Bronze Star

William Timothy Kenney, a retired loan officer and decorated World War II veteran, died of complications from diabetes Wednesday at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The former longtime Towson resident was 87. Mr. Kenney was born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville. He was a 1938 graduate of Loyola High School and attended Loyola College. During World War II, Mr. Kenney enlisted in the Army and served as a combat medic with Gen. George S. Patton Jr.'s 3rd Army in Europe. Mr. Kenney's decorations included the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.

Charles A. Cusumano told his children of the hardships he experienced during World War II, but he had never called himself a war hero until now.More than half a century ago, Cusumano spent three months repairing war planes in New Guinea, suffering a lack of food, bouts of malaria and dengue fever, and an enemy attack that left him with three fractured vertebrae.Yesterday, Cusumano received the Bronze Star his war buddies there got in 1944.Wearing a light blue sport coat and a tie decorated with the stars and stripes, Cusumano stood at attention before a battery of flags in the office of Col. John D. Frketic, garrison commander at Fort Meade.

Julius Gordon, a combat medic who worehis World War II decorations on his deathbed, died Wednesday of respiratory failure at Cherrywood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Centre in Reisterstown. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 79.Mr. Gordon, known as Jules, enlisted in the Army in 1940. In 1942, he was shipped overseas to the Pacific Theater of operations where he was assigned as a medic to a Marine Corps unit and saw action at Guadalcanal and Bougainville Island.After being discharged in 1945, he returned to Baltimore and owned and operated a wholesale produce business until opening Gordon's Package Goods at Carey and Mosher streets.

Frank F. `Jack' Evans, 92, supervisor at shipyard Frank F. "Jack" Evans, a former supervisor at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Key Highway shipyard, died Thursday of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Stella Maris Hospice. The longtime Waverly resident was 92.Born in the Waverly area, he went to work at the shipyard during World War II and was a supervisor in the ship painting department when he left in 1959. He then joined the city Department of Education, helping to paint and maintain school buildings for 12 years and retired in 1971.

Retired Sgt. Maj. Jerome Maynard Grollman, whose career in the Maryland National Guard spanned the Great Depression, World War II and Vietnam, died Saturday of pneumonia at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 87 and lived in Guilford.Sergeant Grollman, who had a National Guard armory named in his honor, was command sergeant major of the 2nd Battalion, 175th Infantry when he retired from active duty in 1970."He looked like a first sergeant, with his finely trimmed mustache and his military bearing," said Philip Sherman, a retired National Guard brigadier general and Baltimore attorney.

Officer Brian D. Bacon vividly recalls Nov. 8, 1996. A man with a history of violent crimes was barricaded in a Southwest Baltimore house. From his vantage point in the attic, the man had a clear shot at the officers in the room underneath, and bullets were flying.The officers' team leader was hit. Without pausing, Bacon jumped into the line of fire and pulled Sgt. Christopher M. Streett to safety, protecting him with a shield.Yesterday, Bacon's bravery was recognized with the Medal of Honor, the Baltimore City Police Department's highest award and one rarely given to a living officer.

Col. Rudolf I. Glessner never forgot how mad he was when he landed on Utah Beach on D-Day. He had just watched his jeep sink into the Atlantic, taking with it a case of his favorite cognac."

Herman A. Kornick Jr., 72, auto dealership comptrollerHerman A. Kornick Jr., a retired automobile dealership official and a war hero, died of lung cancer Saturday at the home of a daughter in Phoenix, Baltimore County. He was 72.In 1990, the Lutherville resident retired from the Tate auto dealerships, where he had been treasurer and comptroller since 1960.After graduating from Mount St. Joseph High School in 1943, he joined the Army and was sent to the Pacific during World War II.As an infantry squad leader, he participated in the North Solomon Islands and Philippines campaigns.

John F. Zeidler, a retired heating and air-conditioning executive, died Monday of heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 79 and lived at Edenwald, the Towson retirement community.The former Lutherville resident was one of the first residents of Edenwald when it opened in 1986 and quickly became a popular figure to residents and employees, earning the title "Mr. Edenwald."He was known for his warm smile, neat mustache, conservative dress and the straw hat he wore in warm weather.

DOVER, Del. -- It took 66 Busch Grand National races, but with a wildly cheering record crowd of 61,000 on hand to witness the event, Mike Wallace finally joined his two brothers, Rusty and Kenny, as a winner on the circuit.Yesterday, Mike averaged 96 mph and won thGoodwrench/Delco Battery 200 by .34 of a second over Terry Labonte in a race that finished under caution."This is just wonderful," said Mike, who is the second Wallace to win at Dover Downs International Speedway in two races.Rusty Wallace won the Winston Cup race here last September, and will attempt to win here again in today's Winston Cup Budweiser 500.Mike also will be in the lineup today, but will need a lot of luck trally from his 41st starting spot in the 42-car field.

