Rockville, MD – Margaret “Peggy” McGrew of Rockville, Maryland, passed away on Friday, January 20, 2023, at the age of 93. She was the beloved wife of William M. McGrew (deceased) and loving mother of Kathleen Peterson (husband David), Mary Ellen Geoghegan and Eileen Daigneault (husband Michael). She is also survived by her grandchildren, Kevin Geoghegan, Kathleen Geoghegan, and Colleen Geoghegan; and her great-grandson Kai Adams Geoghegan.

Peggy raised her family in Rockville. She volunteered at St. Mary’s Church for many years, often using her sewing talents to create items for the church. She was a gardener and loved baking, especially desserts.

Relatives and friends will be received in Our Lady’s Chapel of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 520 Veirs Mill Road, Rockville, MD on Thursday, January 26, 2023 from 12-1pm followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 1:00 pm. Interment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to St. Mary’s School, 600 Veirs Mill Road, Rockville, MD 2085

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Bowie, MD – Theresa Adams (Ellsworth) has passed. On May 29, 1944, Theresa Adams became the youngest daughter to Ruth Elizabeth Dorsey and Norman Ellsworth Dorsey Sr. As a child, Theresa was raised in Washington, D.C. and was educated in the District of Columbia Public Schools.  She graduated from Eastern High School in 1962.  She completed some college credits and went on to work for the Government in various positions.

 In 1964 she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Robert. Then, in 1967 she married Robert Colbert, III and to this union Ronald and Daryl were born.  In 1980 the family moved to Spotsylvania, Virginia and she began working for the city of Fredericksburg and met her soon to be daughter- in-law Tracy. Through Tracy, she began working for the Department of the Navy, as a Management Analyst working for the Naval Sea Systems Command.  Later in her career she accepted a position with the Naval Air Systems Command, from where she worked until her retirement.

 In July of 2000, she married John Adams Jr. and moved to Hurlock, MD. There she remained until 2009 after John’s death. While in Hurlock, she became a member of the Hurlock Methodist church in which she developed a church family.  Upon the death of her second husband, she returned to the Washington Metropolitan area.  In 2016 she reunited with her high school sweetheart, Ray Hawkins, and moved to Clarksburg, Maryland.

Throughout her life Theresa developed an extensive array of friends, and she adopted many of her friend’s children, as her own.  Her biggest hobbies were bingo, going to the casino, cruises, and playing the lottery. Theresa was not shy about giving her opinion but gave it in a loving way.  She would often say that “I’m not going to tell you what you want to hear but what you need to hear.”  Her favorite greeting was “I am much better now that I see you.”

 Theresa was preceded in death by her parents, Ruth and Norman Dorsey, her sister Delores “Lambie” Swan, her brother Roland, her son Robert, and her husband John.  She is survived by her brother Norman Dorsey, (Elizabeth), her sister-in-law, Rachel Dorsey (Roland’s wife), her son Ronald (Rona), and her son Daryl (LaKrystle), her stepdaughter Jeanenne, and her stepson Jamie (Sarenee). Grandchildren are Robert, Tiokha, Cassandra, Daryl, Jordan, Miata, Malia, Sierra, Elijah, Maliyah, Jayden, Jevon, and Jordan. Great grandchildren: Kaira, Jamari, Koen, Lila, and Nori.  She also has a niece (Arlene), nephews (Stephen and David), and a host of friends and adopted family.

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Dr George Joseph passed away peacefully in his home on December 4, 2022 at the age of 93.  His last days were spent visiting with friends, loved ones and watching his beloved game of soccer in the matches of the World Cup.

Born December 25, 1928 in Brashov, Romania, Gyuri, as he was called by everyone who knew him, was a holocaust survivor, clinical associate professor in psychiatry at George Washington University, and part of the staff of Walter Reed Army Medical Center until his retirement at the age of 81.  He practiced in Romania, Israel and South Africa before coming to the US in 1963 to build a life in the greater Washington DC area.

