Westminster Home

Walter Raymond Wallace Sr., former commander of what was then called the Maryland Toll Facilities Police, died of a stroke Saturday at his Westminster home. He was 85. Mr. Wallace was born and raised in Baltimore and was a graduate of city public schools. He enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and served in the engine room of the destroyer USS Woolsey in the Pacific. He was discharged in 1948 and remained active in the Naval Reserve. He joined the Maryland Toll Facilities Police in 1957 and later was promoted to commander.

3 sought in invasion of Westminster home Maryland State Police are looking for three men involved in a Westminster home invasion and armed robbery. The ski mask-wearing men, one of them carrying a semiautomatic handgun, entered a home on Eden Farm Circle about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and tied up a woman and three children in the house, state police said. While the men looked for valuables, another adult and child came home, police said. They were assaulted and tied up, police said. The men left on foot with money and other valuables, police said.

Carroll County: Westminster Man is arrested in teen's shooting A 24-year-old Hampstead man was arrested early yesterday morning and charged with shooting a teenage girl in a Westminster home, state police said. Police, with the help of a helicopter, found Randy Allen Humple hiding in an area of brush about 125 yards from the home. Humple, of the 4700 block of Maple Grove Road, has been charged with first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and a handgun violation, according to police.

A man broke into a Westminster home Sunday night, demanded money from a female resident while wielding an unknown tool and then fled, state police reported yesterday. The intruder broke in through a rear sliding door of the house in the 1000 block of Humbert Schoolhouse Road about 10:30 p.m., police said. After walking up the basement stairs and demanding money from the woman, the suspect fled on foot. The woman was not injured, police said. The robber might be linked to another crime in which vehicles were ransacked about a half-mile down the road in the 5000 block of Biemiller Road, police said.

Dorothy B. Tevis, an oil company board chairwoman and Carroll County patron of the arts, died in her sleep Friday at her Westminster home. She was 91. Dorothy Berry was born in Baltimore and raised in the 1900 block of W. Mulberry St. She was a 1931 graduate of Western High School and earned a bachelor's degree in home economics from Western Maryland College in 1935. She also did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin and the Johns Hopkins University. From 1937 until 1941, she taught home economics in Baltimore public schools.

James Duttera LeFevre, a retired Sun circulation department supervisor and world traveler, died Sunday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center of injuries suffered in a fall a week earlier. The Westminster resident was 92. Mr. LeFevre was born in Littlestown, Pa., the son of a teacher, and raised in Taneytown. He was a 1931 graduate of Taneytown High School and worked at the old Glenn L. Martin Co. plant in Middle River before beginning his career in the circulation department of the Baltimore Sun Co. in 1946.

Amid fervent prayers, gentle banter and sincere gratitude, about 25 clerics rededicated the Westminster home of an outreach ministry yesterday. Minutes before the blessing that marked the 10th anniversary of Shepherd's Staff's having a home, its director, Kathy Brown, called across the parking lot to a late arrival who carried an oversized roll of papers resembling engineering plats. "Are you bringing me plans for a new building?" Brown asked. "I need a warehouse and maybe another site.

Maryland State Police are searching for two men they say assaulted and shot a Westminster landscaper and robbed him and his family in their home Monday night. Troopers said Rodney N. Hidey, 37, of the 3100 block of Ridge Road was shot once in the leg and hit several times in a struggle to resist the assailants, who forced him to open a safe. The men tied him up, along with his wife and 7-year-old daughter. After freeing themselves, the Hideys called police. Hidey, owner of Hidey's Landscaping Supply Yard next door to his home, was taken to Carroll Hospital Center and later released.

Dr. Craig Nichols Schmall, a Carroll County chiropractor, died of lung cancer Aug. 19 at his Westminster home. He was 70. Dr. Schmall was born in Baltimore and raised in Reisterstown, where he graduated from Franklin High School in 1951. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1955 from what was then Western Maryland College. He served in the Army for two years as a medical officer in Korea and attained the rank of captain. After his discharge in 1957, he attended the National College of Chiropractic in Chicago and earned a degree in chiropractic medicine.

Harry Lawrence "Buck" Whitehead, a retired executive with Monumental Properties Inc. and a World War II veteran, died of undetermined causes Tuesday at his Westminster home. He was 81. Mr. Whitehead was born in Baltimore, raised in Dickeyville and attended Catonsville High School. He worked for developer Joseph Meyerhoff Corp. before enlisting in the Army during World War II. He served in the Pacific, attaining the rank of staff sergeant, and was awarded decorations including the Bronze Star.