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an www.DelmarvaNow.com THE DAILY TIMES Sunday, January 9, 2011 DEATH NOTICES Winfree Jersey District Cabinet. For his many years of service, George received the Ruritan National Tom Downing Fellow award in appreciation for unselfish personal effort. George was a lifelong member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church "Old Springhill," circa 1711, where he served as church school teacher and superintendent, vestryman, junior warden, senior warden, treasurer and licensed lay reader. He was a member of the Hebron Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary and was most known for selling tickets in the raffle stand during the carnival.

In addition to his parents, George was preceded in death by his wife of 43 years, Gertrude "Trudy" Vincent Winfree, in 1988; sister, Ida Winfree Miller, in 1991; son-in-law, Richard Gulas, in 2008; and devoted companion, Martha Frances Twilley, in 2009. George is survived by a daughter, Denise Gulas; grandsons, Anthony, Stephen and Joshua Gulas, granddaughter, Emilee Gulas and Shaun Neiman, and great-grandson, Ethan Neiman; daughter, Ramona See and her husband, John, and grandson, Jonathan See, and granddaughters, Chelsie and Hannah See; daughter, Margaret Ward, granddaughter, Alana Tuthill, and grandson, Tyler Tuthill; son-in-law, Frederick Ward, grandson, Korey Ward, and granddaughter, Colleen Ward; nephew, William J. Miller and wife, Danielle; and grandniece, Mireille Mobley and husband, Joshua. A viewing will be held Wednesday from 7- 9 p.m. at Bounds Funeral Home on East Main Street in Salisbury, Funeral service will be held Thursday at 11 a.m.

at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Old Spring Hill, Route 50, in Hebron, officiated by the Rev. Ronald Knapp. Interment with full military honors will follow in the church cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St.

Paul's Spring Hill Memorial Fund, PO Box 28, Hebron, Md. 21830; or Coastal Hospice, PO Box 1733, Salisbury, Md. 21802. Visit www.boundsfuneralhome.com to send letters of condolence. Howard Joseph Culver DELMAR Howard Joseph Culver, 67, of Delmar died Friday, Jan.

7, 2011, at his home, surrounded by his loving family. He was born July 29, 1943, in Georgetown, a son of the late Minos "Mike" Culver and Clara Short Culver. Howard spent his youth in Georgetown and graduated from Georgetown High School with the Class of 1961. After high school, he earned his bachelor's degree from Shepherd College. He started his Katie Killian Willey and her career in education in 1966 as children, Abby and Stosh of a physical education teacher Delmar; and nephew, Sean at Delmar Elementary.

He then Killian and his wife, April, and went on to Delmar Junior- their son, Scott, of ChesaSenior High School where he peake, Va. He is also survived taught life science classes for by many other members of his 27 years and was a guidance extended family. counselor for many years. A visitation for family and He loved coaching and from friends will be held Monday 1966-69 he served as the from 6-8 p.m., and also head coach to the Delmar High Tuesday from 10-11 a.m. at School basketball team and Short Funeral Home in Delmar, also served as the head coach where a service will be held for the football team from Tuesday at 11 a.m.

Pastor Bill 1970-73. In addition to teach- Green will officiate. Intering and coaching, he was also ment will follow the services Delmar's athletic director for at St. Stephen's Cemetery in a number of years. Later in Delmar.

his career he returned to the Memorial contributions football team as an assistant may be made in Mr. Culver's coach. He attended Christ name to Delmar High United Methodist Church in School, Booster Club, Salisbury where he eagerly Delmar School District, 200 N. supported the homeless proj- Eighth Delmar, Del. 19940 ect in the church.

or Christ United Methodist He is survived by his wife of Church, Missions Fund to help 40 years, Donna Marie Elliott the Homeless Project, 211 Culver; two daughters, Laura Phillip Morris Drive, Salisbury, Culver of Salisbury and Stacy Md. 21804. Culver Kuczenski and her Online condolences may be husband, Donald, of Delmar; sent to the family by visiting a grandson, William Monroe www.shortfh.com. ArrangeKuczenski; mother-in-law, ments are in the care of Short Dollie Eleanor Elliott of Del- Funeral Home in Delmar. mar; sister-in-law, Suzanne Elliott Killian of Delmar: niece, DEATH NOTICES Marion Brechner NEW YORK CITY Marion Brechner, 98, former co-owner of television station WMDT 47 in Salisbury, died Thursday, Jan.

