Weems

On February 14, 2007 MRS. VIOLET. Visitation 2140 N. Fulton Avenue, Wednesday 3 to 6 P.M. Family will receive friends at John Wesley UM Church, 3202 W. North Avenue on Thursday 10 A.M. Funeral to follow at 10:30 A.M.

Alease V. Weems, a retired registered nurse and the oldest member of St. Matthew's United Methodist Church, died Oct. 15 of complications from cardiovascular disease at Good Samaritan Hospital. She was 85. Alease Vonetta Workman was born and raised in Baltimore. After graduating from Dunbar High School with honors in 1942, she earned a nursing certificate from Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was a 1945 graduate of the old Provident Hospital School of Nursing and later attended what is now Morgan State University, where she earned a degree in political science.

Charles Oscar Weems Jr., a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. welder and longtime Turners Station resident, died of pneumonia Friday at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He was 86. Mr. Weems, who was born in Baltimore and raised on Gilmor Street, graduated in 1938 from Frederick Douglass High School. During World War II, he served in an Army infantry unit in Europe, attaining the rank of staff sergeant. After being wounded, he was given the nickname of "Wounded Knee," family members said.

PRINCE FREDERICK -- Dr. George J. Weems spent his last day of medical practice at his tiny office with the one examining table and the Norman Rockwell print on the wall. Some patients came for treatment, some to say farewell, some to commiserate with the 81-year-old man about the end of his half-century career.He had hoped to retire on his own terms and spend his free time cultivating his fields of tobacco and grain. As it turned out, he retired July 1 because a state medical board was about to revoke his license after he was charged with unlawfully prescribing controlled drugs to undercover police three times this year.

Walk into the the Carrie Mae Weems show at Washington's National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the first thing you meet is a quote from the artist: "Let me simply say that my primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of Afro-Americans in our country."The show that follows leaves no doubt about that, but we should take the word "primary" seriously, for Weems' work is not solely about African-Americans and race relations. It's also about women and gender relations, and the necessity of honesty.

On July 15, 2008 ETHEL L. (nee Weems) HODGES-MURRAY. Survived by her husband Madison Murray and her sister Georgianna Weems Christmas and her brother William Hebron Weems. Viewing Friday, July 25 4-8PM at Phillips Funeral Home, 1721 N. Monroe St. Family hour Saturday, July 26 at 10A.M. followed by funeral service at 11A.M. at Metropolitan U.M. Church, 1121 W. Lanvale St.

A Hagerstown man pleaded guilty to first-degree assault yesterday in Howard Circuit Court after prosecutors said he fired a gun at an Ellicott City man during a domestic dispute. Earl Leonardo Weems, 42, fired two shots from a .40-caliber handgun at Charles Pridgen - the husband of a woman with whom Weems once had a relationship - in front of the Pridgens' home on Town and Country Boulevard, according to the statement of facts prosecutor F. Todd Taylor read in court. Weems also pleaded guilty to using a handgun during a felony or violent crime.

On September 22, 2006, CLARA, beloved mother of Delores Hankins, Richard T., Doris and Brenda McKinley. Also survived by her one brother John Weems, two sisters-in-law, Fannie Weems and Beatrice Weems, a host of other family members and friends. Friends may call the WYLIE FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 638 N. Gilmore Street on Wednesday from 4 to 8 P.M. Family will receive friends on Thursday for the 10 A.M. Wake and 10:30 A.M. Funeral Service at John Wesley United Methodist Church, 3202 W. North Avenue.

PRINCE FREDERICK -- Acquitted seven months ago in Circuit Court of illegally prescribing narcotics, Dr. George J. Weems is making a fresh start. At nearly 83 years old.There are boxes yet to be unpacked in the new office, and the word of his return is still filtering through his circle of loyal patients. But the family medical practice that began in 1938, when Dr. Weems called on patients on the back roads of rural Calvert County in a black Plymouth coupe, has resumed.A year after surrendering his state medical license in the wake of charges that he illegally prescribed controlled painkillers and an amphetamine to undercover police, Dr. Weems recovered his license in June.