Monkton

Ruth Frank, a Phoenix resident with a collection of 351 teddy bears, died of cancer Thursday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. She was 78. Born Ruth Zinkhan, Mrs. Frank was one of two girls in a German family with 12 children. She was raised on a farm in Monkton, called to do chores alongside all her brothers. She met her husband, Paul J. Frank Sr., because two of her brothers had married two of his sisters. He was trained as a carpenter and later worked as a construction contractor.

Jacqueline Zeuch Palmer, an educator and avid square dancer, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease Tuesday at Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville. She was 85. Mrs. Palmer was a co-founder and director of St. James Academy in Monkton. The school started in the late 1950s with 12 students, said her husband, Max Palmer. Mrs. Palmer was director of the school until 1963. She then taught at St. Paul's School for Girls in Brooklandville until 1969. Jacqueline Zeuch was born in Chicago and graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in psychology in 1942.

Suddenly, on May 21, 2007, GARY CHARLES WHEATLEY; beloved husband of Kathy Lynn (nee DiMartino); devoted father of Maggie Wheatley and her significant other, Clark Leyko; cherished son of James and Margaret Wheatley; loving brother of Bruce Wheatley and his wife Laura, and Robert Wheatley and his wife Josette; cherished god-son of Janet Carnes and Virginia Lee Evans. Friends may call at family owned Henry W. Jenkins & Sons Funeral Home, 16924 York Road (Hereford/Monkton) on Sunday and Monday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A funeral service will be held on Tuesday 10 A.M., at the funeral home.

Elizabeth S. Worcester, a former model and retired receptionist, died Saturday of heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. The former Roland Park resident was 92. Born Elizabeth Sothoron in Baltimore, she was a direct descendant of George Read, a Delaware signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Robert Oliver, the Baltimore merchant and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad executive whose 68-acre country estate became Green Mount Cemetery in 1839....

Sotuknaga Stable's Delight Fantastic won the featured Edward S. Voss Memorial yesterday at the Elkridge-Harford point-to-point meet at Atlanta Hall Farm in Monkton.Ridden by Arch Kingsley Jr., Delight Fantastic covered the three miles over timber fences in 6 minutes, 5 seconds, managing to defeat Tom Voss' Welter Weight by a neck.Another Voss entry, Florida Law, ran third.In the co-feature, the George Clement Memorial, Deliberation, trained and ridden by Gus Brown, beat Tej Sing by a half length in 6: 29.Tej Sing was ridden by former flat rider Charlie Fenwick III. Newport was third.

Joel Marshall Bagby, president of his college and university fund-raising firm, died Saturday of lymphatic cancer at Stella Maris Hospice.He was 64 and lived in Monkton.During his long career, Mr. Bagby advised a number of prominent academic institutions on how to woo students and to coax them as graduates to donate money to their alma maters."His forte was that he was a brilliant writer and conceptualizer," said Gerry Willse, a colleague and friend. "He could get to the heart of the matter and make you understand it."

BETH DENNENBERG AND JOHN OERTEL JR.It was one of the last hurrahs of the summer of 1993 when Beth Dennenberg and John Oertel Jr. struck up a conversation at a friend's party. The two -- who had never met before that night despite their longtime mutual friendship with the party's host -- joked and laughed that weekend after Labor Day about another summer gone by.Under the teasing, however, was a serious tone. They were both in their 20s, with their high school and college days behind them.

Jane Fowble Pearce, 69, Butler homemakerFuneral services for Jane Fowble Pearce, a homemaker who enjoyed decorating the window boxes of the Butler post office, will be held at 6 p.m. Friday at St. James Episcopal Church, 3100 Monkton Road, Monkton.Mrs. Pearce died Aug. 10 of injuries she suffered in an automobile accident in Swinford, County Mayo, Ireland. She was 69 and lived at The Hill, her home in Butler.She was vacationing with her sister, Anne Delamere Akehurst, 77, of Butler, who also was killed in the accident.

Dr. Andrew Harris' supporters already are anticipating their candidate's swearing in as state senator for Baltimore County's conservative 9th Legislative District -- but don't forget about Anthony O. Blades.Blades, 61, of Monkton -- a military retiree and first-time candidate -- was the lone Democrat to file for the seat occupied by 17-year veteran state Sen. F. Vernon Boozer. Boozer lost the Republican primary to Harris Tuesday by 613 votes, after being painted by Harris as too liberal, particularly on the issue of abortion.

A Baltimore County school official confirmed yesterday that a pupil at Hereford Middle School in Monkton has viral meningitis, and another is suspected of having the brain infection.But school and health officials told parents that viral meningitis is not communicable from person to person and children at the school are not at increased risk from being exposed to the pupil.School officials sent a letter home to parents Tuesday telling them of the sick pupil."Its not bacterial meningitis, and it's not contagious.

