obituaries

Kenneth W. Krouse, 74, former chief of police at the University of Maryland, College Park, died Wednesday.

Ann C. Doak, 74, a private school director of publications, died Friday at her Ruxton home.

Ralph B. Vincent, a railroad and history buff who founded the Baltimore Civil War Museum in Harbor East, died of heart disease at his home in Ellicott City on June 18, his brother said. He was 78.

John D. Hicks, 86, founder of a Dundalk travel agency, died Monday.

Sharon B. Wharton, 78, an active church member and educator, died Saturday.

Surgeon B. Martin Middleton dies

Ann P. deMuth, 86, who had her own real estate business for more than 40 years, died June 15.

John E. "Suds" McCann, 83, a retired lawyer, died Friday from a heart attack at his Lutherville home.

Maria C. Williams, 85, a retired banker, died Sunday.

Nicholas A. Defelice, 74, a retired Baltimore banker, died from metastatic melanoma Saturday

Ann Carter Stonesifer, 80, a volunteer, died Wednesday from ovarian cancer at the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. She was 80.

Laurette M. "Mimi" Scharper, 97, a retired Union Trust Co. assistant, died Friday from heart failure at her Lutherville home.

Anna R. "Ann" Gorman, 81, a retired Baltimore County public schools physical education instructor and gymnastics teacher, died Wednesday.

Donald C. Sedlack, 81, a retired stockbroker, died Thursday at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center.

Howard S. Boote Jr., 82, a retired financial adviser, died Thursday at his North Roland Park home.

Dr. Rosetta M.T. Sith, 72, former head of the Laurence G.Paquin Junior-Senior High School, died May 18.

John Due, a worldly collector and antiques dealer who ferried soldiers to Omaha Beach on D-Day and hitchhiked across America to see the West, died May 20 at the historical plantation he lovingly restored in Howard County.

Dr. Cornelius J. Feehley, 85, retired coordinator of psychologival services for Baltimore County public schools, died May 30.

Jean T. Schreier, 76, a retired Anne Arundel County Community College educator and dean, died May 27 from cancer.

Roger L. Griffin Jr., 84, a retired mechanical engineer and business owner, died Monday.

John R. "Jud" Judkins, 77, a Baltimore stockbroker, died FridayMAY26 from cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.

Matthew K. Wixted, 86, a retired advertising executive, died Friday from liver cancer.

Frank Deford, a longtime writer of Sports Illustrated profiles and later a commentator for NPR and HBO Sports, died Sunday.

Marjorie P. "Margie" VandeLinde, a former mathematician and Roland Park homemaker who later accompanied her husband to prominent academic posts in Britain, died May 22 of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the couple's summer home in Hedgesville, W.V. She was 74.

Ruth B. Renneburg, 97, who served with the WAVES during World War II and later became a businesswoman, died Monday.

Melvin J. Sykes, 93, who practiced law in Baltimore for more than six decades, died on Monday.

Peter M. Saybolt, 83, who had sales careers in both the brokerage business and technology, died Sunday.

Dr. Janet E. "Jan" Turner, 63, a speech pathologist, died May 15 at her Ruxton home from cancer.

Quinton D. "Q.D." Thompson, 95, a longtime McDonogh School educator, died Saturday from cancer at the Edenwald retirement Community in Towson.

Harry K. Wells, 94, former chairman of the board and CEO of McCormick 7 Co. has died.

Robert C. Blount, 95, a retired FBI agent, died May 17 at the Bakehurst Retirement Community in Towson.

Dr. Liebe S. Diamond, 86, a retired Baltimore orthopedic surgeon who worked mainly with children, died WednesdayMAY17.

William C. Newman Jr., a longtime auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, who oversaw the Catholic schools and chose the priesthood over a chance to play professional baseball, died Saturday of heart failure at Mercy Ridge retirement community in Timonium. He was 88 years old.

Jacques Fein, 78, who survived being sent to a concentration camp after being hidden by a family during World War II, died May 11.

Gordon E. "Ed" Horak, 83, a retired computer programer, died Saturday from pulmonary fibrosis.

Dr. Marvin M. Schuster, 87, a noted gastroenterologist who founded a center for motility and digestive disorders at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, died May 12.

Frederick J. "Fred" Holste Jr., 92, a retired Baltimore County police officer, died MondayMAY15 from congestive heart failure.

Alexander H. "Sandy" Hoon, 88, a retired steel executive, died SundayMAY14.

Lawrence A. "Larry" Hilte Sr., 91, a World War II turret gunner, died Saturday from prostate cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.

James Stevens Jr., a financial planner in Baltimore known as "Big Jim" for his 6 foot 5 bearing, and who became the content old guard of the Homeland neighborhood, died Thursday of cancer.

Blair P. Browne, 93, a retired waterfront executive, died April 28 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson from complications of a fall.

BUILD's Mary Irene Traeger dies

Betty J. "Betsy" Sapp, 81, former director of special events at Goucher College, died April 19.

Arch L. Handy, 91, a World War II veteran and Aberdeen Proving Ground official, died Sunday at a son's home in Birdsboro, Pa.

David S. Ridgely Jr., 92, a retired construction Co. vice president, died April 21 at his Cambridge home.

Thomas C. Talbott, 96, a former career Marine, died Sunday from cancer at his Lochearn home.

Robert W. Ziehm, 83, a retired Howard County Soil Conservation district manager, died April 25.

Tim Capps, a former Maryland racing official who directed the equine business program at the University of Louisville, died Saturday of complications related

Carl F. Christ, 93, a noted Johns Hopkins University economist, died Friday.

Henrietta S. "Ootsie" Neill, 90, a former social worker and educator, died on SaturdayAPR22.