6, 2011, in 1 New York, where she had been staying for several months. She lived in Winter Park, Fla. Born of immigrant parents in Chicago in 1912 and the youngest of three girls, Marion Brody completed public schools and became a stenographer and legal secretary in Chicago. In 1933, she accepted a telegraphed offer to be a junior stenographer for a threemonth assignment with the government in Washington. That three-month assignment led to a decade of government work, including work with the War Department starting prior to World War II.

It was in Washington, too, that she met her husband to be, Joseph Brechner, a writer of radio programs for the War Department and an aspiring novelist and playwright. They married in 1941, and Joe joined the Army Air Corps the next year. After the war, in 1946, Joe and a business partner, with the behind-the-scenes support of Marion, sought and got a license to build a radio station in Silver Spring, which led to the couple operating radio stations in several other eastern states, including WLOF-AM in Orlando in 1956. Two years later, with other investors, they were granted a license for a TV station in Orlando, which became, as it remains today, WFTV Channel 9. The family, with th their 13-year-old son, Berl, became permanent residents of Orlando in 1960.

Marion assumed fulltime work at the TV station during the 1960s, including serving as producer of a daily hourlong live variety show, "Orbit." That station won many broadcast and service awards, including the Alfred I. DuPont Foundation Award for General Overall Performance and Outstanding Service to the Community and the Nation. While the family sold its interest in Chanel 9 in 1984. it continued in the broadcast business, with Marion actively involved with 1 stations in Kansas, Ohio and Maryland. The Maryland TV station, WMDT-TV, an ABC affiliate, is still operated by the family and a few years ago, was the national winner of the National Association of Broadcasting's Service to Children Award.

In Orlando, she had served as president of the Friends of the Orlando Library, as an officer with The Shakespeare Festival Theater and was involved in development of the Jewish Pavilion, a service organization for seniors living in assisted living and nursing home facilities. More recently, she made a major gift that established the Joseph L. Brechner Research Center at the Orange County Regional History Center, including the donation of important historical papers and documents from Joseph Brechner relating to central Florida's history and civil rights movement during the 1950s and through the 1970s. She was also a major supporter of the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, the Marion Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida and the Anti-Defamation League, where she established the Joseph L. Brechner Fellowship Program.

She was an avid reader, supporter of the arts and culture and inveterate traveler, traveling with her husband and then independently after his death in 1990 to every continent and to scores of countries. As journalists, they traveled to Vietnam in 1967 at the height of the war there. She was a member of Congregation Ohev Shalom in Orlando. She is survived by her son, Berl, daughter-in-law Katherine, and their children, Elana, Joshua and Kara. She will be interred at Temple Israel Cemetery near Orlando on Monday.

Arrangements are being handled by Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel in Orlando. Mary E. "Betty" Ray HEBRON Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Ray (nee Mullaney) of Hebron passed away at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, from a sudden illness. She is survived by her husband of 59 years, George C.

Ray; her three children, Robert Ray and his wife, Bridget, of Arnold, Pat Ray and her husband, Steve, of Brooklyn Park, and Kelly Saunders of Maryland; two brothers, Jack Mullaney of Chesapeake, and one great-grandson. and Patrick Mullaney of A private memorial service Baltimore: 10 grandchildren; will be held Saturdav. TODAY'S PAC 14 SCHEDULE 14 SCHEDULE 6:30 p.m. Delmarva Evangelistic Church "The Answer" 7:30 p.m. Victory in Praise 8 p.m.

