Robert D. Conley
Warehouse supervisor
Robert D. Conley, a retired warehouse supervisor for the Grand Union Co., a supermarket chain, died Thursday at Howard County General Hospital of complications of lung cancer. He was 64 and lived in Columbia.
He retired two years ago in Waterford, N.Y., after having worked for the company since 1961.
For the first 20 years, he had worked at a company warehouse in Landover and lived in Clinton.
A native of New Kensington, Pa., he served in the Navy from 1948 until 1960 as a medical corpsman assigned to the Marine Corps.
During the Korean War, he was awarded the Purple Heart for injuries received in an explosion when he tried to rescue a wounded Marine, only to find that the Marine had been booby-trapped by the North Koreans.
He had been president of the Sayre, Pa., Rotary Club and of the United Methodist Men at Bells United Methodist Church in Clinton.
Services were set for 11 a.m. today at St. John's United Methodist-Presbyterian Church, Wilde Lake Interfaith Center, 10431 Twin Rivers Road, Columbia.
He is survived by his wife, the former Rose Marie Liotta; a son, Dr. Robert R. Conley of Columbia; five brothers, William, Bernard, Clyde, Charles and Buck Conley, all of New Kensington; three sisters, Mary Haslett, Ruth Rocoski and Violet Robinson, all of New Kensington; and two granddaughters.
Casimir Gorecki Sr.
Factory supervisor
Casimir J. Gorecki Sr., a former factory supervisor, died Saturday of a cerebral hemorrhage at the Perry Point Veterans Hospital. The former Lansdowne resident was 77.
He retired from the Locust Point plant of Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co. in 1978 after a 39-year career there.
In retirement, he moved to Ocean City, then to Easton, where he was living at the time of his death.
He grew up on Pratt street in East Baltimore. He attended parochial school and was a 1938 graduate of Loyola High School.
During World War II, he served in the Army in the Philippines and was discharged in 1946.
He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, the Moose, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 5118 and the American Legion.
In 1942, he married the former Eugenia Sas, who died in 1971.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 9 a.m. today at St. Jerome Roman Catholic Church, 775 W. Hamburg St., Baltimore, where he had been a longtime member. Interment will be in St. Stanislaus Cemetery, 6515 Boston St., Baltimore.
He is survived by his wife of 17 years, the former Marie Ellis; three sons, Casimir J. Gorecki Jr. of Newtown, Pa., Michael Cavanaugh and Steven Cavanaugh, both of Baltimore; two daughters, Janice Gorecki of Leesburg, Va., and Patricia Henderson of Baltimore; two brothers, Walter Gorecki and Charles Gorecki, both of Baltimore; a sister, Sister Mary Tiburtia, F.S.S.J., of Buffalo, N.Y.; seven grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
Memorial donations may be made to St. Jerome's.