Jarrettsville

On October 6, 2004, WILLIAM F. SR., of Jarrettsville, MD, formerly of Reisterstown, husband of Patricia Johnson Steger; father of Donald Steger, James Gregory Steger, Shawn Marie Trout and the late William F. Steger Jr. Services will be held Monday, October 11 at 11 A.M. from the family owned KURTZ FUNERAL HOME P.A., 1114 Baldwin Mill Rd, Jarrettsville. Entombment in Highview Memorial Gardens. Friends may call at the Funeral Home, Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. For those who desire, contributions may be made to your favorite Charity.

Paul L. Ensor, a retired Baltimore County police officer, died Thursday from colon cancer at Sunflower Assisted-Living in Westminster. He was 95. The son of farmers, Paul LeRoy Ensor was born and raised in Sparks. He attended Baltimore County public schools. Mr. Ensor was working at Bendix Corp. when he joined the Baltimore County Police Department in 1952. He was assigned to the Garrison Precinct, where he drove the patrol wagon, family members said. He retired in 1975. The longtime Owings Mills resident, who had lived in Upperco for the last 22 years, enjoyed fishing, crabbing and gardening.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down, damaging several homes and sending a gazebo up onto a roof , in Jarrettsville during the storms that passed through the Baltimore metro area Friday evening . "An EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of 80 miles per hour caused tree and minor roofing damage Friday evening between 7:07 p.m. and 7:12 p.m.," the National Weather Service said in a statement Monday afternoon. The path of the tornado stretched 1.2 miles, according to the statement.

The Jarrettsville Lions welcome new member Robert Ronica, center, along with his sponsor, Dan Miller, right, and Club President Dave Goff. Robert, a Jarrettsville native, would like to serve his community.

A Jarrettsville teenager was killed after the car in which she was riding collided with a truck Monday afternoon. Ashley Nicole Stewart, 18, was in the front passenger seat of a 2005 Chevy Cobalt driven by Mark P. Buchanan, a 19-year-old also from Jarrettsville. Investigators from the Harford County sheriff's office believe the Cobalt was traveling south on Grier Nursery Road near Miller Road when it crossed the center lane and struck a 2001 Chevy truck traveling north and driven by Jorge Velazquez, 32, of Forest Hill.

Enthusiastic crews from BB&T's Madonna and Upper Crossroads branches worked tirelessly July 25 to plant new gardens at both the Jarrettsville and Fallston libraries as part of their annual Lighthouse Project. BB&T's Lighthouse Project encourages employees to get outside of the office and give back, improving the communities they serve and making them better places to work and live. According to their website, during the first three years of BB&T's Lighthouse Project, employees nationwide have donated more than 150,000 volunteer hours to local charities and touched the lives of more than 5 million people in 25 states.

A federal judge Friday accepted an earlier sentence deal that will send a Jarrettsville man to prison for 12 years for possessing child pornography that police said included at least 186 videos and more than 650 photographs of numerous naked children and women who were in their homes and unaware they were being filmed. Prosecutors had charged David Earl Jones, 43, with several counts of possessing and manufacturing child pornography. Investigators said some of the images were stored on Jones' work computer at the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground, where he was a civilian employee.

JARRETTSVILLE -- An 85-year-old man died Monday night after the car he was driving ran off the road into a grove of trees, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said. According to witnesses, Richard Eugene Everett of the 1400 block of Chrome Hill Road was traveling east on Chrome Hill Road about 7:45 p.m. in a 1992 Dodge Caravan when he crossed the center line. He swerved back into the eastbound lane to avoid an oncoming car, but lost control of the car, which ended up in the woods at the intersection with Rocks Road.

The Cooptown revivals began in western Harford County in 1888. Many good years for the area's Methodists followed. In 1894, "about 600 carriages and buggies" brought worshipers to the annual religious celebrations. During the 1897 revival, 72 conversions were recorded.As a village, rural Cooptown has been absorbed by growing suburban communities, but neighboring United Methodist churches that have survived keep the memories and the faith alive with their yearly Cooptown Reunions.At one time, the revivals continued for two weeks.

A memorial service will be held at 7 o'clock tonight at North Bend Elementary School, 1445 North Bend Road in Jarrettsville, to honor Rita K. Hofler, a first-grade teacher at the school, and her son, Kevin J. Gehring. Both were killed April 25. A memorial hallway commemorating the lives of the popular teacher and her son will be dedicated as part of the ceremony. Hofler, 48, and Gehring, 17, were fatally shot at the Shrewsbury Township, Pa., home of Hofler's estranged husband, Donald B. Hofler, 70, who has been charged with first-degree murder.

Members of the Homeschool Heart in Hand 4-H Club met May 8 for their annual work day at Black Horse Fire Station and McKendree Cemetery in Black Horse, MD. Members created a new flower bed at Black Horse Station and pruned bushes and trees, planted flowers, weeded and mulched the finished beds at McKendree Cemetery. The club wishes to thank Smith Hardware, Jarrettsville for its donation of flowers and A.D. Heston Tree Service and Mulch of Street for its donation of mulch.

The Harford County Public Library Foundation hosted a crowd of nearly 200 guests on Friday, April 19 for its annual A Night Out @ the Library fundraiser. Attendees enjoyed lite fare, cocktails and the opportunity to hear and meet renowned military history author Jeff Shaara. "It was a phenomenal evening!" Kay Deitz, local Realtor with Garceau Realty and a sponsor of the event, said. "Mr. Shaara is able to present history in a way that the general public can enjoy and relate to. I found him fascinating.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH BRADFORD: Emily Angel of Stewartstown, Pa, was expected to graduate Sunday, April 28, from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY: Meredith Riddle, D.O., of Baldwin, has completed the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine of Midwestern University. An official graduation ceremony and conferring of degrees will take place on the Midwestern University campus in Glendale, Arizona, on May 30. Dr. Riddle is the daughter of Baldwin residents Jeff and Glenda Riddle.

Richard and Julia Dimmick of Jarrettsville announce the engagement of their daughter, Sara, to David Burya, son of Ida Stratton of Mohave Valley, Ariz., and Eugene Burya of Spokane, Wash. Dimmick, a graduate of North Harford High School and Florida State University, is owner and operator of Physical Equilibrium in Manhattan. Burya graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is employed as an architectural lighting designer with Tirschwell & Company Inc. in Manhattan. The couple is planning an October wedding in Central Park.

Salem Lutheran Children's Center of Jarrettsville has hired Elizabeth Smithson as the new director. Smithson will head the accredited nursery school and day care programs. She will also be teaching the afternoon 3-year-old nursery program. Smithson's educational background includes a bachelor's in early childhood education from Villa Julie College and a master's degree in reading from Towson University.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down, damaging several homes and sending a gazebo up onto a roof , in Jarrettsville during the storms that passed through the Baltimore metro area Friday evening . "An EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of 80 miles per hour caused tree and minor roofing damage Friday evening between 7:07 p.m. and 7:12 p.m.," the National Weather Service said in a statement Monday afternoon. The path of the tornado stretched 1.2 miles, according to the statement.

Twice a day for the last several years, Marcus Jackson would pour 2 gallons of fuel into a heater warming his drafty trailer near Jarrettsville.Despite the risk of starting a fire, the 83-year-old filled the heater on his own because he couldn't afford to repair a pump connecting the heater to an outside fuel tank.But the days of that chore are over. An outpouring of help and donations from county residents in the Jarrettsville area has made Jackson's life very different indeed.The community, led by the Jarrettsville Lions Club, has provided Jackson with food, fuel, furniture, a car -- and another trailer complete with a working heat system.