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Obituaries

Margaret R. Bowling,

OCEAN PINES — Margaret R. Bowling, 91, passed away on Friday, Dec. 30 at Genesis Healthcare in Salisbury. Born in Washington Grove on December 27, 1920 to George and Edna Reber, Bowling was a longtime resident of Rockville but for the past 6 years had lived in Ocean Pines.   Bowling grew up in the… Read more »

Robert Walsh Watts

OCEAN CITY — Robert Walsh Watts, age 79, died Tuesday, Nov. 22 at his home. Born in Washington, D.C. he was the son of the late George Watts and Olga Sarton Watts. He is survived by his wife, Bernadette L. Watts.   Watts was a United States Navy Veteran.  He had worked as a bus… Read more »

Thomas Moore Quigley

OCEAN PINES — Thomas Moore Quigley, age 83, died Tuesday, Nov. 22 at his home. Born in New York he was the son of the late William Quigley and Julia Moore Quigley. He is survived by his wife Irmalee A. Quigley.  Quigley was a United States Navy Veteran. He had worked for many years as… Read more »

Dorothy R. Melcher

SELBYVILLE, Del. — Dorothy Raum Melcher, age 89, died on Sunday, Nov. 25 at her Arrington Woods home in Selbyville. Born in Chester County, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Ervin H. Raum, Jr. and Mary Werner Raum.  She is survived by her daughter Bonnie Piperno and her husband Dominic of Ocean City… Read more »

James Edward Kopper

BERLIN — James Edward Kopper, age 65, died Tuesday, Oct. 18 at Atlantic General Hospital. Born in Baltimore he was the son of the late John Bernard Kopper and Elsie Wirts Kopper.   Kopper is survived by his wife, Janice A. Kopper; a daughter, Linda Zorn and her husband Jeff of Baltimore; a son, John… Read more »

Jennifer “Louise” McCabe

SNOW HILL —Jennifer “Louise” McCabe, known to all as “Mom-Mom”, departed her life on Nov. 10 after a long illness. She is survived by her loving husband of 43 years, Ralph McCabe and their children; Brenda (Arthur), their daughter Kayelynn, Eva and her son Andy, Chubby and his son DeShawn, all of Snow Hill. Tasha… Read more »

Walter Buckner Mitchell

OCEAN CITY — Walter Buckner Mitchell of Ocean City died Sept. 25, 2011 at the Berlin Nursing Home.  Born in Baltimore, on Dec. 20, 1932, Mitchell graduated from St. Paul’s School and Johns Hopkins University. He was an outstanding athlete, named to the Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a 3-time All American Lacrosse player and… Read more »

Bertha B. Brittingham

OCEAN CITY — Bertha B. Brittingham, age 83, died Saturday, Oct. 1. Born in Ocean City she was the daughter of the late Harry B. Birch and Laura Davis Birch. She was preceded in death by her husband Walter L. Brittingham. Brittingham had worked for Acme Market as a cashier and baker for many years…. Read more »

John Carl Deck Jr.

OCEAN CITY —John Carl Deck Jr., 97, died September 26, 2011 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center. He was born in Washington D.C. and was married for 66 years to his beloved wife, the late Catherine S. Deck.   As a young man he apprenticed with an uncle who was an optician. Prior to WWII, he… Read more »

James “Jim” F. Watts

BERLIN — James “Jim” F. Watts, age 89, died September 28, 2011 at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin. He is survived by his wife Evangeline Dyson Watts of Ocean City and formerly of Baltimore, daughters, Sandy VanWestenberg, and her husband Mike of Fairfield, Pa., and Beverly Dearing and her husband John of Fruitland, a step… Read more »