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Evelyn Marshall
Evelyn C. Marshall, 88, a longtime resident of Annapolis and recently of Florence, S.C., died Jan. 2, 2003 at a Florence hospital after a brief illness.
Mrs. Marshall was born and educated in Point of Rocks. She was a bookkeeper for the state of Maryland.
She was the daughter of the late Emanuel Bostick and Bertha Mae Hess Cunningham, the widow of Charles E. Marshall and the mother of the late Rick Cunningham.
At one time she was a member of the Admirals Club at Severn School. Her interests included playing cards, crossword puzzles, music and dancing.
Surviving are one son, Charles E. Marshall III of Florence; her daughter, Charlotte C. Klein of Martinsburg, W.Va.; one brother, Malcolm Cunningham of Hot Springs, Ark.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Haight Funeral Home, 6416 Sykesville Road, Sykesville, where services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday. Burial will be in Lorraine Park Cemetery in Baltimore.
Teresa Dauth
Teresa Renee "Terri" Dauth, 43, of Edgewater died suddenly Jan. 2, 2003 at Anne Arundel Medical Center.
Mrs. Dauth was born April 27, 1958, in Lowell, Mass. She graduated from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., with a political science degree.
She worked for 13 years at the National Defense Industrial Association in Arlington and currently was assistant vice president for event planning.
She worked out daily and enjoyed skiing, biking and hiking.
Survivors include her husband, Michael A. Dauth; her father, Arthur Rush of Dover, Del.; one brother, Brian Rush of Arlington, Texas; and one sister, Kimberly Coleman of San Antonio.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Kalas Funeral Home, 2973 Solomons Island Road, Edgewater.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, Annapolis Unit 110, P.O. Box 4203, Annapolis, MD 21403.
Barbara MacDonald
Barbara Lois MacDonald, 56, a resident of Annapolis for 37 years, died of cancer Jan. 1, 2003 at her home after a long illness.
Mrs. MacDonald was born in Arlington, Va. She worked as a surgical assistant for many years and most recently worked for Dr. Ivan Nosacek, Family Foot Care.
A fabric designer, she made and sold scarves known as "Barbara's Babushkas."
Surviving are her husband, Gregory S. MacDonald; one son, Timothy J. McClaeb, and one daughter, Teresa M. McClaeb, both of Annapolis; three brothers, Edward W. Fonfara of Williamsburg, Va., James A. Fonfara of Owings and Joseph L. Fonfara of Deale; one sister, Mary A. Anderson of Dunkirk; and one grandson.
Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today at Taylor Funeral Home, 147 Duke of Gloucester St. Services will be at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 109 Duke of Gloucester St. Burial will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Maryland Veterans Cemetery in Crownsville.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Anne Arundel County, 1815 Bay Ridge Ave., Annapolis, MD 21403.
May 6, 2001
Emily Rosanah Stiffler, a retired secretary, longtime church organist and the unofficial historian of Parkton, died Thursday at Oak Crest Village in Parkville from complications after a fall April 27. She was 96.
"No one's indispensable," she told The Sun in August 1995 at a tribute to her by the congregation of Parke Memorial United Methodist Church in Parkton. She played the organ for almost 60 years.
Miss Stiffler had outlasted three organs, including a pump organ from the church's founding in 1888 that she discovered hidden in a back room soon after she began playing at the church in 1937. She served 19 pastors and saw five revisions of the Methodist hymnal.
Described as fiercely independent and frugal with her words, Miss Stiffler was in the process of moving to Oak Crest from the house where she had lived for 85 years, across the street from the church at in the 18900 block York Road.
Age and arthritis did not prevent her from organizing a music department at the retirement community, where she played piano and organ and sang in the choir until about two years ago, said her niece, Emily Carpenter Long of Phoenix. She also took up painting after retirement.
