NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | June 18, 2010
Wayne Allen Dorman, a longtime letter carrier and outdoorsman, died Monday of renal failure at the Anneslie home of his sister-in-law. He was 56. Born and raised in Joppa, Mr. Dorman was a 1971 graduate of Edgewood High School. After serving in the Air Force, he went to work in 1979 for the U.S. Postal Service as a letter carrier. Mr. Dorman worked out of the Parkville post office and at the time of his death was assigned to Oak Crest Village retirement community on Walther Boulevard.
FEATURES
By Erik Lacitis and Erik Lacitis,McClatchy-Tribune | August 4, 2008
LACEY, Wash. - Until late last month, Dean Peterson was a relatively anonymous 48-year-old mail carrier. Then he went to Boston and nervously introduced a resolution to include kilts as an official uniform option for male Postal Service carriers. And even though his pitch to the National Association of Letter Carriers convention failed, Peterson has gone worldwide. While Peterson and his wife, Joni, were in Boston, their two teenage sons back home were fielding phone calls. Peterson was all over the media and Internet in North America, Great Britain, India - pretty much anywhere that has some knowledge of that Gaelic tradition.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen | June 4, 2008
Leroy "Pat" Hauenstein, a retired letter carrier and longtime Towson resident, died of complications from dementia and diverticulitis May 27 at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. He was 95. Mr. Hauenstein was born in his parents' Smallwood Street rowhouse. He spent his early years growing up on Fulton Avenue before moving with his family to Hamilton in 1924. After graduating from Polytechnic Institute in 1931, he worked at a Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. grocery store. "During the Depression, he used to bring dented cans of food home for his family to eat and worked cleaning movie houses to make extra money," said his daughter, Donna L. Bradshaw of Severna Park.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen | March 27, 2008
Howard A. Wimbley, a retired postal letter carrier and former Essex resident, died Saturday of respiratory failure at a nursing home in Eureka, Mont. He was 86. Mr. Wimbley was born and raised in Baltimore. He was a 1935 graduate of St. Michael's parochial school. During World War II, he served in the Navy from 1942 to 1945, as a pay officer assigned to the Atlantic theater. Mr. Wimbley was a letter carrier in Essex from 1945 until his retirement in 1991. Mr. Wimbley, who moved to Eureka a decade ago, was an avid Orioles fan and HO-gauge model railroader.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly and Jacques Kelly,sun reporter | February 10, 2007
Vincent L. Cardinale Sr., a retired letter carrier who survived the Dec. 7, 1941, attack at Pearl Harbor and was later active in Italian-American organizations, died Feb. 3 of lung disease at his Dundalk home. He was 82. Born and raised in Little Italy, he attended St. Michael parochial school and also delivered ice and milk. One day he told his mother he was going out to buy cigarettes. He lied about his age and enlisted in the Army at age 17. He was assigned to the Schofield Barracks at Honolulu.
NEWS
July 5, 2006
William M. Dearing, a retired letter carrier and World War II veteran, died of cancer June 28 at Northwest Hospital Center. The West Baltimore resident was 81. Born and raised in Roanoke, Va., he moved to Baltimore in 1942. After serving in an Army transportation unit in France and Germany during World War II, he worked several odd jobs and then became a postal worker. A letter carrier in Northwest Baltimore, he retired about 20 years ago from the Wabash Avenue station. In his free time, Mr. Dearing enjoyed fishing and was a tenpins bowler at the old Colt Lanes in Woodlawn.