Union Memorial Hospital

On February 26, 2008, RICHARD V. "Dick" SLONE at Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD. Mr. Slone was born April 18,1936 and died following a protracted struggle with cancer. On March 18, 1980 he commenced his sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous and sponsored many others in recovery during his twenty-seven years as an active member of the Fellowship. At his request his remains were cremated. A Celebration Memorial Service of the Liturgy will be offered in St. Ignatius Church Chapel of Grace, 740 N. Calvert at Madison Streets, Baltimore, MD 21202 (adjacent to Center Stage)

Margaret Jane Wall, a registered nurse who had been assistant director of nursing at Union Memorial Hospital for two decades, died Sunday of lung cancer at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Baldwin resident was 77. Margaret Jane Shelton was born and raised in Moores Springs, N.C., and graduated in 1947 from Nancy Reynolds High School, where she was a star player on the girls basketball team. She earned her nursing degree in 1951 from the old City Memorial Hospital, now known as Forsyth Medical Center, in Winston-Salem, N.C. After she married Hugh B. Wall Sr., a Westinghouse Electric Corp.

CAROLINE MILLER STRONG, age 63, of 28 Stonebridge Ct., Towson, MD, died Monday, July 9, 2007 at her home. Mrs. Strong was a native of Asheboro, was a 1962 graduate of Asheboro High School and was a graduate of Salem College. She was employed as a Life Line Coordinator with Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, MD. She was preceded in death by her father, Arthur B. Miller. She is survived by her sons, Jay V. Strong III of Baltimore, MD, Bryan S. Strong of Fairbanks, AK; mother, Mary Lib Miller of Asheboro, NC; sisters, Beth Miller Slate of St. Augustine, FL, Mary Bryan Russell of Winston-Salem, NC; and several nieces and nephews.

Dr. Charles Frederick Hobelmann Sr., former chief of anesthesiology at Union Memorial Hospital, died Wednesday of pneumonia at the Broadmead retirement community. He was 86. Dr. Hobelmann was born in Baltimore and raised in Forest Park. He was a graduate of Forest Park High School and earned a bachelor's degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1942. After graduating in 1944 from an accelerated class at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, he enlisted in the Navy, where he attained the rank of lieutenant and served as a physician at the Norfolk, Va., naval base.

More than 100 Baltimore residents voiced opposition to plans for the construction of a helicopter landing pad at Union Memorial Hospital at a community meeting last night, saying the anticipated noise and safety concerns would affect their quality of life. Hospital officials said an on-site helipad is necessary in the competitive world of cardiac health care. The helipad would be used primarily for bringing patients in cardiac arrest to the hospital's Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Heart Institute and those with crushed or severed hands to its Curtis National Hand Center.

An article in yesterday's Maryland section about Union Memorial Hospital seeking to put a helipad on its roof should have said that the access road to its current helipad at Lake Montebello can still be used. However, because hospital officials must make advance arrangements to have the road opened, they say its use is limited in emergencies.

Dr. John Allison Nesbitt Jr., who had a longtime private medical practice in Catonsville, died Wednesday of pneumonia in his Catonsville apartment. He was 92. The son of a Presbyterian minister, Dr. Nesbitt was born in Catonsville and graduated from West Nottingham Academy in Rising Sun. He attended Princeton University, where he prepared for a career in the ministry, graduating in 1936. After being hospitalized with appendicitis at Union Memorial Hospital in his junior year of college, he decided that he wanted to become a physician and attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he graduated in 1940.

Theodore M. Chandlee Jr., former president and chief executive of a Baltimore real estate company and community activist, died from internal bleeding Friday at Union Memorial Hospital. The Roland Park Place retirement community resident was 82. Mr. Chandlee was born in Baltimore and raised on Northfield Place in Roland Park. He was a 1941 graduate of Polytechnic Institute and left Lehigh University to enlist in the Navy. Trained as a naval aviator, he was awaiting assignment to an aircraft carrier when the war ended.

Lewis Kenneth Sullivan Jr., a retired Baltimore and Ohio Railroad communications engineer, died of heart disease Saturday at Union Memorial Hospital. The Oxford resident was 77. Born in Baltimore and raised on Elmley Avenue, he attended City College and later earned a General Educational Development diploma. He began work as a messenger in the telegraph office of the railroad's downtown Baltimore headquarters in 1946. He retired in 1984 as regional communications and signal engineer of the Chessie System, successor company to B&O. Mr. Sullivan lived for many years in Glen Burnie before moving to the Eastern Shore.

Joyce F. Prevost, a retired registered nurse and antiques dealer, died of a heart attack Oct. 18 at her home in the Pinehurst neighborhood of Baltimore. She was 82. She was born Joyce Fangmeyer in Baltimore and raised in Martinsburg, W.Va. She was a 1944 graduate of the Union Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. "From 1944 to 1945, she was a civilian nurse with the Army Cadet Nurse Corps," said her husband of 46 years, Theodore Lucas Prevost. She served overseas in World War II. After the war, Mrs. Prevost was the head pediatric nurse for 13 years at the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children on the grounds of Johns Hopkins Hospital until leaving in 1960.