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LOCAL A7 THE STAR DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,2012 The Star Democrat offers 10 lines of an obituary free of charge for the first day it runs in The Star Democrat Families who wish to include more information than can be presented in 10 lines may do so for a nominal fee. OBITUARY POLICY OBITUARIES We Like Regular Livingston Septic Drain Line Service 410-745-2711 St. Michaels www.livingstonseptic.com Serving Talbot, Caroline Dorchester Counties Offering: Office 443-385-0487 Passion Bolden Tilghman 21 N. Hanson St. Easton, MD 24 Hour Emergency Line: 1-866-977-8000 Comforting the Community in the Time of Need House of Prayer and Training Center School of The Holy Spirit BOAZJACHIN THE FUEL PROJECT PRESENTS Know Your Enemy From Genesis to Revelation: The New World Order from a Christian Perspective Wednesday September, 19 th at DVD Part 1 wednesday September, 26 th at 12:30 p.m.

DVD Part 1 http://hopeastonmd.wordpress.com 410-822-7868 6 EASTON Leland James Fancher, 84, of Easton, died Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. He was the oldest child born to the late John H. Sr. and Gladys Fancher on March 8, 1928, in Springfield, Mass.

Lee graduated from Chatham (N.J.) High School in 1945 and received his degree from Dartmouth College in 1949 and his degree in electrical engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in 1950. In college, he was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, Casque and Gauntlet senior society, and captain of the Dartmouth soccer team, for which he was recognized as an All-American athlete. He married Muriel Zook in 1954 and they raised their family in West Orange, N.J., and Mountain Lakes, N.J. Later, they lived in Radnor, Westlake, Ohio, and in 1999 relocated to Easton. Lee served in the U.S.

Army during the Korean War, stationed in Etajima, Japan. Upon completion of military service, Lee devoted himself to a career as an engineer at Red Devil Tool Company in Union, N.J., where he was vice president of engineering. He later joined Nordson Corporation of Westlake, Ohio, where he worked until his retirement in 1998. Lee was an active member of the Easton Presbyterian Church, where he was a member of the Board of Trustees, serving part of his tenure as its chairman. He was a loyal friend and a devoted and loving husband and father.

Lee is survived by his wife, Muriel; and three daughters and sons-in-law, Elizabeth Fancher and David Webster of Bend, Ellen Fancher-Ruiz and Hernan Ruiz of Fairfax, and Susan Fancher and Joseph Ruzicka of Baltimore. He is also survived by his sisters, Beverly Goodwin of Charlotte, and Lois Field of Essex Junction, and three grandchildren, Alexis Rhiannon, Liana Ruiz and Pablo Ruiz. He was preceded in death by his brother, John H. Fancher Jr. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to Easton Presbyterian Church to the Organ Renovation Fund, 617 N.

Washington Easton, MD 21601. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, at the Easton Presbyterian Church. Leland J.

Fancher EASTON Judith R. Ryland, 70, of Easton, died Sept. 5, 2012, at Memorial Hospital at Easton. She was born on Nov. 24, 1941, in Baltimore to the late Ruth Walker and George L.

Rines. She resided the last 14 years in Hyde Park, Easton. Judy retired after 42 years at Waverly Press in Baltimore and Easton. Judy is survived by her brother, George L. Rines Jr.

and wife Marianne E. of Georgetown, three nieces, Jennifer Ashby, Jeffri Goodfello and Judi a nephew, George L. Rines III; and great-nieces and nephews. She was also a wonderful friend to Peggy Thomas. Judi made a generous donation of her body to Anatomy Gifts Registry, www.anatomygifts.org.

A celebration of life will be held at 2 p.m. Oct. 27 at the E.E. Streets Memorial VFW 5118, 355 Glebe Road, Easton, MD 21601. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Shore Home Care Hospice, 121 Federal Suite 3, Easton, MD 21601 or Baywater Animal Rescue, 4930 Bucktown Road, Cambridge, MD 21613, cue.org.

