Earp

On July 12, 2007 FLORENCE ELLEN (nee Rowe), beloved wife of the late David Becker and Dr. James P. Earp, beloved mother of Ellen Earp Baker (Dr. Alva S.) and Col. Edwin Lee Earp (Annie Stewart), grandmother of Christopher Thomas Theodore Baker, Laura Ellen Dulany (Fiance Dr. Anand Sivaramakrishnan), Linda Suzanne Brown (Dr. Peter Achinstein), Rachel Stewart Earp and James Pearsall Earp, great-grandmother of Jocelyn Heather Dulany. A Memorial Service will be held Sunday 3 P.M. at McDaniel College Baker Chapel, Westminster.

Florence Ellen Earp, a retired piano teacher, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease July 12 at Ridge Overlook Assisted Living in Westminster. She was 94. Born Florence Ellen Rowe in Mechanicsburg, Pa., she earned a degree in music education and English at Westchester College. In 1938, she married Dr. James Pearsall Earp, a sociology professor at Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College. He died in 1984. Mrs. Earp taught music for 15 years at Westminster Junior High School and gave piano lessons at home.

On March 19, 2003, CATHERINERAMSBURG, of Clarksville, beloved wife of the late Lewis W. Earp, devoted mother of L. Wesley Earp, Jr. and Robert R. Earp. Also survived by four grandchildren. Family will receive friends Thursday and Friday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. at HARRY H. WITZKE'S FAMILY FUNERAL HOME, INC., 4112 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City. Funeral Service Saturday 10 A.M. at Community Bible Church. Interment Ivy Hill Cemetery. Donations may be made in her memory to Hospice Home Care, 900 Seton Dr., Cumberland, MD 21502

On July 12, 2007 FLORENCE ELLEN (nee Rowe), beloved wife of the late David Becker and Dr. James P. Earp, beloved mother of Ellen Earp Baker (Dr. Alva S.) and Col. Edwin Lee Earp (Annie Stewart), grandmother of Christopher Thomas Theodore Baker, Laura Ellen Dulany (Fiance Dr. Anand Sivaramakrishnan), Linda Suzanne Brown (Dr. Peter Achinstein), Rachel Stewart Earp and James Pearsall Earp, great-grandmother of Jocelyn Heather Dulany. A Memorial Service will be held Sunday 3 P.M. at McDaniel College Baker Chapel, Westminster.

Stanley Plummer Earp, a retired Aberdeen Proving Ground ammunition expert, died of pneumonia Jan. 11 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The longtime Towson resident was 84. Mr. Earp was born in Baltimore and raised on Dixie Drive in Towson. He was a 1941 graduate of Towson High School and joined the Navy in 1943. He served in the Pacific theater as a gunner on a PBY Catalina flying boat. After the war, he briefly attended the College of Wooster in Ohio, then went to sea after joining the U.S. merchant marine.

Florence Ellen Earp, a retired piano teacher, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease July 12 at Ridge Overlook Assisted Living in Westminster. She was 94. Born Florence Ellen Rowe in Mechanicsburg, Pa., she earned a degree in music education and English at Westchester College. In 1938, she married Dr. James Pearsall Earp, a sociology professor at Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College. He died in 1984. Mrs. Earp taught music for 15 years at Westminster Junior High School and gave piano lessons at home.

Dorothy W. Earp, known as the "Shady Lady" for the handcrafted, custom silk lampshades that she created in her home and author of an illustrated monograph about life in Govans in the early days of the last century, died in her sleep Saturday at the Wesley Home in Mount Washington. She was 97. Born Dorothy LeBrun Worsham in Canton, she moved with her family to a home on Beaumont Avenue in Govans in 1913. Her father was editor of Baltimore Magazine and a former colleague of H.L. Mencken, when the two were reporters for the old Baltimore Herald, and she recalled the famed writer's visits with the family.

Charles Albert Earp Jr., a Baltimore author and genealogist who wrote widely about the Civil War and spent 50 years researching distant cousin Wyatt Earp, a hero of the shootout at the OK Corral, died of a pulmonary embolism Thursday at St. Agnes HealthCare. He was 88. Born in Baltimore and raised on Fulton Avenue, Mr. Earp was a graduate of Forest Park High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in American history in 1938 from the Johns Hopkins University and a master's degree in 1940.

The yellow flag warning of disease and death flew over the USS Arkansas as the young surgeon's steward from Maryland swung aboard during heavy seas in the Gulf of Mexico. "She seems to be an object of terror as she rides at anchor pitching and rolling," the 22-year-old sailor wrote in his journal on Oct. 8, 1864. The seaman's name was C. Marion Dodson. He was from St. Michaels, a scion of an old Eastern Shore family, and had been in the Union Navy a little more than six months. As a surgeon's assistant, he was a kind of medic or pharmacist's mate.

