Ensor

On March 28, 2005 ANNA M. ENSOR, of Forest Hill; beloved wife of the late Abram G. Ensor; loving mother of Thomas P. Ensor, Jerry A. Ensor, Richard E. Ensor and Anne M. Firca; dear sister of Elizabeth Wagner, Mary Shipe, Edith Storm, and Maurice Dixon; devoted grandmother of 12 and great-grandmother of 19. Friends may call at the family owned EVANS FUNERAL CHAPEL-BEL AIR, 3 Newport Drive (route 23 and route 24 - Forest Hill) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday. A funeral service will be held on Thursday at 1 p.m. in the funeral home's chapel.

Paul L. Ensor, a retired Baltimore County police officer, died Thursday from colon cancer at Sunflower Assisted-Living in Westminster. He was 95. The son of farmers, Paul LeRoy Ensor was born and raised in Sparks. He attended Baltimore County public schools. Mr. Ensor was working at Bendix Corp. when he joined the Baltimore County Police Department in 1952. He was assigned to the Garrison Precinct, where he drove the patrol wagon, family members said. He retired in 1975. The longtime Owings Mills resident, who had lived in Upperco for the last 22 years, enjoyed fishing, crabbing and gardening.

DOROTHY ENSOR of Rock Hall, Maryland, died Thursday, September 8, 2005, in her home in Rock Hall. She was 95. Dorothy Ensor was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 15, 1909, the daughter of the late John and Arabia Elmer. Mrs. Ensor was married to her first husband, George H. Roeder in 1930. She became widowed in 1963. Mrs. Ensor married her second husband, Bennett Scott Ensor in 1982 and he passed away in 2004. Mrs. Ensor was a classically trained pianist, who studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.

William C. Ensor Jr., a retired estate manager and decorated World War II veteran, died Feb. 13 of heart failure at Lorien Mays Chapel. He was 91. The son of farmers, William Clark Ensor Jr. was born in Monkton and later moved with his family to Ruxton, where his father farmed in what is now the Four Winds neighborhood. Mr. Ensor attended Towson High School and enlisted in the Army in 1943, where he served with the 78th Infantry "Lightning" Division in the European theater. Mr. Ensor took part in the Battle of the Bulge and in the capture, intact, of the strategically important Schwammenauel Dam that spanned the Roer River.

On April 20, 2006, GEORGE HENRY FRANKLIN ENSOR; beloved husband of the late Catherine Manion Ensor and Margaret Wolfe Ensor; devoted father of George T. Ensor, Brenda C. Kahney, Stephen M. Ensor, Wilmer L. Ensor and Joanna M. Markiewicz; brother of Evelyn Collins, Charlotte Peach, Oliver Ensor and Robert Ensor; dear grandfather of William Kahney, Cherie Galle, Jon Kahney, Bonnie Ensor, Stephen Ensor, Jr., Aimee Chrest and Henry Ensor. Also survived by seven great-grandchildren. Funeral service will be held at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Road, (beltway exit 26)

On April 23, 2005 REBECCA MAY ENSOR, Age 88, a nurse of 50 years. Dear sister of William Lynwood Ensor, Hilda G. Dash, Melvin S. Ensor, Janet A. Ensor, Lewis Clayton Ensor and the late Carvel Ensor, Claude Ensor, Maude Jenkins, Helen Plympton, George Ensor, Hazel Costen, Minnie Ensor and Marie Salhoff. Also survived by her sister-in-law Carmel Ensor and many nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the family owned Bruzdzinski Funeral Home P.A., 1407 Old Eastern Avenue, Essex, at Rt 702 (Beltway Exit 36)

On February 6, 2005, AVIS VIRGINIA ENSOR of Westminster, sister of John O. Ensor and the late Beatrice Ensor Pickett and Thurston E. Ensor, Sr., aunt of Virginia H. Ensor, Susan Rodenhaver, John L. Ensor and the late Thurston E. Ensor, Jr., sister-in-law of Hilda H. Ensor. Graveside services Wednesday 2 PM at Bosley United Methodist Church Cemetery in Sparks. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Westminster United Methodist Church, 165 E. Main St., Westminster, MD 21157 or to the American Cancer Society, 1393 Progress Way, Suite 908, Eldersburg, MD 21784.

