Supervisor

Frank Wilson, a retired Westinghouse Electric Corp. supervisor and longtime Catonsville resident, died of cardiac arrest Wednesday at St. Agnes HealthCare. He was 77. Mr. Wilson was born and raised in Baltimore and attended City College. He served with the Army Signal Corps. and was in Korea from 1950 to 1951. He was a supervisor for 34 years in the aerospace division of Westinghouse in Linthicum until retiring in 1990. Mr. Wilson enjoyed working on home improvement projects, traveling and visiting Atlantic City casinos.

Joyce H. Womack, a bus and rail supervisor for the state Mass Transit Administration, died Monday of cancer at Northwest Hospital Center. The Woodlawn resident was 43.She joined the MTA in 1977 as a bus driver and was promoted to bus supervisor in 1982. Her responsibilities included the on-time performance of the system's buses and service problems.In 1987, she was made a rail supervisor on the Metro and in that position coordinated the operation of trains and schedules, and oversaw the operation of the subway system's stations.

I. Pearl Williams, a retired district supervisor for the Baltimore Bureau of Recreation, died Monday of heart failure at Union Memorial Hospital.Services for Miss Williams, who was 88 and lived in the Marylander Apartments, will be held at 11 a.m. today at Grace United Methodist Church, 5407 N. Charles St.A playground named for her was opened June 28 on the deck of the Recreation Pier in Fells Point.Though she retired as a district supervisor in 1964, much of her career of 42 years was spent as supervisor of children's activities.

Howard W. Standiford, a retired welding supervisor, died Monday after a heart attack at his home in Fork.Services for Mr. Standiford, who was 73, were held Thursday at the E. F. Lassahn Funeral Home in Kingsville.He retired seven years ago from the C. M. Kemp Manufacturing Co., which makes industrial dryers. He had worked there for more than 40 years.Reared in Fallston, he graduated from the Bel Air High School, where he was a member of the track team.He was a former trustee and treasurer of the Waugh Chapel United Methodist Church and was financial secretary of the White Marsh Presbyterian Church.

Services for Thelma M. Welborn, a supervisor for an office cleaning company, will be held at noon today at St. Paul Church of God in Christ Jesus Apostolic, Lakewood Avenue and Hoffman Street.Miss Welborn, who was 42, was killed Wednesday at her home on Random Road. A former friend of her daughter's was charged with murder.Since July, she worked part time for Broadway Services. For five years before, she drove cars off ships for Hoblemann Port Services Inc.Earlier, she worked for the Met Electrical Testing Co. and for London Fog, the clothing manufacturer.

A Mass of Christian burial for George Flower Jr., a supervisor for environmental services at the Eastern Stainless Corp., will be offered at 9 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph's Church in Fullerton.Mr. Flower, who was 55, died Monday at Franklin Square Hospital, where he had been hospitalized after a stroke Friday.He lived in Perry Hall for 10 years but had spent most of his life in Sparrows Point, a community overshadowed by the Bethlehem Steel mills.He graduated from Sparrows Point High School, worked as a machinist in the mills and joined the U.S. Army in 1958.

Norman Earl Banks, a retired National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration supervisor and former Northeast Baltimore resident, died Sept. 15 of cancer at Health Care Windemere in Orlando, Fla. He was 78. Born in Baltimore and raised on Stanwood Avenue, he was a 1949 graduate of Polytechnic Institute. In 1950, Mr. Banks went to work as a draftsman for the Navy's Hydrographic office in Suitland. He transferred in 1972 to NOAA, where he was section chief of the nautical charting division until his retirement in 1986.

Guy Whitson, a retired Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. employee and longtime Westminster resident, died of renal failure Feb. 5 at Carroll Hospital Center. He was 73. Mr. Whitson was born and raised in Bakersville, N.C., and served in the Air Force in the late 1940s. He moved to Westminster in 1950 and joined BGE in 1955. He retired as a supervisor in 1990. A Mason, he was a member of Door to Virtue Lodge No. 46, Boumi Temple, Knights of Mecca and Knights Templar. He was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Molleville Farm Post No. 467 Men's Auxiliary and Zion United Methodist Church.

Raymond A. Gebhardt, retired general supervisor of the central distribution department of the Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., died Sunday of cancer at St. Joseph Hospital. He was 80 and lived in Perry Hall.He began working for the utility as an office boy in 1930 and retired in 1978.A native of East Baltimore and a graduate of St. Andrew's School, he attended Polytechnic Institute.He played center halfback on the Shannon Men's Soccer team that won the Baltimore championship in 1934 and 1935.

William E. Bonner, a retired supervisor at McCormick & Co., died of heart failure Aug. 7 at his Oviedo, Fla., home. He was 71. Born in Williamson, N.C., he later lived in Suffolk, Va., where he attended high school. After serving in the Army, Mr. Bonner moved to Baltimore in 1956. He went to work for the spice company in 1959 and retired in 1996. In 2002, he and his wife of 47 years, the former Grace Jackson, moved to Florida to be close to their daughter, Cheryl Ireland, and her two sons.