NEWS
December 15, 2003
On December 9, 2003, VERNON LEE GRAVES, beloved father of Wanda Wright, Wanda Douglas, and Sharron Brereton. He is also survived by two sisters, Mary and June, two brothers, Charles and Calvin. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Ave, on Tuesday after 8:30 A.M. Family will receive friends on Wednesday at Calvary Baptist Church, 3911 Garrison Boulevard at 11:30 A. M followed by funeral service at 12 noon. See www.marchfh.com
NEWS
August 1, 2003
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, Mrs. FRANCES DORSCH SKINNER; beloved wife of the late Vernon Lee Skinner; beloved mother of Vernon Lee Skinner, Jr.; devoted sister of Mary T. Gilcrest and James A. Dorsch; predeceased by two sisters, Pauline J. Anderson and Agnes D. Sorrentino, and two brothers, John C. Dorsch and Philip A. Dorsch. Celebration of Life Services will be held 10 A.M., Saturday, August 2, 2003, at St. Luke Episcopal Church, Franklin Square, (217 N. Carey Street). Friends may call one hour prior to services on Saturday at the church.
NEWS
May 13, 2003
Suddenly on May 6, 2003, DAVID LEE VERNON, son of Mark David Vernon and Carol Elaine Randall. Brother of Christopher Michael Vernon and Shawn Edward Vernon. Services and Interment private. Arrangements by Slack Funeral Home, P.A., 410-465-4400.
NEWS
By Robert Hilson Jr. and Robert Hilson Jr.,SUN STAFF | October 8, 1998
Vernon Lee Brown, an active churchman and former RTC administrator at Baltimore City Community College, died Monday heart failure at Johns Hopkins Hospital.Mr. Brown, 65, also worked as a city social worker, but he was perhaps better known for his social graces. His Randallstown home was often a place where friends gathered for parties and political discussions, and to watch sports on television."Everyone who knew Vernon can attest to his conservative views and the fact that he would never walk away from a good argument," said his wife, the former Miriam A. Jones, whom he married in 1977.
NEWS
By Thomas W. Waldron and Brenda J. Buote and Thomas W. Waldron and Brenda J. Buote,SUN STAFF Sun staff writer Ivan Penn contributed to this article | December 24, 1997
Gov. Parris N. Glendening will commute the five-year prison term of Nathaniel Hurt, the East Baltimore man who fatally shot a teen-ager out of frustration in 1994 after weeks of harassment by unruly youths, the governor's office announced yesterday.Glendening said he will sign the commutation order Jan. 6, meaning that Hurt, who has been in prison for 14 months, will remain incarcerated until then.Aides said the governor was announcing his decision now because, under the Maryland Constitution, he must publicize a pending commutation before taking action.
NEWS
By Kate Shatzkin and Kate Shatzkin,Sun Staff Writer | June 13, 1995
Nathaniel Hurt left court yesterday a free man while his five-year prison sentence is appealed, maintaining he was "not a villain" for killing a 13-year-old boy he called "a terror."But Baltimore Circuit Judge Ellen M. Heller said in sentencing him yesterday that while she sympathized with the plight of senior citizens living in crime-plagued communities, Hurt, 62, had no right to take the law into his own hands when he fired a .357-caliber Magnum at a crowd of teen-agers who had been vandalizing his car Oct. 10.Vernon Lee Holmes Jr., who Hurt said was among a group of youths who had harassed him for more than a month, was shot in the back.