Gyuri was an avid reader and understood history as well as most scholars.  His incredible warmth and love permeated his interactions with friends and family, infused with clarity and depth through his final days.  He loved playing bridge, listening to classical music, attending the opera and delighting in any all things related to his family.

As a young man, he was a talented swimmer and skier, loved riding his bike, and walking in nature.  He was an enthusiastic cook and host, tour guide of his adopted hometown of DC and world-wide traveler.  Never losing his intense curiosity, he even took a driving tour through Europe with his wife at the age of 89.  He also self-published three books in his 80’s which were loosely based on his early life experiences.

He would define his life in a word: courage.  He did not let fear stop him – from moving forward, taking chances, and reaping the rewards of a life lived in the constant pursuit of knowledge and authentic personal relationships.  He was uniquely proud of his courage in opening his private practice in Washington DC as a then recent immigrant in 1968.  After living through WW2 in Romania as a young Jewish boy, becoming a doctor and eventually leaving and finding his way to Israel where he would meet his wife Miriam (who he decided he would marry after knowing her for just 2 and ½ hours), he did not let fear hold him back and instead chose to come to the US to build a life. And through all he saw and experienced, he never lost his faith in himself and his belief in hope.

He is survived by his wife, Miriam, of 61 years, his three children Mark, Michelle and Susan and their spouses Keisha, Eric and Marc.  In addition, his sister Flora, nieces Limor and Yael Joseph and nephew Yann Balu.  In addition, he leaves six grandchildren – Rachel, Ben, Dylan, Mikayla, Devin and Miles.

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ylvester Modupe Broderick Jr (AKA Sundiata Modupe Broderick) was born on September 15, 1941, the first child of Dr. Sylvester Modupe Broderick, Sr. and Mrs. Fernanda Gladys Broderick, nee Nicol.  His only sibling, Mrs. Ore Awoonor Renner, nee Broderick, was born in 1944, the year the family moved from central Freetown (Pultney Street) to Brookfields — King Harman Road and later to 3 Main Motor Road, which was renamed Rasmusson Street.

He started his infants schooling in 1945 at Saint Anne’s School, which was a subsidiary of the St Joseph’s Convent. Later, he transferred to Buxton Infants at Charles Street.  In 1949 he commenced primary schooling at the Government Model School.  From there, he entered the Prince of Wales for his secondary education.  He left for the United States in 1959 to attend Otterbein College, now Otterbein University, from where he graduated with a double major–Bachelor of Arts in History/Government and French.  He pursued graduate studies in French at Universite Laval in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, from where he obtained a master’s degree.  He would later teach French at North Carolina Agriculture and Technical (A&T) State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.

While in North Carolina in the late sixties, a period fraught with much social unrest in the United States and when African American students were clamoring for Black Studies, he realized that his education was lacking in Africa Area Studies.  To address this lacuna, he embarked on a Ph.D. program in African Studies in 1970, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in Anthropology–African Oral Narrative Traditions and Linguistics, as well as African Written Literature, mainly of English and French expressions.  Fieldwork in Sierra Leone, 1973-74, yielded a Ph.D. dissertation entitled: The Tori:  Structure, Aesthetics, and Time in Krio Oral Narrative-Performance.  While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he taught graduate and undergraduate courses and could have continued teaching at this institution as he was offered a temporary position upon graduation.  But he had been away from Africa for a long time, and the call to return to Mother Africa was getting stronger by the day.  Accordingly, he accepted a position in the Department of English and European Languages at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria, where he headed the master’s program and where he produced the first three graduate students of the Department.

In 1981, after four years in Nigeria, he returned to the U.S. and married Amelia Fitzjohn, a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Information Agency.  The union produced two children, Vania Ayodele Lesana and Ahovi Modupe.   As his wife was posted to Brazil, he decided to leave Nigeria for Brazil where he taught Social Studies at the American School of Brasília and headed the Social Studies Department.  He would later accept a position to teach at the University of Bahia, in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, where he taught research methods on Oral Narrative Traditions to graduate students.