Emmanuel Covenant Church 9:30 p.m. St. James AME Zion Church 10 p.m. Growing By God's Grace Ministries 10:30 p.m. Tru Christian Ministries Visit www.pac14.org.

AREA DEATHS George Wright HEBRON George Wright Winfree, ETCS USN, retired, was called to join the staff of the Supreme Commander. Born on Oct. 30, 1923, George was the son of the late A.G. "John" and Myrtle Perine Winfree. Educated i in the Wicomico County school system, George graduated from Hebron High School in 1941 and attended Salisbury State Teachers College until April 1943, when he joined the U.S.

Navy as a an apprentice seaman. After recruit training at the U.S. Naval Station in Bainbridge, he was assigned to Class A radio school, also at Bainbridge, graduating with the rank of RM In January 1944, he was assigned to USS LSM 254, with which after training at USS Amphibious Base in Little Creek, Va. he spent the rest of World War Il in the South Pacific, culminating in the invasion of Okinawa and the occupation of Japan. George left the USS LSM 254 at Guam, Marianas Islands, in February 1946 assigned to Class A Electronics School in Great Lakes, and having attained the rank of RM He continued to Class Electronics School Naval Research Lab in Washington, graduating ETM Subsequent duty stations were USNAS in Jacksonville, NOF Port Lyautey in French Morocco; USS Midway CV41; USNAAS in Chincoteague; USS Davis DD937; USNA in Annapolis; and USS Power DD839.

1 He then transferred to the Fleet Reserve in December 1963, having attained the rank of senior chief petty officer, and was placed on the retired list in May 1973. He had been a member of the Fleet Reserve Association since 1964. At the time of his death, he was a member of FRA Branch 347, where he served as branch president; a life member of MEUSE Post 194 Veterans of Foreign Wars, where he served as post adjunct and post quartermaster; a member of American Legion Springhill Post 237; a member of the Retired Enlisted Association; and a member of Ruritan National. In recent years, he was a member of the Rockawalkin Ruritan Club, with 41 years perfect attendance, where he served as secretary, vice president and president; and a past charter member of Rewastico Creek Ruritan Club, where he served as secretary, vice president and resident. He also served DelmarvaNew Jersey District Ruritan National as a zone governor, secretary, lieutenant governor and governor.

He was a member emeritus of the Delmarva-New BRECHNER, MARION, 98, Jan. 6, 2011, New York City. CULVER, HOWARD JOSEPH, 67, Delmar, Jan. 7, 2011. Services will be Tuesday, 11 a.m., Short Funeral Home, Delmar, visitation one hour prior and Monday, 6-8 p.m.

DOMKE, GLADYS DOROTHY, 81, Hallwood, Jan. 7, 2011. Services will be Monday, 11 a.m., Fox Funeral Home, Temperanceville, visitation today, 7-8 p.m. DORSEY, CARL 76, Laurel, Jan. 6, 2011.

Services will be Monday, 2 p.m., Hannigan, Short, Disharoon Funeral Home, Laurel, visitation one hour prior. JACK, AUDREY, 78, New Church, Jan. 7, 2011. Services will be today, 2 p.m., Salyer Funeral Home, Chincoteague. JACKSON, JAMES 96, Berlin, Jan.

5, 2011, Melson Funeral Services, Millsboro. SAVAGE, BILL Berlin, Jan. 7, 2011. Services will be Tuesday, 11 a.m., Burbage Funeral Home, Berlin, visitation one hour prior and Monday 5-7 p.m. SEIGEL, MICHAEL HOLT, 36, Berlin, Jan.

7, 2011, Holloway Funeral Home PA, Salisbury. Services are pending. DEATH NOTICES Annette Augustine Urian BISHOPVILLE Annette Augustine Urian, 76, of Bishopville died Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury. Born in Adams, she was the daughter of the late Raymond Emory Molleur and Germaine Ouellette Molleur.

