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MarylandObituaries The Sun Friday, June 24, 2005: Page 5b Albert W. Selby, 85, Carroll Orphans' Court judge By Frederick N. Rasmussen SUN STAFF burg Eagle, a Carroll County weekly newspaper. "Prominent people who wanted to buy a Ford would call Albert up and tell them what they wanted. He had an arrangement with Beall Ford, and he'd go and pick up and deliver the car, and they never saw the inside of the dealership," Mr.

Wolf said. "When the car needed service, he'd go and pick it up and then return it." Mr. Selby closed his businesses and retired in the late 1980s. Known as the "mayor of Eldersburg," Mr. Selby was a founder of the Eldersburg Improvement Association.

Mr. Selby long immersed himself in the history of Carroll County, and was an early volunteer and later a board member of the Carroll County Farm Museum and a founder of the Carroll County Wine Festival. "He knew the rural history and families of Carroll County, and his knowledge was invaluable," said Dominic C. Dattilio, a retired state police trooper and former farm museum board chairman. "And whatever needed to be done, you could always count on Albert getting it done." Described by Mr.

Dattilio as a "red-hot Republican," Mr. Selby was a member of the county Republican Central Committee for four years and was a member of the county Board of Zoning Ap- peals from 1979 to 1985. He was elected to the first of three terms on the Orphans' Court in 1985, and lost in the 1998 Republican primary in his quest for a fourth. "He was a Republican and I'm a Democrat, but I forgive him for that," Mrs. Selby said.

"He believed firmly in the Republican Party since he was a kid. I tried to convert him, but it was impossible." Mr. Selby read widely on history and politics and enjoyed biographical books. "The last book he was reading was Bill Clinton's autobiography. He only had 50 pages to go when he died," Mrs.

Selby said. "He was a man who could see both sides of everything." His first wife, the former Jean Hoffman, died in 1995. They were married for 50 years. He was a member of Wesley Freedom United Methodist Church, 961 Johnsville Road, Eldersburg, where services will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow.

Survivors also include two sons, Lester M. "Doc" Selby of Eldersburg and Stephen L. Selby of Westminster; four stepsons, William A. Candy of Sum-merville, S.C., Robert L. Candy of Cumberland, Richard L.

Candy of Westminster and David E. Candy of Freeport, N.Y.; two stepdaughters, Kathleen A. May of Arnold and Susan E. Candy of Eldersburg; 12 grandchildren; and a great-grandson. Albert W.

Selby, a former Carroll County Orphans' Court judge, retired auto salesman and museum volunteer, died Wednesday at Continuum Care Nursing Home in Sykesville from complications of a fall in his Eldersburg home. He was 85. When Mr. Selby was born at the former Baltimore County General Hospital, the road in front of his Eldersburg home, where he was raised, was dirt. "He was a little boy when they built Liberty Road, and he'd be out there helping the workers who put shovels of dirt in his small wheelbarrow," said his wife of eight years, the former Joan Candy.

Mr. Selby attended Sykesville High School and joined the family construction business in 1936. During the 1940s, he owned and operated a Sunoco gas station on Liberty Heights Avenue. He began selling autos at Beall Motor Co. in Stevenson, a Ford agency, in 1947.

A decade later, he built an Atlantic-Rich-field filling station on Liberty Road in Eldersburg and in 1966 expanded his business by establishing Albert W. Selby Used Cars. "He was so well-liked. I'm always meeting people who said they bought their first car from him or a used car for one of their children," Mrs. Selby said.

"He Albert Selby began selling cars in 1947, and in 1966 established Albert W. Selby Used Cars. prided himself on being honest and trying to help kids get their first car. He'd find ways for people to finance cars, or he'd finance them himself." On one occasion, Mr. Selby was on a hospital operating table and recognized the surgeon as a former customer.

"He asked the surgeon, 'Before you operate, did you like the car? Was it Mrs. Selby said. "He also sold cars in a rather unique way," said Hoby Wolf, a retired motion picture executive and columnist for the Elders ASSOCIATED PRESS 2003 A recent land acquisition has made a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee part of Antietam National Battlefield.

