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July 13, 2002
James Jefferson McGlothern Sr., a retired Social Security administrator, died of cancer at his Cross Keys home Sunday. He was 86.
Mr. McGlothern was born in Dolomite, Ala., and raised in Maryville, Tenn., where he graduated from high school. He attended Tennessee State College but left school and moved to Baltimore.
He began his career with the Social Security Administration in 1942 but interrupted it to join the Army during World War II. He was discharged in 1945 with the rank of staff sergeant.
Mr. McGlothern returned to the SSA after the war and was a branch chief at the time of his retirement in 1977.
He enjoyed playing and teaching bridge.
He was a longtime parishioner, Sunday school teacher and member of the day care board at Union Baptist Church, where services were held yesterday .
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, the former Anne Young; a son, James J. McGlothern Jr. of Baltimore; a daughter, Carmen Karene of Boston; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
July 27, 2002
Samuel H. McGlumphy, a retired division manager for Quaker State Oil Refining Corp. and a World War II veteran, died of heart failure Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 82.
A resident of Joppatown since 1966, Mr. McGlumphy was born and raised in Wellsburg, W.Va.
He enlisted in the Army after graduating from high school. In the early years of World War II, he served as a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's White House honor guard and once had tea with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, according to his son, Jan Jackson McGlumphy of Bel Air.
Mr. McGlumphy later served with a unit of Army engineers in France that helped lay a pipeline across the country. He was discharged with the rank of sergeant in 1945.
He attended West Virginia University on the GI Bill and earned his bachelor's degree in business and marketing in 1950. He was hired by Quaker State that year. In 1966 he was transferred to Baltimore, where he worked as a division manager. He retired in 1980.
He was an avid football fan and held season tickets to the West Virginia University Mountaineers. He also enjoyed auto racing and traveling.
Mr. McGlumphy was a member of Joppatowne Christian Church, 725 Trimble Road in Joppa, where services will be held at 11 a.m. today.
In addition to his son, he is survived by his wife of 62 years, the former Eleanor Goosman; and three grandchildren.
June 12, 2002
Dr. William Edward McGrath, a Catonsville physician who practiced for more than half a century, died of cancer Monday at his home. He was 85.
Until he retired because of bad health last month, Dr. McGrath saw patients at an office he opened in 1953 at his home on Frederick Avenue, two years after establishing his medical practice.
"He was an excellent physician, the kind patients never left," said Dr. Stanley L. Minken, a professor of surgery at Uniformed Services University in Bethesda. "He helped young, new physicians. And he was impish, with a dry, Irish kind of humor. He was a yarn spinner. I enjoyed being with him all the time."
Born in Baltimore and raised on Hilton Street, he attended St. Edward Parochial School and graduated from Loyola High School in 1935. He earned a degree from Loyola College and was a member of the December 1943 graduating class at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
"Dr. McGrath was a very smart student. He was eighth in the class of 100 medical school students," said Dr. Cliff Ratliff Jr., a classmate and retired internist who lives in Ellicott City. "To his last days, he was sharp. On Saturdays, he and I went to Johns Hopkins for grand rounds to keep up on new things in medicine. He had a very inquisitive mind."
He completed his internship at then-St. Agnes Hospital - where he was later director of the emergency room and a longtime staff member - and in 1944 joined the Army Medical Corps. He attained the rank of captain.
Returning to St. Agnes, he completed his residency and then worked as a contract physician and surgeon for Bethlehem Steel Corp. in Sparrows Point, and at Fort Meade, from 1948 until being recalled to service in the Korean War in 1950.
Dr. McGrath set up his private practice in 1951 at Catonsville Junction. In 1953, he moved to a combined home and office on Frederick Avenue.
"He was the least judgmental person I ever saw. There was nothing censorious about him," said the Rev. Michael Roach, a nephew who is pastor of St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church in Manchester. "When you went to see him in the office, it was never a five-minute job. It was a 45-minute consultation from head to toe. He was an excellent diagnostician. He treated the whole person, he didn't just talk about symptoms.
"He had an early [racially] integrated practice. Long before other doctors opened their waiting rooms to all, he did."
In 1966, he was honored by the board of directors at St. Agnes for half a century of outstanding service to the Southwest Baltimore medical institution.
