Cockey

10 S. Eutaw St.Open Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to midnight; Saturday from 4 p.m. to midnight. Closed Sunday. Call 539-1733.Homemade soups, healthy chef salads, all-American cheeseburgers and spiced-to-order Buffalo Wings are some of the palate-pleasing choices on Cockey's unpretentious menu.Tucked in a turn-of-the-century iron building just blocks from Camden Yards and Lexington Market, Cockey's warm wooden bar in the front or its dining-hall atmosphere in the back are perfect for an unhurried lunch on a wintry afternoon.

“Sit at the bar. It's more fun,” greeted our bartender, slightly smirking on a recent Tuesday night in Upper Fells Point. We had just walked into Cockey's, the new neighborhood corner bar that moved from Hollins Market and opened in the former Shed Row space in January. With only one person seated at the time, we bypassed the five unoccupied high-top tables and settled in at the bar. It did not take long to realize Cockey's makes a strong addition to the area, filling a void for Upper Fells Point customers in search of an instantly comfortable bar, lacking frills and pretentions, in walking distance.

On December 18, 2008, ROBERT WILSON COCKEY, JR.; beloved husband of Frances M. Cockey. On Friday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN); 8728 Liberty Road from 4 to 8 P.M. On Saturday, Mr. Cockey will lie in state at St. James Episcopal Church, Arlington Avenue and Lafayette Street, where the family will receive friends from 10 to 10:30 A.M with services to follow. Inquires to (410) 655-0015. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. James Episcopal Church Building Fund in memory of Robert W. Cockey, Jr.

Baltimore County Police have determined that no foul play was involved in the death of a man whose body was found Thursday morning on a wooded trail in the area of Robert E. Lee Park in Towson. "We can comfortably confirm that there's no foul play," Officer Shawn Vinson, a police spokesman, said. "It doesn't look like a crime occurred. " Police identified the man as 49-year-old Reed Cockey Haynie, whose last known address is in Wilmington, N.C. Officers were dispatched about 1:21 a.m. to respond to a call for assistance in the area of Falls Road and Old Pimlico Road, near Robert E. Lee Park and Lake Roland, Vinson said.

On Monday, March 3, 2008, URATH COCKEY GIBSON, age 96, a former resident of Baltimore County, passed away at her home near Charlestown, WV, wife of the late Newton M. Gibson, mother of Susan G. Bennett, Dr. James G. Gibson and Urath G. Hall. Also survived by her sister, Alice Cockey Immler of Sykesville, eight grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, preceded in death by two brothers, Edward A. Cockey of Lutherville and Alexander M. Cockey of Berryville, VA. Memorial contributions may be made to the St. John's Episcopal Church, PO Box 129, Rippon, WV 25441.

On October 12, 2003 HOWARD GWYNN COCKEY, 87, of pneumonia in Pitt Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC. A native of My Lady's Manor, Monkton, MD, son of the late Joshua Hutchins Cockey Jr. and Mary Brown Patterson. He was a direct descendant of William Cockey who immigrated from England to Anne Arundel County in 1668. His great-great grandfather Joshua Frederick Cockey was associated with the founding of Cockeysville in Baltimore County. While stationed in Panama, during WWII he fashioned a number of beautiful brass candlesticks out of 40mm M25 shell casings and sent them to friends and family.

On Tuesday, March 16, 2004, LOUISE S. COCKEY, a former homemaker, died of dementia at Edenwald in Towson. She was 92. She was born Louise Smith and lived her entire life in the Baltimore area. After graduating from Friends School and Goucher College, she married Frederick T. Cockey, who has since deceased. Mrs. Cockey is survived by two daughters, Frances C. Sampson of Supply, NCand Martha T. Hladish of Solon, Ohio; 5 grandchildren and 3 great granddaughters. A Memorial Service will be conducted 11:30 A.M., Saturday, Mrach 20, at the Towson Presbyterian Church where Mrs. Cockey was a long time member.

On August 30, 2003, BENNETT COCKEY "ROCKY", loving husband of Nancy B. King (nee Borleis); beloved brother of Betsy Weaving, Scott FauntLeRoy, Anne Bishop Offutt and Alex FauntLeRoy. Arrangements private. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be directed, in Mr. Kings name, to the Defender's of Animal RIghts. 14412 Old York Rd, Phoenix, MD 21131. Inquiries Lemmon Funeral Home of Dulaney VAlley Inc. 410-252-6000.