Battle over Lee statue at Antietam seems settled Thomas LeRoy Soule, 59, physical therapist, activist Thomas LeRoy Soule, a physical therapist and educational Disputed Confederate monument to stay put activist for dys- the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She was also an accomplished needleworker. Mrs. Schlicht had been a 61-year member of Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church of Stony Creek. Services will be held at 11 a.m.

today at the Stallings Funeral Home, 3111 Mountain Road in Pasadena. Survivors include a son, Otto Paul Schlicht of Greenland Beach; a daughter, Loretta E. Geisler of Pasadena; four grandchildren; and three Maria F.Schlicht, 98, housekeeper, music lover Maria F. Schlicht, a former housekeeper and longtime Greenland Beach resident, died of heart failure Wednesday at Cranberry Cottage, a Glen Bur-nie assisted-living facility. She was 98.

Maria Jaeger was born and raised in Bruchsal, Germany, and in 1927 immigrated to St. Louis, where she became a housekeeper for August A. Busch president of Anheu ser-Busch Inc. After moving to Baltimore in 1929, she continued working as a housekeeper until 1938. She was married in 1931 to Otto F.

Schlicht, also a German immigrant, who for 40 years had captained U.S. Public Health Service tugboats berthed at the old quarantine station at Hawkins Point. He died in 1988. A 74-year resident of Greenland Beach in Anne Arundel County, Mrs. Schlicht enjoyed flower gardening, listening to classical music and attending lexic students, died of brain cancer Saturday at his Baldwin home.

He was 59. Born in Washington, D.C., he served The statue was erected in 2003 by William F. Chaney, a wealthy history buff from Anne Arundel County who outbid the park service for the parcel, known as the Newcomer farm, in 1999. A self-proclaimed "unreconstructed rebel" and distant relative of Lee, Chaney also had proposed erecting statues of Confederate Gens. Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B.

Stuart, but he dropped those plans amid local objections. Chaney, 59, said Lee passed by the hill where the statue stands. He said the Southern commander deserves a place on the battlefield, which now has six Confederate monuments and 99 Union ones. "It was time to even the odds a little bit," Chaney said. "I consider it the very best statue up there." Chaney retained ownership of 2 acres and the Newcomer house, which he restored and briefly ran as a museum.

It serves as a headquarters for battle re-enactments, he said. Chaney, of Galesville, also owns Terra Rubra, the Carroll County boyhood home of Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner." The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, was the bloodiest one-day clash of the Civil War, with more than 23,000 men reported killed, wounded or missing. Lee's retreat from Antietam gave President Abraham Lincoln the political strength to issue the Emancipation Proclamation five days later. ASSOCIATED PRESS HAGERSTOWN A disputed monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E.

Lee is now part of the Antietam National Battlefield, a park official said yesterday. The 24-foot bronze statue of Lee astride his horse, Traveller, was part of a nearly $189,000 land purchase that added 45 acres to the federally protected grounds last week, Superintendent John Howard said. Howard said he doesn't plan to move the statue, despite a claim that its location is historically inaccurate. "We've got many more serious issues to address rather than moving a monument," Howard said. "I've got over $2.5 million worth of work to do on the buildings, and if I've got money to spend, I'm going to use it on that." Statue opponent Thomas G.

Clemens, president of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation, said that now that the land is protected, he will renew his campaign to have the monument removed from its hilltop perch along Route 34 just east of Sharpsburg. Clemens said the hill was held by Union forces during the Sept. 17, 1862, battle that marked the end of Lee's first invasion of the North. "It puts Robert E. Lee in the middle of the Union line," Clemens said.

Contractors Inc. and Whiting-Turner Contracting and had supervised construction projects at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the sports arena at what was then Catonsville Community College. A Mason, he had been a member for 57 years of Patapsco Lodge 183 and also was a member of Druid Royal Arch Chapter 28 and Boumi Temple. Mr. Caltrider had been an active communicant for 64 years of St.

Margarets Episcopal Church, 1601 Pleasant Plains Road in Annapolis, where services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, the former Jacquelyn Ward. A son, George Ellwood Caltrider III, died in the 1970s. George E.

Caltrider construction superintendent George Ellwood Caltrider a retired construction superintendent and World War II veteran, died of heart failure Sunday at his Arnold home. He was 87. Mr. Caltrider was born and raised in Baltimore and was a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad conductor before enlisting in the Army Air Forces during World Warll. Stationed with the 8th Air Force in England, Mr.

