Poet Laureate Reed Whittemore Dies at 92

Whittemore, who was an emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland, died April 9 in his Kensington home.

Mary Jane Lloyd Zusy, Kensington Resident Dies at 87

A long time resident of Kensington, Zusy passed away on March 29.

Mary Jane Zusy was born Mary Jane Lloyd, the first daughter of Windsor and Emily Lloyd, in Nampa, Idaho on January 2, 1925. Ruth, her sister, was born on August 25, 1928. She attended Nampa public schools, graduating from Nampa High School in 1942. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Health Education in 1948 – and then a B.A. in Nursing in 1949. Mary Jane taught obstetric nursing and practiced as an obstetric/nursery supervisor under a Fulbright teaching grant at the Admiral Bristol Hospital and Nursing School in Istanbul, Turkey between September ’51 and August ’53. She returned to the United States to enter Teacher’s College, Columbia University, from which she received a Masters in Nursing Education in June 1954. Mary …

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Former GWU Senior Fellow Dies at 89

Milton C. Marney, of Kensington, died in his home March 1.

Kensington resident Milton C. Marney died in his home at the age of 89 on March 1, The Washington Post reported Friday. Marney was known for his career in science— as a physicist and later as a researcher. He also was a "senior fellow at George Washington University’s Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology from 1972 to 1982", according to the Post. To read more on Marney's life, check out The Washington Post.

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Kensington Librarian Dies at 69

Frances McClure spent 30 years in Montgomery County Libraries.

Kensington's John Keeney, Longest-Serving Federal Prosecutor, Dies

The Kensington resident was 89.

Friends Bid Final Farewell to Schaefer at Cemetery

The body of William Donald Schaefer left Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church and arrived at 2:15 p.m. at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium for interment next to his longtime girlfriend, Hilda Mae Snoops.

UPDATE (4 p.m.)—William Donald Schaefer's friends and admirers gave him one last send-off in Timonium on Wednesday, after two days of public farewells at the State House in Annapolis and City Hall in Baltimore. The hearse carrying the former mayor, governor and comptroller arrived just after 2:30 p.m. at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens for a brief interment ceremony, which included a cannon salute from the Maryland Army National Guard and a Maryland State Police helicopter flyover. Schaefer, who died last week at 89, planned some of the details of his funeral proceedings himself. He will be entombed in a mausoleum at Dulaney Valley next to his longtime companion, Hilda Mae Snoops, who died in 1999. The stone for the tomb includes Schaefer'…

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Dignitaries, Public Say Farewell to William Donald Schaefer

Viewing in State House is the first of three days of memorial events.

When former governor, and iconic Maryland political figure, William Donald Schaefer arrived at the State House for the final time Monday morning, the crowd gathered wasn't overwhelming. But by the time the doors opened just after 10 a.m., a line of more than 100 people wrapped around the side of the State House. Waiting under a sea of sunlight, the crowd was diverse, ranging from elderly priests to young State House aides. While ages and occupations varied, most people seemed set on paying their respects for one simple reason: because of what Schaefer had done for the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland. “He was a great man, a great mayor, governor and comptroller, and did a lot for the state,” said Henry Green of Annapolis. “I …

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William Donald Schaefer Leaves 'Do It Now' Legacy on Maryland Politics

The former governor will lie in state at the State House in Annapolis and in the rotunda of Baltimore City Hall.

UPDATE (8:30 a.m.)—William Donald Schaefer—Baltimore's legendary former mayor, Maryland governor and state comptroller—died Monday at around 6:30 p.m. in his bed at the Charlestown retirement community in Catonsville, according to his longtime friend Lainy M. LeBow-Sachs. "I was with him holding his hand," LeBow-Sachs told Patch. "He couldn't speak." Schaefer, 89, was released from the hospital earlier this month after a five-day stay for pneumonia and returned to Charlestown, where Maryland's 58th governor has lived for three years. LeBow-Sachs said she did not know the official cause but said it was likely multiple "organ shutdown." "There will never be another William Donald Schaefer," LeBow-Sachs said. "I think everyone will be so …

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