baltimoresun.com - Obituaries

Maxine R. Hopkins

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Age 78 East Baltimore woman founded M.R. Hopkins Transportation, which still runs school buses, cars and trucks.

M axine R. Hopkins, a Baltimore entrepreneur who bought a passenger van three decades ago to transport schoolchildren and eventually expanded her company into a fleet of buses, cars and trucks, died Wednesday of complications from colon cancer. She was 78.

Walter D. Hyle Jr.

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Age 89 Civil Defense director

Walter D. Hyle Jr., a former Civil Defense director for Baltimore County who had been manager of the old Bay Shore Park, died of a heart attack May 6 at Good Samaritan Hospital. The Parkville resident was 89.

Deaths elsewhere

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

IRENA SENDLER, 98

Wardell Jackson, 72

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Bethlehem Steel worker

Wardell Jackson, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. maintenance worker, died Saturday of complications after brain surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 72.

Ira Badham-Adams

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Receptionist

Ira V. Badham-Adams, a retired receptionist and longtime member of Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church, died of a heart attack May 5 at a hospital in Jersey City, N.J. She was 92.

Deaths elsewhere

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

JOSEPH S. MIKO, 87

Maxine R. Hopkins

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Kathleen Mary Swords

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Age 69 The Hampden resident was a social worker and political activist who sought to help the poor and resist war.

Kathleen Mary Swords, a longtime Baltimore social worker and political activist, died of colon cancer May 1 at Union Memorial Hospital. The Hampden resident was 69.

Deaths elsewhere

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

DR. MURRAY JARVIK, 84

Correction

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

An obituary for Baltimore County speech pathologist and early childhood educator Carole Clay Shewbridge published in Friday's editions listed incorrect funeral information. Her funeral will be held at 11 a.m. May 24 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 120 Allegheny Ave. in Towson.