Floyd N. SmithCar dealer, hotel ownerFloyd Newsome Smith...

Floyd N. Smith

Car dealer, hotel owner

Floyd Newsome Smith, a retired automobile dealer and hotel owner in Betterton, where he was a town commissioner for many years, died Wednesday of heart disease at Keswick. He was 95.

Mr. Smith had lived in the Baltimore area since 1989. In the mid-1960s, he moved from Betterton back to the town of his birth, Chestertown.

In his youth, he began working in his uncle's livery stable in Betterton, which became Newsome's Chevrolet. He eventually owned the auto dealership, closing it in 1965. He later was a salesman in automobile dealerships in Chestertown and in Dover, Del., until the early 1980s.

In the 1930s, Mr. Smith and his wife were partners in the Chesapeake Hotel. In the late 1930s and the 1940s, they owned the Betterton Hotel and several other businesses.

In the 1930s and 1940s, he was a Betterton town commissioner, and for two years was president of the commissioners.

Mr. Smith was a founder of the Betterton Volunteer Fire $l Company.

He had been chairman of the board of trustees of Betterton United Methodist Church and later First United Methodist Church in Chestertown, where services were to be held at 2 p.m. today.

L His wife of 64 years, the former Mattie Clark, died in 1989.

He is survived by a daughter, Doris S. Hartman of Baltimore; a brother, Lewis Hanson Smith of Chestertown; a sister, Edith Dempsey of Centreville; and many nieces and nephews.

Paul V. Barrans

FEMA employee

Paul V. Barrans, who studied nuclear emergencies and the measurement of radiation and its effects on electronic equipment for federal agencies, died Monday of meningitis at a hospital in Lanham. He was 67 and lived in Bowie.

Mr. Barrans retired about 10 years ago from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after 20 years of service. Earlier, he worked 14 years for the National Bureau of Standards.

Born in Westfield, N.J., and raised in Towson, he was a 1944 graduate of Towson High School and served in the Navy in the late 1940s. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics at the University of Maryland in 1964.

He was a member of St. Matthew's United Methodist Church in Bowie, where he helped to start St. Matthew's Housing Corp. He was a volunteer for the American Cancer Society, the Arthritis Foundation and the Patuxent Widowed Persons Service.

Services were to be held at 11 a.m. today at St. Matthew's Church.

L His wife of 30 years, the former Janice Barbe, died in 1984.

He is survived by two sons, Daniel L. Barrans of Glenmore, Pa., and William T. Barrans II of White Marsh; a daughter, Carol Elaine Barrans of Bowie; and two brothers, Richard E. Barrans of Stoneleigh and Donald R. Barrans of Baldwin.

Martha S. Morgan

Public health nurse

Martha Simon Morgan, a retired nurse, died Wednesday of heart failure at her Annapolis home. She was 88.

Mrs. Morgan, an Annapolis resident since 1929, was a Red Cross nurse during World War II. In 1946, she became a public health nurse for the Anne Arundel County Department of Health, retiring in 1971.

Born and raised in Govans, she was a graduate of Eastern High School and Mercy Hospital School of Nursing.

She was a communicant of St. Mary Roman Catholic Church in Annapolis and was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America.

Her husband, Roy P. Morgan, whom she married in 1929, died in PTC 1970.

A Mass of Christian burial will be offered for Mrs. Morgan at 9 a.m. today at St. Mary Church, 109 Duke of Gloucester St.

She is survived by three daughters, Garnet North, Sheila A. Hall and Marga Morgan, all of Annapolis; a sister, Rose Nizolek of Baltimore; nine grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.

Memorial donations may be made to the church's building fund.

Clement McClelland

Electrical engineer

Clement W. McClelland, a retired electrical engineer, died Wednesday at Howard County General Hospital after a heart attack. The Towson resident was 69.

Mr. McClelland retired last year from the Westinghouse Electric Corp. plant at Baltimore-Washington International Airport after 43 years of service. He was an expert on radar and had worked on airborne warning and control instruments.

Born and raised in Masontown, Pa., he was a Navy electronics technician at the end of World War II. He attended the University of Pittsburgh and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, where he also did graduate work.

He was a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honorary society.

Services were to be held at 11 a.m. today at Timonium Presbyterian Church, 303 W. Timonium Road.

He is survived by his wife, the former Patricia Cockrell; two sons, Ross Andrew McClelland of Carney and Robert Selwyn McClelland of Alexandria, Va.; a daughter, Carol Ann Jenkins of Bethesda; a brother, David L. McClelland of Ellicott City; three sisters, Gail Bell of Mount Pleasant, Mich., Edna Owens of Uniontown, Pa., and Garnet Brady of Lillian, Ala.; and two grandchildren.