Obituaries - Baltimore Sun

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Jacquelyn ‘Jackie’ Leatherbury Douglass, who helped design giant crab sculpture at BWI, dies

Jacquelyn “Jackie” Leatherbury Douglass, part of the artistic team who built the giant crab on display at BWI Marshall Airport and an exhibition water skier, died of unknown causes at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center on Jan. 13. She was 92.

January 21, 2023

Dr. Barbara R. Migeon, longtime professor at Johns Hopkins University and advocate for women in science, dies

Dr. Barbara Migeon, a pioneer in genetic science who spent over sixty years working at the Johns Hopkins University died of heart failure in her Roland Park home Jan. 14. She was 91.

January 21, 2023

Harry R. Kahler, co-owner of a company that managed computer systems for NASA, dies

Harry R. Kahler, who founded a company that provided technical services to federal agencies including NASA, died of cancer Jan. 14 at his home in Timonium. He was 94.

January 20, 2023

Robert C. Alianiello, popular WCAO and WBAL radio DJ who introduced The Beatles at a 1966 concert, dies

Robert C. Alianiello, a popular WCAO and WBAL radio disc jockey known on-air as Robert C. Allen III, died of congestive heart failure Jan. 15 at Lorien Mays Chapel in Timonium. The Lutherville resident was 83.

January 19, 2023

Baltimore native Dr. Susan Thomson Strahan, retired psychiatrist and mental health advocate, dies

Dr. Susan Thomson Strahan, a retired psychiatrist and mental health advocate who served on the state’s Board of Physician Quality Assurance, died of heart disease Dec. 28 at her Tuscany-Canterbury home. She was 72.

January 18, 2023

Fannie Gaston-Johansson, nursing trailblazer and the first Black woman to become a tenured Hopkins professor, dies

Dr. Fannie Gaston-Johansson, a retired Johns Hopkins nursing professor who created a pain-measurement device and studied the aftereffects of breast cancer treatment in Black women, died Jan. 7 at her Mount Washington home. She was 84.

January 17, 2023

James I. Houck, former managing editor of The Baltimore Sun, dies

James I. Houck, former managing editor of The Baltimore Sun who later became managing editor of the Times-Delta/Advance Register in California’s Central Valley, died Dec. 13 from heart failure at Westmark Care Center in Visalia, California. The former Ellicott City resident was 81.

January 16, 2023

Arthur H. ‘Art’ Landerman Jr., commercial illustrator and dance band co-founder, dies

Arthur H. “Art” Landerman Jr., an illustrator who founded Art Landerman Art and a musician, died Dec. 18 at Shock Trauma after a car accident near his Sykesville home. He was 70.

January 16, 2023

Otis Warren Jr., first Black person to construct an office building in downtown Baltimore, dies

Otis Warren Jr., a self-made businessman who became the first Black person to construct an office building in downtown Baltimore, died Tuesday at Sinai Hospital.

January 15, 2023

Robert C. Goldman, who brought sleek design to his architectural practice while enjoying the good life, dies

Robert C. Goldman, who as the founder of the Chesapeake Design Group Inc. brought sleek design and cutting-edge technology to his practice, died Dec. 20 at his Homeland residence. He was 70.

January 13, 2023

Baltimore native Edward Ross Goldstein, teacher and tuba player who performed at thousands of events, dies

Edward Ross Goldstein, a tuba player who became an authority on the brass instrument and performed at thousands of events, died Friday. The Pikesville resident was 68.

January 12, 2023

Olga von Hartz Owens, career botanist and avid Chesapeake Bay sailor who built a sailboat in her backyard, dies

Olga von Hartz Owens, a career botanist and avid Chesapeake Bay sailor, died Jan. 3 at her Chestertown home. She was 93.

January 11, 2023

Stephen Phillips Wesley Gilbert Sr., commercial real estate broker and nature lover, dies

Stephen Phillips Wesley Gilbert Sr., a Baltimore commercial real estate broker and nature lover, has died. He was 64 and lived in Towson.

January 10, 2023

Bernard Kalb, longtime foreign affairs journalist, dies at 100 at home in North Bethesda

Bernard Kalb, a former television reporter for CBS and NBC who quit his job as a State Department spokesman in 1986 to protest a U.S. government disinformation campaign against Libya, died Sunday. He was 100.

January 10, 2023

Earl David William Baldwin, former pastor of TrinityLife church in Timonium, dies

Earl David William Baldwin, who was pastor emeritus at TrinityLife church in Timonium, died Dec. 7 at his home in Lutherville.

January 09, 2023

Margaret ‘Maggie’ Lord, a former Sun copy editor who brought a British sense of creative refinement and competency to her work, dies

Margaret “Maggie” Lord, a former longtime Sun copy editor who brought a British sense of creative refinement, competency and humor to her work, died Tuesday.

January 08, 2023

Elmer E. ‘Chief’ Horsey, former mayor of Chestertown whose administration was marked by restorations and new construction, dies

Elmer E. “Chief” Horsey, the former mayor of Chestertown, died at his Chestertown home New Year’s Day. He was 90.

January 07, 2023

Franklin Owen Michaud, a retired IBM sales manager and library volunteer, dies

Franklin Owen Michaud, a retired IBM sales manager who volunteered to help those befuddled by digital job applications, died Dec. 25 at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 88.

January 06, 2023

Irving H. Phillips Jr., The Baltimore Sun’s first Black news photographer, dies

Irving Henry Webster Phillips Jr., The Baltimore Sun’s first Black news photographer, who shot Cal Ripken’s first home run and Johnny Unitas’ last game, as well as the 1968 riots, died Dec. 22 at Loch Raven VA Medical Center. He was 79.

January 05, 2023

David M. Cunningham, a veteran Baltimore City Hall employee, dies

David M. Cunningham, a veteran Baltimore City Hall hand who was chief fiscal officer for the city’s Department of General Services for more than two decades, died Jan. 1. He was 71.

January 05, 2023

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