Horsey

On January 26, 2008, LILLIAN HORSEY, who is survived by a host of family and friends. The family will receive visitors at the family owned Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 from 3 to 7 P.M., Wake will be held on Thursday, January 31, at 10 A.M. with funeral service to follow at 10:30 A.M. at New Life Inspirational Church, 2621 Oswego Ave. Interment King Memorial Park.

Kentucky has the Derby. Maryland, of course, is home to the Preakness Stakes. And Pennsylvania boasts the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair, an annual celebration of all things equestrian that dates back well over a century. "It started as a one-day horse show in 1896," says Leonard A. King, Jr., 80, a longtime leader in the equestrian community who chairs the event. "We're now in the 116th year, and we'll go for 11 days. Over the years, we've had presidents, celebrities and visitors from across the country, and foreign countries, in attendance.

The horsey set has always set a fashion pace around these parts, what with the state's long tradition of thoroughbred racing, steeplechase, hunting and pony shows.Folks here know a proper riding turnout, so it's with a wry smile that they view the equestrian fashions that have been trotted out by every major retailer and tony catalog this season. Fashion has caught up with tradition again.Yet equestrian style has never been out. The houses of Gucci and Hermes, two labels with a real status punch, built theirreputations on horsey bits, boots and saddles, which they reinterpreted as scarves, shoe brasses and bags for women who never sat a horse or jumped a fence.

Sheila Horsey used to leave her South Baltimore home at dawn and board the first of four buses with her young daughter. The pair rode two buses together to the 9-year-old's school, and Horsey took two more buses to her job near Druid Hill Park. The end of the day meant four more buses. Grocery shopping was limited to what she could carry on the bus and, without a family car, the child could not join many activities. A 1996 Honda Civic, which Horsey acquired through Vehicles for Change, a nonprofit business in Halethorpe that refurbishes clunkers and doles them out to low-income families, has made life "a lot better and easier," she said.

On November 10, 2003, WILLIAM P. HORSEY, SR.; beloved husband of Jean (nee Largent); devoted father of Brenda Bixler, William, Jr., and Steven Horsey, Sr.; dear brother of Norman and Wilson Horsey; loving grandfather of Melvin, Jr. and Kristy Bixler, Steven, Jr., Cheri and William Horsey, III. Funeral services will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue, on Friday, at 11 A.M. Interment Meadow Ridge Memorial Park....

On August 22, 2003 AMANDA L. HORSEY of Finksburg, devoted mother of Thomas E. Horsey Jr., Mary E. Roach, Catherine Bonsuk, Jacqueline Waldman, Margaret Borkowski, Christina L. Baxter and Terry E. Rhodes, loving mother-in-law of Michele Horsey, Carroll T. Roach, Douglas Waldman, John Borkowski, Tony Baxter and Perry Rhodes. Also survived by fourteen grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 10 A.M. from Haight Funeral Home & Chapel, Rt. 32 near Eldersburg.

William C. Horsey, a retired mechanical engineer and longtime Towson resident, died of pneumonia Thursday at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 84. Mr. Horsey was born in Baltimore and raised on Erdman Avenue. He was a 1939 graduate of Polytechnic Institute and worked during World War II at the old Glenn L. Martin Co. plant in Middle River, building B-26 bombers. After the war, he attended the Georgia Institute of Technology and earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1950.

Robert D. Horsey, a retired Somerset County District Court judge and sailor, died at his Marion Station home Sunday of Lewy Body dementia, a progressive brain disease. He was 72. Judge Horsey was born at his family's Coulbourne Creek home in the lower Eastern Shore county and raised at a nearby farm. After graduating from Crisfield High School in 1951, he worked for two years for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, surveying the Eastern Seaboard from New England to Key West, Fla. He enlisted in the Army and served as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division from 1954 to 1956.

A Delaware company wants to mine sand and gravel on a parcel of farmland and forest along Marshyhope Creek on Maryland's Eastern Shore - a proposal that is raising alarm among conservationists who fear the operation will destroy rare wetlands, harm endangered species and ruin bird habitat. The Horsey Family LLC is asking Dorchester County this week for a zoning exception so it can excavate soil, sand and gravel from the property and create an "open-water lake." Workers would then float a hydraulic dredge into the lake and extract the remaining mineral resources, according to an application filed with the county last month.

On January 26, 2008, LILLIAN HORSEY, who is survived by a host of family and friends. The family will receive visitors at the family owned Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 from 3 to 7 P.M., Wake will be held on Thursday, January 31, at 10 A.M. with funeral service to follow at 10:30 A.M. at New Life Inspirational Church, 2621 Oswego Ave. Interment King Memorial Park.

An architect and a teacher who say they were wrongfully arrested this summer in Canton are among nine new plaintiffs added yesterday to a 1 1/2 -year-old federal lawsuit against the Baltimore Police Department. The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland and the Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sued the police in July last year over what it called illegal arrest practices. The new plaintiffs represent a variety of people - including a doctoral candidate visiting from Texas and an 18-year-old city resident - who have been placed under arrest, taken to the Central Booking and Intake Center but not charged with a crime.

On June 28, 2007, JEAN RAMONA HORSEY MOORE, devoted mother of Michael Moore. She is also survived by a daughter-in-law, Karen Moore and a host of other relatives and friends. Visitation Tuesday 2 P.M. until 7 P.M. at Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue (Family present 5 P.M. until 7 P.M.). Chapel closed Wednesday. Mrs. Moore will lie in state at the New Christian Memorial Church, 3525 W. Caton Avenue, Thursday 9 A.M., family hour 11 A.M., Homegoing Celebration 11:30 A.M. Interment following in Arbutus Memorial

On May 2, 2007, LANDONIA, beloved mother of Gertrude. She is also survived by one son-in-law, Charles Louden and a host of other family members and friends. Friends may call the WYLIE FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 638 N. Gilmore Street on Monday from 5 to 8 P.M. Family will receive friends on Tuesday for the 10:30 A.M. Wake and 11 A.M. Funeral Service, at Village Baptist Church, 100 S. Hilton Street. Inquiries at www.wyliefuneralhome.com.

Verna Horsey blew up a green balloon and helped Alex Sandmeier attach it to a tube on a toy race car. The 5-year-old put the car on the floor, hoping it would zip away in a flash. But the car lurched about two feet and sputtered to a stop. "Oh no," groaned Horsey, a fourth-grade teacher at Hickory Elementary School. "That one was a dud." The Bel Air kindergartner giggled while Horsey blew up another balloon. This time he let go of the car and it sped across the floor. "Wow! 110 inches!

Robert D. Horsey, a retired Somerset County District Court judge and sailor, died at his Marion Station home Sunday of Lewy Body dementia, a progressive brain disease. He was 72. Judge Horsey was born at his family's Coulbourne Creek home in the lower Eastern Shore county and raised at a nearby farm. After graduating from Crisfield High School in 1951, he worked for two years for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, surveying the Eastern Seaboard from New England to Key West, Fla. He enlisted in the Army and served as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division from 1954 to 1956.