Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Cambridge, Maryland
Charles K. Schmitt
Mar 29, 2025
Charles K. Schmitt, 70, of Georgetown, DE passed away on Saturday, March 29, 2025 at TidalHealth Peninsula Regional Hospital in Salisbury. He was born in Baltimore on September 12, 1954 to the late Edward Schmitt and Dora Manspeaker Schmitt.
Mr. Schmitt graduated from Caroline County Public Schools. He began his career on February 1, 1979 at the Caroline County Sheriff's Department...
Pamela S. Wrightson
Mar 27, 2025
Pamela S. Wrightson, 74, of Salisbury passed away on Thursday, March 27, 2025 at the Holly Center in Salisbury. She was born in Cambridge on November 22, 1950 and was a daughter of the late Joshua Alonza Wrightson, Jr. and Judy Greene Wrightson.
Ms. Wrightson attended schools in Cambridge and later at the Benedictine School in Ridgely. She worked at Dorchester...
Shirley Messick Abbott
Mar 27, 2025
Shirley Messick Abbott passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on Thursday, March 27th, 2025 at the Talbot Hospice Facility in Easton, Maryland. She was one of eleven children born to Perry Rache and Lillian Woodward Messick on the family farm in Beulah, Maryland on September 16th, 1932.
In her younger years Shirley spent time working on the family farm...
Leon M. Peters
Mar 24, 2025
Leon M. Peters, 91, of Cambridge passed away on Monday, March 24, 2025 at Autumn Lake Chesapeake Woods in Cambridge.
He was born in Cambridge on March 11, 1934 and was a son of Leon and Madeline Andrews Peters. He graduated from Cambridge High School class of 52.
After High School he joined the Navy and was attached to two destroyers during...
Wiley "Pete" A. Young III
Mar 20, 2025
Wiley “Pete” A. Young III, 81, of Linkwood, passed away on March 20, 2025 at his daughter’s home in Mechanicsville, MD. He was born on December 16, 1943 to the late Wiley Young, Jr. and Frances Williams Young.
On September 14, 1972 Mr. Young married the former Phyllis Chessman who passed away on August 29, 2020. He worked at Airpax. Mr....
James R. Keene, Jr.
Mar 17, 2025
James R. Keene, Jr., 74, of Cambridge passed away on Monday, March 17, 2024 at Bay Health in Milford, DE. He was born in Cambridge on September 24, 1950 to the late James Russell Keene, Sr. and Ollie Johnson Keene.
Mr. Keene graduated from Cambridge High School Class of 1968. He served in the U.S. Army during Vietnam. Mr. Keene will...
Woodbury Ladd Johnson
Mar 13, 2025
Woodbury Ladd Johnson peacefully passed away on March 13th at his home with his loving family by his side. Ladd was born in Cambridge, Md. on May 22nd, 1939. He was the son of Dr. James C. Johnson and Sara Smith Johnson. After graduating from Cambridge High School, he went on to attend Potomac State College, and graduated with a...
Sandra J. Hare
Mar 8, 2025
Sandra J. Hare, 80 of Hurlock passed away on Saturday, March 8, 2025. She was born in Cambridge on September 22, 1944 and was a daughter of the late Walter O. and Sarah Cheezum Abbott.
Mrs. Hare graduated from Cambridge High School class 1962. She worked at Easton Memorial Hospital for 12 years and she also cleaned houses. She enjoyed yard...
Paul E. Raickle, Sr.
Mar 6, 2025
Paul E. Raickle, Sr. 80, of Cambridge passed away on Thursday, March 6, 2025 at Mallard bay Care Center. He was born in Lansdale, PA on March 4, 1945 and was a son of the late John Raickle, Sr. and Hazel Tolley Raickle.
Mr. Raickle graduated from North Penn High School class of 1963. He worked at Western Publishing. Mr. Raickle...
Stephen B. Dail
Mar 4, 2025
Stephen B. Dail, 62, of Bear, DE passed away on Tuesday, March4, 2025 at Laurelwood Nursing Home in Elkton, MD. He was born in Grimesby Lincolnshire, England on February 1, 1963 and was a son of Shirley Bonsor Dail and the late Samuel James Dail, Jr.
