David R. Liston
Guard officer
David R. Liston, a first lieutenant and civilian employee of the Maryland National Guard, died Wednesday at Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick of injuries he suffered in a traffic accident that day. The Mount Washington resident was 36.
On the day he died, he was to learn of his promotion to captain, which will now be awarded posthumously.
Born in Philadelphia, he was reared in Merton, Ohio, and Cinnaminson, N.J. He moved with his family to Severna Park in 1977 and graduated from Severna Park High School the next year.
He earned an associate's degree in architecture from Anne Arundel Community College in 1981 and attended the Anne Arundel Institute of Technology.
He served in the Army Corps of Engineers from 1982 to 1984, when he was discharged with the rank of specialist 4. He joined the Maryland National Guard later that year and was commissioned in 1987.
Since 1993, he had been an installations inspector as a civilian employee of the Guard.
A military funeral will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Maryland Veterans Cemetery, 11501 Garrison Forest Road, Owings Mills.
Survivors include his wife, the former Kathy Lee Erlandson, whom he married in 1993; his parents, Joseph J. and Pauline S. Liston of Lusby; a brother, Thomas J. Liston of Littlestown, Pa.; two sisters, Joan Green of Hanover and Patricia Liston of Centreville; his paternal grandmother, Ellen Liston of Cape May, N.J.; and a stepson, Navy Seaman Christopher N. Erlandson-Braga.
Memorial donations may be made to the Maryland National Guard Emergency Relief Fund, Fifth Regiment Armory, 29th Division St., Baltimore 21201-2288. George Washington Brown Sr., a retired truck driver and musician, died Feb. 14 of complications from a stroke at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Baltimore. He was 85.
He was a local tractor-trailer driver for Needham Trucking Co. before retiring in 1975. Earlier, he was a shoemaker with a shop on Greenmount Avenue.
From the late 1920s until 1933, 1994 he was a jazz musician, playing piano, trombone and trumpet with such notable bands as Cab Calloway, Buddy Johnson's Band and the Tracy Kentuckians.
Born and reared in Florence, S.C., he was a 1927 graduate of Wilson High School there. During World War II, he served in the Navy and was stationed in Seattle. After the war, he settled in Baltimore with his wife, the former Margaret Theresa Giles, whom he married in 1944.
He lived for 50 years on West Baltimore Street near Union Square.
Services were to be held at 11:30 a.m. today at the Joseph H. Brown Jr. Funeral Home, 1913 W. Baltimore St.
In addition to his wife, survivors include seven sons, David D. Brown of Washington, George R. Brown of Columbia and Leo C. Brown, Stephen M. Brown, George M. Brown, Kevin E. Brown and George Booker, all of Baltimore; nine daughters, Regina C. Brown of Fort Meade, Fla., and Barbara F. McCormick, Stephanie T. Brown, Cheryl A. Brown, Eileen B. Brown, Dorothy Brown, Lillian Lawson, Harriet Smoot and Patricia Abraham, all of Baltimore; two brothers, Eugene Brown of Baltimore and James Brown of Long Branch, N.J.; 32 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren. Jarrett E. Dorsey Sr., a retired concrete contractor, died Tuesday of complications of cancer at the Manor Care Ruxton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The Randallstown resident was 92.
Known as "Randallstown" for the community where he lived for much of his life, he retired 27 years ago as the owner of Jarrett E. Dorsey & Sons, the contracting company he started in the late 1940s. Before that, he had worked for contractors and government agencies.
A native of Harrisonville, just northwest of Randallstown, he attended Baltimore County public schools.
He was a member of St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church, 101 Church Lane, Pikesville, where a Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 10 a.m. today.
Mr. Dorsey's wife, the former Ethel Elizabeth Jordan, died in 1981. He is survived by two daughters, Janice Marie Dorsey and Irene Costley, both of Randallstown; three sons, Jarrett E. Dorsey Jr., of Beaverton, Ore., James A. Dorsey of Randallstown and Raymond C. Dorsey of Marriottsville; a brother, Elmer G. Dorsey of Randallstown; 30 grandchildren; and 46 great-grandchildren. Elsie H. Treuth, a member of the Auxiliary of the Spring Grove Hospital Center and a longtime Catonsville resident, died Saturday of emphyse
ma at her home. She was 74.
The former Elsie Hesse was a native of Germany who came to the United States with her family, staying briefly in Chicago before moving to Catonsville. She graduated from Catonsville High School.
Services were to be held at 2 p.m. today at the Leroy M. and Russell C. Witzke Funeral Home, 1630 Edmondson Ave., Catonsville.
Her husband, Vernon L. Treuth Sr., died in 1985. She is survived by three sons, Vernon L. Treuth Jr. and John G. Treuth, both of Catonsville, and Michael R. Treuth of Ellicott City; her mother, Marie S. Hesse of Catonsville; and six grandchildren.
Pauline R. R. B. Chew
Homemaker
Pauline Ruth Reddish Boyd Chew, a homemaker and former postal worker, died Feb. 14 of complications from diabetes at Bon Secours Hospital. She was 84.
The Northwest Baltimore resident worked at Edgewood Arsenal after moving to Baltimore in 1936 from South Carolina and later worked in the post office.
Born and reared in Bamberg, S.C., Mrs. Chew attended schools there and later studied interior decorating and beauty culture in Baltimore.
She and Willie Boyd, a longshoreman who died in 1945, were married in 1929. In 1946, she married the Rev. William R. Chew, pastor of the Mount Nebo African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington. He died in 1961.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 11:30 a.m. today at All Saints Roman Catholic Church, Liberty Heights and Eldorado avenues, where she was a communicant.
She is survived by a son, William Boyd of Baltimore; two daughters, Rose Crosby and Geraldine Coe, both of Baltimore; a sister, Thelma Kirkwood of New York City; and two grandchildren.
John H. Koop, 71, who retired in 1985 after 30 years as a mechanical maintenance worker at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point plant, died Wednesday of mesothelioma, a cancer related to asbestosis, at his Bel Air residence.
A Mass of Christian burial was offered yesterday. He is survived by his wife, the former Eleanore Lechert, whom he married in 1944; two sons, John H. Kopp III of Forest Hill and James Kopp of Bel Air; and four grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Hospice of Baltimore, 6701 N. Charles St., Baltimore 21204.