Postal Worker

Carroll Leonard "Bo" Snyder, a former longtime Randallstown postal worker and World War II veteran, died Sept. 11 of pneumonia at Carroll Hospice's Dove House in Westminster. The Sykesville resident was 90. Mr. Snyder was born on his family's farm in Randallstown and spent his early years there. The farm was lost after his father's death in 1931, and five years later, Mr. Snyder dropped out of Randallstown School, which in those days went from grades one to 12, to help support his family.

A former postal worker admitted Friday that she stole mail and the money inside those envelopes at a Linthicum postal facility, victimizing more than 250 people, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Baltimore. Dorothy Jean Gibson, 56, of Windsor Mill, who worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 13 years, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to theft of mail by a postal employee, officials said. When sentenced Jan. 11, Gibson could receive a maximum sentence of five years in prison plus three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

A former postal worker admitted Friday that she stole mail and the money inside those envelopes at a Linthicum postal facility, victimizing more than 250 people, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Baltimore. Dorothy Jean Gibson, 56, of Windsor Mill, who worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 13 years, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to theft of mail by a postal employee, officials said. When sentenced Jan. 11, Gibson could receive a maximum sentence of five years in prison plus three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

An Odenton man who tricked a mentally disabled Glen Burnie postal worker into giving him more than $250,000 over the course of three years pleaded guilty Wednesday to exploiting a vulnerable adult, according to Anne Arundel County prosecutors. Eugene Allen Hinson, Jr., 59, of the 1300 block of Tab St. in Odenton was sentenced by Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Paul Hackner to serve 18 months of a 10-year prison term, prosecutors said in a news release. Hackner also required Hinson to pay full restitution to Thomas "Tommy" Newberger, 50, who is mentally retarded and has worked various jobs at the U.S. Post Office in Glen Burnie for about 30 years, prosecutors said.

An Odenton man who tricked a mentally disabled Glen Burnie postal worker into giving him more than $250,000 over the course of three years pleaded guilty Wednesday to exploiting a vulnerable adult, according to Anne Arundel County prosecutors. Eugene Allen Hinson, Jr., 59, of the 1300 block of Tab St. in Odenton was sentenced by Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Paul Hackner to serve 18 months of a 10-year prison term, prosecutors said in a news release. Hackner also required Hinson to pay full restitution to Thomas "Tommy" Newberger, 50, who is mentally retarded and has worked various jobs at the U.S. Post Office in Glen Burnie for about 30 years, prosecutors said.

Barbara J. Vincent, a postal worker who enjoyed cooking, died Friday of cancer at a sister's Pikesville home. She was 62. Ms. Vincent was born in Baltimore and raised in Somerset Homes in East Baltimore. She was a 1964 graduate of St. Frances Academy and studied at the Community College of Baltimore City. Since 1968, Ms. Vincent had worked at the main U.S. Post Office on East Fayette Street, where she was a registered mail clerk. Ms. Vincent, who had lived in Windsor Hills, enjoyed cooking for family and friends.

Gloria S. Turnquist, 74, postal worker, teacher Gloria S. Turnquist, a former postal worker and teacher, died Feb. 6 of complications from a stroke at Maryland General Hospital. She was 74. A Cherry Hill resident, Mrs. Turnquist had worked as a mail sorter in the old main post office on Calvert Street from 1964 to 1970. Earlier, she had worked at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Born Gloria Smith in Muscogee County, Ga., she was raised in Columbus, Ga., where she graduated from high school. From 1954 to 1964, she was a teacher at the Georgia State Reformatory School in Columbus.

John A. Jacobs, a retired postal worker and avid fisherman, died of cancer Friday at his Woodbine home. He was 64. Born in Baltimore, Mr. Jacobs was raised in Woodlawn and Arbutus and attended Catonsville High School. He served as an Air Force radar operator from 1956 to 1960 and was assigned to the service's Distant Early Warning System. After returning to Baltimore, Mr. Jacobs became a letter carrier for what is now the U.S. Postal Service. For 34 years, until retiring in 1995, he walked a route in Halethorpe delivering mail.

