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Raymond Koch
(August 14, 1935 - October 19, 2012)
Raymond Koch, 77, of Owings Mills died Friday, October 19, 2012 at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson.
Born in August 14, 1935, he was the son of the late Thomas Richard Koch and Helen M. Ritzel Koch. He was the husband of Catherine Marie Harris Koch.
Years ago, he worked for Petro Heating. He was a veteran of the United States Air Force. In his spare time he enjoyed hunting and fishing.
Surviving in addition to his wife are his children Deborah Monk of Catonsville and Christine Ratych and husband Paul of Parkville; his sister Joan Cucince of Perry Hall; his 7 grandchildren; and 1 great grandson.
The family will receive friends 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Eckhardt Funeral Chapel, P.A., 11605 Reisterstown Road, Owings Mills with a Mass of Christian burial celebrated 10 a.m. Tuesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 65 Sacred Heart Lane, Glyndon with Msgr. Lloyd Aiken as celebrant.
Interment will be in Lake View Memorial Park, Sykesville.
Rabi Smith
(1985-1999)
The entire Takoma Park community was saddened by the loss of Rabi Smith (son of Lane and Christine Smith), in a tragic bicycle accident on November 17th. A ninth grader at Montgomery Blair, he leaves behind a wide range of friends, classmates and swim team members, and is remembered as someone who liked everyone he met.
Donations in honor of Rabi can be directed either to: The Rabi Smith Fund, c/o Peace Corps Partnership Program, 1111 20th Street NW, Washington DC 20526 or Civil Air Patrol, c/o Lt. Bruce Drury, 9309 W. Parkhill Dr., Bethesda MD 20814.
Haynes Fraser, Community Activist
Haynes Fraser, Ph.D., local political activist, is dead at 72. Dr. Fraser had been a political science professor at the University of Maryland, and also lectured in the Philippines, Seoul and Hanoi.
Locally, Dr. Fraser had been involved in the fight for child safety locks for handguns, and those laws are now in place in Montgomery and Prince Georges counties. She was chair of "Guns Gotta Go, " a group that tried to ban handguns in Takoma Park. She was also vice president of the Takoma Park Symphony Orchestra and was active in Trinity Episcopal Church in D.C.
Survivors include her daughter, Alexa Fraser of Rockville, and her companion of recent years, H. Schwartz of Takoma Park. Her ex-husband, Alex, resides in northern Virginia.
-- Herman Schwartz
Julius H. Krause, Korean War Veteran
Takoma resident Julius H. "Buddy" Krause passed away suddenly at Washington Adventist Hospital on Dec. 17 and was buried at Arlington cemetery. Mr. Krause was a Korean war veteran who served in the Navy on the Saratoga when it was commissioned as an air craft carrier.
He is survived by his wife Nancy Viar, mother Frances Reed of Edgewater, MD, mother-in-law Emily W. Rushing, and his grandchildren. He will be missed by his friends and relatives.
Jazzfest Star Charlie Byrd Plays His Finale
Jazz guitar great Charlie Byrd, the most prominent headliner the Takoma Park JazzFest has ever presented, died December 6. Recently turned 74, the Tidewater Virginia native and Annapolis resident teamed up with tenor saxophonist Stan Getz to popularize Brazil's Bossa Nova jazz samba style in the 1960s. Classically trained by Andres Segovia among others, Charlie played many kinds of jazz and blues with a laid-back and gently swinging style. He frequently played the old Showboat Lounge in Adams-Morgan, Blues Alley in Georgetown and, most often, the King of France Tavern in Annapolis. He was musically active right up to the end.
I remember him most of all from my youth when I was invited to be the jazz critic on the Indiana University student paper. Charlie, accompanied by premier D.C. bassist Keter Betts, was the subject of my first-ever review.
