Monkton

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.

Nancy Hudes' 3-year-old son Paul ran up to her covered in black dust at the end of a long day at nature camp. "Oh my God, you're filthy," she said. "What happened?" "Charcoal pit," Paul said, smiling coyly. His mother laughed again. "The dirtier the better," she said. This was a typical end-of-the-day interaction at Don Webb's Nature Camps, which for the last 20 years have offered hundreds of Baltimore-area children opportunities to explore 228 acres of lush green woodlands on the edge of Gunpowder Falls State Park in Monkton.