Crumpton

Not enough local children are being immunized in a timely manner, but Anne Arundel County is taking steps to change that, a Health Department administrator said yesterday.Dr. Marilyn E. Crumpton, director of maternal and child health, said only 60 percent of the county's 2-year-olds are getting needed immunizations according to the schedule developed by the Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices.The committee is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

SALISBURY -- Severna Park showed up on Halloween dressed as one of the top teams in the Baltimore metro area and the trick was on host James M. Bennett in the quarterfinals of the 3A-4A East Region playoffs.The No. 3 Falcons (13-1-1) traveled nearly 100 miles back to the western shore with a 3-0 treat over the Eastern Shore's top team.Tonight's North County at Annapolis (7 p.m.) winner meets Severna Park in the region semifinals Friday. If North County advances, Friday's game will be at Severna Park.

A few days before Christmas, at about 3 in the morning, a neighbor pounded on a Maryland City couple's bedroom window. Panicked, Carol and Bernie Buczynski threw on their robes and slippers and stepped out into the cold night air, where they saw their 1993 Ford Taurus station wagon lit up like a torch. The fire was so hot that it melted the vinyl siding on part of their single-story house on Horsehead, where they had lived without incident for more than 30 years. "I just sort of stood there, numb," said Carol Buczynski.

Anna Mae Griffith McLaughlin, a mother of seven who was a fixture in Baltimore's Westport community, died Wednesday at Chester River Hospital Center in Chestertown after a heart attack. She was 77. Born in the Caroline County town of Greensboro, she attended area public schools. She was introduced to her husband, Wilbert Bennett MacLaughlin, by his brother during a party. "She told me that when my dad walked through the door, he was the prettiest man she had ever seen," said a daughter, Bonny Burr of Crumpton.

A Millington woman struck a Chestertown man while driving early Saturday on Route 544 in Queen Anne's County, and then was hit by another vehicle while calling 911, Maryland State Police said. Both were killed in the accidents. The deceased were identified as Megan Pulleyn, 26, and Thomas Gustafson, 57. Police said Pulleyn was driving a 2007 Toyota Camry west on Route 544 near Route 290 when she struck Gustafson, a hunter who was in the roadway at the time of the incident, according to a preliminary investigation.

M. Ernest Jenkins Jr., a retired clerk and avid gardener, died April 10 of pulmonary edema at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 90. Mr. Jenkins was born in Baltimore and raised on West Lake Avenue in a home that later became the Boys' Latin School's lower school. He was a 1937 graduate of the Canterbury School in New Milford, Conn., and attended Princeton University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Jenkins worked for many years as a clerk at Black & Decker in Towson.

Ross J. Carter Jr., a retired meat cutter and a World War II veteran, died Wednesday of pneumonia at Chester River Hospital Center in Chestertown. The former East Baltimore resident was 85. Mr. Carter was born in Baltimore and raised in Hampden and Northeast Baltimore. He was a graduate of Baltimore public schools. He enlisted in the Army in 1938 and served as a cook with the 29th Division. He landed at Normandy, France, on D-Day and was discharged in 1945. Mr. Carter, whose career as a meat cutter spanned 50 years, worked at Food Fair and Pantry Pride before moving to Ocean City in 1980.

In a fiercely competitive mortgage industry, lenders may be missing out on overwhelming numbers of potential borrowers -- or just be ill-equipped to go after them, industry experts say.A housing slowdown has lenders scrambling for each new deal. But lenders could gain a competitive edge by paying closer attention to less obvious customers -- immigrants, minorities, low-income renters, even college students, experts said last week at a three-day real estate lending conference in Baltimore.

Virginia W. Hebb, 87, homemaker Virginia W. Hebb, a homemaker and former Guilford resident, died of a stroke Oct. 31 at Heartfields at Easton, an assisted-living facility. She was 87. Born Virginia Woodall in Crumpton, she was raised in Kenton, Del., where she graduated from public schools. In 1939, she married Charles P. Hebb Sr., who owned Ideal Transfer Co., a trucking company, and Hebb Produce Co. He died in 1991. Mrs. Hebb, who moved to Easton this year, worked for the American Heart Association in Baltimore from 1965 to 1985.

Marie S. Hall, a homemaker and former teacher's assistant, died Monday at Towson's Edenwald retirement community. She was 93. The daughter of farmers, Marie Story was born near Crumpton and was raised on her parents' farm. She was a 1935 graduate of Church Hill High School, and in 1940 she married Frederick Hall, also a farmer. She assisted him in his farming operations on their Barclay Road farm, now Hall Road. After her three children were grown in the late 1960s, Mrs. Hall worked for many years as a teacher's assistant for Queen Anne's County public schools.