Brandon

On May 21, 2007, ROBERT LEE devoted husband to Helen Fountain-Brandon. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 A.M., where the family will receive friends on Friday at 11:30 A.M., followed by funeral service at 12 noon.

A 12-year-old boy was recovering yesterday from injuries he received when he set fire to a bullet he found on a parking lot in Southeast Baltimore, police said. The bullet exploded, injuring his eye and hand.Brandon Locklear of the 1700 block of Nome Ave. was in fair condition yesterday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Police said pieces of metal flew into his right eye and scratched his right hand.Agent Angelique Cook-Hayes, a police spokeswoman, said Brandon and a friend found the bullet about 10: 30 p.m. Thursday in the back of a parking lot in the 6400 block of Holabird St.She said Brandon used a lighter to set fire to the bullet.

When Samantha "Sam" Porter walked down the aisle on her wedding day, she was escorted by the most important person in her life: her 9-year-old son, Brandon.Brandon now shares top billing in his mother's heart with her new husband, David Williams. But that suits both of her "men" just fine, Sam says. In fact, Brandon and David get along so well that sometimes, Sam says with a laugh, she feels outnumbered.Sam, an anesthesia specialist who grew up in South Baltimore, took a circuitous route to the altar.

Fathers coaching sons is a commonplace story. But two fathers coaching their sons on the same high school team? That's unusual.Add the fact that those fathers built an entire youth program so their sons would have a strong wrestling foundation, and you have an even more unusual story.Such is the case with the Lauers and Daubermans of River Hill High.The sons, Brandon Lauer and Derek Dauberman, are having bang-up wrestling seasons. The fathers, Earl Lauer and Marshall Dauberman, are pleased that their foresight and eight years of extra work have helped their sons to excel.

What seemed like a stroke of genius by Calvert Hall coach soccer Bill Karpovich became cruel and unusual punishment for Janet Scarfield.Her son, Brandon Scarfield, had been the catalyst for an upstart Archbishop Curley squad that had out-scored its five opponents by a combined 14-3, with three shutouts. Karpovich's Cardinals, struggling after their first loss, needed someone to neutralize him.Who better than Brandon's older brother, Frank, a Calvert Hall midfielder?"I had no idea they would be marking each other, and I was a nervous wreck watching them play," said Janet.

Fifteen feet up in the bare oak, Brandon Krantz crouches on a sheet of plywood. He shivers, his dimpled face solemn as he peers out from under the hood of his baggy orange jacket. His thin wrists bend stiffly to cradle his father's rifle."Move up, Brandon." His father, balanced beside him in the tree, reaches over to shift the gun higher. "You've gotta get it in your shoulder. If you see something, take your gloves off. You know where to shoot?"Brandon knows. He has prepared all fall, in hunter safety classes, at dinner with his brothers on their farm in Frederick County.

A Baltimore man who faces a possible 25-year mandatory prison sentence on drug charges failed to appear at a hearing in Carroll County Circuit Court yesterday, skipping out on a $125,000 corporate bond.David C. Brandon, 27, was arrested March 2 by police responding to a tip that two men were selling heroin in Westminster. Police stopped a car and, after a drug-sniffing dog signaled the presence of drugs, Brandon and a 19-year-old co-defendant were arrested.No drugs were found in the car, but 52 packages of crack cocaine were found during a strip search of one of the men, police said.

Tonia Spriggs would read to her son Brandon Johnson four days a week and help him with his homework.But that was not enough for him. Neither his pronunciation nor his reading improved."

Tonia Spriggs would read to her son Brandon Johnson four days a week and help him with his homework.But that was not enough for him. Neither his pronunciation nor his reading improved."

A female veterinarian who won $39,000 in a 1993 sex discrimination suit will have to go to trial again. The Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled yesterday that the judge erred in his instructions to the jury.The court decided that although there was sufficient evidence to support the verdict in favor of Dr. Linda C. Molesworth, Anne Arundel Circuit Judge H. Chester Goudy Jr. failed to give jurors a required instruction that might have affected the outcome.Dr. Molesworth of the 6600 block of Old Solomons Island Road in Friendship sued her former boss, Dr. Randall Brandon of Ellicott City, in 1991, alleging that he fired her from the $35,000-a-year position because she is a woman.