A Towson High School graduate, Miss Stiffler attended the Peabody Conservatory and Hood College, where she received secretarial training. She began work as an executive secretary at the Hubbs & Corning manufacturing company, then took the same post for the Black Manufacturing Co., a forerunner of Black & Decker Inc. She also had worked as a secretary for the dean of the Maryland College for Women in Lutherville and for the Baltimore County Health Department.
In her last position before retiring at age 69, she was secretary at the 7th District Elementary School in northern Baltimore County for more than 12 years.
"I found poems written about how she took care of everything, including children who needed buttons sewn on or who needed comforting," said her niece.
Miss Stiffler supported the Baltimore County Historical Society's museum in Cockeysville with items from the area's early settlement.
"She donated a lot of things from her father's store," said Marge Shipley, a volunteer at the museum. Among these are the sign from her father's general store in Parkton, J.C. Stiffler General Merchandise, as well as counters and floor scales.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Parke Memorial United Methodist Church, followed by a luncheon.
In addition to her niece, Miss Stiffler's survivors include a nephew, Roger Carpenter of Tucson, Ariz.; a grandniece; and two grandnephews.
September 2, 2001
The Rev. Harry E. Shelley Jr., an Episcopal priest and activist for the care and counseling of alcoholics, died Thursday of cancer at the Joseph Richey Hospice in downtown Baltimore. He was 79 and moved to Timonium in 1998 after residing in Charles Village and Remington for 42 years.
Father Shelley was the hospice's director of pastoral care and chaplain at the time of his death.
In the 1950s, while rector of the Church of the Guardian Angel in Remington, Father Shelley began ministering to alcoholics. He soon became one of the city's best-known counselors in an era when there were few treatment facilities available.
"I think every alcoholic in Baltimore knew where our front door was," said his wife, the former Mary Louise Gosnell. The couple married in 1948.
He served as coordinator for alcoholism programs for the city Health Department from 1965 to 1977.
Father Shelley continued his work with alcoholics when he was named rector of Saint Michael and All Angels Church in Charles Village in 1973, a post he held until 1986.
"He was a hard-working guy. You got the feeling he was always extremely energetic," said William Stump, retired editor of Maryland Church News. "I can remember Harry coming to a diocesan meeting wearing a helmet, riding a motorcycle and speeding up Timonium Road."
Father Shelley took up riding a Honda 500 during the gasoline shortages of the 1970s. He decided he could save money making pastoral calls and find parking spaces more easily near the hospitals he visited. He stopped riding his motorcycle when his hearing deteriorated about 10 years ago.
"His forthright manner reflects the outlook of one whose ministry is based on long practical experience. ... His approach appears to be that of a man who views the spiritual not in terms of theological niceties but in direct relation to daily life," The Sun reported in a 1973 profile.
Born in Baltimore, Father Shelley was raised in the Pimlico section. He was a 1940 graduate of Catonsville High School and studied at the University of Baltimore, where he earned an associate of arts degree in 1948 and a law degree in 1950. He received a master's degree at the Philadelphia School of Divinity in 1955 and was ordained a priest May 12, 1956.
During World War II he was a Navy pharmacist's mate who served aboard a ship during the Allied invasion at Normandy. When his vessel struck a mine and was about to sink, he helped get the wounded aboard another ship. Nearly 50 years later, a medical examination revealed that he had fractured his neck during the incident. He later served in the Philippines and at Okinawa.
Father Shelley was a part-time chaplain at Union Memorial Hospital from 1987 to 1994 and a Police Department chaplain from 1992 to 1999.
He was an associate of the All Saints Sisters of the Poor Episcopal Convent in Catonsville, a member of the Franciscan Order, the Navy Landing Ship Tank Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a past president of the Ancient and Honorable Mechanical Company of Baltimore.
A requiem Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Sept. 15 at Mount Calvary Episcopal Church, 816 N. Eutaw St., where he served as assistant rector.
