Ronald David Scott, 76, postal service supervisor...

Ronald David Scott, 76, postal service supervisor

Ronald David Scott, a retired U.S. Postal Service supervisor and former bank director, died Nov. 29 at Johns Hopkins Hospital from complications of surgery. He was 76.

Mr. Scott had lived at Wesley Home in Mount Washington since 1999, and earlier lived in the Ashburton section of Baltimore for more than 40 years.

He began his career with the post office as a letter carrier in 1945. When he retired in 1980, he was delivery and collections supervisor for the Baltimore metropolitan area, working at the main post office on East Fayette Street.

Active in community and business affairs, he was a longtime volunteer, counselor and training specialist with Junior Achievement.

He was a charter member of the board of directors at Harbor Bank of Maryland. He remained on the board for 18 years and was chairman of its investment committee until retiring last year. He also had served on the boards of Advance Federal Savings & Loan Association and Elizabeth L. Phillips Funeral Home.

For more than 50 years, Mr. Scott was an active member of Prince Hall Masons of Maryland and had served as treasurer of the organization. He was also a member of King David Lodge No. 18, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and the Templars social club.

Mr. Scott was born and raised in East Baltimore and graduated from Dunbar High School in 1942. His studies at Lincoln University were interrupted by Army service as a transportation dispatcher during World War II, and he attained the rank of sergeant. He later studied for several years at what is now Morgan State University.

Mr. Scott was a communicant, lay reader, chalice server and former vestryman at St. James Episcopal Church, 1020 W. Lafayette Ave., where a Mass of Resurrection will be offered at 10 a.m. Saturday.

His wife of 45 years, the former Elsie Bradby, died in 1992.

He is survived by his daughter, Candace Scott Simms of Ashburton; a sister, Elaine Manns Swan of Los Angeles; and two grandsons.

Wilnet van Berkum, 72, community volunteer

Wilnet van Berkum, a homemaker and community volunteer, died Saturday of undetermined causes at Broadmead in Cockeysville, where she had lived for the past seven months. She was 72 and formerly resided in Roland Park.

Born and raised in the Dutch East Indies, Wilnet Houwink survived three years in a Japanese concentration camp during World War II. She immigrated in 1945 to the Netherlands, where she earned a master's degree in medicine before moving to Baltimore in 1953.

Mrs. van Berkum was a member of the Union Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and created the Adopt-an-Animal program for the Baltimore Zoo, where she organized fund raising in the 1970s. She led zoo tours and was a docent with the Zoomobile, which brought animals to community and school programs.

"She would go into a classroom with a boa constrictor draped around her shoulders," said a daughter, Frederica "Rickie" H. van Berkum of Stony Brook, N.Y. "She would encourage children to come up and touch the snake."

She developed educational programs for the Wildfowl Trust of North America near Grasonville, where she taught the ecology and natural history of Eastern Shore marshes and fields. She also taught at Irvine Nature Center in Baltimore County.

A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Stony Run Friends Meeting, 5116 N. Charles St.

In addition to her daughter, she is survived by her husband of 48 years, Dr. K.A. Peter van Berkum; a son, Peter H. van Berkum of Deerfield, N.H.; another daughter, Carla M. Spawn-van Berkum of Baltimore; a sister, Margaret H. Boshouwers of Denver; and eight grandchildren.

Jeffery Earl Ensor, 33, hospital pharmacist

A Mass of Christian burial for Jeffery Earl Ensor, a hospital pharmacist killed Sunday morning in an automobile accident in Joppa, will be offered at 9:30 a.m. today at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, 8420 Belair Road, Fullerton.

Mr. Ensor, a 33-year-old resident of Forest Hill, was on his way to the airport for a flight to attend a professional conference when his car collided with a pickup truck that police say had crossed the center line on Mountain Road.

He was a clinical team leader in the pharmacy services department at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, where he had developed a program in anti-coagulation.

Born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville, Mr. Ensor was a 1986 graduate of Woodlawn High School and earned a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He received a master's degree in pathology and, in 1998, a doctorate in pharmacy from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

He was a member of the Maryland Society of Hospital Pharmacists and coached soccer through the Forest Hill Recreation Council.