Obituaries

Vicki McComas, ceramics artist and Fells Point shopkeeper, died of complications of diabetes and kidney disease Aug. 31 at Union Memorial Hospital. The Fells Point resident was 68.

Michael M. Brown, a retired biology professor and department head at McDaniel College, where he had taught for 42 years, died of heart disease Aug. 30 at his Westminster home. He was 80.

Doris E. Johnson, a longtime Baltimore Public Schools educator who specialized in special education and had served as department head at Carver Senior High School, died of kidney disease Sunday at her East Baltimore home. She was 85.

James Howard “Jim” Case, a former Johns Hopkins University mathematician who was signed to play for the Los Angeles Dodgers while in college, died Sept. 1 of a medical incident while riding in an automobile traveling on Northern Parkway.

Mary Ann Connelly, a Locust Point artist who established an art gallery on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and was the founder of Paint Onancock, a plein- air painting and photography event, died Thursday at Good Samaritan Hospital. She was 70.

Barbara Carol Joellenbeck, an occupational therapist who was a hiking and travel enthusiast, died of metastatic breast cancer Aug. 23 at her home in the Lake-Walker home section of North Baltimore.

Gloria Kolker Hack, an activist for the Soviet Jews and president of local Hadassah chapter, died of congestive heart failure Aug. 31 at her Atrium Village retirement community home in Owings Mills. She was 96.

Dr. Michael T. Reid, a longtime child psychologist who practiced for more than two decades in Towson and Lutherville, died of pancreatic cancer Aug. 29 at Gilchrist Center in Towson.

Harry E. “Ed” Lanehart, a retired Baltimore County Public Schools physical education instructor and school official who was a bodybuilder and champion tenpin bowler, died Aug. 9 of undetermined causes at his home in Ellicott City. He was 86.

Ellen H. Hennessey, a retired paralegal who enjoyed skiing and giving parties, died Aug. 20 from complications of heart disease at the Pickersgill Retirement Community in West Towson.

William Grafton Coggins Sr., the owner of a hauling business that served the Baltimore Orioles for nearly 80 years, died of a heart attack Aug. 13. He was 95.

Genevieve M. Knight, a nationally known math educator who taught math at historically Black colleges and universities for nearly four decades, died Aug. 19 of complications of a stroke. The longtime Columbia resident was 82.

Jeff Seidel, a versatile freelance Baltimore sports writer who covered high school athletics for 35 years, died of complications of cancer Saturday at Levindale Rehabilitation. The Pikesville resident was 59.

Mary A. Goetz, a centenarian and homemaker who was active in her church, died Friday from heart failure at the Senator Bob Hooper Hospice House in Forest Hillcq. The Aberdeen resident was 104.

Thomas A. Werner, a retired insurance executive who was active in several German-American cultural and social organizations, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Aug. 22 at his home in the Riderwood Thornleigh neighborhood. He was 80.

Lester Milton Salamon, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies and a renowned researcher on nonprofits, died of pancreatic cancer Aug. 20. The Arnold resident was 78.

Anna S. “Nancy” Wilson, a noted abstract artist who worked in both oils and acrylics and whose works can be found in public and private collections, died Aug. 12.

William J. “Bill” Boarman, a retired public printer of the U.S. Government Printing Office and a former union leader, died Sunday as a result of a fall while getting off his boat. The Severna Park resident was 75.

Gayle E. Pickhardt, a longtime Harbour School educator whose specialty was working with special needs students, has died of pancreatic cancer. The Catonsville resident was 55.

Bruce L. Cleland, retired president and CEO of Campbell & Co. and co-founder of the Orokawa Foundation, died of head and neck cancer Friday at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. The Ruxton resident was 73.

George M. Sherman, who was a top executive at Black & Decker in Baltimore and the Danaher Corp. in Washington, D.C., and teamed with his wife to contribute to organizations committed to offering educational opportunities to the underprivileged, has died. He was 80.

Hannah H. Jones, a retired Johns Hopkins Health System executive secretary who was also a cat fancier, history buff, avid reader and gardener, died of complications of kidney disease Aug. 3 at her Anneslie home. She was 74.

Robert E. Donadio Sr., a Baltimore County attorney who maintained a general law practice for more than half-century and enjoyed writing music, died Tuesday at Gilchrist Center Towson. He was 89.

Jim Russ, a well-known traffic reporter for WBAL News Radio, died suddenly of a heart attack on Wednesday morning. He would have turned 58 on Thursday.

Holly Best, a psychotherapist and homeopath who helped families heal from trauma and addiction, died Aug. 14 at her home in Denmark, Maine. She was 73.

Sandra M. Almond-Cooper, president of the Mondawmin Neighborhood Improvement Association for 20 years and former interim president of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP, has died. She was 75.

Stephen Michael Knott, who was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in computer science at the University of Maryland Global Campus, died of P13Kr1, a rare immune deficiency, on Aug. 8 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. The former Lutherville resident was 25.

Jeffrey Gordon Miller, a logistics officer for the CIA and then the National Security Agency, died of unknown causes at his home in Joppa on Aug. 6. He was 58.