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Mary Elizabeth Woolford, 80, was called home on Sunday, April 21, 2019 at the University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Dorchester. Mary was born on February 14, 1939 in Suffolk, Virginia. She was the daughter of Mary Freeman and Ernest Watford and the mother of Gerald, Anthony, Linda, Michael, Leslie Murrill and Russell, Rodney, Eugene Woolford and Connie Pattrick.

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Arlethia Lorraine Tilghman, 63 of Cambridge, departed this life on Saturday, April 20, 2019 at Mallard Bay Nursing Home. Born July 1, 1955 in Cambridge, Maryland, she was the daughter of Willie Green and  Ardenia and step father, Monroe Dorsey. She was a graduate of Dorchester County Public Schools and was employed for many years ago with the local crab house in Hoopers Island.  Affectionately known as Lethia, she loved the Lord and the word.  She attended Mount Olive...

Asbury Roosevelt Jones Sr., 97 of Cambridge, departed this life on Good Friday, April 19, 2019 at his home on High Street. Asbury was born September 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Maryland to the late Eleanor Jones and Herbert Pinder and raised by his grandparents, William and Annie Stanley Jones.  He was educated in the public schools of Dorchester County and graduated from F.D. St. Clair High School in 1940.  He was employed by Phillip’s Packing Company and Western Publishing...

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Kurt Dykins Hohman, Jr., 40 of Ocean View, Delaware died Monday, April 15, 2019 at Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE. He is the son of Kurt, Sr of Marian Station, Maryland and Rosemay Smiley Hohman of Florida. Kurt, Jr was born April 9, 1979. Kurt attended and graduated from Northeast High School in Pasadena, Maryland. After graduating high school, he also graduated with a degree from International Culinary Institute in Baltimore. He pursued is love for cooking in various restaurants in the...

Myrtle Catherine Nelson, 89 of  Cambridge, Maryland passed away on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at Mallard Bay Nursing Home.  She was born July 20, 1922 in Cambridge, Maryland, daughter of the late Clarance McKinley Cornish and Avertia Augusta Chester Smith. Myrtle received her education in the public schools of Dorchester County and continued when she moved to Slaughter Neck, Delaware in the early fifties.  At an early age, Myrtle started working in the chicken factory in...

In loving memory of Beatrice Elsie Dean Cain affectionately known to some as “Aunt Bea”, was born on August 27, 1930 in Queen Anne County, Maryland and departed this life on April 10, 2019 under the compassionate care of Talbot Hospice in Easton, Maryland.  She was 88.  Bea was the daughter of the late Preston Dean Sr. and Evelyn Hoxter Dean of Cordova, MD.   Bea was educated in the Talbot County Public School system before moving to Wilmington, DE in the early...

On November 2, of 1939 Calvin and Mary Ellen Wilmer produced a son, who they named Earl Thomas Wilmer.  Earl grew into a strong, handsome young man… (Taking after his Mother’s side) LOL.  He attended and graduated from Kennard High School, where he may not have been the best student but he excelled on the basketball court, baseball diamond and bowling alley.  I tell you this man had the most unique bowling style with his pump action release.  Earl had a...