Judith R. Ryland CHURCH HILL Marie Storey Hall, formerly of Church Hill, passed away at the age of 93 on Sept. 17, 2012, at Edenwald Retirement Community, Towson, following a brief illness. Mrs. Hall was born near Crumpton on July 21, 1919, one of seven children of Tilden E.

and Margaret Logan Storey. She graduated from Church Hill High School and, in 1940, married Frederick Hall. She was active in his farming operations on what is now known as Hall Road, and in rearing their three children. After her three children became independent, she served as a assistant in Queen County public schools. She was a communicant at St.

Episcopal Church in Church Hill and participated in many aspects of church life, including the Altar Guild. From her friendships at the church grew a weekly gathering where the participants engaged in various types of handiwork in which Mrs. Hall became quite accomplished at counted cross stitch. Additionally, she enjoyed the activities arising from her involvement with harness racing. Following her death in 1993, she moved to Church Lane in Church Hill.

In 2003, she moved to Edenwald in Towson. She is survived by her sister, Betty Webb; three children, M. Faithfull Hall of Towson, Anne H. Menendez of Timonium and John F. Hall of Easton; three grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and numerous nephews and nieces.

Mrs. Hall will be buried next to her husband, at St. Interment will be at a private service; a memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturdayat St. Episcopal Church, Church Hill.

The family has asked that, in lieu of flowers, gifts be made to St. Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 38, Church Hill, MD 21623; the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, VA; or to St. Clair Medical Center, 7601 Osler Drive, Towson, MD 21204.

Arrangements are being made by Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam, in Chestertown. www.fhnfuneralhome.com. Marie S. Hall EASTON Vivian Irene Stanford, 81, of Easton, died Sept. 13, at the House in the Pines Easton.

Services will be 12 noon, Saturday at Union Baptist Church, 233 Glenwood Easton, with a viewing two hours prior. Condolences sent to www.henryfuneral homepa.com. Vivian I. Stanford CAMBRIDGE Donald (Jim) Eugene McNamara, 78, of Cambridge, passed away at his home on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2012.

Services will be 11 a.m. Saturdayat Waugh Chapel UM Church, 425 High Cambridge, with a viewing 6-8 p.m. Friday at Henry Funeral Home P.A., Cambridge. Condolences to www.henry funeralhomepa.com. Donald E.

McNamara FEDERALSBURG Marion Joseph Hutson Jr. passed away on Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Dorchester General Hospital at the age of 69. He was born in Goldsboro to the late Marion J. Hutson Sr.

and Cornelia Jane Lynch Hutson. He graduated from North Caroline High School, Class of 1961. He married Gracie Ball on Oct. 2, 1964, and they lived in Ridgely, Denton, and later in Federalsburg. Mr.

Hutson worked as a long haul trucker, hauling everything from food to money and he loved the open road. Mr. Hutson was a U.S. Navy veteran serving from 1961 to 1965 on the U.S.S. Boxer he was honorably discharged.

He was a member of the American Legion and V.F.W. He enjoyed eating crabs, listening to the Grand Opry, and watching cowboy movies. He was also a vintage car, tractor, and truck enthusiast. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Gracie Ball Hutson; as well as his daughter, Ellen Jane Hutson; brother, Le Roy Hutson; and sisters, Laura Robear and Mary Hammond. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m.

Mondayat the Fleegle Helfenbein Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Sundayat the Fleegle Helfenbein Funeral Home, 106 W. Sunset Ave, Greensboro. Interment with military honors will be held following the funeral service at 1 p.m.

Monday at Maryland Veterans Cemetery, Hurlock. In lieu of flowers, the family is accepting contributions to offset cost to the Fleegle Helfenbein Funeral Home. Marion J. Hutson Jr. PRESTON Joseph Beckhardt III of Preston passed away peacefully on Monday, Sept.

17, 2012, at his home. He was 72. He was born Jan. 31, 1940, in Baltimore, the son of the late Joseph Beckhardt Jr. and Audrey Weaver Beckhardt.

