Joyce Tillman
Ran tree farm
Joyce Bonner Hall Tillman, who operated a Harford County Christmas tree farm with her husband, died Feb. 19 of cancer at Union Memorial Hospital. She was 76.
She had been a resident since 1952 of Good Endeavor Farm in Joppa, where she and her husband, James R. Tillman, a retired chemical engineer, operated a cut-your-own tree farm.
They also grew apples for a local cider mill and raised sheep.
The farm, which dates to 1800 and includes the original log cabin, encompassed 100 acres until the construction of Interstate 95 in the early 1960s reduced its size to 65.
"The state suggested to my parents that they plant pine trees as a sound barrier, and that was the start of the Christmas tree business. They used to plant 2,000 trees annually," said Marsha Lemley, a daughter who lives in Joppa.
"She and her husband were the gentlest and kindest people that I have ever known," said Gina Burk of Joppatowne, a customer and friend for 15 years. "We always went there to cut our tree, and it became a special memory for our family. She was always smiling and was a very special lady. Everyone just loved her."
Mrs. Tillman was active in the Maryland Sheep Breeders Association and the Maryland Christmas Tree Association. The Tillmans sponsored the Joppa-Magnolia 4-H Pony Club from the late 1950s through the 1960s, and conducted semiannual horse shows at their farm.
Mrs. Tillman, who was known for her white canvas hat, was born and reared in Longmeadow, Mass., where she attended high school. She attended Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire and moved to Baltimore in 1943, when she and Mr. Tillman married.
She enjoyed camping, reading, knitting and was a member of several bridge clubs. She was also a member of St. John's Episcopal Church.
The family will receive relatives and friends from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. today at 1719 Bull's Lane, Joppa. No formal services will be conducted.
In addition to her husband and daughter, survivors include a son, Ned Tillman of Ellicott City; and five grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to Colby-Sawyer College, 100 Main St., New London, N.H. 03257.
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Roland J. Allen
Conductor, lawyer
Roland J. Allen, a former railroad conductor who became a lawyer, died Wednesday of respiratory failure at Northwest Medical Center. He was 76.
The Hamilton resident retired in 1989 from the Internal Revenue Service, where he had been a tax examiner. Earlier, he worked for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
From the early 1940s through the late 1950s he was a freight and passenger conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
"At one time he was the youngest railroad conductor in the country," said his son Malcolm R. Allen Sr. of Severna Park. "He worked out of Washington on such trains as the Broadway Limited, the Congressional, the Federal Express and the Parkton Local out of Baltimore."
He earned his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Baltimore and began practicing law for the Equitable Trust Co. in 1967.
He was born in La Follette, Tenn., the son of a machinist, and was reared and educated in Pittsburgh and Ohio. His family moved to Baltimore before World War II when his father went to work for Bethlehem Steel Corp.
He liked books about railroading and biblical history. He also sailed, was a woodcarver, collected decoys, gardened, and collected and refinished 18th and 19th century furniture. He was a member of Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Boumi Temple, Scottish Rite and Lafayette Lodge No. 111.
Services are scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, 4605 Belair Road.
In addition to his son, survivors include his wife of 46 years, the former Bettie Marie Jeffers; another son, John H. Allen of Frederick; a daughter, Frieda McWilliams of Hamilton; a sister, Thelma Gordon of Randallstown; 10 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to the church.
Archibald Maynard
Metallurgist
Archibald W. Maynard, a retired metallurgist, died at St. Agnes Hospital on Feb. 10 of complications from a stroke. He was 84 and lived at Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville.
Mr. Maynard, who was known as "Arch," retired in 1971 from the U.S. Bureau of Mines laboratory in College Park, where he developed a method of sorting nonferrous metals with a spectroscope, a procedure that benefited the metal recycling industry.
Earlier, he was a quality-control engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s semi-conductor plant in Linthicum and, from 1960 to 1963, at Metallurgical Resources in Newburgh, N.Y. He was a foreman at Kennecott Copper in Tooele, Utah, from 1946 to 1960.
Mr. Maynard, who was a 30-year resident of Catonsville, enlisted in the Army in 1940 and was assigned to Aberdeen Proving Ground briefly as an ordnance officer before he was sent to Trinidad, where he trained troops. He was discharged in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He was born and reared in Hawarden, Iowa. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1933 from Michigan Technological University.
After he retired, he was a volunteer in tutorial programs that prepare youths for college-level course work and adults for high school equivalency examinations.
His wife of 59 years, the former Marian Mae Kratt, died Feb. 6.
Plans for a May memorial service for the couple were incomplete.
Survivors include three sons, John W. Maynard of Catonsville, James M. Maynard of Hershey, Pa., and Robert A. Maynard of Virginia Beach, Va.; a daughter, Nancy Ann Daugherty of Lafayette, Colo.; and five grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to Project Second Start, c/o Joan Swiston, Catonsville Community College, 800 S. Rolling Road, Catonsville 21228.
Jesse Massenburg
School custodian
Jesse Massenburg, a longtime custodian in the Baltimore public schools, died of pneumonia Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He was 86.
Born in Wake Forest, N.C., one of 11 children, Mr. Massenburg moved to Baltimore in his 20s. He served briefly in the Army during World War II before returning to Baltimore, where he married Elizabeth Gardner. They had two children. Mrs. Massenburg died at a young age. Mr. Massenburg's son, Robert Massenburg, also died.
Mr. Massenburg was a cook in a downtown restaurant before going to work for the Baltimore school system, where he remained for many years. In the late 1950s, he remarried. The couple lived in West Baltimore. In 1991, Mr. Massenburg, his health failing, entered a nursing home.
Services were to be held at 4 p.m. today at Fulton Baptist Church in the 1600 block of West North Ave.
Mr. Massenburg is survived by his wife, Hazel Massenburg; a daughter, Delores McGlotten of Baltimore; a brother, Alexander Massenburg of New Orleans; two sisters, Fayte Allen and Mildred St. Rose, both of Baltimore.
Leroy A. Bauman, 63, who founded a mechanical contracting firm, Roy A. Bauman Co., in 1961, died Wednesday of cancer at his Elkridge home.
A Mass of Christian burial was offered yesterday at St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church in Elkridge for Mr. Bauman, who was a Baltimore native and graduate of St. Augustine's School in Elkridge and Calvert Hall College. He served in the Navy during the Korean War.
Mr. Bauman is survived by his wife, the former Carolyn B. Harman; three daughters, M. J. Ellen Yancich of Marriottsville, Nancy L. Grabowski of Elkridge and Joyce A. Gills of Richmond, Va.; four sons, Mark A. Bauman of Ellicott City, Martin A. Bauman of Hanover, and Benjamin B. and William C. Bauman, both of Elkridge; three brothers, William F. Bauman of Garland, Texas, Howard J. Bauman of Elkridge and Richard C. Bauman of Naples, Fla.; two sisters, Margaret C. Sheeder of Englewood, Fla., and Dorothy A. Phipps of Hanover; and nine grandchildren.