NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen | fred.rasmussen@baltsun.com | January 26, 2010
Dr. Everett Schnepfe Diggs, a retired gynecologist who later was chief of staff at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, died from heart failure Friday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. He was 96. Dr. Diggs, the son of a schoolteacher and the secretary and treasurer of the Stieff Piano Co., was born in Baltimore and reared on Erdman Avenue. After graduating from City College, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1933 from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Diggs was a 1937 graduate of the University of Maryland Medical School and completed a residency in gynecology and female urology in 1941 at the University of Maryland Medical School.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen | November 22, 2009
Doris M. Everett, a retired secretary who served as a Navy WAVE during World War II and the Korean War, died Nov. 12 of breast cancer at her Overlea home. She was 86. Doris Miles was born in Baltimore and raised in the Herring Run neighborhood. After graduating from Eastern High School in 1940, she went to work in the directory department of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. In 1943, she became a Navy WAVE and was trained as an airplane handler. "She drove a tractor that parked and moved airplanes at the Anacostia Naval Base in Washington," said her husband of 57 years, William E. Everett, a retired United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. purchasing department executive.
NEWS
November 18, 2009
On November 13, 2009, EDNA. Visitation at 2140 N. Fulton Avenue, on Thursday 5-8 P.M. Family will receive friends at the chapel on Friday 10 A.M. Funeral to follow at 10:30 A.M.
NEWS
By Justin Fenton and Justin Fenton,justin.fenton@baltsun.com | October 7, 2009
A Baltimore police officer facing internal discipline for speaking to a Baltimore Sun reporter said in court filings Tuesday that she was exercising free speech and that her comments served a public concern. Sgt. Carrie Everett, who was then assigned to the Southwestern District, spoke to a reporter after she was administratively charged in connection with an incident in which a murder suspect committed suicide by jumping from a top-floor window while under police supervision at Mercy Medical Center.