Lutherville

Dorothy V. Perry, former owner of a Towson travel agency, died Jan. 16 of a heart attack at her daughter's Lutherville home. She was 90. The daughter of a streetcar conductor and a homemaker, Dorothy Wertz was born in Baltimore and raised on 30th Street. A 1940 graduate of Eastern High School, Mrs. Perry worked as a secretary at Commercial Credit Co. and did volunteer work. After World War II, she married Urner "Bo" Perry, who had served in the merchant marine and later became a Westinghouse Electric Corp.

A swastika was spray-painted in red on a road near an elementary school in Lutherville this weekend, and neighbors are hoping it will be removed before schools reopen Wednesday. "As I was approaching, I was like, 'That isn't what I think I just saw in the road.' I had to back up and look again," said Ellen Birkenthal, a resident of Tenbury Road who spotted the symbol - used by the Nazis in World War II and considered anti-Semitic - on Sunday. "I just find it very offensive. " The mark was painted on Tenbury Road near Charmuth Road, near Hampton Elementary School, Birkenthal said.

Margaret A. "Peggy" MacKenzie, a longtime Park School educator and administrator, died Saturday of cancer at a daughter's Lutherville home. She was 81. "Peggy was an old hand and an old-timer when I became headmaster in 1976," said F. Parvin Sharpless of Gwynedd, Pa., who was headmaster of Park School until retiring in 1995. "She was a very solid kindergarten teacher who loved the children and was always gentle and never patronizing. She talked to them like they were real people. " The daughter of a building superintendent and a homemaker, Margaret Anne Shelley was born in New York City and raised on Beekman Place in Manhattan.

Dr. Philip J. Ferris, former longtime chairman of the department of surgery at Franklin Square Medical Center, died Nov. 8 of cardiac arrest at his Lutherville home. He was 79. "He was just a great man. He was down-to-earth and fun, but at the same time he was the utmost surgeon who had both a passion for perfection and teaching," said Michael R. Merson, former president of Franklin Square Medical Center, who is now chairman of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. "In all the years I worked with him, if something went wrong, he was the kind of surgeon you wanted to take care of you," said Mr. Merson.

Lynly Safran McCoog, a homemaker who was a Lutherville school volunteer, died of breast cancer Nov. 13 at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson. She was 43 and lived in Lutherville. Born Lynly Safran in Toms River, N.J., she was the daughter of Robert Safran Sr. and Kathryn Nicholl Safran. She was raised in York, Pa., and was a 1987 graduate of York Suburban High School. She earned a bachelor of arts in English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She met her future husband, Kevin J. McCoog, a graduate of Loyola University Maryland who works in software sales.

Goodier Baker, a homebuilder based in Lutherville, has acquired six lots in Ellicott City for the construction of single-family homes that will start in the mid- to upper-$500,000s, the company announced Tuesday. The homesites, near Rogers Avenue along High Ridge Road, are each about one-half acre. Buyers there will be able to choose from three new floor plans that the company is developing. The plans range from 2,700 to 3,300 square feet, according to the company's statement. Goodier Baker plans to begin developing the sites in the next few months and expects homes can be complete by the spring of 2013.

A Lutherville woman died Saturday in a single-vehicle wreck in Cockeysville after a deer hit her car and she drove into a light pole, Baltimore County police say. Suzanne Natalie Selby, 62, was traveling southbound on Beaver Dam Road in a 2003 Honda Accord and approaching Texas Station Court when a deer ran into the driver's side of her vehicle, police said. She continued southbound, crossed the northbound lanes of Beaver Dam Road, and struck a light-support pole on the northeast corner of the intersection.

Dr. Daniel C.W. "D.C. " Finney, a retired Baltimore surgeon and World War II veteran, died Monday of heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Lutherville resident was 88. Dr. Daniel Clarke Wharton Finney — who was known as "D.C. " — was the son of Eben Dickey Finney, an architect, and Margaret Wharton Smith Finney, a homemaker. He was also a collateral descendant of Johns Hopkins and the namesake of Dr. D.C. Wharton Smith, a Baltimore pediatrician, who were both on his maternal side.

Milton B. Sachse, a former trailer company executive who later was chairman of the board of the Association of Maryland Pilots, died Friday of pneumonia at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Lutherville resident was 92. Milton Boyd Sachse was born and raised in a home on Willow Avenue in Towson. He was a 1938 graduate of Towson High School. Mr. Sachse was working in the engineering department of the old Glenn L. Martin Co. plant in Middle River at the time of his enlistment in the Navy in 1943.

Robert F. "Bob" Brettschneider, a retired American Telephone & Telegraph supervisor who was a former longtime Parkville resident, died Monday of lung cancer at Colonial Manor Nursing Home in York, Pa. He was 87. Born in Baltimore and raised on Franklintown Road, Robert Frederick Brettschneider was a 1943 graduate of Polytechnic Institute. He was a 1947 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. He joined AT&T Technologies, where he worked for 39 years as a supervisor until retiring in the late 1970s.