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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter | March 24, 2011
Marvin A. Geyer, a retired U.S. Department of Agriculture meat inspector who landed on Omaha Beach with the 29th Division on D-Day, died Sunday of heart failure at his Arbutus home. He was 91. Mr. Geyer was born in Baltimore and raised in Morrell Park. After graduation in 1937 from City College, he went to work at the Esskay meatpacking plant in East Baltimore. An accident at the plant severely burned his feet. While cleaning out a tank car transporting lard that had to be heated to be removed, Mr. Geyer jumped down into the car to force out the lard that had settled on the bottom.
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January 28, 2010
29th Division, Past Maryland Commander, 1974-1975 and Past National President, 1976-1977 on January 26, 2010 ERNEST H. HORST, JR. beloved husband of the late Anna Mae Horst (nee Rose); beloved son of the late Grace and Ernest H. Horst, Sr.; devoted father of Cheryl Phelps (Stan), Ernest H. Horst, III (Judith), Donna Horst (John Crouch), David Horst (Regina) and the late Vicki Harne. He is also survived by nine grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc. Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale)
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | November 20, 2009
Carlo M. Peduto, a former supervisor in the Federal Protective Service and a D-Day veteran, died Sunday of heart failure at Hart Heritage, an assisted-living facility in Forest Hill. He was 91. Mr. Peduto, the son of Italian immigrants, was born and raised in Staunton, Va. After graduating from Lee High School in 1936, he went to work in Altoona, Pa., for his brother-in-law, who owned a vending machine company. In November 1941, Mr. Peduto was drafted into the Army. After completing basic training, he joined the 29th Division and was sent to England, where he completed further training.
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By Laura Smitherman and Laura Smitherman,laura.smitherman@baltsun.com | May 24, 2009
The fancy invitation to a Memorial Day event at the governor's mansion arrived in the mail the day that Charles J. Harris, a World War II veteran who lost his left arm on the beach at Normandy a few days after D-Day, was buried. His daughter, Michelle Burke, picked up the phone to RSVP for him anyway. The 91-year-old lawyer only recently had begun to identify more with being a veteran, reconnecting at reunions with his fellow soldiers and donning a hat emblazoned with the 29th Division, his Army unit.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen and Frederick N. Rasmussen,fred.rasmussen@baltsun.com | November 8, 2008
James Joseph Clements, a retired businessman and decorated World War II infantryman who fought in Europe with Maryland's famed 29th Division, died of pneumonia Nov. 1 at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin. The Ocean City resident was 86. Mr. Clements was born in Pikesville. After his mother died and his father abandoned the family, he was placed in an orphanage. "He lived at St. Mary's Industrial School until he was 13, when he was sent to the Breeding family farm in Louisville, Carroll County, where he lived and worked," said a son, Garry Clements of Eldersburg.