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Lula Polk Carey
SNOW HILL -- Lula Polk Carey, 92, of 4221 Market St. in Snow Hill died Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004, at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury.
Born in Bridgeville, she was the daughter of the late Perry Washington Polk and Caroline Hudson Parsons Polk.
She was a former member of the former Bridgeville Methodist Church, now Bridgeville United Methodist Church. She transferred her membership to Ebenezer United Methodist Church, where she was active with the United Methodist Women, Senior Choir and Kitchen Committee. She was also a member of the AARP and NAACP.
She owned and operated the former Carey's Restaurant for 22 years. She was also formerly employed with Chesapeake Foods of Berlin as kitchen supervisor and retired as the Worcester County food service manger in Newark. In 1979, Lula received a state of Maryland Certified Food Service Sanitation Award and in 1986 received the state of Maryland, Department of Education Certificate of Appreciation for faithful service to the youth of the public schools of Maryland.
Her survivors include her husband of 64 years, Delworth Carey of Snow Hill; one son, Donald Carey and wife, Carol, of Taylorville, Utah; three grandchildren, Anthony, Cody and Bianna Carey; one great-grandson, Xavier Carey; one granddaughter-in-law, Shalin Carey; five sisters-in-law; Malinda Polk, Miriam Purnell, Alverta Marshall, Hattie Carey and Ruth Carey; one brother-in-law, David Carey; and a host of nieces and nephews.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ebenezer United Methodist Church in Snow Hill, where friends may call Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. and again Saturday one hour prior to service. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
Services are entrusted to Jolley Memorial Chapel in Salisbury.
John Brooke Gunning Jr.
OCEAN PINES -- John Brooke Gunning Jr., 75, died Friday, Nov. 12, 2004, at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin.
Born in Baltimore City, he was the son of the late John Brooke Gunning Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Fick Gunning.
He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Margaret Elizabeth Gunning of Ocean Pines; three sons, Patrick Michael Gunning and his wife, Carol, of Ocean Pines, William Ryan III of Rosewood, Md., and David Ryan and his wife, Linda, of Abingdon, Md.; three grandchildren, John Brooke Gunning III, James Ryan and Michael Ryan; a brother, Edward Gunning of Yardley, Pa.; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by a sister, Elizabeth "Betty" Tyler of Timonium, Md.
Mr. Gunning had been a professional meat cutter, having worked at Shapiro's and Seven Mile Lane, both in Pikesville, Md. He was a veteran of the Korean War.
A graveside funeral service will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens on Padonia Road in Timonium.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, c/o Gerri Harrison, 337 Winter Quarters Drive, Pocomoke City, Md. 21851.
Arrangements are being handled by Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin.
Alan Myer
DELMAR -- Alan Myer, 78, of Delmar died Monday, July 19, 2004, at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury.
Born in Bridgeville, he was a son of the late Edwin S. Myer Sr. and Luraine Marvil Myer.
Mr. Myer was an owner, trainer and driver of standardbred harness horses. He along with his brothers were well known throughout the industry. Although he raced all over North America, he preferred to make his home on the Eastern Shore. He was a member of the United States Trotting Association.
He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Green Myer of Delmar; three children, Emalu Myer Simpson of Salisbury, Alana Myer of Delmar and Alan Daniel Myer and his wife, Grace Gwyn, of Salisbury; two grandchildren, Jessica and Peter Myer of Salisbury; two sisters, Lilias Richards and Matilda Kemp, both of Bridgeville; two brothers, Ralph Myer Sr. of Bridgeville and Paul Myer Sr. of Delmar; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by six brothers, Edwin Myer Jr., James H. Myer, William Myer, Ellis Myer, Francis Myer and Robert Myer and two sisters, Esther Meredith and Dorothy Myer.
A funeral service will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Holloway Funeral Home with visitation one hour prior to the service. Interment will be in Wicomico Memorial Park in Salisbury.
Contributions may be made in his memory to Delaware Standardbred Owners Association Scholarship Fund, 830 Walker Road, Suite 11-2, Dover, Del. 19904.
Arrangements are in the care of Holloway Funeral Home, 501 Snow Hill Road, in Salisbury.
