Local Obituaries for Cambridge, Maryland

May 15, 2012

Margaret M. James, 79, of Cambridge passed away on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at Mallard Bay Care Center. She was born in Dorchester County on September 2, 1932 and was a daughter of the late John and Tressie Adams Elmiger.

She attended schools in Dorchester County. Ms. James worked at Rob Roy and worked and retired...

May 15, 2012

Walter S. "Dickie" Dickerson, 75, of Cambridge passed away on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. He was born in Cambridge on August 27, 1936 and was a son of the late John T. and Evelyn Parks Dickerson.

Mr. Dickerson graduated from Cambridge High School. After high school he served in...

May 13, 2012

Shirley S. James, 66, of Berlin passed away on Sunday, May 13, 2012 at Mallard Bay Care Center. She was born in Baltimore on October 12, 1945 to the late Darius H. and Katharine Ozarski Slacum.

Mrs. James graduated from Cambridge High School class of 1963. She married William L. "Hess" James on February 3, 1974....

May 13, 2012

Lillian S. Swaim, 80, of Cambridge passed away on Sunday, May 13, 2012 at Dorchester General Hospital. She was born in Bullock, North Carolina on June 11, 1931 and was a daughter of the late John and Jane Saunders.

She attended and graduated high school and Wingate College in Bullock, North Carolina. On January 1, 1955...

May 11, 2012

Elizabeth A. "Betty" Abbott, 95, of East New Market passed away on Friday, May 11, 2012 at Chesapeake Woods Center. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska on April 6, 1917 and was a daughter of the late Ephraim and Marie Sawyer Fahnestock.

She attended schools in Des Moines, Iowa and graduated from East High School in...

May 10, 2012

Frances A. Custis, 57, of Cambridge passed away on Thursday, May 10, 2012 at Chesapeake Woods Center.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 2-4 pm at the Thomas Funeral Home, P.A.

Full obituary will be posted at a later time.

May 9, 2012

Charles G. Linthicum, 79, of Cambridge passed away on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at Chesapeake Woods Center. He was born in Cambridge on March 8, 1933 and was a son of the late Thomas G. and Agnes Tyler Linthicum.

Mr. Linthicum attended schools in Church Creek. He served in the U.S. Army from 1956 until 1964...

May 4, 2012

Darcy Parella, 93, of Cambridge passed away on Tuesday, May 4, 2012 at Chesapeake Woods Center. He was born in Cambridge on July 18, 1918 to the late Tony and Gertrude Elzey Parella.

Mr. Parella attended Cambridge schools. When he was growing up he worked at a canning factory with his father. Later he owned and...

May 4, 2012

Michael S. Cheesman, 48, of Cambridge passed away on Friday, May 4, 2012 at Memorial Hospital at Easton. He was born in Cambridge on September 21, 1963 and was the son of the late Otto B. Cheesman III and Donna Simmons Cheesman.

Mike graduated from Cambridge South Dorchester High School class of 1981. On June 21,...

May 2, 2012

Olive Elizabeth Tyler Bramble, 86, of Cambridge passed away on Tuesday, May 2, 2012 at Dorchester General Hospital. She was born in Cambridge on September 30, 1925 and was a daughter of the late Oliver Preston Tyler and Lillian Roberta Wroten Tyler.

Following graduation from Cambridge High School in 1943, she went to work at Phillips...

May 1, 2012

Edward Hurley, 88, of Cambridge passed away on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at Chesapeake Woods Center. He was born in Dorchester County on July 9, 1923 and was a son of the late Benjamin and Bertie Harris Hurley.

Mr. Hurley is survived by three daughters Wendy Wright (Jim Wright, Sr.) of Cambridge, Mary Kelly (Pete) of...

Apr 29, 2012

William Hugh Fountain, 74, of Cambridge passed away on Sunday, April 29, 2012 at Mallard Bay Care Center. He was born in Cambridge on November 4, 1937 and was the son of the late William S. and Madaline Cook Fountain.

Mr. Fountain attended Cambridge High School. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1955 until 1957. On...

Apr 25, 2012

Evelyn K. Taylor, 50, of East New Market passed away on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, VA. She was born in Cambridge on February 22, 1962 and was a daughter of Irene Malkus Taylor and the late John Fleetwood Taylor.

She attended Cambridge South Dorchester High School. She graduated from Delmarva...

Apr 24, 2012

Etta Mae "Bea" Simmons, 95 of Church Creek passed away on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake. She was born in Golden Hill on August 18, 1916 and was a daughter of the late Louis and Margaret Hughes Riggins.

Mrs. Simmons attended schools in Golden Hill. On August 3, 1935, she married...

Apr 21, 2012

Mary Fannie Stevens, 93, of Cambridge passed away on Saturday, April 21, 2012 at her home. She was born in Vienna on October 25, 1918 and was a daughter of the late John W. and Sarah Roberson Mowbray.

She graduated from Cambridge High School. On February 5, 1940, she married Frederick L. Stevens who passed away...

Apr 19, 2012

Thelma A. Wingo, 93, formerly of Cambridge, passed away on April 19, 2012 at Holy Cross Hospital. She was born in Baltimore on June 20, 1918 to the late John and Rose Bronokowski Adams.

She attended and graduated from the Baltimore school system. In 1937 she married the late Henry L. Wingo who passed away on...

Apr 17, 2012

Catherine Ann Pink, 85, of Cambridge passed away on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at Mallard Bay Care Center. She was born in Cambridge on May 8, 1926 and was a daughter of the late John B. and Daisye Adams Foble.

Mrs. Pink graduated from Cambridge High School and she attended and graduated from the Eastern Shore...

Apr 16, 2012

Richard N. "Skip" Hurley, 77, of Cambridge passed away on Monday, April 16, 2012 at Dorchester General Hospital. He was born in Cambridge on June 14, 1934 and was the son of the late John Sewell Hurley and Evelyn Cora Dennis Hurley.

He attended schools in Dorchester County. On May 27, 1966, he married the former...

Apr 16, 2012

Janet Belle Redifer, 74, of Willards formerly of Cambridge passed away on Monday, April 16, 2012 at the Golden Gardens in Parsonsburg. She was born in Cambridge on August 22, 1937 and was the daughter of the late Calvin W. "Kelly' Mowbray, Sr. and Mary Wilkinson "Belle" Mowbray.

Mrs. Redifer graduated from Cambridge High School. She...

Apr 15, 2012

Burtis M. Tyler, 90, of Cambridge passed away on Sunday, April 15, 2012 at Dorchester General Hospital. He was born in Fishing Creek on March 7, 1922 and was a son of the late S. Goldie Tyler and Alma Aaron Tyler.

He attended Cambridge High School. Mr. Tyler served in the U.S. Army during WWII in...