Duffy

On February 7, 2009, PATRICIA T. (nee Duffy). Beloved wife of the late Thomas P. Barrett. Devoted mother of Brenda, Charlene and Thomas Barrett, Jr. Grandmother of eleven; Great grandmother of ten; Sister of James J. Duffy, Jr. and Audrey Grove and the late Catherine Severe, Owen Duffy and William and Jack Grove. Friends may call at Gonce Funeral Service, P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway on Monday and Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Where services will be held on Wednesday at 12 P.M. Interment Loudon Park Cemetery.

Shorter sentence denied driver in crash that killed 4 A Delaware woman who in 2002 caused a car crash that killed four members of a northern Baltimore County family should remain in prison, the Delaware Board of Pardons has decided. Tishara A. Duffy had asked that the remainder of her nine-year prison term be commuted in the deaths of Wayne and Emily Abbott of Freeland and their sons, Douglas, 9, and Brian, 5. Duffy, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to first-degree assault and four counts of criminally negligent homicide, expressed remorse during a hearing Thursday for her role in the high-speed accident on Route 1 north of Dover, but the board voted not to recommend to Gov. Ruth Ann Minner that Duffy be set free.

Although Richard "Moco" Yardley was a contemporary of Edmund Duffy, they might as well have lived on different planets, with Yardley inhabiting the more daft and distant of the two. Born in Baltimore in 1903, he became a hometown institution with his whimsical cartoons.He joined this newspaper in 1923 as an artist-retoucher for The Evening Sun and before the end of the decade had established himself as a backpage local cartoonist. His hilarious insights had Marylanders laughing as frequently as Duffy's angry cartoons moved them to outrage.

A 22-year-old Howard County man remained in critical condition last night in a Washington hospital following Saturday's plane crash in Edgewater that claimed the life of one of his best friends.Frederickus "Fred" Johnannas Giltay of Ellicott City, suffered third-degree burns over 60 percent of his body. He was on a ventilator at the MedSTAR burn unit at the Washington Hospital Center.Meanwhile, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board spent yesterday in a hangar at Lee Airport going over the wreckage of the single-engine, 4-seater Piper Cherokee plane that Brian Keith Duffy, also of Ellicott City, rented in Frederick.

Linda Lee Duffy, 46, machine operatorLinda Lee Duffy, a machine operator, died Monday at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford, Del., of asthma. The Federalsburg resident was 46.She was a machine operator at Maryland Plastics Co. in Federalsburg, where she had lived since moving from Baltimore in 1995.The former Linda Lee Wells was born in Easton and raised in Fells Point. She was a graduate of the city school system.Her marriage to Peter Duffy ended in divorce.Services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Frampton-Hawkins-Eskow Funeral Home, 216 N. Main St., Federalsburg.

On October 6, 2003, ANN DIVEN (nee Duffy), beloved wife of the late Gordon L. Diven Sr.; loving daughter of the late Charles and Cora Duffy; devoted mother of Colleen Stielper and Gordon Diven Jr.; also survived by five grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and many other relatives and friends. Funeral Service will be held at the family owned DUDA-RUCK FUNERAL HOME of DUNDALK INC. 7922 Wise Ave. on Friday at 10 A.M. Interment New Cathedral Cemetery. Friends may call on Wednesday and Thursday 3-5 and 7-9pm

Taking the Baltimore County school board by surprise, its community liaison strongly endorsed his job but said he no longer wants it.In his regular report to the board Tuesday night, Leonard Duffy said he was "pleasantly surprised" by the part-time position, created in November, and considered it a "valuable, valuable resource for the system.""I certainly think . . . it [should] be continued as an independent position," he said. But, he added, "past June 30, I don't want to be considered."

On December 28, 2004, DOROTHY WILLIAMS BUNTING, beloved wife of the late G. Lloyd Bunting, Sr.; loving mother of Dorothy Bunting Duffy and her husband Joseph both of Mc Lean, VA, Mary Catherine Bunting and George L. Bunting, Jr. and his wife Anne; dear grandmother of Mary Ellen Duffy Kranzlin, Jeffrey G. Bunting, Marc G. Bunting and Christopher L. Bunting; beloved sister of Mrs. Charles A. Knott. Also survived by nine great-grandchildren. Friends may call at St. Mary's Seminary and University, 5400 Roland Avenue on Thursday, December 30, from 2 to 5 P.M., and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be offered on Friday, December 31, at 10:30 A.M. at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Church, 5800 Smith Avenue, Mt. Washington.

An Eastern Shore garbage hauler who swindled a string of banks and lending institutions out of nearly $3 million to keep his struggling company afloat was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Baltimore to three years and five months in prison without parole.David James Duffy, 55, also was ordered to pay $224,000 to the eight banks and two lending institutions and to serve three years of probation after he is released from federal prison.In a short, tearful plea, Duffy said yesterday that he was sorry for what he had done.

Still smarting from last year's 17-point loss to St. John's-Prospect Hall in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland B Conference basketball title game, Chapelgate satisfied its thirst for revenge with a thrilling 51-49 victory over the Vikings yesterday for this year's crown at Villa Julie College. "It was definitely worth the wait," said Flames coach Jim Barber, whose team lost to the Vikings twice this year. "I wouldn't change a thing. There was a lot of emotion out there, because we reached a goal we set."