On October 16, 2005, LOUISE MARY GILL (nee Woelm), beloved wife of the late Charles Louis Gill; devoted mother of George W. Gill, Sr. of Bel Air, MD and Sandra M. Earp of Timonium, MD; loving grandmother of George W. Gill, Jr., Tom Earp, Robert Charles Gill, Becky Dausch, Christy Addicks and Brad L. Cleaver. Also survived by her great-grandchildren, Shawn, Cody, Seth, Andrew, Grace, Daniel and Alex. Friends may call at the family owned MITCHELL-WIEDEFELD FUNERAL HOME, INC., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook Road)

Stanley Plummer Earp, a retired Aberdeen Proving Ground ammunition expert, died of pneumonia Jan. 11 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The longtime Towson resident was 84. Mr. Earp was born in Baltimore and raised on Dixie Drive in Towson. He was a 1941 graduate of Towson High School and joined the Navy in 1943. He served in the Pacific theater as a gunner on a PBY Catalina flying boat. After the war, he briefly attended the College of Wooster in Ohio, then went to sea after joining the U.S. merchant marine.

On October 16, 2005, LOUISE MARY GILL (nee Woelm), beloved wife of the late Charles Louis Gill; devoted mother of George W. Gill, Sr. of Bel Air, MD and Sandra M. Earp of Timonium, MD; loving grandmother of George W. Gill, Jr., Tom Earp, Robert Charles Gill, Becky Dausch, Christy Addicks and Brad L. Cleaver. Also survived by her great-grandchildren, Shawn, Cody, Seth, Andrew, Grace, Daniel and Alex. Friends may call at the family owned MITCHELL-WIEDEFELD FUNERAL HOME, INC., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook Road)

Once again in the heat and humidity of a Pennsylvania summer, not unlike the weather they fought in 75 years earlier, some 2,000 surviving Union and Confederate veterans gathered in 1938 during the first four days of July, for a final reunion at Gettysburg. Here, on this hallowed ground, 172,000 soldiers had clashed from 7:30 a.m. July 1, 1863, when the first shots were fired, to its final dreadful conclusion at 4 p.m. July 3. Stooped with age - most were in their 90s or centenarians - gray and bearded, they had gathered to remember their fallen comrades and the battle they had managed to survive.

Charles Albert Earp Jr., a Baltimore author and genealogist who wrote widely about the Civil War and spent 50 years researching distant cousin Wyatt Earp, a hero of the shootout at the OK Corral, died of a pulmonary embolism Thursday at St. Agnes HealthCare. He was 88. Born in Baltimore and raised on Fulton Avenue, Mr. Earp was a graduate of Forest Park High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in American history in 1938 from the Johns Hopkins University and a master's degree in 1940.

On June 16, 2005, CHARLES A., JR.; dear cousin of Barbara Tremain and her husband Kenneth and Joseph Nelson and his wife Doreen. Also survived by many cousins and friends. Friends may call at the WITZKE FUNERAL HOME OF CATONSVILLE, INC., 1630 Edmondson Avenue (1 mile west of beltway exit 14), on Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Memorial Service will be held at the Christian Temple Church, on Wednesday at 11 A.M. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, family requests donations to the Christian Temple Church, 5820 Edmondson Avenue, Catonsville, MD 21228.

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Beverly E. Earp, 87, Maryland Casualty executiveBeverly E. Earp, former head of Maryland Casualty Insurance Co.'s automobile liability division, died Tuesday from a blood clot at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson. He was 87.Mr. Earp began his 50-year career with the Roland Park-based insurance company in 1927. He retired in 1977. Until moving to Cromwell Valley Apartments in 1986, Mr. Earp had lived for 75 years in the Govans house where he was born. He attended Polytechnic Institute until he left to work for the insurance company.

Federal agents arrested a maintenance man yesterday on charges of operating a bustling gun-running business out of the boiler room of a building that is home to the state's Department of Probation and Parole.Thomas Earl Earp, 52, could face up to 45 years in prison if convicted of the federal charges, which include the sale of a sawed-off shotgun to agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).In all, ATF agents say, Mr. Earp sold them 46 firearms and they found 102 weapons at his Middle River home on Douglas Road.

To lovers of Wild West folklore, he's Wyatt Earp - lawman, saloonkeeper, gambler, quick-triggered centerpiece of the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral. To Charles Earp Jr. of Catonsville and Pamela Earp Young of Ellicott City, he's cousin Wyatt. That the man who almost single-handedly defines the Wild West would have a couple of relatives in Maryland - and that those relatives would meet by coincidence - is perhaps not as far afield as it might seem. As it turns out, the Earp clan got its start in the United States when Thomas Earp Jr. of Ireland came to the Baltimore area in the 17th century as an indentured servant.

On Friday, July 25, 2003, THOMAS EDWARD WHEELER, of Sykesville, beloved husband of Pauline M. (nee Warchalowski) devoted father of Michele, Gina and Mallory Wheeler, loving son of Helen K. (nee Mahoney) and the late Frederick Wheeler Jr., dear brother of Frederick Wheeler III, Nancy Gagne, Michael Wheeler and the late Patricia McGucken, brother-in-law of Paulette Earp and Russell Earp, also survived by several nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Burrier-Queen Funeral Directors P.A., 1212 W. Old Liberty Rd., Winfield (Beside South Carroll High School)