Local Obituaries for Cambridge, Maryland

Dec 25, 2021

Bissoon Dat, 86, of Cambridge passed away on Saturday, December 25, 2021. He was born in Springlands, Guyana, South America and was a son of the late Chandrapal and Sumatie (Shanta Mai) Chandrapal.

Mr. Dat was a well known carpenter. He enjoyed playing bongos, listening to Hindu music, and cooking.

He is survived by his...

Dec 24, 2021

Ronald “Ronnie” S. Bromwell, 75, of Cambridge passed away on Friday, December 24, 2021 at UMSMC at Easton. He was born in Cambridge on February 9, 1946 and was a son of the late Roscoe and Marian Todd Bromwell.

Mr. Bromwell graduated from Cambridge High School class of 1964. He served in the Army National Guard. While...

Dec 22, 2021

Cynthia Leigh Jones, 55, of Cambridge passed away on Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at her home in Cambridge.  She was born in Easton on December 9, 1966 and was the daughter of Judith Ross McDonald and Richard George Schnoor. Cindy graduated from Cambridge South Dorchester High School in 1984.  She has spent her entire career in healthcare administration and...

Dec 22, 2021

Patricia L. “Pumpkin” Cumberland, 49, of Toddville passed away on Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at Talbot Hospice in Easton. She was born in Cambridge on September 18, 1972 and was a daughter of the late Irving L. Cumberland, Jr. and Juanita McDuffie Cumberland.

Patricia graduated from Cambridge South Dorchester High School class of 1991. She was a...

Dec 22, 2021

Treva A. Higgins, 95, passed away on Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at Mallard Bay Nursing Home. She was born in San Francisco, CA on August 1, 1926 and was the daughter of the late Lloyd Albert “Jack” Malott and Eva Gertrude Malott. She attended schools in Dorchester County and graduated with the class of 1943. She married H. Jerome...

Dec 21, 2021

Theresa M. MacGrath, 62, of Elliott Island passed away on Tuesday December 21, 2021 at her home.  She was born in Cambridge on December 23, 1958 to the late Sherwood Herman Moore and Aileen Hazel Thomas Moore.

Theresa graduated from North Dorchester High School class of 1976.  On April 6, 1991, she married Steven MacGrath.  Theresa had...

Dec 20, 2021

Peggy A. Jackson, 87, of Cambridge passed away on Monday, December 20, 2021 at UMSMC at Easton. She was born in Airey’s on June 2, 1934 and was a daughter of the late Julian and Katie Kuebler Handley.

Mrs. Jackson attended schools in Cambridge. On September 6, 1951, she married Robert L. Jackson. She worked at Rob...

Dec 20, 2021

Levin M. “Tommy” Niblett, Jr., 54, of Bucktown passed away on Monday, December 20, 2021 at University of Maryland Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, MD. He was born in Cambridge on January 3, 1967 and was a son of Helen Coffman Niblett-Griffiths and the late Levin M. “Tom” Niblett, Sr.

Tommy graduated from Cambridge South Dorchester High...

Dec 20, 2021

John M. Bramble, Jr., 90, of Cambridge passed away on Monday, December 20, 2021 at his home with his loving family by his side. He was born in Cambridge on March 20, 1931 and was a son of the late John M. Bramble, Sr. and Oneita Hubbard McCall and stepfather Mike McCall.

Mr. Bramble graduated from Cambridge...

Dec 19, 2021

Helen R. Simonsen, 68, of Taylors Island passed away on Sunday, December 19, 2021 at her home. She was born in Baltimore on May 12, 1953 and was a daughter of the late Alford and Dora Bull Denton.

Mrs. Simonsen attended schools in Odenton, MD. On September 25, 1987, she married Melvin Craig Simonsen, who passed away...

Dec 14, 2021

David L. Kowitski, 54, of Cambridge passed away on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 at UMSMC at Easton. He was born in Cambridge on November 10, 1967 and was a son of Nicholas and Betty Spear Kowitski.

David graduated from Cambridge South Dorchester High School class of 1985. As a young man, he enjoyed working at Tolley’s theatre...

Dec 13, 2021

Patricia “Pat” R. Abbott, 82, of Cambridge passed away on Monday, December 13, 2021 at her son’s home in Delmar. She was born in Cambridge on November 29, 1939 and was a daughter of the late Raymond McWilliams and Della Mae Lewis McWilliams Thompson.

Pat graduated from Cambridge High School class of 1957. She worked at Dorchester...

Dec 10, 2021

John Gary Parks, Jr., better known as Gary, G, or Big Guy, passed away on Friday, December 10, 2021 at TidalHealth Peninsula Regional.  He was born in Easton on August 5, 1954 to the late Johnnie Gary Parks, Sr. and Margaret Johnson Parks.

Gary graduated from Queen Anne’s County High School class of 1972.  On November 9,...

Dec 9, 2021

David A. Todd, 64, of Cambridge passed away on Thursday, December 9, 2021 at his home.  He was born in Cambridge on September 12, 1957 to William A. Todd and the late Shirley Newcomb Todd.

David graduated from Cambridge High School class of 1975.  He went on to attend Chesapeake Community College and Salisbury University.  He also...

Dec 8, 2021

Patricia “Pat" Haring passed away December 8, 2021, at her home on Wednesday in Trappe, Maryland.

Pat was born November 18, 1939, in Ridgely, MD, the daughter of the late Robert Taylor Yates, Sr. and Irene Jarrell Yates. She attended school in Centreville, MD, and graduated from Centreville High School. After graduating, Pat moved to Annapolis to...

Dec 5, 2021

Deborah “Debbie” M. Collison, 63, of Cambridge passed away on Sunday, December 5, 2021 at UMSMC at Easton. She was born in Cambridge on January 24, 1958 and was a daughter of the late Ollie H. and Georgia Belle Slacum Wheatley.

She graduated from Cambridge High School class of 1976. Debbie was an in home daycare provider...

Nov 30, 2021

Thomas Keith “Beef” Mowbray, 65, of Cambridge passed away on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at his home. He was born in Caroline County on March 7, 1956 and was a son of the late Guy Thomas Mowbray and Nomia Lois Harris Mowbray.

He attended schools in Cambridge. Keith was a painter and worked for Marvel Painting and...

Nov 28, 2021

Jesse Maffuid, 93, of Cambridge passed away on Sunday, November 28, 2021 at his home. He was born on October 19, 1928 in South Glens Falls, New York, one of six children of Anthony and Marian (Deepe) Maffuid. He graduated from South Glens Falls High School in 1947 and Rochester Institute of Technology in 1955, where he was named...

Nov 26, 2021

Wilson C. Gray, 84, of Cambridge, formerly Elliott Island, passed away on November 26 at Coastal Hospice on the Lake in Salisbury. The son of Carl and Bertha Meredith Gray, Wilson, known as "Bob" played many sports as a youth and was a member of the Elliott Island Baseball Team. He remained an avid sports fan all his life,...

Nov 26, 2021

Tony C. McDuffie, Sr., 63, of Cambridge passed away on Friday, November 26, 2021 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury. He was born in South Carolina on April 29, 1958 and was a son of the late William Homer McDuffie and Phylis Ivey Eisle.

Tony attended schools in Cambridge and later received his GED. He...