A former president of the Catonsville Business Association, Dr. McGrath was a student of the arts, literature and horticulture - growing orchids and gardenias. He traveled extensively in Africa, Germany and the United Kingdom.
A requiem Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Mark's Roman Catholic Church, 30 Melvin Ave., Catonsville, where he was a member.
Dr. McGrath is survived by three sons, Kevin McGrath of Arnold, Timothy McGrath of Towson and Thomas McGrath of Catonsville; five daughters, Ellen McGrath Weetenkamp and Jane McGrath, both of Catonsville, Ann McGrath Macin of Laurel, Mary McGrath Storch of Arnold and Brigid McGrath Shifflett of Mount Airy; a sister, Mary Elizabeth Leech of Catonsville; 11 grandchildren; and a great-grandson. His marriage to Doris Walkling ended in divorce.
June 11, 2002
Royal V. McKenna, a former gift shop owner and an Easton resident, died of pneumonia June 4 at Memorial Hospital at Easton. He was 76.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. McKenna served in the Navy during World War II. He worked in sales before opening a gift shop in Savannah, Ga., in the early 1970s. He closed the business in 1978 and moved to Easton.
He was an avid fisherman.
Mr. McKenna was a communicant of SS. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in Easton, where a memorial Mass was offered Friday.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, the former Jeanne Fett; a son, Michael P. McKenna of Chattanooga, Tenn.; four daughters, Susan J. McKenna of Princeton, N.J., Jeanne McKenna Floecker of Lutherville, Mary Elizabeth McKenna of Royal Oak and Sarah McKenna Minich of Virginia Beach, Va.; and 10 grandchildren.
January 7, 2002
Stephen Mason Meginniss II, a retired Air Force colonel, engineer and college instructor, died Thursday of heart and kidney failure at his home in Southland Hills in Towson. He was 84.
Family members described him as a humanist, avid reader and a man who possessed a delicious appreciation of the absurd.
"Every Thanksgiving he would carve our family turkey with a captured German bayonet from the war," said his daughter, Margaret Meginniss Secor of Monkton. "We kids in the family loved that but mom didn't care for it."
Mr. Meginniss grew up in the Ashburton section of West Baltimore and graduated from Forest Park High School in 1935.
At Forest Park, Mr. Meginniss met Frances Hoffman and married her before he entered the military. The couple had celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Oct. 4.
He attended University of Maryland but was drafted during World War II. He later earned a bachelor of science degree in 1952.
During World War II, he served as a radar officer in the Army Air Corps, which later in the war became the Army Air Forces. He flew as a radar officer in B-29s in the North African and Italian campaigns and installed bomb-sight equipment in Allied aircraft.
He received the Legion of Merit for a radar bomb scoring device he developed. It remains in use today.
Later in his career, he served several years at Itazuke Air Force Base in Japan, where he commanded a radar installation atop Mount Subiriyama on Kyusha during the Korean War.
While in Japan, he cultivated a deep interest in Japanese culture and people. Mr. Meginniss was presented a letter of gratitude in 1956 by the Fukuoka prefectural government for his volunteer work with the Japanese population.
During his career, Mr. Meginniss and his family moved 17 times.
He retired in 1961 as a lieutenant colonel and embarked on his second career as an engineer at Aberdeen Proving Ground and Fort Meade. Mr. Meginniss retired from that job in 1970.
He then worked from 1972 to 1977 as an assistant instructor in the physics department at Towson State University.
"My father always enjoyed learning, and he took a lot of classes at the university," Mrs. Secor said. "Just being around young people made him feel good, challenged."
He had a great love for animals, especially his dogs Andy and Phred-D, and he had built an array of bird feeders for his back yard where he could be entertained for hours watching birds.
Mr. Meginniss was adept with electronics and built his family's television sets. He also enjoyed computers and was a member of Bug Bytes, a Columbia-based computer club.
He typically read four or five books a week, and he maintained a keen interest in world events and politics.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Towson Presbyterian Church. The family requests contributions be sent to the Hospice of Baltimore, 601 N. Charles St., Baltimore 21204.
In addition to his wife and daughter, survivors include two sons, Stephen Mason Meginniss III of Seattle and James Regester Meginniss of Tuscon, Ariz.; another daughter, Mary Ellen Abetz of South Riding, Va.; and seven grandchildren.
