John David White, 80, publishing executiveJohn David...

John David White, 80, publishing executive

John David White, a retired executive at Doubleday Publishing Co., died yesterday at Stella Maris Hospice after complications from a stroke. The longtime resident of North Baltimore and Towson was 80.

Mr. White was a 1934 graduate of Calvert Hall College, where he earned varsity letters in football and swimming. He also was a graduate of Loyola College.

Mr. White played lead saxophone with The Townsmen, a Baltimore dance band of the 1930s and 1940s. He also was a baritone soloist for many years with the Baltimore Music Club and the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen Men's Choir.

Mr. White was in the Navy from 1940 to 1945, serving in the South Pacific during World War II and reaching the rank of lieutenant commander.

On June 17, 1942, he married Lois Hooper Smith of Baltimore. She died in April 1982.

After the war, Mr. White returned to Baltimore, where he worked for Mobil Oil Corp., Talbot Ford and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. He then spent 20 years as a mid-Atlantic manager with the School and Library Division of Doubleday Publishing.

Since 1980, he had been a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. He helped start several AA groups in the Towson area.

Mr. White is survived by his second wife, Carmella Jerome White, who he married in 1984; two sisters, Elizabeth W. Schueler of Fort Worth, Texas and Catherine W. Keating of Baltimore; four sons, Daniel White, Robert K. White and Michael A. White, all of Baltimore, and John D. White Jr. of Tucson, Ariz.; a daughter, Susan W. Wootton of Atlanta; and 14 grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Towson.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Stella Maris Hospice on Dulaney Valley Road in Towson or the National Council on Alcoholism, Maryland Chapter, 419 W. Redwood St., Suite 540, Baltimore 21201.

Cmdr. James L. Bauman, a retired Navy helicopter pilot and aeronautical engineer, died at his home after heart complications from melanoma. He was 48.

The son of a career Army artilleryman, Mr. Bauman was born in Lawton, Okla., and settled with his family in Catonsville, where he lived for most of his youth.

In 1966, Mr. Bauman graduated from Mount St. Joseph High School, where he developed an interest in chemistry and physics. He received a Navy ROTC scholarship to Iowa State University in 1970, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.

He attended Navy flight school, received his wings and qualified as a Navy SH-2 LAMPS helicopter pilot. Initially assigned to the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, N.J., he served in several operational billets before attending the Navy Post Graduate School, where he earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering in 1976.

He retired from the Navy with more than 20 years of service in October 1993. He then became a senior engineer for DCS Corp., a military contractor in Lexington Park.

A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 2 p.m. today at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, St. Peter's Drive in Waldorf.

Mr. Bauman is survived by his wife of 27 years, the former Clare Ehrman; two daughters, Dr. Tammy Beavers of Lubbock, Texas, and Kate Bauman of Palo Alto, Calif.; his parents, Lt. Col. Albert E. Bauman and Emma A. Bauman of Catonsville; two brothers, Albert E. Bauman III of Fairbanks, Alaska and William Bauman of Catonsville; and a sister, Ann Boehm of Pennsburg, Pa.

Pub Date: 6/14/97