Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Cambridge, Maryland

Barbara L. Short Knauer Hurley

Barbara L. Short Knauer Hurley

Dec 31, 2025

Barbara Levenia Short Knauer Hurley was born February 28, 1940 in Cambridge, MD. She passed away December 31, 2025, at her home in Salem, MD, where she had lived since March 21, 1959 and was a daughter of the late Thomas and Bessie Wilkerson Short.

Barbara graduated from North Dorchester High School in 1958 with 12 years perfect attendance.

On March 21,...

Lori Ann Holliday

Lori Ann Holliday

Dec 31, 2025

Lori Ann Holliday, 62, of East New Market, MD passed away on Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. She was born in Cambridge on December 28, 1963 and was a daughter of the late Lawrence Blake Adshead and Elsie Kay Baumgartner Adshead.

Lori graduated from North Dorchester High School class of 1981 and graduated from Annapolis...

Sherri L. Niblett

Sherri L. Niblett

Dec 29, 2025

Sherri L. Niblett, 56, of Cambridge passed away on Monday, December 29, 2025 at her home with her family by her side. She was born in Easton on July 17, 1969 and was the daughter of the late William Delmas Warfield and Mary Willey Warfield.

Sherri graduated from Cambridge South Dorchester High School Class of 1987. She married Levin M. “Tommy”...

John Robert McClintock

John Robert McClintock

Dec 28, 2025

John Robert McClintock, 73, passed away December 28, 2025, at UMSMC at Easton, Maryland.

Born in Berwick, PA on July 11, 1952, John was the son of Robert Dale McClintock and Anita Remley McClintock. John graduated from Berwick High School, Class of 1970, and Wilkes-Barre Business College. He lived in Ashley, PA for several years, and was a member of the Ashley...

Freida Kinnamon Thomas

Freida Kinnamon Thomas

Dec 28, 2025

Freida Kinnamon Thomas, 87, of East New Market passed away on Sunday, December 28, 2025 at Eden Green Assisted Living in Denton. She was born in Cambridge on September 9, 1938 and was a daughter of the late James Lee Kinnamon and Bessie Calloway Kinnamon.

Mrs. Thomas graduated from Cambridge High School Class of 1956. On June 13, 1987, she married...

Roberta J. Davidson

Roberta J. Davidson

Dec 26, 2025

Roberta Knutson Davidson, 100, a registered nurse and long-time resident of Easton, Maryland, died peacefully December 26, 2025 in Lewes, Delaware. Her children were at her side. Her husband of 64 years, Reid Davidson, died in 2012.

A celebration-of-life service is being planned at the First Presbyterian Church in Easton. Roberta served in Lutheran churches in Minnesota, South Dakota and Maryland,...

Margaret Jane Parks

Margaret Jane Parks

Dec 19, 2025

Margaret Jane Kirwan Parks, 99, passed away on 19 December, 2025 at the Brightview Senior Living facility in Edgewater, MD. She was born on 7 July 1926 in Cambridge to Walter T. and Ethel V. Kirwan.

Jane graduated from Cambridge High School and then James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA., where she received a B.S. in Liberal Arts. She also studied...

Miguel Nicolas Jimenez

Miguel Nicolas Jimenez

Dec 19, 2025

Miguel Nicolás Jiménez, 72, of Cambridge passed away on Friday,December 19, 2025 at UMSMC at Easton. He was born in La Romana,Dominican Republic on September 29, 1953 and was the youngest son of the late Mr. Nicolás Jiménez of Higüey, Dominican Republic and the late Mrs. Antonia Jiménez (née Belén Rosado) of Lajas, Puerto Rico.

Mr. Jiménez spent his formative years...

Bruce W. Owens

Bruce W. Owens

Dec 19, 2025

Bruce W. Owens, 59, of Cambridge passed away on Friday, December 19, 2025 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury. He was born in Cambridge on October 15, 1966 and was a son of the late Lawrence Faw Owens and Carolyn Faye Bradley Owens.

Bruce graduated from Cambridge South Dorchester High School class of 1984 and graduated from Salisbury State...

Wendell C. Travers

Wendell C. Travers

Dec 17, 2025

Wendell C. Travers, 82, of Cambridge passed away on Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore. He was born in Fishing Creek on September 3, 1943 and was a son of the late Charles Goldsborough Travers and Mary Elizabeth Burton Meekins.

Mr. Travers graduated from Cambridge High School class of 1961. He served in the U.S. Navy...