April 11, 2002
Charles Joseph Meninger Jr., a recently retired steel worker, died of cancer Sunday at his Eastwood home. He was 54.
He worked at the Sparrows Point plant of Bethlehem Steel Corp. for 37 years, most recently in the rod mill.
Born in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown and Eastwood, he was a graduate of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parochial School and, in 1966, Dundalk High School.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at Our Lady of Fatima Roman Catholic Church, where he was a member.
He is survived by his wife of five years, Dawn Marie Niewiadomski; three sons, Daniel Meninger, Christopher Meninger and Cole Meninger, and a daughter, Kimberly Braun, all of Baltimore; a sister, Phyllis Palmisano of Casselberry, Fla.; and five grandchildren. A previous marriage to Glenda Morgan ended in divorce.
June 11, 2002
Melvin B. Milner, a retired salesman and longtime fire buff, died Thursday of complications from heart disease and diabetes at his Pikesville home. He was 74.
He retired last year from ICM, a Philadelphia-based toy and novelty company where he had worked since 1980. Earlier, he was a salesman with David Milner and Co., a business founded by his father in 1916. The Washington Boulevard company dealt in sundries, toys and school supplies, and closed in 1980.
Born in Baltimore and raised on Braddish Avenue, Mr. Milner was a 1945 graduate of City College.
He served in the Army during the 1940s, playing baritone horn in an Army band.
Mr. Milner was a 52-year member of Box 414 Association, a fire buffs organization that provides beverages and food for public safety personnel at the site of major fires and emergencies. For many years on Christmas, he operated the organization's coffee wagon so Christian members could spend the day with their families.
Mr. Milner was honored twice for helping the city Police Department: He was given a certificate in 1970 recognizing "courageous assistance" in the arrest of a state prison inmate, and was honored in 1973 by Mayor William Donald Schaefer for his volunteer efforts in Box 414.
He also belonged to BNN - Breaking News Network - a volunteer communications service that transmits news of working fires and police emergencies.
He was a charter member of the Shomrim Society, the Jewish fraternal order of police, and a former president of the Pickwick-Wellwood Neighborhood Association.
Mr. Milner was posthumously named an honorary member of the Baltimore County Fraternal Order of Police.
Services were held Sunday.
Survivors include his wife of 48 years, the former Ethel Zemlak; a son, David Martin Milner of Jarrettsville; two daughters, Randi Milner Zenitz of Pikesville and Renee Susan Rendel of Reisterstown; a brother, Ervin B. Milner of Baltimore; and seven grandchildren.
June 2, 2002
Reveley Allen Moore, who headed the board of the Ladew Topiary Gardens in Harford County, died of undetermined causes Monday while vacationing near Budapest, Hungary. She was 64 and lived in Monkton.
President of the 32-member foundation board of the 250-acre garden, historic manor house and nature walk near Monkton, she was part of a core of volunteers and donors who transformed the property from an obscure, local landmark into a regional attraction.
Born in Raleigh, N.C., Reveley Allen was a 1954 graduate of Needham Broughton High School in Raleigh and earned a degree in chemistry from Hollins College in Roanoke, Va.
She became the treasurer of Ladew's executive committee in 1987, its vice president in 1993 and its president in 1999. Harvey Ladew, a New York-born fox hunter, bon vivant, world traveler and topiary gardener, bought the property in 1929. He died in 1976.
"Reveley was a Southern woman with a Southerner accent, which she never lost for all the years she's lived in Maryland," said Emily Wehr Emerick, Ladew's director. "She was smart and thoughtful - and she had quite a vision for Ladew. She was very committed to the goal of long-range planning. She thought about the future of the gardens, the house - and how to keep Harvey Ladew's creation open and available to people."
"She was an extremely important part of Ladew," said Martha Robbins, a friend and fellow trustee. "It was evident in decisions she made she wanted preserve the flavor of Mr. Ladew, the way he had it."
"She was a gentle soul with an underlying, resolute strength," said Karen Babcock, Ladew's associate director. "She had an eye for 10 years down the road, what the garden was going to mean to people in 2012. She always looked to the future, not the past. She was a good, true leader who was available to the staff. She was a good listener."
An avid horticulturist, Mrs. Moore was a past president of the Amateur Gardeners' Club and was incoming vice chairman of the Garden Club of America's Zone Six, a district that encompasses Maryland and Washington.
