Jerome

On January 13, 2005, JEROME aka "Veney" LOWERY. Friends may call at the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Wednesday after 8:30 A.M., where the family will receive friends on Thursday at 11:30 A.M., followed by funeral services at 12 noon.

An Air Force member who was assigned to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland has died in Afghanistan, the Defense Department announced Monday. Airman 1st Class Jerome D. Miller Jr., 23, of Washington, died Oct. 13 in a non-combat-related incident in Parwan province, the Defense Department said. Miller was assigned to the 459th Security Forces Squadron at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George's County.

On March 12, 2004, JEROME PRESCO. On Tuesday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICE, 4101 Edmondson Ave., from 4:00 to 6:30 P.M. The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 7:00 P.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 945-2700.

Harford County police have identified a 16-year-old boy who drowned Saturday afternoon in a Havre de Grace park. Michael Jerome Sawyer, of the 300 block of Seattle Slew Place in Havre de Grace, was apparently swimming with friends at Jean S. Roberts Memorial Park Saturday afternoon, near the 600 block of Water Street, in an area where the water runs about nine feet deep. After swimming out about 20 yards, the friends attempted to return to shore, but Sawyer struggled to return to the shore line for unknown reasons, said Jeff Gilpin, a spokesman for the Havre de Grace Police Department.

On January 15, 2009, JEROME SHROPSHIRE. Friends may call the family-owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Monday 2 to 6 PM and Tuesday 10 AM to 6 PM, where funeral services will take place on Wednesday at 1:30 PM.

On April 20, 2003, JEROME PAUL "BUTCH" HANNON; beloved husband of Joyce L. Hannon; devoted father of Donna Hannon Vondenbosch and her husband Louis; devoted grandfather of Jerri and Louis Vondenbosch; loving brother of Catherine Blair, Regina Delaro, Alice Federline, Paul, Frank, Thomas, Joseph and Eugene Hannon; dear son-in-law of Dorothy Bristow. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews and his friends of Clown Alley. The family will receive friends at the Sterling Ashton Schwab Funeral Home, Inc., 736 Edmondson Avenue, Catonsville, (1/2 mile west beltway exit 14)

On August 14, 2003 MR. JEROME RIDGEWAY, SR., beloved husband of Mrs. DeShirl Ridgeway. On Friday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE Funeral Service EAST, 4905 York Road, from 3 to 8 P.M. On Saturday, Mr. Ridgeway will lie in state at Sharon Baptist Church, 1373 North Stricker Street, where the family will receive friends from 9 A.M. to 9:30 A.M. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-433-7500.

When President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate yesterday, there were winners (sane people) and losers (Donald Trump).  But the biggest loser of all wasn't Trump. It was Jerome Corsi, along with his book "Where's the birth certificate?" and the WorldNetDaily "Superstore. "  Corsi's book, which recently hit No. 1 on Amazon.com before it has even been released (thanks to a huge plug from the Drudge Report), now has been completely overtaken by current events.  How can a book called "Where's the birth certificate?"

Jerome Gavis, a retired Johns Hopkins University professor of chemical engineering who conducted early basic research on the Chesapeake Bay's environmental health, died of a stroke Feb. 8 at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 82 and lived in the Village of Cross Keys. Born in Hartford, Conn., he was the son of a clothing salesman and a homemaker. He moved with his family to Brooklyn, N.Y., and was a 1945 Stuyvesant High School graduate. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and a doctorate in chemistry from Cornell University.

Jerome "Jerry" Shuman, a structural engineer who designed several road bridges along Interstate 95 near Delaware, died Dec. 27 of complications from cancer and dementia at Gilchrist Hospice Center in Towson. He was 77 and lived in Pikesville. Born in Baltimore, he grew up in the Pimlico area. He attended Baltimore Polytechnic High School and Forest Park High School, graduating in 1952. Soon after, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving four years aboard the USS Wasp during the Korean conflict.

Dr. Jerome "Jerry" Gaber, a retired Govans general practitioner who during his more than 50-year career personified the old-time family physician, died Tuesday of complications from dementia at Atrium Village in Owings Mills. The Govans resident was 88. Dr. Gaber, the son of a Romanian tool and die maker and a Lithuanian mother who owned and operated a sandwich shop, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and moved with his family in the early 1920s to a home on West Pratt Street. After graduating in 1940 from City College, he attended the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, graduating in 1944, and then served in the Navy for several years.

Jerome W. "Jerry" Geckle, a high school dropout who rose from a keypunch operator to become chairman and chief executive officer of Peterson Howell and Heather, the Hunt Valley fleet leasing and mortgage company, died Oct. 22 of pneumonia at his Parkton farm. He was 81. Mr. Geckle, the youngest of nine children, was born in Baltimore and raised in Waverly, where his father was a sextant at St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church and his mother a homemaker. "As a boy, he had worked on a farm picking vegetables to help make ends meet," said a son, Stephen L. Geckle of Parkton.