Obituaries

James Harold "Jim" Belt, a retired Baltimore County physical education teacher and coach, died March 20 at Dove House Hospice in Westminster. He was a day short of his 98th birthday.

Rick Lantz, who served two separate stints as a Navy football assistant as part of a coaching career that lasted more than four decades, died Sunday morning at the age of 85.

Melvin S. Strohminger, a retired Social Security Administration analyst whose interest in vintage fountain pens took him across the world, died March 15 at his Quarry Lake at Greenspring home near Pikesville. He was 79.

Mary C. Mangione, the matriarch of her family, a hospital benefactor and a music patron, died March 15 at her Cockeysville home. She was 92.

Col. Orville R. Hughes, a decorated Army officer who was an analyst for Baltimore’s finance department, died March 16 at Stella Maris Hospice in Lutherville. The Monkton resident was 101.

Kathleen Schwartz Howe, founder and former executive director of Days End Farm Horse Rescue in Woodbine, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rehabilitating neglected horses, died at Forest Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Catonsville on March 6 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 71.

Jeanne McGuire — a Baltimore County elementary school teacher and administrator — died March 12. She was 80.

Terrence W. “Cuddy” Kane, a competitive sailor who worked for Harbor Boating and Water Taxi, died March 8. The Hamilton resident was 63.