Following Brazil, Modupe had a stint in Washington DC during which he taught courses on Language and Culture at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute in Rosslyn, Virginia to young American diplomats newly assigned to African countries.  Then he and his spouse returned to Africa where he started working for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on a contract in the Republic of Benin.  He would later switch careers from academia by joining USAID as a Foreign Service Officer and worked in nine countries in Africa.  His greatest satisfaction was derived from working in Africa as an academic and as a Foreign Service Officer.  He was able to give back to young Africans the skills-set for academic work and for work in International Development.

Dr. Modupe Broderick followed in his father’s footsteps in sports and education.  Growing up in Freetown as a teenager in the fifties he became an avid cricket and tennis player. He played cricket on the Prince of Wales school team and for Granville House and continued his tennis at Otterbein University where he played on the varsity team. His father had exceled as a long-distance runner on the Otterbein University track team in the early twenties before he returned to Sierra Leone in 1928 to work in the Education Department, where he rose to the position of Assistant Director of Education, the second Sierra Leonean to hold that position during the colonial era. Modupe enjoyed social gatherings and traveling, discussions on literary studies, African and African American History, and Socio Linguistics; and developed an eclectic appreciation for musical genres; particularly classical music, jazz and Afro Beat. At Otterbein University he was a member of the Men’s Glee Club.

After several years of research on his family tree, using Ancestry.com and family sources, in 2022, he achieved a life dream of publishing his memoirs: Trodden Paths: A Journey from Brookfields by Modupe Broderick (New Generation Publishing, available online on Amazon).

He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Amelia; daughter, Vania; son, Ahovi, and sons-in-law Ismail Dursun and Kevin Marshall-Broderick; granddaughter, Zara, grandson, Troy; Sister: Ore Awoonor-Renner, nephews: Lauris and Julian, niece: Liesel.  Relatives include the following families: Broderick, Awoonor-Renner, Lewis, Scott-Boyle and Boyle, Peters/Mahoney in the Gambia, Roy-Macaulay, McCormack, and Parkinson, and by marriage: the Fitzjohn family, families of Donald Eleady-Cole, Effuah Davies, James and Hannah Amara, the Bernard-Jones, Dursun, Lebbie, Marshall, Caulker, Eyamide (Isaiah) John, Faulkner, and Jenkins-Johnston. 

Family Friends: Maduka and Filomina Steady, Eugene and Lorna Terry, Freddie Noah, Nelson-Okrafors, Evangeline (John) Bankole-Jones, Ahovi Kponou, Tunde and Dorothy Zack-Williams; the Kamara family of Kingtom, Donald and Beatrice Hamilton, Marian Johnson, William and Tabitha Lewis, Edwin and Matilda Bruno-Gaston, Mimie (Jere) Williams, Adelaide Dworzak, Harriet and Wilfred Thomas, Chukudinka and Waltina Spencer, Cecil Blake, Louis Bankole-Jones, Martial and Nirvah Pierre.

Personal friends: John Moorhead, Henderson Patrick, Mbye Cham, Don Marshall, Nqobisizwe Adekayode, Sia Barbara Kamara, Deirdre LaPin, Winfield Collins. 

The family thanks his health carers in his final years, especially Olive Sawyerr Nicol, Jackie Yawavi Assari, Marissa Wang, and Rhodora Guevarra.

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Frederick, MD – Robert Scott Graham was born 6/3/1950, in Decatur IL, to the parents of Donald Graham and Mary Lee Graham. Scott was the eldest son, followed by Kevin Graham, and youngest sister Erin Graham.  

Robert, known by most as Scott, was born and raised in Decatur, living in the home that his father helped build. He attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology. He later went on to receive his masters in Psychology at the University of Illinois Springfield, and his MBA at the University of Baltimore.  

Scott was a pioneer in providing services that allowed people who have mental illness to thrive outside of state mental institutions. His passion to help others led him to establish ReVisions Behavioral Health Systems in 1983 in an effort to promote mental health rehabilitation in his local community.