Thomas Charles Leavy, a retired postal worker who had a second career as a teacher, died of cancer Friday at Ruth's Comfort and Care, an assisted-living home in Northwest Baltimore. The Woodlawn resident was 70. Born in Baltimore and raised on Mount Street, he was a 1953 graduate of Frederick Douglass High School. While attending what is now Morgan State University, he was drafted into the Army and was stationed in Hawaii. He then became a mail handler at the main Baltimore post office for 32 years, retiring in 1989.

George E. Yakaitis, a retired postal worker who played alto saxophone in a family band for many years, died of a heart attack Sunday at St. Agnes HealthCare. The Glen Burnie resident was 84. Mr. Yakaitis retired in 1982 from the Glen Burnie post office, where he had been a letter carrier for 15 years. Born in New Castle, Pa., the son of Lithuanian immigrants, he was raised in Baltimore and graduated from City College in 1935. He worked as a butcher and as a security guard at Food Machinery Corp.

The Charles County Sheriff's Office says a three-year-old boy was killed after he climbed out of his mother's car and walked into the path of another vehicle. Authorities say the incident occurred in the 10500 block of Sugarberry Street in Waldorf about 2 p.m. Tuesday. Police say the boy had been in a car seat in the back seat of the vehicle when his mother pulled over to give some mail to a postal worker. Police say the boy unbuckled himself, left the car and walked into the roadway where he was struck by an oncoming SUV. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.

Doris J. Roseborough, a retired Small Business Administration executive supervisor, died Nov. 15 of an aneurysm at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The longtime Ashburton resident was 73. The former Doris Richardson was born in Essex, N.C., and moved with her family to South Baltimore. After graduating from Carver Vocational-Technical High School in 1956, she earned a bachelor's degree in 1961 from Morgan State University. Mrs. Roseborough worked for the Small Business Administration in Washington as an executive supervisor for 31 years before retiring in the mid-1980s.

With rain coming down Tuesday afternoon, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings picked up a bullhorn and looked toward more than 100 people protesting proposed U.S. Postal Service cutbacks in Catonsville. "I refuse to take you for granted," he told the cheering crowd, several of whom were shouting into their own bullhorns. "They keep squeezing and squeezing and squeezing. At some point, you get squeezed to death. " Like those on Frederick Road in Catonsville, postal workers across the country took to the streets Tuesday to protest proposed layoffs and closures, including the shuttering of 41 offices in Maryland and eight in Baltimore.

Elizabeth E. Farrell, owner of Rosie's Posies East that supplied vintage garlands to Renaissance festivals around the country, died Sunday of acute liver failure at Union Memorial Hospital. The longtime Towson resident was 83. The daughter of a Navy shipyard worker and a postal worker, she was born Elizabeth Echelmeier and raised in Philadelphia, where she graduated in 1946 from Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, she worked in the post office in Philadelphia before moving to Baltimore in 1956.

Hazel E. Melchior, a retired registered nurse and avid reader, died Aug. 18 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 88. The daughter of a postal worker and a homemaker, the former Hazel E. Bready was born and raised in Haverhill, Mass., where she graduated from high school in 1941. She received her nurse's training in Maine and was working in Massachusetts when she met her husband, George W. Melchior Sr., whom she married in 1946.

Daniel A. Lafferty, a certified public accountant and world traveler, died Aug. 13 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson from complications of a stroke he suffered in April. The longtime Wiltondale resident was 72. The son of a postal worker and a homemaker, Mr. Lafferty was born in Baltimore and raised in Govans, where he attended St. Mary of the Assumption parochial school. After graduating from the old Calvert Hall College High School on Cathedral Street in 1957, he earned a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1961 from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Louis A. Dodson, a retired postal worker who collected stamps and coins, died of cancer Tuesday at Bonnie Blink Masonic Home in Cockeysville. He was 83 and lived in Overlea. Born in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown, Mr. Dodson was a graduate of Kenwood High School. During World War II, he served with the Coast Guard on coastal patrol duty before being discharged in 1945 because of a leg injury. Mr. Dodson joined the U.S. Postal Service in 1945, and worked for many years at the old main Baltimore post office on Calvert Street.