She maintained a garden at her home, where she cultivated native plants of the Middle Atlantic region. She was remembered last week for welcoming guests to her flower beds. If they displayed enthusiasm for a particular perennial, she would take a shovel and dig up a root to share her work. Friends said she often had Freddie, a pet spaniel, at her side.
"She was a gracious hostess at informal gatherings for her Ladew friends," said Nancy Boyce, a fellow trustee. "She had such lovely taste and a beautiful house. She conducted meetings so flawlessly, in a soft-spoken voice. She kept the agenda on target. She had a good mind - and good mind for figures, too."
Services will be held at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. James Episcopal Church, 3100 Monkton Road, Monkton, where she was a member.
Mrs. Moore is survived by her husband of 43 years, Richard A. Moore; a son, Thomas Reveley Moore of Monkton; a brother, Arch T. Allen III of Raleigh, N.C.; and a grandaughter. A daughter, Susan Tucker Moore, died in 1984.
July 8, 2001
William Guildea Moulton Sr., an avid golfer, world traveler and retired executive with the Peterson, Howell and Heather auto-leasing firm, died Thursday at the Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage six weeks earlier. He was 81.
Born and raised in Catonsville, Mr. Moulton graduated from Catonsville High School in 1937.
He then joined the Naval Reserves and was a member of the first naval unit in the country called to active duty in 1940. He served on several ships in the Pacific, and was aboard a ship in Tokyo Bay the day Japan surrendered. He received an honorable discharge after six years of service.
Mr. Moulton returned to Baltimore and in 1947 met Eileen Taylor on a blind date at the Greenspring Inn. They married three months later.
While working part-time at the Hamburger's men's clothing store on Charles Street, Mr. Moulton was approached by managers about modeling for their ads. The tall and handsome young man, who bore a striking resemblance to film star Robert Taylor, appeared in ads for Hamburger's and other businesses.
In 1955, he accepted a full-time job as a buyer in the automobile division of Peterson, Howell and Heather (now part of Cendant), beginning a long career with the Baltimore-based auto-leasing and fleet-management firm. He was tapped in 1968 to start the company's truck-leasing division and was a vice president of the firm when he retired in 1982.
"It was a real big deal for him for them to choose him to do that," said daughter Vicki Strittmater of White Marsh. "He just loved that company, and he loved cars. He used to bring home all kinds of new models of cars to try out."
Though not a college graduate, Mr. Moulton earned a master's degree in business administration in 1975 through Loyola College's Executive MBA Program.
After retirement, Mr. Moulton and his wife traveled extensively throughout Eastern and Western Europe as well as Egypt and Australia. He had a particular interest in the history and culture of the places they toured and took pleasure in researching each trip and presenting a detailed slide show to his family upon their return.
He enjoyed the beach and deep-sea fishing, model shipbuilding and clock making.
Mr. Moulton was a dedicated golfer and a 25-year member of the Baltimore Country Club. He served as a marshal during the LPGA tournament held at the club's Five Farms in 1988, walking up the final fairway with the eventual winner, Liselotte Neumann of Sweden. He also held the distinction of shooting a hole in one at the same course.
A communicant of St. Pius X Catholic Church for two decades, Mr. Moulton rarely missed a Monday morning session to help count the previous day's donations.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church on York Road.
In addition to his wife and his daughter Vicki of White Marsh, he is survived by two other children, Peggy Atkins of Cockeysville and William Moulton Jr. of Abingdon; five siblings, Harry H. Moulton of Clearwater, Fla., Iona Franke of Parkville, Mary Nagle of Blakehurst, Jane Saleone of Pittsburgh and Patricia Siegner of Houston; and four grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be sent to Stella Maris Hospice, 2300 Dulaney Valley Road., Timonium 21093.
June 7, 2002
Kenneth H. Moyer, a retired Social Security Administration administrative law judge, died of cancer May 29 at his Timonium home. He was 81.
Mr. Moyer began his SSA career in the Office of Hearing Appeals in 1955. He retired from the agency as an administrative judge in 1981.
Born and raised in Harrisburg, Pa., he earned his bachelor's degree from Lebanon Valley College. During World War II, he served with the Army Transportation Corps in Europe and the Pacific. He remained in the Army Reserve, attaining the rank of colonel.