In addition to his wife, Father Shelley is survived by two sons, James M. Shelley of Reisterstown and Stephen E. Shelley of Phoenix; two daughters, M. Eileen Menton of Laurel and Linda J. Krantz of Churchville; seven grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
September 2, 2001
Bynum Gillette Shaw, professor emeritus at Wake Forest University and a prolific writer who began his career as a reporter at The Sun, died Monday of cancer at his home in Winston-Salem, N.C.
The author of eight books, he was 78.
"He was a staunch friend and a good man - a quiet sort of guy who did a lot of good things for The Sun," said Jesse Glasgow, former business editor of the newspaper. "He did everything you could do in the business, except take pictures."
After a stint at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., the North Carolina native arrived at The Sun in 1951 and quickly rose from the copy desk to the aviation beat, then to the rewrite desk, before going overseas as a foreign correspondent posted in Bonn, Germany.
Posing as a tourist, Mr. Shaw slipped through Soviet checkpoints into Eastern Europe to file some of the earliest accounts of life behind the Iron Curtain.
While overseas, he wrote his first book, The Sound of Small Hammers, published in 1962, while also contributing regularly to Esquire magazine. Three years later, he was attached to the Sun's Washington Bureau, covering the civil rights movement.
"The last big thing he did for the paper was the march on Selma, Alabama," recalled Mr. Glasgow. "He was probably the only reporter who was there the entire time. When the rest of the correspondents would go into town at the end of the day for a warm bath and a good meal, Bynum would sleep outside on the ground with the marchers."
Known for his graceful and sometimes gently satirical writing style, Mr. Shaw filed the following dispatch on March 23, 1965:
"The Rev. Martin Luther King's footsore band of civil rights marchers is moving along the trail to Montgomery today, disrupting traffic along a major national thoroughfare, infuriating the die-hard segregationists of the whole South and taxing the quickly laid security plans of a small land and air army of Federal and Federalized forces.
"An irresistible force of progress has collided on Highway 80 with an immovable object of Southern tradition, and the object is backing sorrowfully away."
Later that year, Mr. Shaw left The Sun to return to his home state alma mater, Wake Forest University, to take up teaching. But he maintained his relationship with the newspaper for years, regularly contributing articles, letters and editorials until the late 1970s.
"He loved the paper," said his daughter, Bonnie Shaw Fowler of Winston-Salem, N.C. "He never failed to go back to Baltimore for the Sun reunions, and he kept in touch with his old friends there for the rest of his life."
In 1972, the newspaper printed excerpts from an expose Mr. Shaw wrote for Esquire about the high cost of dental care in the United States that triggered a minor national scandal in the profession and a flood of mail.
In 1980, he returned with a novel, Days of Power, Nights of Fear, set in Maryland, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Mr. Shaw wrote three other novels, The Nazi Hunter in 1968, Oh, Promised Land! in 1992 and The Junkman Cometh in 1995, but he was best known in academic circles for his sweeping works of history. Shortly after his return to Wake Forest, he co-authored W.W. Holden: a Political Biography with his mentor, Professor E.E. Folk, about the scorned reformist governor of North Carolina whose battles with the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction cost him his political career.
In 1974, he wrote Divided We Stand: The Baptists in American Life, and in 1988 he published the fourth volume of the History of Wake Forest College (1943-1967).
Born in Burlington, N.C., and raised in Wilmington, Mr. Shaw entered Wake Forest on a debating scholarship in 1940, but left to enlist in the merchant marine as a mess cook in 1943. After World War II, he returned to graduate and took his first newspaper job in Norfolk in 1948.
The same year, he married Louise Brantley Shaw, who died in 1980. His second wife, the former Emily Crandall Rushworth, died in 1985. He married Charlotte Easley Reeder of Clarksville in Howard County in 1986.
A memorial service was held Thursday at Wait Chapel, Wake Forest University.
