Obituaries

Guy T. “Trev” Warfield III, former president of the Warfield Dorsey Co., a Towson insurance brokerage, died Feb. 22. The former longtime Riderwood resident was 91.

Joe Altobelli, who succeeded Earl Weaver as Orioles manager and led the club to its last World Series title in 1983, died Wednesday of natural causes. He was 88.

Frank Brooks Coakley, a pioneering Black manager of the old Maryland National Bank’s Mondawmin branch who became a homeownership specialist for Baltimore and Maryland, died of cancer Feb. 23 at Gilchrist Care Towson. He was 78.

William A. “Bill” Romberger Jr., a retired insurance adjuster who earlier had owned the Baltimore International Warehouse, died Feb. 7 of pancreatic cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Hunt Valley resident was 78.

Violet R. “Vi” Ripken, the matriarch of a baseball dynasty and a revered member of the Aberdeen community recalled for her philanthropy, has died just short of her 83rd birthday.

Eric K. Gratz, former director of admissions and chief social worker in the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital's Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, has died at 87.

George Phillips Jr., a a substance abuse counselor and member of the '80s pop group Starpoint, has died at 68.

Laura Wetherald, a 34-year employee of the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks, died Feb. 19 at the age of 65 from complications related to COVID-19.

Evelyn W. McIntosh, whose career as a Baltimore public school educator spanned more than three decades, has died at 86.

Harriet S. FauntLeRoy, a former kindergarten educator, farmer and world traveler, has died at 88.

Leslie Starr, a musician and avid birder, has died at 70.

James K. Lightner, a career professional photographer who in 1938 took pictures of the last reunion of Union and Confederate veterans, died Feb. 7 of pneumonia at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. The longtime Cockeysville resident was 93.

Edward R. Daughaday, a retired Baltimore County police officer and World War II Navy veteran, died Feb. 2 at Gilchrist Center Towson of complications from a stroke. The Mays Chapel North resident was 96.

Ted Patterson, a retired television and radio sports reporter and talk show host for 45 years and an author of baseball and football histories, died Thursday. He was 76.

Edith C. Gibson, the first Black woman to be named supervisor of art for secondary city public schools, has died at 88.

George S. Wills, the irrepressibly gregarious founder of Wills & Associates Public Relations who was a collector of friends and an accomplished watercolorist, dies at 84.

Herman Heyn, Baltimore’s curbside astronomer, who set up a telescope at the harbor in Fells Point and explained the starry skies to thousands of curious stargazers, has died at 90.

Jimmy Jones, a club musician known for his 1993 hit “Watch Out for the Big Girl,” died of kidney failure Tuesday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore. He was 50.

Robert L. “Bob” Lamborn, who headed McDonogh School for two decades during which time the Owings Mills school ended its military program, was integrated and went coed, died Feb. 11 in his sleep. The former Ellicott City resident was 102.

Joanne Souris Deitz, who rose to become Baltimore County’s chief purchasing agent and was named the 1970 Towson Woman of the Year, died Feb. 5 at Mercy Ridge Retirement Community in Timonium. She was 90.

Dr. Bernard Lown, a Johns Hopkins University-trained Massachusetts cardiologist who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later co-founded an anti-nuclear war group that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, died Tuesday. He was 99.

Reginald J. Daniels II, a videographer and cinematographer who was the founder of Piper Productions, which produced award-winning commercials, music videos and feature films, died Jan. 6 of cancer in Ormond Beach, Florida. The former Columbia resident was 75.

Katherine Abt, a retired city social worker and former editor and author, has died at 88.

Joseph Edward Rolfes, a retired travel agency owner and World War II Navy veteran, has died at 94.

Margaret C. Carty, executive director of the Maryland Library Association, who also served as a Navy officer, has died at 82.

Barbara E. Vogel, a foster mother and role model to 30 children, dies

Austin H. George, former head of T. Rowe Price's Equity Trading Department, has died at 87.

Samuel Abraham Baroody, who owned a trucking business and was a leader in Kingsville in Baltimore County, has died at 93.