Robert and Alida Lowry's decision to reopen Cockey's Tavern next month is welcome news to Carroll residents who may have thought the historic restaurant on Westminster's East Main Street would never open again. Not only will eating and drinking continue in the building as it has for two centuries, the reopening of Cockey's Tavern may signal a change in direction for downtown businesses.Many people felt the closing of Cockey's Tavern last September signaled the death knell for Main Street merchants.

Adam D. Cockey Jr., a leader in the Baltimore-area real estate industry who had headed a Roland Park brokerage, died Oct. 30 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson of complications from a fall he suffered last month while on vacation in Phoenix, Ariz. He was 71 and had homes in Cockeysviile and St. Michaels. Born in Timonium, he was a member of the family that lent its name to Cockeysville. He attended Lutherville Elementary School. He was a 1959 graduate of Towson High School, where he was class president.

Bar food is different from restaurant cuisine. Bar food is straightforward fare, more substance than flair. Think battered pickles and hot roast beef sandwiches. Cockey's Tavern, a bar with a handful of dining tables, does a good job dishing out solid, satisfying bar food. The tavern, located in a space formerly occupied by the Vietnamese restaurant Pho and, before that, Mencken's Cultured Pearl, pays homage to its West Baltimore locale. Black-and-white photographs of the area's old industrial buildings hang on the walls.

News of a closing is easier to swallow when it arrives with news of an opening. A new pub named Cockey's Tavern at Hollins is set to open as soon as Aug. 6 in the space that was the charming Vietnamese restaurant Baltimore Pho , which closed July 24. Jim Collins, the man who opened Baltimore Pho, was always open about his intentions. Not a restaurateur by trade, Collins is both a resident of and a developer in Hollins Market. Opening a restaurant in the long abandoned Cultured Pearl space was his way of bringing activity and interest back to the neighborhood.

Louise K. Cockey, a longtime volunteer and homemaker, died of heart failure Sunday at Roland Park Place. She was 95. Louise Dilworth Keyser, the daughter of a physician and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised on 40th Street near the old Maryland Casualty Building. She was a 1931 graduate of Eastern High School and earned a bachelor's degree from Goucher College in 1935. Before her marriage, she worked during the 1930s in sales at Hutzler's department store, and was an office worker at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. After her marriage in 1941 to Randolph Lucas Cockey, an electrical engineer, the couple lived in Wilmington, Del., before returning to Baltimore.

On December 18, 2008, ROBERT WILSON COCKEY, JR.; beloved husband of Frances M. Cockey. On Friday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road, from 4 to 8 P.M. On Saturday, Mr. Cockey will lie instate at St. James Episcopal Church, Arlington Avenue & Lafayette Street, where the family will receive friends from 10 to 10:30 A. M. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-655-0015. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. James Episcopal Church Building Fund in memory of Robert W. Cockey, Jr.

On Monday, March 3, 2008, URATH COCKEY GIBSON, age 96, a former resident of Baltimore County, passed away at her home near Charlestown, WV, wife of the late Newton M. Gibson, mother of Susan G. Bennett, Dr. James G. Gibson and Urath G. Hall. Also survived by her sister, Alice Cockey Immler of Sykesville, eight grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, preceded in death by two brothers, Edward A. Cockey of Lutherville and Alexander M. Cockey of Berryville, VA. Memorial contributions may be made to the St. John's Episcopal Church, PO Box 129, Rippon, WV 25441.

On October 27, 2006, at Chester River Hospital Center, KATHARINE ADELE COCKEY CARTER, (90), Chestertown, MD. Survived by her loving husband of 64 years, James Butler Carter; a son, James Butler Carter, Jr. and his wife Marie Webb Carter, of Fairfax, VA; a daughter, Katharine Carter Goodling, of Virginia Beach; four granddaughters, Katharine Marie Carter, of Fairfax, VA, Rebekah Miriam Carter, of San Diego, CA, Ashley Elizabeth Carter, of Fairfax, VA,...