He served his country in the U.S. Marine Corps. He retired after working 40 years from Solo Cup in Federalsburg where he worked as production manager, supervisor and mechanic. He was a member of the American Legion Post in Easton. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, watching Ravens football, and going on cruises.

He loved his family. He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Gail Marie Cline Beckhardt; a daughter, Diane Lynn Peifer (Chris) of Northumberland, a son, Joseph Alan Beckhardt (Kimberly) of Federalsburg; three grandsons, Franklin Deibler, Brett A. Deibler and Brandon Cody Beckhardt; adopted granddaughter, Stormy Birk; three great-grandchildren, Jordan Deibler, Brynn Deibler and Brooke Deibler; and two brothers, Alan L. Beckhardt (Leila) of Reedpoint, and William B. Beckhardt of Billings, Mont.

A daughter Joanne Beckhardt, preceded him in death. Service will be held at the convenience of the family. Friends may call from 7-9 p.m. Wednesdayat the Framptom Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made in his memory to the Caroline Hospice Foundation P.O.

Box 362, Denton, MD 21629. Joseph Beckhardt III FEDERALSBURG James Brian Adam Shatley Jr. of Federalsburg died on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. He was the infant son of James B.

A. Shatley Sr. and Kristy L. Piskor. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m.

Thursdayat the Hill Crest Cemetery in Federalsburg. Memorial contributions may be made to the Framptom Funeral Home, 216 N. Main Federalsburg, MD 21632. Share memories with the family at www.framp tom.com. James B.

A. Shatley Jr. EASTON Vivian Virginia Bailey, 81, of Easton, died Friday, Sept. 14, at House of the Pines in Easton. Services at 1 p.m.

Saturday at Bennie Smith Funeral Home, Easton, with a viewing two hours prior. Condolences sent to www.benniesmith funeralhome.com Vivian V. Bailey VIVIAN V. BAILEY TRAPPE Alma D. Chance of Trappe died on Friday, Sept.

14, 2012, at the Memorial Hospital at Easton. She was 89. Born in Wye Mills on Oct. 8, 1922, she was the daughter of the late John P. and Beatrice Welch Dulin.

Her husband, C. Lester Chance, whom she married on May 11, 1941, died Sept. 24, 2000. She was a proud graduate of Cordova High School Class of 1939, a member of Easton Church of the Brethren and she worked on the farm with her husband until 1968. Her last employment was with Black and Decker until 1987.

In her spare time, she tended to her flowers, helped care for her grandchildren and loved to mow her lawn with her John Deere tractor. She is survived by three children, Leona Schmidt of Trappe, Ann Coll of Cambridge and Tommie Chance and his wife Debbie of St. Michaels; seven grandchildren, Joe Schmidt of Cordova, Brian Schmidt of Trappe, Tammy Hurley of Silver Spring, Tommy Hurley of Hurlock, Scott Chance of Clarksville, Jason Chance of St. Michaels and Brandon Chance of Easton; fourteen great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; four sisters, Lillian Mahoney of Manassas, Myrtle Pressley of Denton, Eloise Dulin of Easton and Jacqueline Hurley (Leroy) of Easton; and two brothers, Crawford Dulin of Denton and Franklin Dulin of Preston. She was pre-deceased by two sons-in-law, Sonny Schmidt and Jim Coll; one sister, Dorothy Dulin; three brothers, John P.

Dulin, Elsworth Dulin and Leslie Dulin; and one grandson, Leslie Schmidt. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Fridayat the Fellows, Helfenbein Newnam Funeral Home, P.A. in Easton, where friends may call from 6-8 p.m. Thursday.

Burial will be at Woodlawn Memorial Park, Easton. Memorial donations may be made to the Trappe Lions Club, P.O. Box 427, Trappe, MD 21673 or the Talbot Hospice Foundation, 586 Cynwood Drive, Easton, MD 21601. For online tributes, please visit www.fhnfuneral home.com. Alma D.

