Warfield

Four viewings will be held for Justin Robert Warfield, the 18-year-old Wilde Lake High School graduate who died last week of an apparent heroin overdose at the college he attended in New Jersey. The viewings will be at Witzke's Funeral Home, 4112 Old Columbia Pike in Ellicott City from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and tomorrow. A Resurrection Service will be held at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at First Lutheran Church, 3604 Chatham Road in Ellicott City. A musical prelude will begin at 4 p.m. Interment is private.

His friends believed Justin Warfield was destined for greatness. The musically gifted Columbia youth landed a slot on the selective Maryland State Boychoir. Later, he showcased his drumming ability as part of a regional band composed of high school friends from Wilde Lake High School. Most thought that his acceptance to the prestigious Rider University's Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., was the next step in his musical education. Wednesday, the 18-year-old freshman music composition major died of an apparent heroin overdose.

On September 27, 2007, LUCILLE BANKS, loving mother of Gloria Warfield and Edward Banks. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Ave. on Wednesday after 9. Family will receive friends on Thursday at St. Martins Catholic Church, 31 N. Fulton St. at 10:30 followed by funeral services at 11. Interment at Kings Memorial Park.

Sykesville and Carroll County officials are planning to hire a project manager to oversee the business redevelopment of the $11 million Warfield Complex, hoping to increase the industrial tax base in the region while preserving historic buildings on the former grounds of Springfield Hospital Center. The combined public-private Warfield Development Corp. will hire a developer or develop in chunks a business park at the 96-acre complex, which includes 12 historic buildings and five additional parcels that will be built, said Brad Rees, president of the nine-member Warfield Development Corp.

As reported July 5, 1907, in The Sun: Governor Warfield spent the Fourth at his country home, Oakdale, Howard county. He had with him all of his family except his second daughter, who is at school in Paris. Oakdale is a beautiful place, and the Governor enjoyed his day greatly. In the morning he took a ride over his estate and after dinner spent the afternoon on his veranda. He will come to Baltimore today. [ Paul McCardell, Sun library researcher.]

City police commander's kin admits 3 robberies Elmer H. Warfield, the brother of a city police commander, pleaded guilty in Circuit Court yesterday to robbing three banks in Baltimore. Warfield, 37, was arrested March 19 after a chase through the city's downtown. Police caught him while responding to a 9 a.m. call for a robbery at Carrollton Bank on North Charles street. Police said that $1,308 was stolen, and Elmer Warfield pleaded guilty to robbing that bank yesterday, according to court papers.

A District Court judge ordered a man suspected of using threatening notes to rob 10 Baltimore banks held without bail yesterday after police charged him in one of the robberies. Police charging documents filed in court against Elmer H. Warfield III, 36, accuse him of passing a holdup note to a teller at Carrollton Bank in the 300 block of N. Charles St. on Tuesday morning. "This is a hold up, put lose money in the bag," the note said, according to the charging document. The robber then passed a small black plastic bag to the teller, who filled it with about $1,300 cash and a dye pack.

In the shade of Baltimore's World Trade Center, a prominent plaque overlooks the Inner Harbor. Near this spot, the Baltimore steamer President Warfield began her epic voyage into history. If none of that immediately strikes a chord, the inscription soon solves the mystery by revealing that the Warfield, a converted Chesapeake Bay steamship, made that journey under another name: Exodus 1947. The Jewish Museum of Maryland will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Exodus' journey with presentations and discussions from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. April 25 at the Chizuk Amuno Congregation, 8100 Stevenson Road.

The first major tenant has moved into the Warfield Complex, a long-planned business park gradually arising from vacant state mental hospital buildings in Sykesville. Nexion Health Inc., a nursing home management corporation, is the first national company to renovate one of the century-old brick buildings and relocate their headquarters there. "There's a real reward to being the first guy on the block," said Francis B. Kirley, Nexion's president and chief executive officer. "We're like the model house in a new development."

On September 20, 2006, ELEANOR WARFIELD WHITE of Westminster and formerly of Sykesville; beloved wife of the late Wilbur A. White, devoted mother of Eleanor W. Meyd, David White and Tim White, loving mother-in-law of David Meyd, Elaine White and Lisa White, dear sister of H. Branch Warfield, the late Millicent W. Sadler and the late Lee O. Warfield, Jr. Loving sister-in-law of Dickens Warfield, James Sadler, Cathryn White, Anne White and Ruth White and...