On April 14, 2009, Jean Parry Koch, Family and friends will honor Jean's life at the family owned Evans Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services - Monkton, 16924 York Road (York and Monkton Roads - Hereford) from 7 to 9 P.M. Thursday. Service and interment will be private. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions in Jean's name may be made to Lutheran Social Services, 105 South Main Street, Shrewsbury, PA 17361. Memory tributes may be sent to the family at www.evansfuneralchapel.com.

City drug dealer given 15 years for selling crack U.S. District Court Judge William D. Quarles Jr. sentenced Baltimore drug dealer Otis Rich, 34, yesterday to more than 15 years in federal prison for distributing more than 3.5 kilograms of crack between March 2006 and August 2008. His co-defendant, Devon Marshall, 37, of Abingdon pleaded guilty yesterday to the same charge on a larger scale. Marshall, who faces a mandatory minimum of 20 years in prison at his April sentencing, said he obtained cocaine from Mexico and helped distribute more than 150 kilograms throughout the city.

On January 1, 2009, EMMA (nee Mosner) CARROLL, beloved wife of the late William C. Price and the late Roger Carroll. Survived by one nephew Robert W. Mitchell and his wife Carol. Also survived by two great-nieces, Cathryn and Robyn. Friends may call at Henry W. Jenkins and Sons Funeral Home, 16924 York Road, on Thursday 5 to 7 PM and Friday 12 to 2 PM and 5 to 7 PM. Funeral service on Saturday at St. John's Lutheran Church, 3911 Sweet Air Road, at 11 AM. Interment following in the adjoining cemetery.

Frances Virginia Dentry, a retired registered nurse and family historian, died of cancer Nov. 20 at her Towson home. She was 88. Born Frances Virginia Bortner in Baltimore and raised on a family farm in White Hall, she was a 1937 Sparks High School graduate. She then earned a nursing degree from the St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing. She raised her family - six sons and two daughters - in a large Victorian home in Corbett in northern Baltimore County. In the mid-1960s, she resumed nursing and initially worked at the Masonic Home of Maryland.

On November 5, 2008 Norris Clifton Fridinger, Friends may call the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc, 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26A) on Sunday from 3-5 and 7-9 P.M. A funeral service will be held at Monkton United Methodist Church, 1930 Monkton Road, Monkton, MD 21111 on Monday at 10:00 A.M. Interment to follow at the church cemetery. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Monkton United Methodist Church with the above address.

Frances H. Meginniss, an active church member and volunteer, died of heart failure Oct. 19 at Glen Meadows retirement community in Glen Arm. She was 89. Frances Hoffman was born in Baltimore and raised in Forest Park. She was a 1937 graduate of Forest Park High School. After graduating in 1939 from Eaton & Burnett Business College, she worked as a secretary. In 1941, she married high school sweetheart Stephen Mason Meginniss II. During her husband's 20 years as a career Air Force officer, Mrs. Meginniss and her family moved 17 times.

In Monkton, it's not just about what is there: diverse housing, lush fields, wooded hiking trails, convenient shopping and top-ranked schools. It's about what is not. The absence of dense development, crime and noise is striking, residents and real estate agents say. Much of the land in the rural, northern Maryland community has been preserved as open space or has been designated for agriculture by zoning designations. "I think that's a big part of the appeal," says Frank H. Durkee III, a Realtor with O'Conor & Mooney in Phoenix and a 36-year Monkton resident.

On August 28, 2008, ALICE FIELDS, of Kingsville, MD. She is survived by three children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends. Friends may call on Tuesday from 5 P.M. to 8 P.M. at the William C. Brown Community Funeral Home, 321 S. Philadelphia Blvd., Aberdeen, MD. Services at Monkton Christian Church, 1824 Monkton Road, Joppa, MD, on Wednesday, September 3, 10 A.M. Funeral service 11 A.M. Interment in Asbury U.M. Church Cemetery, White Marsh, MD.

Karen Lumpkin loves flowers. Her husband, Doug, loves grass. See how they've managed to compromise on their 3-acre property in Monkton. See their garden and read their story at baltimore sun.com/gardener.

Alice Smyser Raphel, a retired Baltimore County elementary school teacher, died July 28 of cancer at her longtime home in Monkton. She was 80. She was born in York, Pa., where she graduated from William Penn High School in 1945. She received an English degree from Goucher College in 1949 and later earned a master's degree in education from Goucher. She married Eugene F. Raphel, a land surveyor, in 1950. They lived briefly in Towson before moving to their home in Monkton, where she devoted herself to raising their three children.