Earleigh Heights

For more than two decades, David G. Paff ran pubs, first in Baltimore and then on Fort Smallwood Road, never imagining the trouble ahead at his third bar, Earleigh Heights Tavern.Paff admits he lacked business savvy, so his wife always kept the books, paid the bills and renewed the liquor license each year. When Delores Paff died three years ago today, Paff struggled to keep Earleigh Heights going without her.On Tuesday, two months after the county liquor board stripped the Severna Park bar of its liquor license, it slapped Paff with yet another penalty, its stiffest in more than 10 years.

A memorial service for William R. Hawkins, a retired mechanic for a dairy, will be held at 1 p.m. today at the Barranco and Sons Funeral Home, Ritchie Highway and Robinson Road in Severna Park.Mr. Hawkins, who was 71 and lived in Severna Park, died Wednesday of heart failure at the North Arundel Hospital.He retired in 1981 after working for about 30 years as a truck mechanic for the Green Spring Dairy and a predecessor.A native of the Severna Park area, he attended the Severn School before serving as an infantryman in the Army in Germany during World War II.He was a member of Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church and the Earleigh Heights Volunteer Fire Department.