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Richard Lee Stultz, former mayor of Union Bridge and a Korean War veteran, died Sept. 27 of a cerebral hemorrhage at Carroll Hospital Center. He was 81. Mr. Stultz, the son of a Lehigh Portland Cement Co. worker and a homemaker, was born in Hagerstown and raised in Union Bridge. He was a 1947 graduate of Elmer Wolfe High School and during the Korean War served with the Navy's amphibious forces of the Atlantic Squadron. Mr. Stultz worked as a carpenter for more than 40 years for Lehigh Portland Cement Co. in Union Bridge, until retiring in the 1990s.

Burton N. Cox Jr., a retired civil engineer and Korean War veteran, died Sept. 15 of prostate cancer at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He was 84. Mr. Cox, the son of a salesman and a secretary, was born in Baltimore and raised in Mount Washington. He was a 1943 graduate of Polytechnic Institute and earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1946 from Villanova University, where he had been a member of the Marine Corps unit of the Navy's V-12 program. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, Mr. Cox went to work in 1946 for Rummel, Klepper & Kahl — now RK&K — at a time when the firm had eight employees.

Welcome to my first restaurant review column, wherein I will describe an exquisite meal I enjoyed last Sunday evening. Unfortunately, I really can't tell you the names of any of the dishes I sampled. I can't expound on the origin of the recipes or the inventive things the chef did to change them up. I can say for sure, however, that some of the dishes were made with chicken, some were made with beef and some were made with the relentless, fiery tears of the scorned Goddess of Red Pepper Heaven.

Gerhardt W. "Gus" Strohsacker, a retired Western Electric Corp. manager and Korean War veteran, died Aug. 10 from complications of dementia and Parkinson's disease at Brighton Gardens, a Towson assisted-living facility. The longtime Homeland resident was 80. Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Strohsacker was the son of an Ocean City hotelier and a homemaker. He was raised in Berlin, where he graduated from Buckingham High School. After graduating from Washington College, where he earned a bachelor's degree, he served in the Marine Corps from 1951 to 1954.

James M. Cannon, a neophyte Sun reporter at the time, was remembering the other day how he pulled off a coup 60 years ago that freed him forever from the daily drudgery of local reporting and left his newsroom colleagues smarting with envy and wondering why they hadn't been so forward. The Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when Communist North Korean forces swept into the Republic of South Korea, and a day later, Cannon made his own invasion of sorts. He screwed up his courage and walked into the small office of Bill Perkinson, assistant to Neil H. Swanson, who was the fearsome, no-nonsense executive editor of the Sunpapers, and asked to be sent to Korea.

A former office manager for a Glen Burnie dentist who was fatally beaten in 2006 has been charged with murdering him, prosecutors said Tuesday. A relative of hers also has been charged. Shontay Joyner-Hickman, 35, was arrested Monday night at her home in the 700 block of N. Kenwood St. in Baltimore by Anne Arundel County police and ordered held without bail Tuesday. She and Dante Jeter, 23, were indicted Friday in the death of Albert Woonho Ro. Jeter had already been jailed in Baltimore to await trial on a different murder charge in the city.