Dr. James Pershing Isaacs
FRUITLAND -- Dr. James Pershing Isaacs of Fruitland died Monday, Nov. 1, 2004.
Dr. Jim Isaacs was born in Struthers, Ohio, on Aug. 8, 1919. His parents were William Isaacs, born in 1864 in Ystalfera, Wales, and Carrie Leighton Steele, born in 1873 in Pittston, Pa. His grandparents were John Isaac and Elizabeth Hughes of Wales and Charles Steele, Union Civil War veteran, and Mary Elizabeth Fitsgerald. His great-grandparents were John and Mary Fitsgerald, born in Ireland in 1798.
Dr. Isaacs is survived by his wife, Arlene, 84; four sons, all Gilman School graduates, Dr. James W. Isaacs of Salisbury and Dr. John T. Isaacs, Dr. Robert D. Isaacs and Dr. Williams B. Isaacs, all of Baltimore; 12 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Dr. James Isaacs was a member of St. Alban's Episcopal Church and was on the vestry at Old Trinity Church of Church Creek. He was active for many years in the youth groups at Towson Methodist Church and St. Alban's Church.
Dr. Isaacs was an accomplished orator and poet, delivering inspiring sermons, educational presentations and numerous college commencement addresses. His poetry often focused on the simple joys of life, family and love, while his public addresses were intensely personal declarations of the need to include God's work in one's daily life and vocation.
As a young man, the athletic Jim Isaacs was a performing gymnast and an acrobatic diver throughout his life. Dr. Isaacs was a pioneer in preventive medicine as early as 1960 with the use of trace minerals as micronutrients for their role in maintaining cardiovascular health.
Dr. Isaacs enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a hospital corpsman in 1942 after Pearl Harbor, leaving Ohio University in his senior year and serving on active duty for two years in the South Pacific. Ohio University awarded Dr. Isaacs his undergraduate degree in 1946. Dr. Isaacs entered into midshipman school at Columbia University to be an ensign. Dr. Isaacs earned his M.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha in 1949.
Dr. Isaacs was awarded the first Francis C. Schwentker Award at Johns Hopkins Hospital for house officer research on pericarditis. As the William Steward Halsted Fellow in Surgery, Dr. Isaacs continued his training and research at the Hopkins University Surgical Hunterian Laboratory. This was followed by an assistant residency in anesthesiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where Dr. Isaacs was head of the postoperative pain studies and cardiopulmonary physiological studies during ether anesthesia. Dr. Isaacs continued his training as a research assistant at the Harvard School of Public Health and studied on the pressure-volume curve of the pericardium and its effect on Starling's Law of the Heart.
In 1953, Dr. Isaacs returned to Hopkins Hospital to complete his surgery residency with Dr. Alfred Blalock. After this, he served as assistant professor of surgery, anesthesiology and emergency medicine, during which time he was named the John and Mary R. Markle Medical Scholar.
Dr. Isaacs worked with Drs. Adams Crowley at the University of Maryland and Alex Haller at Hopkins Hospital in setting up emergency medical systems, including the Children's Emergency Center at Johns Hopkins, where Dr. Isaacs was the director from 1972-1976. Earlier, Dr. Isaacs had been the director of the emergency room and the outpatient department at the Church Home and Hospital.
Dr. Isaacs was presented with the MEDICO Award for Service in 1959 for his efforts in the Middle East. Dr. Isaacs was a charter member of both the Aerospace Medical Association and the American Rocket Society. He was a member of the Pavalovian Society of North America, which honored him in 1974 with the annual award for research on human behavior, a member of the International Society for Quantum Biology, a member of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Society of University Surgeons.
Dr. Isaacs authored more than 60 studies published in scientific and medical journals and coauthored with John C. Lamb "Complementarily in Biology: Quantization of Molecular Motions." Dr. Isaacs completed this book during his time as the Glancy Foundation Medical Scholar and working as a surgeon at the Piedmont Hospital and director of Surgical Education and Research at the Ferst Research Center in Atlanta.
Dr. Isaacs moved to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1980 and served the community practicing at Peninsula General Hospital Emergency Room, working with his eldest son, James W. Isaacs, M.D., as E.R. physicians. During the 1980s, Dr. Isaacs was an instructor in life support for EMTs. He trained emergency medical technicians from the ranks of firemen, state troopers and other public service personnel, from experience he gained in assisting with the development of the first heart-lung machine and the introduction of the use of mechanical breathing devices in anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins.
