Obituary: Marie T. Jozwiak

Former Dundalk resident Marie T. Jozwiak, 93, dies; funeral is May 10.

Obituary: Kenneth Leroy Dickey

Funeral services for Jones Creek native are being held Thursday.

Obituary: Carolyn Elizabeth Cates

Artist was a 1954 graduate of Sollers Point High School.

Carolyn Elizabeth Cates, an artist who once worked out of the Oella Mill, died March 24, according to an obituary in the Baltimore Sun. Cates was 75. Cates lived in Columbia, according to her obituary, but was born in Baltimore and raised in Dundalk. As an artist she worked in mixed media and had a studio at the Howard County Center for the Arts. “You and my mom (Dotty) will be together in heaven and you can show her how to make something, change something or build something. [Y]ou were always good with that and I will always remember that,” Yasmin Gibson posted on Cates’s obituary page on the Wylie Funeral Home website. A funeral is scheduled for Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the Wylie Funeral Home P.A. of Baltimore County, 9200 Liberty Road …

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Smith Remembered as Smart, Engaging Radio Host

Friends and colleagues attended a public memorial for Ron Smith, the longtime WBAL radio talk show host who died in December.

WBAL Radio has video and audio from the service. Before he died, Ron Smith told friends not to pity him, mourn him or cry for him while he was alive or after he was gone. There was plenty of mourning, and a little crying, but also laughter and joy at a public memorial service for Smith, the popular former WBAL radio talk show host, in Kraushaar Auditorium on the campus of Goucher College in Towson on Tuesday. Onstage, several yards from the Ravens purple-draped lectern, were a folded American flag and a WBAL microphone, upon which shone a lone spotlight. Smith died Dec. 19 at age 70, following a brief but public battle with pancreatic cancer. Hundreds of friends, colleagues and dignitaries turned out for the ceremony, including U.S. …

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Apple Fans Remember Steve Jobs' Legacy

The Apple co-founder and inventor died Wednesday at 56.

Tom Kelliher's job would have been much harder without Steve Jobs. Kelliher, an associate professor of computer science at Goucher College, spent many years teaching people how to use computers and found himself often "telling people that it wasn't them, it was the computer." "What Steve understood, what he was all about was creating beautiful, useful, easy-to-use devices that really became a part of people's lives," Kelliher said. "He understood that technology should adapt to people, not the other way around." Jobs, the Apple co-founder and tech luminary, died early Wednesday. He was 56, and fought a much-publicized battle with pancreatic cancer. "Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich…

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Baltimore Left Mark on Legendary Songwriter Jerry Leiber

Jerry Leiber, 78, died in Los Angeles on Monday.

Three thousand miles from Baltimore’s Riggs and McKean avenues, where it all started, Jerry Leiber died of heart failure Monday in Los Angeles, at 78. Mark this as the day the music died. The national newspaper obituaries got the headline stuff right: how the young Leiber teamed with Mike Stoller to become songwriting godfathers of early rock 'n' roll, and how their music brought the rhythms and comic street smarts of black musicians like the Coasters and the Drifters to the first generation of young white rock 'n' roll fans. They wrote “Hound Dog” for Big Mama Thornton, and Elvis Presley turned it into one of rock’s early anthems. They wrote “Yakety Yak” and “Charlie Brown” for the Coasters, and produced “There Goes My Baby” and “Spanish …

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MULTIMEDIA: Fallen Maryland Veterans Honored at Memorial Day Observance

Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens adds 10 veterans to the Circle of the Immortals.

About 3,500 veterans are buried at the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, and 10 more have been added over the last year.  On Memorial Day, their graves were decorated with American flags and flowers. Their families were honored with service awards. Decorated military officials—including Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown—spoke kind words about them.  A crowd of hundreds gathered at the Timonium cemetery Monday to remember the nine men who died in the line of duty while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.  The nine men honored on Monday were:  Air Force Msgt. Tara R. Brown, of Bowie, MD, was killed on April 27, 2011. She will be honored at the 2012 Memorial Day ceremony.  The men and woman of the …

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A Community Legend Passes Away

Community activist and friend to many in Dundalk, Dick McJilton died Monday at the age of 82.

Monday, Richard “Dick” W. McJilton passed away after an eight-month long battle with cancer. 
Dick McJilton is remembered by many as a local businessman and owner of McJilton Insurance, a member of the Greater Dundalk Sports Hall of Fame, Dundalk Citizen of the Year in 1984, supporter of the local recreation councils and friend to innumerable Dundalkians. McJilton was a member of the JayCees for many years, founded the Dundalk Chamber of Commerce (once known as the Dundalk Business Association), was generous with his financial contributions to the community and spent many hours of his life volunteering to make Dundalk a better place. McJilton served as a member of the Baltimore County Planning Board, the Greater Dundalk Alliance and the …

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Ruppersberger on Bin Laden Killing: 'Great Day'

Congressman recalls thousands lost on 9/11, and says killing of Osama bin Laden is a great day for the United States.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger (D-MD), Ranking Member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), released the following statement about the killing of Al-Qaeda and terrorist leader Osama bin Laden: “Osama bin Laden was a terrorist leader who was responsible for killing thousands of innocent Americans—moms, dads, brothers, sisters, friends and loved ones. 9/11 changed America forever.   Today, the United States took extraordinary steps and killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. This is a great day for America. Bin Laden was a threat to the United States and a threat to the world. Bin Laden had the blood of thousands of people on his hands. Justice has now been done.    The military and …

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VIDEO SERIES: On the William Donald Schaefer Tribute Trail

From the State House in Annapolis to the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, from director John Waters to former County Executive Jim Smith, Patch covered the former governor's final tour of Maryland.

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