obituaries

Dr. Jules Millman, a retired Owings Mills dentist who specialized in family dentistry, died Sunday from pneumonia at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 87.

Michael E. Badolato Sr., a retired insurance company bond manager and world War II veteran, died Thursday from complications of strokes at The Palmettos of Garden City in Murrells Island, S.C. The former longtime Lutherville resident was 92.

Brian M. Doyle, a founder and partner in a Timonium property management firm and volunteer, died Friday from pancreatic cancer at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. The Phoenix, Baltimore County resident, was 52.

Derrick Lewis, a member of 1982-83 Dunbar basketball team that went 31-0, died April 4.

Edna V. Ullmann, a retired secretary and a former longtime Timonium resident, died Monday from undetermined causes at Brightview Towson, an assisted-living facility. she was 96.

Pearl S. Barnes, a retired executive secretary and centenarian who said she never felt her age, died Saturday from respiratory failure at her daughter's Ellicott City home. She was 104.

Anne McCloskey, who led the Loyola Maryland women's lacrosse team to its first NCAA Division I tournament appearance and served as an athletics administrator with the Greyhounds for nearly two decades, died Saturday after an illness. She was 87.

Thomas W. Burdette, who won back-to-back lacrosse championships as a goalie at Princeton and owned the country’s oldest paper tag making company for nearly three decades, died of pneumonia on March 28 at the age of 82.

Paul F. "Pete" Spangler Jr., a retired mortgage banker who formerly worked in sales, died Saturday from renal and heart failure at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 85.

Lauri J. Weinman, a retired interior designer and world traveler who was a wildlife photographer, died Thursday from cancer at Gilchrist hospice Care in Towson. She was 77.

Dr. Stewart M. Wolff, a noted Baltimore ophthalmologist who was an expert on the abnormal alignment of the eyes, died Saturday from respiratory failure at the Blakehurst Retirement Community in Towson, He was

Gwenyth H. Dunbar, the first corporate secretary of what is now Dunbar Armored Inc., died Saturday from influenza at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She was 87.

Leon J. Sadowski, a former Social Security Administration analyst and model railroad fan, died Monday from complications of a colon surgery at Franklin Square Hospital. The Parkville resident was 88.

Alfred J. Zang, who oversaw more than 80 construction projects across the region from the former Baltimore Arena to Morgan State University, died Thursday at Glen Meadows Retirement Community. He was 90.

David T. Shidle, a retired NSA crypto-mathematician who was a pig fancier, died Monday from cancer at Howard County General Hospital. He was 75.

Tony Tochterman on Lefty Kreh: “He lived to expand his knowledge of fishing to the next generation. No one in this industry can replace him, ever. He’s the last of a total package.”

George P. Korb, a World War II B-17 navigator and prisoner of war who later owned and operated a Baltimore roofing company, died March 5 from liver failure at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 95.

The Rev. Gary L. Scarborough, senior pastor of Ashton Baptist Church who also worked in medical sales, died Saturday from cancer at his Stevensville home. He was 65.

Martha M. Kitchen-Nolan, a retired businesswoman and musician, died Saturday from multiple organ failure at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster. She was 88.

Sarah P. Shane, a former teacher, longtime Baltimore Jewish organizer and past president of the largest religious Zionist organization in the U.S., died of heart failure at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on Feb. 27, one day after the birth of her 35th great-grandchild.

Margaret H. Dougherty, a retired Harford County public schools educator, died March 7 from congestive heart failure at her Pylesville dairy farm. She was 97.

Ronnie Franklin, the Dundalk-raised jockey who rode Spectacular Bid to victory in the 1979 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, has died of lung cancer. He was 58.

Shirley W. Lentz, a homemaker and active churchwoman, died Monday from respiratory failure at the Augsburg Lutheran Home in Lochearn. The former Timonium resident was 90.

Marjorie L. Huff, a Brooks-Huff Tire co. executive and former travel agency owner, died Monday from complications following surgery at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 75.

Wayne Norman, a Bel Air attorney, former state delegate and current state senator, died Sunday, the county executive's office announces.

Former Orioles relief pitcher Sammy Stewart, who helped lead the team to its last World Series title in 1983 before personal tragedy and drug addiction derailed his life, was found dead Friday in Hendersonville, NC. He was 63.