When we finally presented him as the headliner for the most recent JazzFest, he took note of the "Two Centennials" theme celebrating Duke Ellington and ragtime and played Duke's music for nearly all of the last set. Despite rain and the failure of the sound system, Charlie played gamely on with his brother Joe on bass and Chuck Redd on vibes. When the sun came out, the crowd brought their chairs out from under the tent right up to the stage for a feel-good wind-up to the JazzFest.
A week after his death his wife Becky told me, "Charlie was the humblest giant that anybody ever met."
-- Dave Lorentz
producer, Takoma Park Jazzfest
Mary Lillie Fuller; Marvin Caplan
Mary Lillie Fuller, 1930-2000
January 13, Takoma Park lost one of the brightest smiles and most optimistic residents with the passing of Mary Lillie Fuller.
Born on May 14, 1930 in Raeford, North Carolina, Mary Fuller received her education in the North Carolina public schools. Following her marriage to the late Henry Fuller, Sr., they had five children, Juanita, Joyce, Michael, Jerry and Henry, Jr.
Mrs. Fuller worked in food service, eventually retiring from the Montgomery County public school system. She was a longtime member of Parker Memorial Baptist Church. In 1991, Mrs. Fuller joined Bright Light Baptist Church where she served on the Missionary Society and attended the Senior Saints Ministry.
A member of Ritchie Citizens Association and the NAACP, Mrs. Fuller is remembered for her happiness and helpfulness. Whenever there was work to be done, Mrs. Fuller was there, lending a hand with a smile on her face. In recent years, Mrs. Fuller was a fixture behind the refreshment table at many local events in Takoma Park, such as the Y2K community conversations and GreenTeam woods projects.
In addition to her children, Mrs. Fuller leaves eight grandchildren, four great-grand children, two sisters and many other relatives and friends.
The memorial service was held at Bright Light Baptist Church on January 22. Interment was at Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Mrs. Fuller will always be remembered for her caring smile, cheerful attitude and helping hand.
Marvin Caplan, 1920-2000
On January 12, Marvin Caplan, founder of Neighbors, Inc., died of lung cancer in his Takoma DC home at the age of 80.
Caplan was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Temple University. After a stint in the Army during World War II, Caplan moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he co-edited Southern Jewish Outlook, a civil rights journal.
In 1951, Caplan moved to the District and took a job with Fairchild Publications, an organization of trade journals. Caplan became a senior lobbyist with the AFL-CIO's Industrial Union Department in 1963. At that time, he also became executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Among the legislation for which Caplan lobbied were the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Voting Rights Act of 1965; the Fair Housing Act of 1968; and Title IX (1970), which prohibits discrimination in education.
In 1957, Caplan founded Neighbors, Inc. in response to racial restriction clauses in housing leases. According to a Washington Post article, the housing market was in flux during the 1950s due to white middle class racial fears and subsequent "white flight." Caplan's organization fought to create and maintain integrated middle class neighborhoods.
Last year Caplan's book Farther Along: A Civil Rights Memoir was published, chronicling his years fighting for equality.
Caplan's first wife Naomi Weltman died in 1981. He is survived by Estelle Padawer, his companion of five years; two daughters, Freya Wigler and Annique Caplan; a son, Bennett Caplan; a sister; and six grandchildren.
Laura Ann Carter, Producer
Laura Ann Carter, 34, a producer for the National Geographic Society web site, died of breast cancer Monday, August 9, at Sibley Memorial Hospital surrounded by her family and friends.
Ms. Carter, who lived in Takoma Park, was born in Lynchburg, Va. Her family moved to Silver Spring in 1972. She attended Springbrook High School and Simon's Rock of Bard College in Great Barrington, Ma., before receiving her degree from Vassar College in 1985. She then studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
During high school, she held internships with Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) and at the National Gallery of Art, and wrote several freelance articles for the Washington Post.
After returning to the Washington area from London, she worked at the National Gallery of Art in the press and editorial offices.
In 1988, she joined National Geographic Television and worked in public relations and acquisitions. When the Society launched its web site in 1996, she joined the staff as a producer specializing in feature stories related to National Geographic Television programming.