A gray headstone marks the Bayne family plot in a Baltimore cemetery. Etched in the polished granite are the names of a mother, a father and their eldest son, a soldier lost in World War II. But the remains of Pfc. Robert B. Bayne are interred far from his parents, most likely in an unknown soldier's grave in St. Avold, France. On this Veterans Day, his surviving brothers, 81-year-old twins Kenneth H. and Calvin C. Bayne, remain determined to bring the sibling they called Buddy home from the war that claimed his life in 1945.

LEONARD J. MAGSAMEN, born January 3, 1921, went home to be with the Lord on March 26, 2009, at the age of 88. He is preceded in death by his wife Eleanor. He is survived by his son, Leonard J. Magsamen, Jr., and his wife, Julie of San Antonio, TX; grandchildren, Kelly and Kate Magsamen, David and Aaron Childers and niece, Verna Bartels. Leonard was WWII Veteran. He received a Bronze Star and other decorations. He was a driver for Sealtest Dairy and Carling Brewery in the Baltimore area.

Fred Janney, a World War II rifleman who landed at Normandy and fought through with the 79th Infantry Division to the Rhine River, died Friday after open heart surgery at Sinai Hospital. The Street resident was 82. Mr. Janney was born in Baltimore and raised on South Potomac Street. He attended Patterson Park High School. Before the war, Mr. Janney worked in his father's confectionery stores on East Monument Street and North Calvert Street and at Eddie's supermarket in Dundalk. He enlisted in the Army in 1944 and, after training, joined the 79th Infantry Division.

W. Terrell Fulton, a retired savings bank executive and World War II veteran, died of heart failure Monday at his Lutherville home. He was 86. Mr. Fulton was born in Baltimore and raised on Barclay Street in the city's Waverly neighborhood. After graduating from City College in 1938, he began his banking career as a clerk with Provident Savings Bank at Howard and Lexington streets. He rose through the ranks to become senior vice president and headed the advertising, public relations and human resources departments.

Man, 22, charged in child porn A 22-year-old man has been charged with possessing and distributing child pornography after a yearlong investigation by Maryland State Police that centered on his then-home in Baltimore County, authorities said. Jeffrey G.A. Stimson, who now lives in the 700 block of S. Potomac St. in Baltimore, faces charges of two counts of distributing and one count of possessing child pornography. He was released Tuesday from the Baltimore County Detention Center on $75,000 bail, court records show.

Navy Lt. Melvin Spence Dry dropped out of a helicopter into choppy waters off the coast of North Vietnam in June 1972. On a highly classified mission to rescue two escaped American prisoners of war, he died the moment he hit the water. But because the mission was top-secret, Dry's valor went officially unrecognized. No medals, no commendations and no place of honor among the fallen at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1968. Even his parents were told that he died in a training exercise.

Nearly 40 years ago, Lloyd E. Jones took a bullet for his country. He was only 23 years old, an engine man on a boat patrolling Vietnam's Mekong Delta, when his crew came under attack. For three months, he clung to life in military hospitals, hoping to return to his parents and two younger siblings in Pasadena. But the wounds were too serious, and Jones died in the spring of 1969. Over the years, LeRoy Jones never stopped thinking about his older brother, with whom he briefly served in the Navy before Lloyd Jones went to Vietnam.

Louis Rice Witt Jr., a retired petroleum equipment executive and decorated World War II veteran, died of congestive heart failure Sunday at Union Memorial Hospital. The Catonsville resident was 84. Born in Niagara Falls, N.Y., he attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and earned a degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He joined the Army and landed at Marseille, France, in October 1944. He served in an infantry unit that was trucked to the front near Baccarat in the Lorraine province.

William Timothy Kenney, a retired loan officer and decorated World War II veteran, died of complications from diabetes Wednesday at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The former longtime Towson resident was 87. Mr. Kenney was born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville. He was a 1938 graduate of Loyola High School and attended Loyola College. During World War II, Mr. Kenney enlisted in the Army and served as a combat medic with Gen. George S. Patton Jr.'s 3rd Army in Europe. Mr. Kenney's decorations included the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.

Harry Lindauer, a retired U.S. Army colonel who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938, died of age-related complications and an infection Friday at the Ginger Cove retirement community in Annapolis. He was 88. Born in Buttenhausen and raised in Darmstadt, Germany, he was 20 when he left his family's tobacco and soap factory as the Nazi government intensified its campaign against Jewish business owners. Distant relatives sponsored his immigration to Chicago, where he worked initially in a sausage factory.