Kathleen P. Ruane, a career Greater Baltimore Medical Center nurse practitioner who was known for her compassion for the sick and elderly, died Saturday from cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 67.

Richard E. "Dick" Hirsch, a retired Western Electric Co. electrical engineer and manager, died Friday of respiratory failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 94.

Ralph R. Fields, a retired educator who had been vice president of the old Baltimore International College, died Wednesday from influenza at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 79.

Roger N. Mangels, former president of Mangels Herold Co., manufacturers of King Syrup, died Monday rfom heart failure at his Chestertown home. He was 86.

Melvin Baile, 79, of New Windsor, died Friday, Feb. 9, at Copper Ridge in Sykesville. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 17 at Windsor Station of the New Windsor Volunteer Fire Company.

He tied for second in the 1956 American League Rookie of the Year voting and played in the majors until 1970.

Richard “Rick” Shipley, the stepfather of Freddie Gray, has died, according to the family’s attorney. He was 60. Shipley was a voice for calm in Baltimore in April and May of 2015 when Gray’s death from injuries suffered in police custody sparked widespread protests and the city erupted in rioting.

Marjorie F. Scott, a Quaker and community activist who had been executive secretary of the Baltimore office of the American Friends Service Committee, died Thursday from heart failure at her home in the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. She was 94.

Robert G. Levy, who pursued careers in law and academia and was an accomplished sailor, died Jan 29 from pancreatic cancer at his Roland Park home. He was 85.

Henry G. Ebert Jr., owner of a construction, innerspace and interior design firm, died Saturday from leukemia at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 77.

Ruth Elma Cummings, founder of Victory Prayer Chapel and the mother of U.S. Congressman Elijah Cummings, died Monday, according to the congressman’s office. She was 91.

Herbert E. Wilgis Jr., a retired career diplomat who later became president of a Baltimore engineering and environmental testing firm, died Friday in his sleep at his Wilmington, N.C. home. The former Towson resident was 82.

Doris V. Easter, a homemaker who had volunteered locally at Meals on Wheels and the Reisterstown Crisis Center, died Feb. 3 of cancer.

Wilma N. Eckman, a homemaker who was the widow of Baltimore sports radio legend Charley Eckman, died Wednesday from cardio vascular disease at Serenity House of Mooresville in Mooresville, N.C. She was 95.

Christopher Joseph Kauffman, a historian who wrote nearly a dozen books on the Catholic Church, died Tuesday from complications of dementia.

Walter K. Sherwin Jr., a founding faculty member of the University of Maryland, College Park, who established the Ancient Studies Department, died Tuesday from pancreatic cancer at his Charlestown retirement community home. He was 79.

Helen R. Spedden, a retired federal worker who worked for the Army for more than two decades, died MondayJAN29 from pneumonia at Dove House in Westminster. She was 91.

Charles R. "Hap" Hazard, a former Baltimore Sun artist who was known for his pen and ink drawings that ranged from wildlife to city neighborhoods to detailed portraits of news makers, died TuesdayJAN23 from complications of diabetes at his Owings Mills home. He was 70

Angelo R. Santamaria, a co-owner of a Baltimore County appraisal firm and a former mortgage banker, died Wednesday from colon cancer at his Timonium home. He was 87.

John W. "Jack" Wittman, a retired Baltimore Sun advertising executive and decorated world War II bomber pilot, died Sunday from lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 92.

John M. Purnell, a veteran reporter who had worked for Eastern Shore newspapers and earlier for The Palm Beach Post, died Thursday from undetermined causes at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The West Ocean City resident was 73.

Judge Dana Mark Levitz who served for 23 years on the Circuit Court for Baltimore County before retiring in 2008, died Wednesday of a heart attack at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, Fla. The Stevenson resident was 69.

Kim Strohbehn, whose boyhood embrace of outer space resulted in a lengthy career as a senior professional engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, died Sunday from bone cancer at Sinai Hospital. The Ellicott City resident was 64.

Mary Ann Lewis, a former Roland Park Country School science teacher and volunteer, died Saturday from cancer at her Charles Village home. she was 79.