Hazel

On January 23, 2008, HAZEL L. STEWART. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Sunday after 2 P.M., where funeral services will take place on Monday at 1 P.M.

On January 18, 2008, HAZEL P. SCHEMINANT; beloved wife of Earl; loving mother of Robert (and wife Judith), and Edward (and Karen); cherished sister of Betty Graham, Helen Oberg, Mildred Parrott and Robert Riggleman. Relatives and friends may visit at the family owned Ambrose Funeral Home of Lansdowne, on Wednesday, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held at the Lansdowne United Methodist Church on Thursday, at 10:30 a.m. Interment will follow at Meadow Ridge Memorial Park.

On November 21, 2007, JAMES "Peanut" BUTLER, devoted husband of Rachel Butler. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Monday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends on Tuesday at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1641 N. Ellamont Street at 11:30 A.M., followed by funeral service at 12 noon.

On October 26, 2007, HAZEL REGINA ROHRS, 79, of Oak Crest Village; beloved wife of Frederick Vernon Rohrs; devoted mother of Janice Douglass and Dona Wulff; loving grandmother of Josh Douglass, Miranda Wulff-Altschuler, LCpl Jordan Douglass, Raymond Douglass III and Eric Wulff; cherished sister of Helen McHale. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Family and friends will honor Jean's life at the family owned Evans Funeral Chapel and Cremation Services-Parkville, 8800 Harford Road on Tuesday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A viewing will be held 9 to 10 A.M. followed by a Funeral Mass at Oak Crest Chapel on Wednesday.

On October 15, 2007, JAMES WESLEY HALL, loving father of James Brian Hall, Chad Wesley Hall and his wife Kimberly, grandfather of Jacob Hall, son of Raymond and the late Hazel Hall, brother of Ray "Scootie" Hall. Relatives and friends may call at the family owned AMBROSE FUNERAL HOME OF LANSDOWNE, 2719 Hammonds Ferry road on Sunday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M., where funeral services will be held Monday 10 A.M. Interment to immediately follow in Maryland Veteran Cemetery at Crownsville.

Lady Hazel S. Whittle, a registered nurse who had worked at the National Institutes of Health and was the widow of Sir Frank Whittle, who is considered one of the fathers of jet propulsion, died Monday from complications of Parkinson disease at her Columbia home. She was 91. Hazel Steenberg was born and raised in West St. Paul, Minn., and received her nursing diploma in 1937 from the Kahler School of Nursing, which is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. After working as a private-duty and hospital nurse, she attended the Patricia Stevens School of Modeling in Chicago.

Hazel V. Sparks, a Harford County dairy farmer and real estate developer, died Wednesday of complications from a stroke at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 89. Along with her husband, Mrs. Sparks ran their family dairy farm for more than 35 years. She also worked as a real estate broker and developed 100 acres of the family's land to build the High Point Estates subdivision in Forest Hill. Mrs. Sparks was born Hazel V. Waddell in Ceres, a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia.

On June 5, 2007, HAZEL M. HALL. On Monday, friends may call at Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services, 4905 York Road where the family will receive friends from 3-8 P.M. On Tuesday, services will be held at Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Chapel, 4905 York Road, where the family will receive friends from 11-11:30 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-433-7500.

On May 29, 2007, in Ellsworth, ME, WILLIAM LESTER BIRELY died at age 92. He was a longtime resident of Cumberland, MD, where he had a distinguished career with the B&O and the C&O railroads. Beloved son of the late Samuel and Annie Birely, he is survived by his wife of 66 years, Hazel Birely and was the devoted father of William Birely and wife Becky, Richard Birely and wife Joyce, and Janet Sue Kelly and husband Steve. He was blessed with grandchildren, Carrie Ann Olish and Cristinea Kelley, and great grandchildren Susanna Kelley, Margaret and Lilian Heflin and Cade Olish.