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Albert R. Wilkerson Jr., former St. Paul’s School for Boys English teacher and lacrosse player, dies
Albert R. “Wilkie” Wilkerson Jr., a retired St. Paul’s School for Boys teacher, has died at 84. - Charles E. Geyer, a World War II veteran who became superintendent of buildings for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, has died of COVID-19 at 96.
- Pauline Vollmer, an influential gardener and donor to the Cylburn Arboretum, has died at 104.
- Celia V. Carr, a career educator who was the first Black department chair at Western High School and later became a Methodist lay minister, died Jan. 14 of a cardiac arrest at her longtime Severna Park home. She was 82.
- William E. “Pete” Bailey died Jan. 10 of undetermined causes at his Sandtown-Winchester home at the age of 74.
- “Winfield was cheerful and vivacious,” said Baltimore musician Paul Johns. “He was outgoing to people.
- Louise K. Emmert, a longtime Baltimore County Public Schools educator who became active at the Bykota Senior Center after the death of her husband, died Jan. 4 from pulmonary hypertension at her home in the Breezewick neighborhood of Towson. She was 72.
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- John Roemer, a teacher and former head of the American Civil Liberties Union in Maryland, has died at 82.
- The Very Rev. Van H. Gardner, dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation for more than two decades, has died at 74.
- Dr. Samuel L. Myers Sr., former president of Bowie State University, has died at 101
- Edward J. "Joe" Haviland, a wood sculptor known for large rough-hewn pieces he carved with a chainsaw from logs he found in the woods, has died at 68.
- Nell W. Stanley, who taught at several area private girls schools, has died at 77.
- Guy T. Hollyday, an environmentalist and author of a history of his Stone Hill neighborhood, has died at 92
- Dr. Robert B. Welch, an internationally renowned ophthalmologist who had been co-director of the Wilmer Retina Service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, died of pneumonia Jan. 5. The Annapolis native and former longtime Roland Park resident was 93.
- Robert E. “Bob” Almon, a retired FBI special agent who later established the law enforcement program at Wor-Wic Community College, died Jan. 3 in his sleep at his Salisbury home. The former Parkville-Carney resident was 95.
- Robert Rogers Cassilly Jr., the patriarch of his Harford County family who served in World War II and the Vietnam War, died Jan. 4 of old-age complications at his Bel Air home. He was 95.
- Barbara A. O'Malley, mother of the former governor of Maryland and aide to Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, has died at 93.
- Dr. Robert H. Heptinstall, retired head of the Johns Hopkins Department of Pathology and a kidney disease expert, has died at 100.
- Guinevere L. Redd, who worked for nearly 40 years with the Redd Funeral Services, has died at 87.
- Thomas J. Tallent, a retired Sykesville postmaster who enjoyed singing songs from the 1940s and 1950s, has died at 91.
- “Since childhood, my art has been something that has given me purpose, a sense of self and a connection with something deeper and unexplainable in life,” Peck said. “Whether it is painting, drawing, crafting or teaching art, I feel most fulfilled when I am involved with the act of creating. I believe we are all meant to create in some way. To bring something into being from nothing is an amazing process to me.
- George F. Goebel, a magician who owned the A.T. Jones theatrical costume firm, has died at 88.
- Virginia P. "Ginny" Siems, a homemaker active at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, has died at 92.
- Andrew “Andy” Bauer, who worked for nearly five decades at Lockheed Martin and its predecessor companies and during World War II served as a machinist aboard a dock landing craft in the Pacific theater, died Dec. 28 of heart disease. He was 98.
- Mary Wanamaker “Minnie” Watriss, a painter, gardener and equestrian, died of a stroke Dec. 18 at Sinai Hospital. She was 89 and lived in Butler in Baltimore County and in coastal Maine.
- Crystal Hardy-Flowers, who founded the Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center in Sandtown-Winchester, has died of complications of COVID-19 at 55.
- William Robert “Bob” Flickinger, 88, of Taneytown, who served three terms as the city’s mayor, died Jan. 1 at Lorien Taneytown from pneumonia brought on by complications of COVID-19. Flickinger had a dedicated history of public service to his family and the Taneytown community, say those who knew him.
- John F.X. O'Brien, a former Maryland state delegate and state personnel secretary, has died at 84.