W. Morris Kemp Sr.
Retired lawyer
W. Morris Kemp Sr., a retired lawyer, died Sunday at St. Agnes Hospital after a heart attack. He was 83 and lived at the Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville.
He retired in 1976 as a lawyer for the Bethlehem Steel Corp. at its Key Highway shipyard. He had spent 47 years with the company, having started as a worker at another shipyard that was taken over by the steelmaker. He also had a small private practice for many years.
Born in Gloucester, Va., he came to Baltimore as a child. He graduated from the University of Baltimore law school in 1939.
He was a member of the Baltimore Forest of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon for 50 years, Boumi Temple, the Catonsville Shrine Club, and other Masonic and fraternal groups.
At the Second English Lutheran Church, he had been vice president of the church council.
He had also been on the boards of Lutheran Social Services of Maryland and the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pa.
Services were to be held at 10 a.m. today at the Second English Lutheran Church, 5010 Briarclift Road, Baltimore.
His first wife, the former Vera Cage, died in 1986.
He is survived by his wife, the former Betty Satterfield; a son, William Morris Kemp Jr. of Baltimore; a stepson, David Satterfield of Fairfax, Va.; a stepdaughter, Nancy Goldstein of Woodstock; two sisters, Mabel Marshall and Gladys Spink, both of Baltimore; a brother, Thomas Pillsbury of Baltimore; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Robert A. Elderdice
Salisbury State professor
Robert A. Elderdice, professor emeritus of English at Salisbury State University, died Sunday of heart failure at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. He was 77 and lived in Salisbury.
Dr. Elderdice retired in 1980 after 25 years at the university, where he served for a time as chairman of the English Department. He specialized in American Literature and was especially interested in the works of William Faulkner.
Born in Salisbury, he was a 1938 graduate of Western Maryland College, then taught in high schools in Clarksville and Mardela Springs until World War II. During the war, he served in the Army in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany. He attained the rank of chief warrant officer.
After the war, he earned a master's degree at Brown University and a doctorate at the University of Maryland. He taught at College Park, then at what is now Frostburg State University before joining the Salisbury faculty.
Services are scheduled for 11 a.m. today at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Salisbury, where he was a lay reader.
He is survived by his wife of 49 years, the former Virginia MacConney; a son, Robert Douglas Elderdice of Baltimore; a daughter, Deborah Elderdice Creasy of Salisbury; a sister, Frances Elderdice Pugh of Washington; a granddaughter; and a great-grandson.
Memorial donations may be made to the Robert A. Elderdice Memorial Scholarship Award in care of the Salisbury State University Foundation.
Viva Reed Engle
Carroll County teacher
Viva Reed Engle, a retired Carroll County home economics and mathematics teacher, died Sunday of liver cancer at the Carroll Lutheran Village Health Care Center. She was 83 and lived in Westminster.
A registered nutritionist, she began her teaching career at Patterson Park High School in 1938, joined the Carroll County school system in 1942 and retired in 1973.
Born in Mexico in Carroll County, Mrs. Engle later moved to Westminster. She earned a bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Western Maryland College in 1931 and a master's equivalent from the University of Utah and the University of Maryland College Park.
She was a member of the Carroll County Homemakers, the Democratic Women's Club of Carroll County, the Carroll Garden Club and the Woman's Club of Westminster.
She was a member of the steering committee for Carroll County Meals on Wheels from 1973 to 1980 and was its first treasurer.
She received community service awards from the county in 1980 and the American Association of Retired Persons in 1987.
Her husband, Fred L. Engle, whom she married in 1934, died in 1960.
She was a member of Grace Lutheran Church, 21 Carroll St. in Westminster, where a memorial service was planned for 11 a.m today.
Her survivors include two daughters, Donna E. Boller and Joan E. Moser, both of Westminster; a brother, Albert M. Reed of Naples, Fla.; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Carroll Hospice, 95 Carroll St., Westminster 21157; or to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 824, Westminster 21158-0824.
Carolyn G. E. Butler
Artist, volunteer
Carolyn Griswold Egerton Butler, an artist and volunteer, died Jan. 20 of Alzheimer's disease at Keswick. She was 86.
The Baltimore native was a 1926 graduate of Roland Park Country School and made her debut at the Bachelors Cotillon that year.
For many years, she was on the board of the Woman's Hospital of Baltimore.
Her first husband, McKenny White Egerton, whom she married in 1930, died in 1973. In 1975, she married Leo Butler, who died in 1992.
A memorial service was to be held at 3:30 p.m. today in the chapel of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N. Charles St., where she was a member of the Altar Guild.
She is survived by three sons, McKenny White Egerton Jr. of Owings Mills, Benjamin Griswold Egerton of Reisterstown and Stuart Egerton II of Baltimore; a daughter, Carolyn Egerton Murphy of Sparks; a brother, Benjamin Howell Griswold III of Monkton; 12 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, 600 N. Wolfe St., Oster 320, Baltimore 21287; or to the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer.
Jon E. Cephas, 50, a retired assistant warehouse supervisor, died Thursday of heart failure at his Northwest Baltimore home. Services were held yesterday in Slaughter Neck, Del.
He is survived by his wife, the former Gloria Hubbard; a son, Jon A. Cephas of Ellendale, Del.; three daughters, Lisa A. Cephas of Philadelphia, Cheryl Cephas of Wilmington, Del., and Janel K. Cephas of Baltimore; a stepdaughter, Nickol P. Weaver of Baltimore; a stepmother, Elsie Y. Cephas of Slaughter Neck. Also two brothers, Fred G. Cephas Jr. of Milford, Del., and Timothy D. Cephas of Slaughter Neck; four sisters, June C. Walker of Philadelphia, Sandra C. Mifflin of Dover, Del., Dianne Cephas of Felton, Del., and Catherine R. Cephas of Bear, Del.; a step-grandmother, Annie D. Frazier of Slaughter Neck; and a granddaughter.
Hiram Holton II
Services planned
A funeral for Hiram Holton II, a student at Friends School who died Monday, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Bible Way Free Will Baptist Church, 4412 Maine Ave., Baltimore.