Cashier

Services for Kathryn K. McCoy, who retired as a cashier at a swimming pool at age 79, will be held at 11 a.m. today at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, 4711 Edmondson Ave.Mrs. McCoy, who was 88 and lived on North Chapelgate Lane, died Tuesday at Deaton Hospital after a long illness.She retired in 1981 as cashier at the Wilde Lake Village Pool in Columbia, a job she had held since 1964.Earlier, from 1943 until 1954, she had worked as a section supervisor or floorwalker at Hutzler's Howard Street store.

Elizabeth L. Krinkey, 71, grocery cashier Elizabeth LaVerne Krinkey, a Pikesville grocery cashier, died Wednesday of cancer at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson. She was 71. Mrs. Krinkey, a Pikesville resident, retired several years ago from her job at the Greenspring Avenue Farm Fresh, where customers sought out her register line for friendly conversation. Born Elizabeth LaVerne Smith, she grew up on Preston Street in Baltimore. and attended St. Andrew's Business School. After graduation, she worked at a local insurance agency as a rater and underwriter - a job that required women to wear white gloves and a proper hat - and spent nearly every weekend at Ocean City with her sisters and girlfriends.

Rosalie E. Whitehead, a retired cashier and longtime member of Olivet Baptist Church, died of a blood clot Tuesday at St. Agnes HealthCare. The Baltimore resident was 71. Mrs. Whitehead was born in Norfolk, Va., and moved to Baltimore in 1937 to live with her aunt and uncle after her parents died. She attended city public schools. During the 1940s, she worked as a lunch-counter cook at the Thomas & Thompson Co. drugstore at the southeast corner of Baltimore and Light Streets. Mrs. Whitehead, who was known by family and customers as "Miss Rose," was later a cashier for several local stores that have since closed, including the Read Drug & Chemical Co. drugstore on Belvedere Avenue, Kresge's on Lexington Street and Herling's grocery store in Lexington Market.

The head cashier at Laurel Race Course is accused of stealing $83,000 from the track over six weeks in July and August.Louis Licater, 42, of the 1700 block of Chesaco Ave., Baltimore, was arrested Friday by Anne Arundel County police and charged with two counts of felony theft in the loss of $83,000 from the track.He was released on his own recognizance by a District Court commissioner to await his trial and left Saturday for a Caribbean cruise.County police Detective Kevin Falls, who investigated the case, said he was not concerned that Mr. Licater might not return for his trial because "he has family here."

A cashier's scream scared off a gunman who intended to rob the McDonald's restaurant on Route 3 in Crofton Tuesday afternoon, county police said.The man walked up to the cashier shortly after 5 p.m., slammed his fist down on the counter and pulled the gun from under his sweat shirt. He told her she had 15 seconds to give him the money in the cash register, police said.At that point the cashier screamed and ran into the kitchen, police said. Witnesses told police the man ran out of the store in the 1100 block of Crain Highway, jumped in a white pickup truck and drove off.

A woman distracted a cashier while two men stole more than $400 from a sporting goods store in the 6700 block of Ritchie Highway, county police said.A witness told police three people entered Dick's Clothing & Sporting Goods in Glen Burnie about 4: 15 p.m. While a woman distracted the cashier, one of the men stepped around the counter and opened the drawer to remove money, the witness told police.The other man also took money, the witness told police. When the witness informed the cashier what he had seen, the cashier discovered $440 missing from the register, police said.

A man placed a hard object against the back of an Ames Department Store cashier Friday afternoon and robbed the woman of the store's money bag, county police said.The cashier was carrying the bag from the register to a rear office of the store in the 8100 block of Ritchie Highway about 5:05 p.m., police said. The man crept up behind the woman, put the object to her back and ordered her to give him the bag. The cashier surrendered the bag and the man walked out the front door, police said.

A man armed with a handgun robbed the Sony movie theater in the 7400 block of Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard on Monday of an undisclosed amount of money, county police said yesterday.The robber had approached the ticket window and purchased a ticket to "Desperado" shortly before 4 p.m. After receiving the ticket, he poked a handgun into the cashier's window, demanded all the money, took it and fled, police said.The robber was described as a black male, 5 feet 5 inches tall, between 25 and 35 years old, with a thin build and a small goatee.

Two men robbed the Safeway on Montgomery Road in Ellicott City late Monday night, according to Howard County police.Sgt. Steven E. Keller, a police spokesman, said that two men -- one wearing a green sweat shirt with "JESUS IS THE MESSIAH" printed on it -- approached a cashier about 11: 45 p.m.After the first man purchased a small item, the second man handed the clerk an item and a note telling the clerk to hand over the register's cash and then kneel down.A...

Ada Althea Gettier, a homemaker and former cashier, died Saturday of Alzheimer's disease at Bethania Home Care, a Westminster assisted-living facility. She was 90. Ada Althea Burke was born in Baltimore and raised in Ednor Gardens. She attended city public schools, leaving in the eighth grade to help support her family. She was married in 1941 to Donald Edward Stallings, a Cloverland Farms milkman who died in 1973. During the 1960s, Mrs. Gettier worked as a cashier at the Colts Lanes in Woodlawn, and from 1970 until 1980, she was a cashier at Social Security Administration headquarters in Woodlawn.