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By Kevin E. Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com | November 22, 2012
Local firefighter and former Sykesville Volunteer Fire Department Chief William “Mr. Bill” Frank Luebberman, 66, of Sykesville, died, Nov. 18, at the Carroll Dove House in Westminster. News of the death of the popular life member of Sykesville Freedom District Fire Department spread quickly through the Carroll County emergency response community. According to his obituary on the Haight Funeral Home website, he was born July 6, 1946, in Annapolis. He was the son of William E. and Betty Metzger Luebberman of Westminster.
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By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun | October 13, 2012
The five victims of the fire that destroyed a Northeast Baltimore rowhouse Thursday will be memorialized together in a service Thursday. Nancy Worrell, 55, died along with her three grandchildren and a great-grandson in the 2 a.m. blaze that gutted her two-story brick home on Denwood Avenue. The victims were all found in the back bedroom on the second floor of the home. The deceased grandchildren are Daryl Stewart, 4, K-Niyah Scott, 2, and Tykia Manley, 7, who all lived at the residence.
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By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun | October 10, 2012
Lois Roena Pyle, a retired secretary for Baltimore City's social services office who later worked for Baltimore County, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease Oct. 3 at the Ware Presbyterian Village in Oxford, Pa. The former Rodgers Forge resident was 90. Born Lois Roena Anderson in Havre, Mont., she was the daughter of a dry-goods merchant, and a homemaker. She attended the University of Montana and graduated from the Kinman Business College in Spokane, Wash. As a young woman, she took flying lessons.
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September 13, 2012
The day after a Harford County Sheriff's deputy was buried after dying in the line of duty, another sheriff's deputy has died. Sgt. Ian Loughran, 43, of Harford County, died of a heart attack sometime after midnight Thursday. Sgt. Loughran, a 16-year veteran of the sheriff's office, unknowingly began to suffer the symptoms of a heart attack Wednesday during the funeral services for his fellow deputy, Cpl. Charles Licato, who died Sept. 6 in a car accident while on his way home, according to a press release from the sheriff's office.
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June 26, 2012
As a longtime member of Colonial Baptist Church who attended the June 23 funeral services for Christopher Brown, I found it hard to believe the Sun reporter was present and awake during the funeral based on the paper's account of the occasion ("Hundreds gather to mourn teen who died after fight with off-duty officer," June 23). The article focuses on the approximately five minutes that Rev. Jamal Bryant spoke. He was on the program only to make comments. Three paragraphs were use to report his message.
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By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | June 24, 2012
The remains of Lance Cpl. Eugene C. Mills III, 21, of Laurel, who was known by some of his Marine comrades as "Gino Bambino," were scheduled to arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., shortly before noon Monday, according to a family friend. On Friday, Mills was killed in combat in the Helmand province of Afghanistan as a Marine assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. He was the fifth service member from Maryland killed this year, and the fourth to die in Afghanistan.