Scott was the President and CEO of the non-profit organization for nearly 20 years, and in that time he grew the company revenue from 0 to 7 million dollars a year. He created a multifaceted multi-dimensional rehabilitation and treatment organization. He also founded what came to be called the Maryland Association of Psychiatric Support Services and was its president. In 2000 he began his 19 year journey as a surveyor for CARF, traveling around the country to offer council to other mental health rehabilitation organizations. 

Scott’s other passion was acting, and his heart was full when he was entertaining local theater-goers on stage with the Salem Players at Salem Lutheran Church. While at home, Scott loved listening to music, rooting for the Ravens, and cooking on the grill.  

Scott died peacefully in his home on 11/8/2022. He is survived by his sister, Erin Lee Graham of Ocala, FL. Children; Ryan Graham of Baltimore, MD, Megan Graham of Sacramento, CA, Heather Graham of Baltimore, MD, and Brendan Graham of Baltimore, MD. Two grandchildren; Ryder and Emerson Graham of Sacramento, CA.  

The memorial service for Scott will be held on December 17, 2022 at 11am at Salem Lutheran Church, 905 Frederick Road, Catonsville, MD 21228.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Scott’s memory can be made to BARCS Animal Rescue & Care Shelter.  

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Nanette Fields (nee Latt), age 89, of Potomac, MD, passed away on Thursday, March 19, 2020. She was born on July 27, 1930 in Atlantic City, NJ to Harry and Rebecca Jacobs. Her beloved husband of 67 years, Norman Fields, preceded her in passing on December 23, 2018. Nanette had a “purple passion” for collecting antiques with a keen eye for the unique. Nanette is survived by her three adoring children David Fields, Deborah Fields Vieder (Thomas), Michael Fields (Stacey), her cherished granddaughter Rachael Vieder Linowes (Brett), and her precious great granddaughter Iris Gillian Linowes. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association or other charity of choice. Services entrusted to Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky Goldberg Funeral Care.

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retired from construction supervising and World War II veteran whose wartime experiences included fighting at the Battle of the Bulge and walking Gen. George S. Patton Jr.’s pet bull terrier, died at St. Joseph Medical Center March 8, 2007 of complications from stomach surgery. The Cockeysville, Maryland resident was 87.

Mr. Glover was born and raised in Owings Mills, Maryland. He cut short his Baltimore County public school education to help support his family. He enlisted in the Army in 1941 and served in Europe with an armored infantry unit as a gunner and tank driver.

“Walking General Patton’s dog was one of his favorite stories,” said a son, Raymond G. Glover of Reisterstown.

“It was a rainy night in France, and while he was standing guard, General Patton asked him to walk his dog Willie. He told him he couldn’t because he was on guard duty, and after a few expletives, General Patton said, `You walk the dog and I’ll stand post,'” the son said.

Mr. Glover returned to Baltimore after the war and was a construction supervisor for 20 years for Jack Meyerhoff Co. He later worked for Elmer Arminger Construction Co. and retired in 1981 from Triangle Construction Co.

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A longtime Northwood resident who moved to Cockeysville in 1997, he was an active member of St. John’s of Hamilton United Methodist Church, where he was given the nickname of “Peanut Man,” for his peanut brittle. “Everyone loved his peanut brittle, which he made for church bazaars and fundraisers,” his son said.

Mr. Glover had been a Meals on Wheels volunteer and a longtime member of the Parkville American Legion post. He enjoyed car trips and had visited all of the 48 contiguous states, family members said.

Services were Tuesday.

Also surviving are his wife of 42 years, the former Ruth Martell; another son, Kenneth M. Glover of Cockeysville; a stepdaughter, Pamela D. McGill of Carney; a sister, Dorothy Smith of Catonsville; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. His wife of 13 years, the former Edith Marinelli, died in 1962.

Source: tribunedigital-baltimoresun

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