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By FREDERICK N. RASMUSSEN | February 3, 2009
Robert M. Cheston Sr., a retired banker and longtime Roland Park resident, died of respiratory failure Jan. 27 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 87. Mr. Cheston was born and raised in Philadelphia. He attended William Penn Charter School and graduated in 1939 from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va. He attended the University of Virginia until the outbreak of World War II, when he enlisted in the Navy. Specializing in naval radio intelligence, Mr. Cheston held posts in Washington and the Aleutian Islands, where he read Japanese and German codes.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | February 1, 2008
Marion A. Backof, a retired bank supervisor and former Highlandtown and Dundalk resident, died Saturday of cancer at a Pensacola, Fla., hospice. She was 93. Marion Geiger was born and raised in Baltimore and attended city public schools. She was married in 1941 to Joseph Backof, an accountant, and together the couple owned and operated Backof's, a confectionary store at Eden Street and Fait Avenue, from 1948 to 1961. After her husband's death in 1964, she went to work as a bank teller at the Eastern Avenue branch of the old St. James Savings Bank.
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December 26, 2007
Clara Amoss Davis, a former First National Bank manager, died of heart disease Saturday at the Dove House of Carroll Hospice in Westminster. The longtime Catonsville resident was 94. Born Clara Tucker in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville, she attended Catonsville High School. As a young woman, she did clerical work for Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. Mrs. Davis began her banking career in 1948 at the old Catonsville National Bank on Frederick Road. After its merger, she became a branch manager for the First National Bank.
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September 13, 2006
Margaret Y. Wilson, a retired banker and volunteer, died of cancer Sunday at her Street home. She was 65. She was born and raised Margaret Young in Rose Hill, Va., and began her banking career in Richmond, Va. After moving to Lutherville in 1974, she went to work for the old First National Bank, She managed its Roland Park branch and later worked at the regional headquarters in Towson. In 1980, she joined her husband as a director and officer of R.J. Wilson & Associates Ltd. and Affiliates, an Abingdon insurance firm.
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August 16, 2006
E. A. "Dean" Docken Jr., a bank executive and avid golfer, died of a heart attack Thursday at his Hunt Valley home. He was 50. Mr. Docken was born in Heidelberg, Germany, the son of a career Army officer, and raised there and in Kentucky, Texas and Maryland, said his wife of 10 years, the former Susan Baker. Mr. Docken was a 1974 graduate of Bel Air High School and earned a bachelor's degree in political science and history in 1979 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he played lacrosse, rowed crew and was an active member of Delta Upsilon fraternity.
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By JACQUES KELLY | November 9, 2005
J. Owen Cole, retired president of the old First National Bank and a fixture in the Baltimore business community for more than 45 years, died of cancer Nov. 2 at his vacation home in Lincolnville, Maine. The Annapolis resident was 76. Mr. Cole sat on numerous boards of local industries. He traveled extensively as a trade development consultant for then-Gov. William Donald Schaefer, a longtime friend who named him to the Maryland Transportation Commission, BWI Airport Commission and Maryland Port Commission.
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By Andrea F. Siegel | August 12, 2002
Adrian LeRoy McCardell Jr., retired president and chairman of the former First National Bank of Maryland, died of cancer Saturday at his home in the Poplar Hill neighborhood of North Baltimore. He was 94. He was a leader in Baltimore's banking community during the 1960s and 1970s, when area financial institutions sought to open more branches and consumer credit card use rose, and he helped guide the bank in those areas. He joined First National in 1958, and became president in 1961 and chairman in 1968.
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May 18, 2002
Lionel M. Depot, an Allfirst Bank vice president who supervised banks in Carroll and Baltimore counties, died Thursday of cancer at his Westminster home. He was 55. Mr. Depot, who was known as Lee, recently oversaw the opening of the new Allfirst branch in Eldersburg. He began his career with Allfirst's predecessor, First National Bank, in 1987, and retired on a medical disability this year because of failing health. Born and raised in New Britain, Conn., Mr. Depot was a graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas, a high school there, and earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vt. He served in the Army in the late 1960s, and worked in restaurant management before joining First National Bank.
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By June Arney | February 7, 2002
Allfirst Bank's roots go back nearly 200 years in Maryland. It started as Mechanics Bank of Baltimore, organized in 1806 - one of only 30 banks in the nation at the time. After several name changes and mergers, it became First National Bank of Maryland, which was established in 1864 and distinguished itself by continuously paying dividends to shareholders, even during the Great Depression. For years, First National's parent company, First Maryland Bancorp, aggressively acquired small banks in the state.
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August 23, 2001
Rose E. Scott, 85, singer and artist Rose E. Scott, a singer and artist of many talents, died Aug. 15 from complications of dementia at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. She was 85. Miss Scott and her sister, Marcia E. Scott, lived together in the Govans area and in the Pickersgill Retirement Community in Towson until the sister's death four months ago. From an early age, Miss Scott's showed artistic abilities, family members said. She studied violin and voice as a young girl, and played and sang during services at Second English Lutheran Church.