Caltrider flew combat missions over Germany as a nose-gunner aboard B-24 Liberators and attained the rank of sergeant. After the war, he attended the Johns Hopkins University before entering the construction industry. Before retiring in the 1990s, he was employed by Baltimore in the Navy and earned a therapy degree from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. After working as a Maryland State Police trooper from 1968 to 1970 at the Waterloo barracks, he became a physical therapist for several years at what was then Western Maryland State Hospital in Hagerstown. He then began a private practice, visiting patients in their homes.

For the past six years, he worked for St. Joseph Upper Chesapeake Home Health and Bayada Nurses. About 10 years ago, Mr. Soule helped found the Odyssey School, then located in Roland Park. He became interested after his son was diagnosed with dyslexia.

He enjoyed camping, hiking and vacationing at a family cottage in Lake Winola, Pa. Services were held yesterday at Mountain Christian Church in Joppa, where he was a member and taught a teen boys' youth group. Survivors include his wife of 34 years, the former Virginia Ida "Ginger" Lawrence; three sons, Gregory Soule of McGaheysville, Jeffrey Soule, stationed with the Army in Honolulu, and Mick Soule of Baldwin; a daughter, Jennifer Deskiewicz of Hamp-stead; three brothers, Louis Soule of Gaithersburg, Don Soule of Berkeley Springs, W.Va. and Robert Soule of Olney; a sister, Judy Bailey of Waldorf; and three grandchildren. More obituaries next page Jo Anne C.

homemaker, club member Jo Anne C. Laurer, a home-maker and former Ellicott City resident, died June 16 from complications after surgery at a hospital in Sarasota, Fla. She was 75. Born Jo Anne Calkins in Utica, N.Y., she was raised in Rochester, N.Y. She earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1950 from Hood College.

A longtime Ellicott City resident, Mrs. Laurer was a member of the Forest Hill Swim and Tennis Club, where she was the swim team's official time and record keeper. She also edited the club's newsletter and planned social events. Since 1990, Mrs. Laurer had lived in Sarasota with her husband of 49 years, Donald C.

Laurer, a retired financial planner. Services are private. Mrs. Laurer is also survived by two sons, Christopher W. Laurer of Lake Mary, and Philip D.

Laurer of Sacramento, three daughters, Leslie M. Brenner of Carlsbad, Deidre J. Laurer of Columbia and Paige E. Jensen of Ellicott City; and seven grandchildren. Obituaries Perry Hall girl, 13, finishes as marbles runner-up Because of limited space and the large number of requests for obituaries, The Sun regrets that it cannot publish all the obituaries it receives.

Because The Sun regards obituaries as news, we give a preference to those submitted within 48 hours of a person's death. It is also our intention to run obituaries no later than seven days after death. She loses in girls finals of national tournament By Abigail Tucker SUN STAFF U. Morgan ELIZABETH HALEY SUN STAFF Heidi Griswold nearly returned to Perry Hall today as the "marbles queen," but lost in the girls finals of the 82nd National Marbles Tournament, held yesterday on the beachside marble rings of Wildwood, N.J. The 13-year-old was sorry to have missed out on the crown, but also a little relieved.

One of the queen's duties is to kiss the newly crowned king, in this case Jamie Miller of Allegheny County, Pa. "I did not want to kiss him," Heidi said. In fact, she added, she had cheered loudly for his opponent. Heidi was beaten by Amy Nees of Mesa County, who won $2,000 in scholarship money. However, Heidi walked away with a trophy, a watch with a marble on it, and a slobber-free cheek.

Other Marylanders also advanced to the final rounds of the tournament, in which 45 city and county champions ages 8 to 14 competed. Molly Friedel, 12, of Carney Heidi Griswold sets up marbles for play at the National Marbles Tournament during Tuesday's part of the competition. i7 2006 "You think, 'Will these kids ever amount to anything? They might as well go fly a the 76-year-old said. "But then they surprise you." January ln knowing that ITS 'r AW your Karl (M Air. MD finished in fifth place.

Ten-year-old Ricky Brode of Cumberland finished third in the boys competition, and 11-year-old James Moss of Dundalk ranked eighth. Perry Hall coach Helen Mohr "threw my umbrella in the air" when she learned that Heidi had made the finals after four days of marble shooting. The local program is relatively new, and her champs, she said, have improved greatly over the past few years. I qui" 'gjjojl THEJSUN Maryland's Marketplace www.baltimoresun.com Every other Wednesday in The Sun. To advertise, call 410.332.6908.

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