During Dr. Isaacs' lifetime, he and his wife, Arlene, reared a family of four sons, in which all six members, parents and sons, were graduates of the Johns Hopkins University and/or Medical School. All four sons have achieved doctorate degrees. On the day of the dedication of son William's endowed chair as professor of urology, the descriptive brochure said, "to the Isaacs family, Johns Hopkins is more than a hospital or university -- it's more like a family tree."
Dr. Jim Isaacs was, until recently, a member of the choir at Pine Bluff, where he accompanied his wife of 62 years, Arlene, the organist. Dr. James P. Isaacs died from Alzheimer's disease peacefully during his stay at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury.
John Keats, Dr. Isaac's most treasured poet, expressed one of his core beliefs beautifully with the words, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
A celebration of Dr. Isaacs' life will be held at St. Alban's Church in Salisbury on Saturday, Nov. 20, at 2 p.m. The family wishes in lieu of flowers that remembrances of Dr. Isaacs be given to the General Fund of St. Alban's Church, 302 St. Albans Drive, Salisbury, Md. 21804.
Matthew Azoto
PARSONSBURG -- Matthew Azoto, 81, of Parsonsburg died Friday, Dec. 3, 2004, at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury.
Born in New York City, he was a son of the late Aniseto Azoto and Madalena Azoto.
He was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War II. He worked for 32 years at Gruman Aerospace as a lead inspector, retiring in 1985. He was a member of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Salisbury and the Knights of Columbus in New York.
He is survived by his two children, Madeline Weber of Parsonsburg and Christine Schell and her husband, Dave, of Tamarac, Fla.; stepmother, Marietta Azoto of Port Washington, N.Y.; sister, Agatha "Katie" Rivera of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; sister-in-law, Lucille Moynihan of Fort Meyers, Fla.; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Elizabeth Azoto, on May 29, 2004; and brothers, Salvatore, Joseph and Santos Azoto.
A memorial service will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Holloway Funeral Home. Interment will follow at the Maryland Veterans cemetery near Hurlock. A memorial Mass will be held in spring 2005 at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church.
Arrangements are being handled by Holloway Funeral Home at 501 Snow Hill Road in Salisbury.
Donald E. Mahan
REHOBETH -- Donald E. Mahan, 84, of Rehobeth Road died Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004, at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield.
Born in Crisfield on July 30, 1920, he was the oldest son of Walter K. and Chloe Kreider Mahan. His wife, Margaret Mae Ruse Mahan preceded him in death Sept. 7, 2003.
Mr. Mahan was a retired postmaster at Rehobeth Post Office, working 38 years before his retirement. He also was owner and storekeeper, along with his wife, of the former Mahan's Store in Rehobeth.
A U.S. Army World War II veteran, Mr. Mahan was a member of the Rehobeth Ruritan Club for 40 years and the Stanley Cochrane Post No. 16 American Legion in Crisfield for 55 years. In addition, he was a member of Greenhill Church of the Brethren in Westover.
He is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Donald W. and Jo Mahan of Marion Station and Robert Leon and Pam Mahan of Lufkin, Texas; three brothers, Grant Mahan of Salisbury, Daniel Mahan of Princess Anne and Phillip Mahan of Crisfield; five sisters, Patricia Bucher of Lebanon, Pa., Catherine Riggin, Doreen Bishop and Priscilla Ward, all of Rehobeth and Martha Schrock of Westover; five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents and his wife, he was preceded in death by two sisters, Lillus Mahan Nelson who died June 22, 2004, and Dorothy Mahan who died at the age of 5.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at Bradshaw & Sons Funeral Home in Crisfield, where friends may call Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. The Rev. David Parke will officiate. Interment will be in the Mahan family cemetery in Rehobeth.
Memorial contributions are requested to be sent to Rehobeth Ruritan, c/o Curtis Hartman, 7187 Boggs Schoolhouse Road, Westover, Md. 21871; or to Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home, 201 Hall Highway, Crisfield, Md. 21817.