Annette volunteered at the Joseph House in Ocean City and was a Eucharistic minister and parishioner at St. John Newman Catholic Church in Berlin. After working in the financial and insurance industries, she enjoyed her retirement as a loving wife and mother. She is survived by her husband of 53 years, George Alva Urian; two sons, Carl George Urian and his wife, Julie, of Salisbury and Richard Paul Urian and his wife, Dawn, of Ellicott City, a daughter, Julie Marie Urian and her husband, David, of Great Falls, seven grandchildren; a brother, Richard Molleur and wife, Rita, of Alexandria, a sister, Charlotte Schaefer and husband, George, of Silver Spring, and several nieces and nephews. A memorial Mass will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m.

at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Salisbury, with a visitation one hour prior to the service. Inurnment will follow at Wicomico Memorial Park in Salisbury. Memorial contributions may be made to Coastal Hospice, P.O. Box 1733, Salisbury, Md.

21802. Arrangements are in the care of Holloway Funeral Home PA at 501 Snow Hill Road in Salisbury. To send condolences to the family, please visit www. hollowavfh.com. Bill L.

Savage BERLIN Bill L. Savage Jr. Division as a master electrician. of Berlin died Friday, Jan. 7, He was a retired member of the 2011, at Atlantic General Hospi- Berlin Volunteer Fire Company tal in Berlin.

and a member of Selbyville Elks Born in Berlin, he was a son Lodge and AMSA 69. of the late William Lee "Jug" A kind and gentle person, Bill and Thelma Carey Savage. was his own man who spoke He is survived by his brother, his mind and left this world with Roland Lee Savage and wife, many friends, each with their Sandra, of Berlin; a sister, own fond memories. Luanne Timmons and her hus- The family gratefully thanks band, Joe, of Whaleyville; and a Drs. Baier and Perellk and their stepbrother, Richard J.

Truitt and nurses and staff at Atlantic his wife, Ellen, of Berlin; and General Hospital. numerous nieces, nephews and Friends may call Monday cousins. He is also survived by from 5-7 p.m. at Burbage his former wife, Jane Harrison, Funeral Home, where a funeral and her children; his favorite service will be held Tuesday grandsons, C.J. and Brandon; at 11 a.m., with a visitation and a longtime friend, Gib Lynch one hour prior.

Interment will and his wife, Joan. be in Riverside Cemetery in He was preceded in death Libertytown. by his brother, Wayne Savage, Donations in his memory in 1979. may be made to the Berlin Bill was employed for more Volunteer Fire Company, 214 N. than 27 years with the town Main Berlin, Md.

21811. of Ocean Citv's Public Works 7:30 a.m. Growing By God's Grace Ministries 8 a.m. Age of Recovery 8:30 a.m. Holy Temple Church of God in Christ 8 a.m.

Assembly of Son 9:30 a.m. Oak Ridge Baptist Church 10 a.m. New Life Bible Study 11 a.m. Victory in Praise 1 p.m. Restoration Signs Wonders and Miracles Ministries 1:30 p.m.

Tru Christian Ministries 2 p.m. New Life Bible Study 3 p.m. Emmanuel Covenant Church 3:30 p.m. St. James AME Zion Church 4 p.m.

Age of Recovery 4:30 p.m. Holy Temple Church of God in Christ 5 p.m. Assembly of Son 5:30 p.m. Oak Ridge Baptist Church 6 p.m. Christ United Methodist Church Submit your news Do you have a communityrelated news brief to include in the Delmarva section? E-mail the information to Cindy Robinson at crobinson Card Of Thanks The family of the late Reverend Thomas Lee Dickerson, of Horntown, VA, wishes to express appreciation to all officers of the Virginia Maryland Baptist Association, Progressive Baptist Association, Eastern Shore Conference of Baptist Clergy, all other clergy, church families, and friends for all the love and acts of kindness at our loss.

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