Memorial Service

Marie Rose Cornely, a homemaker who enjoyed writing poetry, died Sunday of heart disease at Stella Maris Hospice. She was 87. Marie Rose McKenna was born and raised in Philadelphia. She was a 1943 graduate of the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur in Villanova, Pa. She was an office worker before her 1947 marriage to Dr. Donald A. Cornely Sr.. The couple lived in Philadelphia when Dr. Cornely taught at the University of Pennsylvania and later at the University of Pittsburgh.

Thomas Walter Gough Jr., a retired printing salesman and lacrosse coach, died April 13 of heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 85. The son of a state worker and a homemaker, Thomas Walter Gough Jr. was born and raised in Towson. He was a 1946 graduate of St. Paul's School, where he was an outstanding lacrosse, football and basketball player. In 2010, he was inducted into St. Paul's Athletic Hall of Fame for his lacrosse and football prowess. Mr. Gough earned a bachelor's degree in 1950 from the Johns Hopkins University, where he played lacrosse and football.

John Edward Edmondson, a retired sales executive and merchandiser, died April 18 of pancreatic cancer at his Catonsville home. He was 79. The son of a steelworker and a homemaker, Mr. Edmondson was born and raised in Cincinnati. After graduating from Withrow High School, he enlisted in the Army and served with an infantry unit in Korea during the war. After he was discharged from the service, he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1957 from Ohio State University.

Margaret M. "Peggy" Herder, a former school and legal secretary, died April 16 from complications of an infection at Howard County General Hospital. She was 90. A daughter of a Baltimore & Ohio railroader and a homemaker, the former Margaret Mae Partridge was born in Baltimore and raised on Pentwood Road in Northeast Baltimore. She was a 1940 graduate of Eastern High School, and three years later married Godfrey August Herder Jr., an accountant. He died in 2003. During the early 1960s, Mrs. Herder was a school secretary at the Park School in Brooklandville, and from the late 1970s until the 1980s when she retired, she was a legal secretary for the Ellicott City law firm of Seibert, Seibert & Nippert, family members said.

Now in its 23rd year, Maryland's annual statewide memorial service for crime victims and their families, an official day of remembrance organized by prosecutors and the state Board of Victims Services, comes with a long roll call of the murdered or missing. The names now cover fully 28 pages in the program organizers hand out at the door to each of four services held across the state, and the music video that lists each name runs for most of an hour. Sunday, in Hagerstown in western Maryland, in Denton on the Eastern Shore, in Waldorf in southern Maryland and in the auditorium of Long Reach High School in Howard County, the families of victims gathered to remember their dead and to be among others who share the pain of losing a loved one to violent crime.

As Annapolis mayor in the 1980s, Dennis M. Callahan was so peeved that a volunteer coach with the city's recreation program had been charged with a drug offense that he canceled the entire athletic season, a decision met with fury by some. Under pressure, he didn't back down, and ultimately required anyone in the city working with children to undergo a background check. It was quintessential Callahan, say those who knew him. "A lot of politicians take polls," said House Speaker Michael E. Busch Monday at a memorial service for Callahan.

Maria C. "Titine" Esteves, who had been assistant human resources director at the Johns Hopkins University, was killed Jan. 22 in a head-on automobile collision on U.S. 1 in Key Largo, Fla. The former Ellicott City resident, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was 61. Her daughter, Anastasia Esteves, 16, who was traveling with her mother at the time of the accident, was released after being treated at Miami Children's Hospital. Maria Christina Esteves was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Lucy Ewbank, wife of former Baltimore Colts coach Weeb Ewbank, died Monday in The Knolls of Oxford (Ohio). She was 105. Her husband died in 1998. He coached the Colts from 1954 to 1962, winning championships in 1958 and 1959. He also coached the New York Jets. He went into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1978. According to a news release from Miami University in Oxford, where her husband was an athlete and coach, Mrs. Ewbank is survived by her daughters; Luanne Spenceley, Nancy (Charles)

Eugenia A. "Genie" Kennedy, a former Peace Corps volunteer and teacher, died Jan. 7 of multiple organ failure at her Bel Air home. She was 82. A daughter of a businessman and a homemaker, Sarah Eugenia Asbury, who did not use her first name, was born and raised in Delta, Pa. After graduating from Delta High School in 1947, she earned a bachelor's degree in business education in 1951 from Russell Sage College in upstate New York....

Charles Orestus Smith, a retired CareFirst Medicare contractor who was an avid fan of the opera and symphony, died Jan. 3 of a heart attack at his home in the Northway Apartments in Guilford. He was 74. Born in Baltimore and raised in Guilford, Mr. Smith was a 1954 graduate of Polytechnic Institute. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the Army and was sent to the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif., where he learned Russian. While serving in Japan, he met and married the former Yasuko Takagi in 1958.