He attended the University of Maryland Law School on the GI Bill, earning his law degree in 1952. He began his business career working in the claims department of several insurance companies before joining Social Security.
Services were May 31.
Mr. Moyer is survived by his wife of 48 years, the former Ruth Davies; a son, David S. Moyer of Darien, Conn.; and a sister, Margaretta Mae Muhleman of Camp Hill, Pa.
June 10, 2002
Delphia H. Murphy, a former clerk in the civil assignment office of the Baltimore Circuit Court, died Saturday of a heart ailment at Anne Arundel Medical Center. She was 78.
Mrs. Murphy, who had lived in Arbutus for the past few years, was keenly interested in current events, reading the daily newspaper from cover to cover and engaging in lively debates about the world's problems.
"She was wonderfully animated," said her son Timothy D. Murphy, an associate judge of Baltimore District Court.
"She was one of those people who had a critique, a twinkle in her eye and an opinion about almost every topic. It was easy to have a conversation about current affairs with my mother because she was a step ahead of everybody."
She was born in Baltimore and raised in Hampden, an only child who attended public grade school and graduated from Eastern High School.
After high school, she worked as a secretary for a small medical office in Baltimore. There, she met her future husband, Lawrence A. Murphy, a personnel officer for a shipbuilding company who took an injured worker to the doctor's office one day.
The two were married for 53 years. Mr. Murphy, who became the last elected clerk of the city criminal court, passed away almost four years ago.
A working mother somewhat before her time, Mrs. Murphy held several jobs while raising three children.
She worked in sales for a jewelry wholesaler. Later, after her children were grown, she spent eight years in the Circuit Court office that schedules civil cases.
In 1983, she declared herself a candidate for mayor but withdrew two weeks later.
Before moving to Arbutus, she lived in West Baltimore for about 50 years.
Mrs. Murphy remained physically active until she became ill recently. She played golf, swam frequently and bowled. Earlier, she had coached a girls basketball team.
She was an active member of Our Lady of Victory Parish on Wilkens Avenue, where she belonged to the Women's Sodality.
A funeral will be held at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at St. John Neumann's Church, 620 Bestgate Road, Annapolis.
She is also survived by another son, Lawrence P. Murphy of Pleasonton, Calif.; her daughter, Sharon Sambuco of Sherwood Forest in Anne Arundel County; and five grandchildren.
August 23, 2002
Michael Eugene Murphy Sr., a Purple Heart recipient who was wounded twice in World War II, died Sunday of congestive heart failure at St. Agnes HealthCare in Baltimore. The longtime resident of Arbutus was 84.
Born in West Baltimore, Mr. Murphy graduated from St. Martin's High School at age 16 and opened a barbershop on Fayette Street. He moved to Arbutus in the late 1930s and enlisted in the Army in 1941, before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
A sergeant, he fought in Europe and participated in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. He'd tell stories later about the sun rising that morning and illuminating landing boats "as far as you could see."
He was injured later, first by a bullet that grazed his head. He was sent home in 1944 after his ankle was wounded and became infected. Mr. Murphy spent the rest of the decade in and out of hospitals.
"He carried that the rest of his life," said his daughter, Karen Murphy Kesslar of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
In addition to the Purple Heart, he received the Bronze Star and Combat Infantrymen's Badge, she said.
In 1950, he joined W.T. Cowan Trucking Co. in Baltimore as a dispatcher and worked his way up to general sales manager before retiring in 1980.
A longtime member of the Church of the Ascension in Halethorpe, he earned the Archdiocesan Medal of Honor for outstanding community service to the parish. He was also a member of the Arbutus Community Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Madonna Council of the Knights of Columbus and the Arbutus Golf Club, where he served as president for 30 years.
A Mass of Christian burial was offered Wednesday.
In addition to Mrs. Kesslar, Mr. Murphy is survived by his wife, the former Mary Mullaney, whom he married in 1949; a son, Dr. Michael E. Murphy Jr. of Albuquerque, N.M.; a sister, Catherine Wilderson of Ferndale; and three grandchildren. Mr. Murphy was predeceased by a daughter, Patricia Murphy.
Donations may be made to the Church of the Ascension, 4603 Poplar Ave., Baltimore 21227.
