and was stationed in India. He was discharged with the rank of corporal in 1946.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Leonard J. Ruck funeral home, 5305 Harford Road.
Survivors include two sisters, Vivian Sanner of Baltimore and Jean Ramsburg of Harrisburg, Pa.; and many nieces and nephews.
Charles F. McNair
World War II veteran
Charles F. McNair, a West Point graduate who served in China during World War II and had a 30-year Army career, died of pneumonia Nov. 27 at St. Mary's Hospital in Leonardtown. The Annapolis resident, who had moved to the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home when his health began to fail in May, was 85.
A native of Fort Oglethrope, Ga., Mr. McNair graduated from West Point in 1931. For the next 30 years, Mr. McNair had an active military career, serving at posts in the Far East. He retired as a colonel in 1961.
Later, he was active in the Optimist Club and was its lieutenant governor for the Maryland District.
"We traveled a lot with the Optimist International," said his wife, the former Lucille Phipps.
The couple would have been married 23 years on Dec. 11. His first wife, Elsie Virginia McNair, died in 1969.
"For a long time, we went [to conventions] every year," Lucille McNair said. "All of them were in the United States."
Mr. McNair also was a Mason and a member of the Boumi
Temple Shrine in Baltimore. He was a life member of the Annapolis Yacht Cluband a member of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Annapolis.
Services are scheduled for 12:30 p.m. today at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, 1601 Pleasant Plains Road, Annapolis. Interment with full military honors is planned for 3 p.m. in Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery.
In addition to his wife, Mr. McNair is survived by two daughters, Virginia C. Martz of Corunna, Ind., and Dorothy K. Little of Temple Hills; seven grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
He also is survived by a stepdaughter, Judith P. Pennington of Annapolis; two stepsons, Paul D. Phipps of Annapolis and Robert N. Phipps of Severna Park; seven stepgrandchildren and six stepgreat-grandchildren.
The family suggests contributions to St. Margaret's Episcopal Church or to the Anne Arundel County Chapter, American Parkinson's Disease Foundation, P.O. Box 266, Mayo 21106-0266.