Richard Scholz

Richard Scholz

Dec 16, 2025

Richard Scholz, 86, of Cambridge, Maryland, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at his home, surrounded by his loving wife, Barbara, and family.

Richard was born on April 16, 1939, in Berlin, Germany, to the late Eberhardt Scholz and Elsie (Mohn) De Salviati. As a young refugee of World War II, Richard left Germany at the age of five...

Timothy "Tim" A. McCarter

Timothy "Tim" A. McCarter

Dec 16, 2025

Timothy “Tim” A. McCarter, 66, of Cambridge passed away on Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at UMSMC at Easton. He was born in Baltimore on July 25, 1959 to the late James F. McCarter, M.D. and Kay Smith McCarter.

Tim graduated from Cambridge South Dorchester High School Class of 1977. He then attended Washington College where he graduated in 1981 with a...

Paula L. Robinson

Paula L. Robinson

Dec 15, 2025

Paula L. Robinson, 76, of Toddville passed away on Monday, December 15, 2025 at Mallard Bay Care Center in Cambridge. She was born in Cambridge on April 5, 1949 and was a daughter of the late Oliver Hubbard Whitten and Pauline Henry Whitten.

Mrs. Robinson attended schools in Cambridge. She was married Rodney Robinson. Mrs. Robinson worked in the crab house,...

Joseph A. Street

Joseph A. Street

Dec 11, 2025

Joseph A. Street, 77, of Preston passed away on Thursday, December 11, 2025 at the Barnette Hospice Center in Centreville. He was born on April 3, 1948 in Chester, Pennsylvania to the late Elmer Street and Lillian Bradley Street. Joseph married the former Linda Yeatman on June 21, 1985.

Services will be private. Arrangements are in the care of Thomas Funeral...

Pamela J. Todd-Pitt

Pamela J. Todd-Pitt

Dec 10, 2025

Pamela J. Todd-Pitt, 75, of Trappe passed away on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods. She was born in Cambridge on August 8, 1950 to the late Reginald P. Todd, Sr. and Doris Rosetta Todd.

Mrs. Pitt attended schools in Cambridge. She was married to Dennis Pitt who passed away on August 28, 2022. Mrs. Pitt...

Linda N. Seville

Linda N. Seville

Dec 6, 2025

Linda Nitschke Seville, 82, of Julian, Pennsylvania, who along with her husband Calvin owned Whitey’s Restaurant in Arlington, Virginia and was for many years a Department of State career professional with the Agency for International Development (USAID), passed away on December 6, 2025.

Linda was born on February 4, 1943, in Rochester, New York, to Erwin and Betty (Schneider) Nitschke. She...

Margaret E. "Peggy" Boston Van Huizen

Margaret E. "Peggy" Boston Van Huizen

Nov 29, 2025

Margaret Elizabeth Boston Van Huizen, 85, affectionately known as “Peggy”, left this world peacefully on Saturday, November 29, 2025, at Twin Lakes Coble Creek. She was born on April 9, 1940 in Cambridge, Maryland, and she will be greatly missed by friends and family.

Peggy graduated from Howard High School in Howard County, MD, then obtained her BS in Home Economics...

John P. Russ

John P. Russ

Nov 29, 2025

John Phillip Russ, 55, of Salisbury, passed away on November 29, 2025. Born on November 20, 1970, at Fort Rucker, Alabama, he was the son of Janice Marshall Elliott and the late Phillip Lee Russ.

John grew up in Cambridge, where he graduated with the class of 1988 from Cambridge South Dorchester High School. A natural leader, he helped captain both...

Anna Ruth Penn

Anna Ruth Penn

Nov 28, 2025

Anna Ruth Penn, 97, of Cambridge passed away on Friday, November 28, 2025 at Mallard Bay Care Center. She was born on November 8, 1928 in Chester, PA and was a daughter of the late Thomas C. Meredith, Sr. and Florence Bradley Meredith.

Mrs. Penn’s family moved to Cambridge, when she was two years old. She graduated from Cambridge High School...

Verne D. Morris

Verne D. Morris

Nov 28, 2025

Verne Davidson Morris of Woolford, Maryland, passed away on Friday, November 28, 2025 with her two daughters by her side. “To be absent in the body is to be present with the Lord.” II Cor. 5:8

She was born in Cambridge on January 5, 1936, the daughter of the late Delmas C. Davidson and Elizabeth Wanex Davidson.

Upon graduating from Cambridge High...