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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | January 10, 2009
Evelyn M. Magee, a retired telephone operator and longtime Cedonia resident, died Jan. 1 of cancer at a daughter's home in Rising Sun. She was 80. Evelyn Marie Davis was born in Baltimore and raised on Washington Street. She attended St. Andrew's Roman Catholic School until the eighth-grade, when she left to help support her family. She worked at the Brager-Gutman department store selling coats and dresses. During World War II, she was a postal worker. Mrs. Magee was employed for 30 years as a long distance operator for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. She retired in the mid-1980s.
NEWS
January 5, 2009
On January 1, 2009 EVELYN MARIE (nee Davis) MAGEE; beloved wife of the late John Ernest Magee; cherished mother of Colleen Callahan and her husband Michael, Roseanne Knauer and her husband, the late Rod Knauer, Evelyn Snider and her husband Eric, and her late husband Burton Carter, Shawn Magee and his wife Nancy; beloved grandmother of Amy, Bryan, Erin, Jerry, Nathan, Josh, Liz, Mark, Eve, Kristin, Caitlin, Holly, Stephen, Sam and Jake; great- grandmother of...
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By Melissa Harris and Melissa Harris,Sun reporter | September 28, 2007
The Court of Special Appeals has overturned the conviction of a Columbia woman in the choking death of a fellow Loyola College doctoral student in 2005, ruling that Howard County detectives waited until she made incriminating statements to advise her of her Miranda rights. Unless Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler decides to appeal the ruling to the state's highest court, prosecutors will either reach a plea agreement and lower Melissa Burch Harton's sentence or retry her on the charge of involuntary manslaughter.
NEWS
June 1, 2007
On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, JAMES Leroy, beloved husband of Linda Jean Magee (nee Bordner), devoted father of Alisa Helen Perez and her husband Jose, loving grandfather of Nicholas James, Chyna Alisa, Kaleigh Cynthia-Helyn Perez and Brenna Elizabeth Perez, dear brother of Thomas and Michael Magee and the late Frederick Magee. Service and interment private. Arrangements by Miller-Dippel Funeral Home Inc.
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By MELISSA HARRIS and MELISSA HARRIS,SUN REPORTER | April 18, 2006
A Howard County Circuit Court judge sentenced a 26-year-old Columbia woman yesterday to 10 years in prison - the maximum allowed by law - for involuntary manslaughter in the death of her friend and fellow Loyola College doctoral student. Melissa Burch Harton was convicted Feb. 10 in the strangulation of 31-year-old Natasha Bacchus Magee of Stewartstown, Pa. She will be eligible for parole in about 18 months. Her attorney, Michael Kaminkow, said that he will ask a three-judge panel to reduce the sentence.
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By LAURA CADIZ and LAURA CADIZ,SUN REPORTER | February 15, 2006
The 12-member jury that convicted a Columbia woman of involuntary manslaughter in the strangulation death of a fellow clinical psychology doctoral student only briefly considered the more serious charge of first-degree murder, according to two jurors. Juror David Kilpatrick said the group discussed for about 10 minutes the possibility of Melissa Burch Harton, 26, having the intent to kill Natasha Bacchus Magee last March before eliminating it from the list of convictions. "It wasn't premeditated," said Kilpatrick, who believed Harton should be acquitted until the final hour of the jury's 14 1/2 -hour deliberations.