Survivors include her partner, Karen Bryant of Takoma Park, stepfather Robert G. Smith of Chestertown, Md., father William J. Carter of Washington, and a sister, Jennie Carter of Minneapolis, Minn.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Washington Animal Rescue League (at 71 Oglethorpe St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20011) or the Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer (1707 L Street N.W., Suite 500, Washington, D.C. 20036). A memorial service will be held at a date and location to be announced.
Maurice R. Jordan, Deacon
Takoma Park's Ritchie Avenue neighborhood lost another longtime resident early Monday, August 16, with the death of Maurice R. Jordan. A lifelong resident of the neighborhood, Mr. Jordan was a dedicated servant to his Lord, contributing his time and energy to various local churches and neighborhood organizations.
Mr. Jordan was baptized at the First Baptist Church of Takoma Park (now Parker Memorial Baptist Church) at the age of nine. Throughout his life, he served in many capacities: choir member, Sunday School teacher, Church Clerk, Chairman of the Trustee ministry and President of the Senior Choir. In the late 1960s Mr. Jordan was ordained into the ministry of Diaconate.
Mr. Jordan was born on August 18, 1931, the eldest child of Helen M. and Lee A. Jordan. He graduated from the Carver Junior College (now known as Montgomery Junior College) on June 10, 1954. He was employed by the Federal Government for 35 years, where he retired from the Department of Army in 1989. Mr. Jordan also found time to coach a boys and girls baseball team and an all-girls basketball team.
Mr. Jordan leaves his son, Maurice, Jr.; grandson, Marcus E.; three sisters, Deloise Marr, Eudora L. Powell and Patricia A. Matthews; and many other loving family members.
Reverend Ella V. Redfield conducted services at the New Creation Baptist Church, in Wheaton. Pastors from around the area remembered Mr. Jordan's "zeal to serve God." Someone once asked why Mr. Jordan held so many offices at the church, implying it was inappropriate for one person to hold so many positions. "It was because Mr. Jordan was always willing to do what nobody else would do, " remembered Rev. Redfield.
Norman Elliott Windsor
LAUREL -- Norman Elliott Windsor, 87, of Laurel died Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004, at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford.
Born in Laurel, he was the son of the late John Windsor and Olive Windsor Foskey.
Mr. Windsor was a member of Epworth Fellowship Church in Laurel. He was a Sunday School teacher for 35 years. He was a member of The Gideon's International, where he was very much interested in the missions program of the church. He worked for Bell's Shade Shop in Seaford for 27 years. He was a poultry farmer, raising chickens for Perdue Farms. He was in the U.S. Navy during World War II from 1943 to 1945. He served as a flight engineer on a PBM Plane.
He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Mary Elizabeth Vincent Windsor of Laurel; a son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Diane Windsor of Laurel; three daughters and sons-in-law, Rebecca and Glen White of Little Rock, Ark., Nancy and Bill Callahan of Laurel and Carol and Walter Mackie of Fredericksburg, Va.; three grandsons, David Mackie and his wife, Elizabeth, of Gary, N.C., Douglas Collins and his wife, Stephanie, of Laurel and Billy Windsor of Laurel; two granddaughters, Susan Shaw and her husband, Edmund, of Durham, N.C., and Terri Willey and her husband, Matt, of Lakeland, Fla.; great-grandchildren, Gretchen Mackie, Bridgett Mackie, Lowell Shaw, Megan Gerhard and Michael Gerhard; a great-great-granddaughter, Olivia; and a stepsister, Margaret Ann Nicholson.
A funeral service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Epworth Fellowship Church in Laurel, where friends may call one hour prior to the service. The Rev. Jerry Denton and the Rev. Bob Miller will officiate. Interment will be in Laurel Hill cemetery in Laurel.
Contributions may be sent to Epworth Fellowship Church, 14545 Sycamore Road, Laurel, Del. 19956 or Gideon's International, PO Box 281, Millsboro, Del. 19966-0281.
Arrangements are being handled by Short Funeral Home in Laurel.