Mr. Dail graduated from Cambridge South Dorchester High School class of 1981. He worked at...
Carlton N. Ruf, Jr.
Feb 27, 2025
LT Carlton (Carl) Nichols Ruf, Jr. departed this life on Thursday, February 27, 2025. Born in Milford, DE, he was the son of the late Carlton N. Ruf, Sr. and Lettie V. Frampton Ruf of Federalsburg, Maryland. Carl spend the early years of his life in Caroline and Dorchester Counties, Maryland and was a graduate of North Dorchester High School...
Wayne V. Dabes
Feb 26, 2025
Wayne V. Dabes, 63, of Preston passed away on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at Autumn Lake at Chesapeake Woods. He was born on October 25, 1961 in Brockport, New York to Joseph Dabes and Vicki Watrous Sappington.
Mr. Dabes graduated from Dryden High School in New York. He later worked in the dietary department at Autumn Lake at Chesapeake Woods. Mr....
Hubert H. Wright IV
Feb 24, 2025
Hubert Harris Wright, IV, 83, of Cambridge, Maryland, passed away peacefully at his home on February 24, 2025, after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease.
Hubert was born on February 13, 1942, in Salisbury, Maryland, to Hubert Harris and Jeanne Winterbottom Wright. He graduated from The Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland, in 1960, and after high school, received an appointment to...
Roy P. Todd
Feb 24, 2025
Roy Prettyman Todd, 77, passed away suddenly on Monday, February 24th, 2025 due to an intracranial hemorrhage.
Born in Cambridge, Roy was predeceased by his father, Bradye P. Todd and mother Mary Blanche (Lowry) Todd. Roy grew up in Crocheron MD. After attending Crapo Elementary and South Dorchester High School, he attended Staunton Military Academy, Eastern Pilgrim Wesleyan College and Messiah...
Heidemarie M. Frazier
Feb 23, 2025
Heidemarie M. Frazier, 81, of East New Market passed away on Sunday, February 23, 2025 at UMSMC at Dorchester. She was born on June 19, 1943 in Germany and was a daughter of the late Erich and Gertrude Pelz.
On August 17, 1973, she married Donald Alan Frazier. She enjoyed traveling around the United States and Europe with her husband who...
William Douglas Robbins
Feb 21, 2025
William Douglas Robbins of Cambridge passed away peacefully at his home on Friday, February 21, 2025. He was 90. Born in Cambridge on February 20, 1935, he was the son of the late Jacob William Robbins and Rose Irene (Kelley) Robbins. Besides his parents, Mr. Robbins is preceded in death by his wife Lene (LeSieur) Robbins and a brother Stephen...
Nancy B. Cannon
Feb 19, 2025
Nancy Bundy Cannon, 92, of Cambridge passed away on Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at UMSMC at Easton. She was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina on May 27, 1932 and was a daughter of the late Thaddeus Frontus Rawls (T.F. Rawls) and Ethel Whitesell Rawls.
Ms. Cannon graduated from school in South Carolina. She left Rock Hill in 1955 to join...
Elizabeth A. "Betz" Ward
Feb 18, 2025
Elizabeth Ann Ward, “Betz” 66 of Dagsboro, Delaware passed away February 18, 2025 at Accent Hospice, Christiana Care, Wilmington, DE.
Betz was born July 19, 1958, daughter of Margaret Ann Trice Moore and the late Lt. Colonel James Buckson Moore. She was raised in Dorchester County Maryland where in 1976 she graduated from Cambridge High School. She furthered her education by...
John L. Simmons
Feb 18, 2025
John L. Simmons was born on April 15, 1945 in Nottingham, England. Born in a fallout shelter during WWII, John and his mother Gertrude Bradley Simmons sailed over to America on the Queen Mary in 1947. John and his mother joined his father John C. Simmons in Golden Hill, MD.
John attended schools in South Dorchester and graduated from South Dorchester...
Beulah Tyler
Feb 15, 2025
Beulah Tyler 97, of Cambridge, MD went Home to be with the Lord on February 15, 2025. She was born on June 22, 1927 in Dickson, Tenn. She was the daughter of the late Carl & Essie Brown. She was the wife of the late Marvin A. Tyler.
Beulah was very active until around 92 years of age, cutting her grass...
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