Roland V. Calvert
Carpenter
Roland V. Calvert, a retired carpenter, died Monday of emphysema at the Baptist Medical Center in Columbia, S.C. The former Glen Burnie resident was 81.
He was reared on a 300-acre farm near Fort Smallwood that his family started in 1849. It was sold in 1983.
He was a 1930 graduate of Glen Burnie High School and studied accounting at Ben Franklin Institute in Washington, D.C. He worked as an accountant until 1940 when he became a self-employed carpenter.
He retired in 1990 and moved to Columbia.
For many years, he was a member of Magothy United Methodist Church.
Services were set for today in Columbia.
He is survived by his wife of 59 years, the former Evelyn Oakey; a son, R. Gary Calvert of Glen Burnie; two daughters, Eleanor Meleski of Richmond, Va., and Diana Westerkan of Columbia; four brothers, Charles Calvert and James Calvert, both of Pasadena, Carroll Calvert of Laurel and Edwin Calvert of Hanover, Pa.; two sisters, Annabel Lewis and Ruth Twigg, both of Millersville; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Epworth Children's Home, 2900 Millwood Road, Columbia, S.C., 29204; or Virginia Wingard United Methodist Church, Minister's Discretionary Fund, 1500 Broad River Road, Columbia 29210.
Henry Whiteford Jr.
Gospel musician
Henry A. Whiteford Jr., who played gospel music on trumpet and saxophone in area churches for over 30 years, died Saturday of cancer at his home in Chase. He was 53.
Mr. Whiteford had been employed since 1980 as a machine operator at Turnbull Enterprises in Catonsville, a manufacturer of furniture for the Navy. Earlier, he had worked for 14 years for the Kirk-Stieff Silver Co.
The Middle River native graduated from Kenwood High School. He served in the Maryland Air National Guard from 1963 to 1988, when he retired with the rank of sergeant.
He was a member of the Gospel Church of Baltimore.
He is survived by his wife of 27 years, the former Linda Horst; a son, Mark N. Whiteford, and a daughter, Tammy Rene Whiteford, both of Chase; and three sisters, Ruth Bergeron of Towson, Mary Ashley of Milford, Del., and Dinah Richardson of Lakeland, Fla.
Memorial donations may be made to the Stella Maris Hospice Care Program, 2300 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson 21204.
Services were held Monday.
Paula Meyer Dumler
Middle River homemaker
Paula Meyer Dumler, a Middle River homemaker, died Nov. 26 of a coronary embolism at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was 36.
Mrs. Dumler, who had a heart transplant in 1993, had been in declining health for the last year.
She was born in the District of Columbia and raised in Virginia. She moved to Baltimore in 1986 and in 1991 married John P. Dumler, who survives her.
She was a member of the Heart Transplant Foundation Inc.
Services were set for 8 p.m. today at the Barcroft Bible Church, Pickett Road, Fairfax, Va.
Other survivors include a son, Sean Andrew Dumler of Middle River; her father, J. Kenneth Meyer of Virginia Beach, Va.; and three sisters, Lorna Sgro of Bowie, Sandra Houser of Arlington, and Wanda Klimkiewicz of Annandale, Va.
Memorial donations may be made to the Heart Transplant
Foundation Inc., P.O. Box 144, Riva, Md. 21140.
Dr. Harold Harbold
Practiced in Hamilton
Dr. Harold V. Harbold, who practiced medicine for more than 40 years in Hamilton, died Saturday of cancer at the home of a son in Jarrettsville. He was 81.
Born in Yorkanna, Pa., the son of a country physician, he earned his bachelor's degree in 1935 from Gettysburg College and his medical degree from Temple University in 1939. He completed his internship at York (Pa.) Hospital.
He was married in 1941 to the former Emily L. Proctor, who died in 1981.
Services were private.
He is survived by two sons, Alan K. Harbold of Jarrettsville and Harold V. Harbold of Forest Hill; a sister, Lois M. Guise of Harrisburg, Pa.; and three grandchildren.
Boynton, a retired domestic worker who was a charter member of Union Temple Baptist Church on West North Avenue, which was founded in 1932, died Sunday after an apparent heart attack at her Northeast Baltimore home. She was 88.
Services were held last night at the church. Her husband, Preston Boynton, died in 1967. Survivors include a nephew and two nieces.
Bessie Mae Roundtree Boynton, a retired domestic worker who was a charter member of Union Temple Baptist Church on West North Avenue, which was founded in 1932, died Sunday after an Apparent heart attack at her Northeast Baltimore home. She was 88.
Services were held last night at the church. Her husband, Preston Boynton, died in 1967. Survivors included a nephew and two nieces.