In addition to his wife and daughter, Mr. Shaw is survived by another daughter, Susan Shaw Huffstetler of Yorktown, Va.; two sisters, Hazel Dowdy of Colfax, N.C., and Rose Ann Hurtado of Orange, Calif.; two brothers, the Rev. Settle Shaw of Harrison, Tenn., and Thomas C. Shaw of Bay St. Louis, Miss.; four grandchildren; and six step-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorial contributions may be made to Wake Forest University, Bynum Shaw Prize in Journalism, Dept. of English, P.O. Box 7387, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27109.
August 18, 2002
Robert Henry Brooks Jr. of Pikesville, a master electrician in a family business who spent many happy Saturday nights patrolling Howard County as an auxiliary police officer, was electrocuted Wednesday in Stanley, Va. He was 27.
Mr. Brooks had gone to the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains to work on outdoor signs at several businesses owned by his grandfather, Emmett Brooks.
When the younger Mr. Brooks reached into one sign to change a light bulb, his hand apparently grazed a live wire, said his mother, Susan Brooks.
That he was in Virginia that day revealed much about him, said his mother. He had no jobs lined up at the family's Pikesville firm, Alger Electric Co. And he knew his grandfather's signs needed work.
"Come on, Granddad," he had said, practically begging to make the three-hour drive.
Born at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Mr. Brooks grew up in Pikesville in a close-knit family.
In 1993, he graduated from Pikesville High School and Western School of Technology, a vocational school in Catonsville.
"That boy was just plain noble," said Judy Koontz, who taught him ninth-grade English at Pikesville and grew close to him and his family. "He had a dignity that far exceeded his years; he had a goodness of spirit, and yet he was one of the guys."
He and his father, Robert H. Brooks Sr., were hot-rod enthusiasts who enjoyed working on a muscle car, Mrs. Brooks said. He cherished his bright-yellow 1923 Ford Bucket T, winning trophies at numerous hot-rod competitions.
Early on, it was apparent Mr. Brooks would become the fourth generation to work at Alger Electric. He began helping his father at age 12.
Yet "deep in his heart" he wanted to be a policeman, his mother said. But she did not want him to become a sworn officer, fearing for his safety, and he respected her wishes.
"I said, 'Bob, I don't want you getting shot,'" Mrs. Brooks recalled. "Now a light bulb has killed him."
Instead, Mr. Brooks trained to become an auxiliary officer in Howard County. Twice a week, he donned a uniform and assisted police. He did not carry a gun or have arrest powers but he could aid stranded motorists and patrol the streets.
Two years ago, he followed a drunken driver from Howard County into Anne Arundel County, tracking him until a state trooper could arrest the man, his mother said.
Nothing kept him from his volunteer duty, not even his grandmother's annual Christmas supper. In 2000, he was named Howard Auxiliary Officer of the Year by the Police Department and the county Chamber of Commerce. He volunteered more than 2,000 hours after joining the program in 1996, the department said.
Police Chief Wayne Livesay called Mr. Brooks' death "a tragic loss" for the department and the people who benefited from his "professionalism, dedication and selflessness." The chief said, "Bob's commitment to volunteerism serves as an excellent example for all of us."
Mr. Brooks, who was single, became a master electrician last year, after graduating from a program run by the Associated Builders and Contractors.
"He's done a lot in his young age," Mrs. Brooks said.
Sometimes he went beyond electrical work. One of his customers was Sol Levinson & Bros. Inc. funeral home in Pikesville. After Sept. 11, it was Mr. Brooks who climbed into a crane to drape an American flag from the building's facade.
"He was a real nice young man," said owner Ira Levinson. "It's just really, really a shame."
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Levinson's, 8900 Reisterstown Road.
In addition to his parents and paternal grandfather, all of Pikesville, he is survived by a brother, Brandon Brooks of Pikesville; two sisters, Kristen Cassaday of Pikesville and Suzanne Robertson of Jessup; his maternal grandfather, Vernon Leaf of Pikesville; a grandmother, Phyllis Gallion of Pikesville; a step-grandmother, Leola Brooks; and two great-grandmothers, Virginia Brooks of Stanley, Va., and Minnie McFadden of Parkton.
