Arthur Price, 79, a co-owner of the old Gwynn Oak Amusement Park and a former state roads commissioner, died yesterday at University of Maryland Medical Center of a heart ailment.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. John's Episcopal Church in Waverly. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
A native of Baltimore, Mr. Price attended City College and St. John's College in Annapolis.
From 1950 through 1969, he owned the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in northwest Baltimore with his brothers David and James.
In addition, the Price brothers operated the Lakewood Swimming Pool in Baltimore for many years.
For 16 years he was a commissioner on the now-defunct State Roads Commission, where his official duties covered Baltimore, Harford and several other Maryland counties.