On October 31, 2009 DOROTHY S. SNEED, beloved mother of Troy and wife Brigette; grandsons Brandon and Kellen; cousin of seven; survived by other relatives and friends. On Wednesday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (WEST), 5151 Balto. Nat'l Pike from 4:00-8:00 p.m. On Thursday, Mrs. Sneed will lie in state at Mt. Ararat Baptist Church, 3008 Gwynns Falls Parkway, where the family will receive friends from 10:30-11:00 a.m. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-233-2400.

My Aug. 11 column about the death of Charles Stoecker on a country road just south of the Pennsylvania line - and the devastation it caused his family - brought some interesting reaction. Luke Jackson, 17, who for three years was a hockey teammate of the young man whose driving error led to Stoecker's death in November, weighed in with an especially thoughtful response. There's a thin line between praise and patronizing when a middle-aged man compliments a teenager, but let's just say I couldn't have expressed myself nearly as well at Luke's age. Brandon Boehmer, whose vehicle crossed the double-yellow line and slammed into Stoecker's car, has a good friend.

The first time he walked onto the stage of his high school in Baltimore, Kerry Brandon didn't realize he was about to find his vocation. He was hanging out with friends who were rehearsing for a musical. "I made the mistake of walking onto the stage at just the right moment - the director needed somebody," Brandon said. It was a small part. Brandon, a high school senior at the time, was on stage for less than a minute. But it was enough to catch the theater bug. Today, Brandon is technical director of Wilde Lake High School and the school's Jim Rouse Theatre for the Performing Arts.

The Maryland Department of Human Resources has agreed to pay out $1.5 million to care for a Baltimore boy who suffered irreversible brain damage after he was abused by another child in the foster home where he was placed by the city Department of Social Services. The boy, Brandon Williams, who is now 5 years old and still unable to speak or walk, will receive an annuity of $80,000 a year for life to pay for his medical care, according to attorneys. The state has also agreed to pay the family $580,000 and guarantee that the boy will receive Medicaid assistance even though the annuity would have rendered him financially ineligible.

On September 1, 2007, MARTIN ANTHONY devoted father of Jade Brandon, beloved son of Katie Brandon and the late Goldie Brandon, Sr. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 A.M., where the family will receive friends from 5 -7 P.M. The family will also receive friends at the above establishment on Friday at 9:30 A.M., followed by funeral service at 10 A.M.

On July 26, 2007, STEVEN E. BRANDON SR. Friends may call at the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Wednesday after 8:30a.m., where the family will receive friends on Thursday at 11:30a.m. Funeral services will follow at 12p.m.

On May 21, 2007, ROBERT LEE devoted husband to Helen Fountain-Brandon. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 A.M., where the family will receive friends on Friday at 11:30 A.M., followed by funeral service at 12 noon.

CALVIN CECIL JONES of Brandon, FL, age 78, previously from Powhatan, VA; and Columbia, MD died Feb. 23, 2007. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Audrey Caldwell Jones, son, David of Springfield, VA, daughter, Patricia Todd and son-in-law, Glenn Todd of Brandon, FL, son, Calvin (Buddy) of Gulf Breeze, FL, two granddaughters, Laura Freund, of Brandon, FL, and Carly Jones, of Pensacola, FL, one grandson, Ian Arthur Jones, of Springfield, VA. Calvin graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, Richmond, VA in 1945; spent two years in the US Navy; graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1951 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and belonged to Etta Kappa NU Fraternity.

On July 14, 2006, IRIS CHRISTINE, loving mother of Carolyn Taylor, Denise Brandon, Eleanor Bennett, Tanya Tanner and Matthew Brandon, Jr. She is also survived by a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue, on Tuesday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends on Wednesday at Southern Baptist Church, 1701 N. Chester St., at 11 A.M. followed by funeral service at 11:30 A.M.

After winning an overtime match against rival Steve Sessa of Hammond in his semifinal bout at the Class 2A-1A state tournament last winter, Liberty's Brandon Gervie walked up into the stands of the University of Maryland's Cole Field House and found his grandparents crying. As Chuck and Mary Lou Gervie hugged their grandson and congratulated him, Brandon Gervie grew more determined than ever to take home the state title. "I've really got to win now," he remembered thinking. "I really want to make them proud."