Louise Virginia Lomax Winters, 91, the wife of the late Rev. John Lonnie Winters, died April 1, 2011, at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore after a long illness. She had been living at the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home. The Rev. Conrad Parker Jr. officiated at her funeral at...
Virginia Wilson, 93, the wife of the late Rev. John Roy Wilson, died from pneumonia March 11, 2011, at Casey House in Derwood. The Rev. Walt Edmonds officiated at the Service of Death and Resurrection at Damascus UMC March 16, and was soloist along with his daughter, Polly Edmonds Baldridge...
(Ed. note: This obit was missed in the 2009-2010 Journals, primarily because no word was received. He was in BWC part of the time and died in the Wisconsin Conference.) The Rev. Harold Garrett, 87, a retired Elder, died from a massive heart attack May 16, 2009. A memorial service was held on...
The Rev. Charles A. Johnson II, 70, died Feb. 11 at Larkin Chase Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Bowie, of complications after a stroke. He had been a resident of the center for 20 months. A Celebration of Life service was held Feb. 17 at First UMC in Hyattsville. The Rev. Mamie A...
Elizabeth Z. Keperling, 86, the wife of the Rev. Ira C. Keperling, died Jan. 27, 2011, following a lengthy illness, in York, Pa. She was born in Boonsboro, the daughter of the late Rev. Roy R. and Cora Zeigler. She and Ira Keperling were married in 1944, before he entered the ministry. Their...
The Rev. Thomas Joon Hwa Ahn, 70, an Elder in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, died Jan. 24, 2011. The Rev. Paul Shin officiated at his funeral service Jan. 27 at the Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home, Inc., in Silver Spring. Ahn came to the United States from Korea in the 1950s and graduated...
The Rev. Edward R. Dickel, 76, a retired Local Pastor, died Jan. 22, 2011, at the Golden Living Center Nursing Home in Carpendale, W. Va., where he had lived for the past five years. The Rev. Gary W. Trail conducted a funeral service Jan. 25, at the Upchurch Funeral Home in Cumberland. Dickel...
The Rev. W. Otto Kent, 64, pastor of Metropolitan UMC in Severn, died suddenly Jan. 4. His funeral was held Jan. 8, at Severna Park UMC with the Rev. Timothy West officiating. Bishop John Schol delivered the eulogy. In addition to Metropolitan UMC, which he was serving at the time of his...
Margaret Sylvester, 97, the widow of the late Rev. Willard Sylvester, died Dec. 3, 2010, in Edgewater, Fla. For the past five years she had lived in a nursing home. A funeral was held in Edgewater Dec. 5. Margaret Katherine Saunders was born Oct. 4, 1913, in Orange, Va., to Elhanon Vernon...
Wilma Artis, 96, the widow of the late Rev. Paul Artis, died Dec. 2, in York, Pa. Wilma Stahl and Paul Artis married in 1935; at the time he worked for the Celanese Corporation in Cumberland. He was licensed as a local preacher in 1942 and in 1945 he entered college to prepare for the...