On August 23, 2005, JOHN H. SR. beloved husband of the late Dorothy (nee Fuhrer) Ensor; devoted father of John H. Ensor Jr. and his wife Janet, and Mark H. Ensor; loving grandfather of Benjamin, Joseph, Bryan, Jennifer, and Joshua Ensor; also survived by five brothers and sisters, other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the HARTLEY MILLLER-STELLA FUNERAL HOME, CHTD, 7527 Harford Road, on Sunday, from 3 to 6 P.M. Services will be held Sunday evening at 5 P.M. Interment Private.

On January 6, 2004, ABRAM G. ENSOR, of Forest Hill, beloved husband of Anna Ensor; devoted father of Thomas P. Ensor, Jerry A. Ensor, Richard E. Ensor & Anne M. Firca; cherished grandfather of twleve and great-grandfather of nineteen; loving brother of Paul, Daniel, and John Ensor, Dorothy Miller & Ruth Weaver. Friends may call at the family owned Evans Funeral Chapel-Bel Air, 3 Newport Dr. (Rts. 23 & 24, Forest Hill) on Thursday 4 to 7 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held 1 p.m. Friday.

Judith Claibourne Ensor, associate judge for the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, has been elected president of the Board of Trustees of St. Paul's School for Girls. Ensor will oversee the governance of SPSG and lead the school's strategic planning efforts. An alumna of the school, she has been a supporter since graduating in 1979. "I am tremendously thankful for the incredible education I received at St. Paul's School for Girls," she said. "To this day I credit SPSG not only with completely preparing me for college and law school, but with helping me to develop important practical life skills as well as a life-long love of learning.

On October 6, 2009, JOHN MORGAN MATTINGLY, JR., beloved husband of the late Jane Anderson Mattingly; devoted father of Barbara Mattingly Wilson; grandfather of Charles M. Kneip; brother of Elizabeth Quillen. Also survived by a niece Elizabeth Quillen Ensor. Services and interment private. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Maryland SPCA, 3300 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21211.

The long-planned revitalization of the area surrounding Oldtown Mall in East Baltimore inched forward Wednesday, as city officials approved funds to help relocate merchants and make way for mixed-use development. The Board of Estimates, the city's spending panel, approved more than $256,000 in moving expenses for seven small shops or businesses, among them a hair salon, a car wash and a tailor's shop, that occupy buildings the city has acquired. The city has been buying up property around the mall south of Monument Street at Orleans and Ensor streets as part of a deal to turn over a 5-acre parcel to a development group led by Continental Realty Corp.

Howard County builders angry about new fees for government processing of their erosion-control and sediment-review plans got news of some relief Tuesday, but not enough to satisfy them. Robert R. Ensor, district manager of the Howard County Soil Conservation District, told officials of the Home Builders Association of Maryland at their Woodlawn offices that new fees scheduled to take effect July 1 will be smaller and less numerous than the proposed list he distributed to builders during a meeting last week at county government offices in Columbia.

Dozens of Howard County homebuilders already suffering through the recession are up in arms about sharply higher sediment- and erosion-control review fees they could be charged starting July 1. The new rates proposed by the Howard County Soil Conservation District, an independent agency that reviews development plans for soil runoff, would impose more than $520,000 in new fees for a single section of Maple Lawn, the upscale, mixed-use community under...

On February 27, 2008 NELLIE ALVERIDA (nee Ensor) CHILDRESS, beloved wife of the late Victor E. Childress, Sr., loving mother of Victor E. II and Donna Childress, Ruth A. and Robert Wilcoxen, Violet M. and Wayne Haley, Sr., H. Franklin and Yvonne Childress, Shirley L. and Paul Martellucci, Gilbert L. Childress, Mary L. and Butch Moschler, Jr., Carolyn L. Childress and the late Samuel Robert Childress. Dear sister of Ethel Krichten and Mary Ensor Staub. Also survived by numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Eastern Shooting -- Police continue to seek the gunman who shot a man, 27, in the lower torso about 8:20 p.m. Thursday in the 1700 block of Harford Ave. in the community of Oliver. The victim, whose name was not released, was found inside Stop, Shop & Save, a block from the shooting scene, and was taken by ambulance to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Anyone with information is urged to call the district's detective unit at 410-396-2433.

On August 6, 2007, ELLEN M. WARD (nee Weppler). Beloved wife of the late John S. Ward; devoted mother of Mary Ellen Ensor; grandmother of Sue Ensor Todhunter and William W. Ensor, Jr.; great-grandmother of James P. Ensor and Thomas M. Ensor. Funeral services will be held at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26A), on Thursday at 11 A.M. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. Friends may call Wednesday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Gilchrist Center, 555 W. Towsontown Blvd.