Chance ALMA D. CHANCE DENTON Mary Ann Knotts Walsh, whose vivid recollections will inform future generations about life in Caroline County, Maryland in the period before and during World War II, died on Sept. 16 following an illness of four months initiated by a stroke. She was 90 years old. Mrs.

Walsh recorded her recollections in a memoir entitled Days and Gentle Ways: My World from the Wooden Porch Swing, and also did recordings for the Caroline County Historical Society. Born during the Great Blizzard of 1922, she was raised in a house bordering the Courthouse Square in Denton at a time when the Courthouse Green often served as a playground for the children of the town. Her late father, J. Owen Knotts, presided during her youth in the Courthouse in Denton as the chief judge of the Second Judicial Court of Maryland and her late mother, Margaret Bidwell Smith Knotts, was a prominent social leader in the town. Mrs.

childhood playmates included future governors Harry R. Hughes and Sherman Tribbett, as well as Charles Moore, Mary Ellen Wright, Madeline Cooper, Bill Greenly and the After attending public schools in Denton from 1927 to 1937, she attended the exclusive Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Del. In 1939, she chose to attend Connecticut College for Women over Vassar and other colleges. During her senior year at the New London college, she met Lt. Commander Quentin Robert Walsh of the United States Coast Guard.

They were married with military trappings in St. Catholic Church in Denton on June 8, 1943, just days before her deployment to England to help plan military operations essential to the pending Allied invasion of Normandy, France. A description of the hectic events surrounding her marriage ceremony was recorded by the noted author Paul Stillwell and entitled During the war, Mrs. Walsh did war work at Johns Hopkins Hospital and for Civil Defense in Caroline County. Commander Walsh became a naval legend for his capture of the last German stronghold in the French port of Cherbourg in 1944.

However, he returned home with serious respiratory problems caused by his arduous service for which he was awarded the Navy Cross. After consulting with the Mayo Clinic about his illness, Commander Walsh was retired in 1945 and the Walsh family relocated with their newborn daughter, Ann Bronwyn, to the dry desert climate in Tucson, Ariz. Two additional children, Quentin R. Walsh Jr. and James Owen Knotts Walsh, were born in Tucson.

With the outbreak of the Korean War, her military career was reactivated, and the Walshes returned to Denton in 1950. Mrs. Walsh raised their three children in Denton while her husband served in Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., returning home only on weekends. Mary Ann K. Walsh MARY ANN K.

WALSH Following years of child- rearing, in 1960 Mrs. Walsh became supervisor of foster care and adoptions for the Maryland Department of Social Services in Denton. After her retirement in 1974, she remained active as a volunteer in numerous mental health organizations as well as services for troubled children. The Walshes had purchased and restored Chance near Denton in 1963. The project reflected Mrs.

great love for history and historic preservation. She has been one of the largest contributors of both funding and artifacts to the Caroline County Historical Society. Her husband, Captain Walsh, died of World War II- related respiratory problems in 2000. In addition to her three children, Q.R. Walsh and J.O.K.

Walsh of Denton and Bronie Zolper of Dewey Beach, she is survived by four grandchildren, Carl William Zolper III, Matthew Mott Zolper, Patrick Walsh Zolper and Casey Liam Zolper, as well as ten Zolper-line great- grandchildren, Jared, Payton, Owen, Jeb, Jackson, Delaney, Liam, Ash Lynn, Madison and Alexis. Mrs. Walsh was predeceased by two brothers, James Owen Knotts Jr. and James O. Knotts III; as well as one sister, Margaret Jane Knotts Huber.

Her remains will be interred in a private ceremony beside those of her husband at the Maryland Veterans Cemetery at Beulah. To celebrate Mrs. life, friends and acquaintances are invited to an informal reception at the Museum of Rural Life, 16 N. Second St. in Denton from 11:30 a.m.

to 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. In lieu of flowers, friends are asked to make contributions to the Caroline County Historical Society, P.O. Box 514, Denton, MD 21629. For online messages to the family, please go to moorefuner alhomepa.com.

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