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Hilton Jayne
Retired Navy Cmdr. Hilton Jayne, 91, died Aug. 5, 2002 at his Annapolis home.
Cmdr. Jayne was born Aug. 27, 1910, in Elmira, N.Y., the eldest son of Orlie and Rose Rathburn Jayne. He became an Eagle Scout and organized a dance band that performed in the Elmira area. After attending Ohio University, he graduated in 1934 from Cornell University and joined Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in the Boston office.
In 1939 he enlisted in the Naval Reserve and was called to active duty in 1941, serving as yeoman aboard destroyers on convoy escort duty in the North Atlantic. After Pearl Harbor, he was commissioned and was assigned to intelligence duties, including teaching at the Advanced Naval Intelligence School in New York.
He was assigned to the Naval Group China where he served until the end of World War II as officer-in-charge of a small detachment of Americans and Chinese, providing radio intelligence reports on the movement of Japanese military units in the Shanghai region and as liaison to the Loyal Patriotic Army, a Chinese guerilla army in that area. He later was decorated by the Nationalist Chinese government for his war service.
He transferred from active duty in 1946, retiring as commander from the Naval Reserve in August 1970.
After the war he was recruited to the newly established Central Intelligence Agency. He retired as chief of the Boston field office in 1971.
In 1946 he married
the former Nancy Park with whom he lived in Wellesley, Mass., with their two children, Parker Jayne, now of Washington, D.C., and Sarah Everdell, now of Centreville. Following his retirement, he resided in Sedgwick until Mrs. Jayne's death in 1982.
He later married
Harriett Cole Lewis, maintaining homes in Florida and Maine until her death in 1992. After moving to Annapolis in 1994, he married
Frances Walker Schaefer, who survives him.
Cmdr. Jayne was on civic boards in Wellesley and in Maine, serving as director of Blue Hill Memorial Hospital. He enjoyed boating on the East Penobscot Bay area and was commodore of the Bucks Harbor Yacht Club from 1973 to 1975. He was a lifetime member of the Cornell University Council and class correspondent.
He was an avid golfer and gardener and active in local Republican Party activities.
In addition to his wife and two children, he is survived by four grandchildren.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church. Arrangements are by Kalas Funeral Home in Edgewater.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, 1601 Pleasant Plains Road, Annapolis, MD 21401, or Hospice of the Chesapeake, 8424 Veterans Highway, Millersville, MD 21108.
Palmer Langdon
Palmer Hull Langdon, 88, of Eastport and formerly of Tenafly, N.J., died Aug. 4, 2002 at his home.
Mr. Langdon was publisher of Metal Finishing magazine from 1936 to 1942 and again from 1945 to 1985.
Born Dec. 1, 1913, in Brooklyn, N.Y., he graduated from Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School and received a bachelor of arts degree from Lehigh University in 1936. During World War II he was a lieutenant in the 533rd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment, serving in the Philippines and receiving the Bronze Sar.
He volunteered with the Tenafly Nature Center and the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. He also was a member of the Citizen's Advisory Board of the Palisade Interstate Park Commission.
He was the winner of the 1949 Governor of Florida Trophy for High Point in the Southern Ocean Racing Conference. Mr. Langdon was a member of the New York Yacht Club, the Larchmont Yacht Club, the Storm Trysail Club, the Cruising Club of America and the Watch Hill Yacht Club. He sailed a Rhodes 27 called the Tiny Teal. A member of the Appalchian Mountain Club, he enjoyed hiking and canoeing.
On April 19, 1952, he was married
to Anne Moore Langdon who died July 5, 1997.
Surviving are one son, Geoffrey Langdon of Beverly Farms, Mass.; three daughters, Suzanne Congdon of Harrington Park, N.J., Jeanne Langdon of Annapolis and Catherine Edmonstone of Wickford, R.I.; one sister, Louise Hasselback of Washington, D.C.; and five grandchildren.
A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. John's Episcopal Church in Larchmont, N.Y. Arrangements are by Taylor Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Tenafly Nature Center, 313 Hudson Ave., Tenafly, NJ 07670.
Clarence Moreland
Clarence Owens "Jack" Moreland, 85, a resident of Arnold for 48 years, died Aug. 6, 2002 at Future Care-Chesapeake in Arnold after a lenghty illness.
Mr. Moreland worked as circulation manager from 1942 to 1982 at The Naval Institute.
Born in Annapolis on June 23, 1917, he graduated from Annapolis High School. He was a member of St. Andrew's United Methodist Church in Edgewater and was interested in gardening and hunting.
Surviving are his wife, Helen Taylor Moreland, whom he married
Sept. 25, 1945; one son, Robert Moreland of Severna Park; two daughters, Linda Watwood of Buford, Ga., and Janie Janz of Arnold; one sister, Roberta Clayton of Ananpolis; and four grandchildren.
He was the brother of the late Hilda Sears, Ruby Hopkins and Leila Ross.
Visitation is from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at Taylor Funeral Home, 147 Duke of Gloucester St. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Andrew's United Methodist Church, 4 Wallace Manor Road, Edgewater. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery.
Bernard Rhoderick
Bernard F. Rhoderick, 77, a resident of Timonium for 45 years, died Aug. 3, 2002 at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center of complications following heart surgery.
Born in Middletown and raised in Frederick, Mr. Rhoderick graduated from Frederick High School and in 1941 moved to Baltimore where he worked for Glenn L. Martin Co. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 and took navigator-bombardier training in the atomic bomb program.
He received his bachelor's degree in education and later a master's degree in behavioral psychology, both from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Mr. Rhoderick taught in Prince George's and Baltimore County public schools and was a guidance counselor before joining the faculty of Catonsville Community College in the 1960s. Besides teaching psychology, he was head of the counseling department before retiring in 1995.
He was a member of Timonium United Methodist Church for 50 years. His interests included writing and history as well as taking classes and teaching others.
In 1951 he was married
to Edith Faust who died in 1994.
Surviving are a daughter, Letitia Mary Walter of Essex; a son, Mark Allen Roderick of Severna Park; four grandchildren; a brother, Robert Rhoderick of Rocky Ridge in Frederick County; and a sister, Mary Stimmel of Hagerstown.
Visitation is from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today at Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road, Towson. Services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Timonium United Methodist Church, with burial in Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the church, 2300 Pot Spring Road, Timonium, MD 21093.
Vadym Utgoff
Retired Navy Capt. Vadym V. Utoff, 84, of Annapolis, a highly decorated veteran of combat duty in World War II and the Korean conflict, died July 18, 2002 of Parkinson's disease and complications of a stroke at his summer home in Islesboro, Maine.
Capt. Utgoff retired in 1963 from active duty in the Navy after 24 years of service. He became a civilian professor of aerospace engineering at the Naval Academy in 1964. He retired from his second career in 1983 and was named professor emeritus in 1985.
In 1917 he was born in Sevastopol, Russia, the son of an Imperial Russian naval officer and aviator. He graduated from the Naval Aademy in 1939 and won his wings as a naval aviator at Pensacola in 1942.
He commanded a squadron of PBY Black Cat seaplanes in the southwest Pacific combat area during World War II and was awarded the Legion of Merit with combat V, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with gold stars in lieu of second and third awards. His squadron was awarded the Presidential Citation.
He commanded a squadron of PBM Marine seaplanes in the Korean conflict and was awarded a Commendation Medal. His last tour of duty was as a commanding officer of the Naval Air Facility in Sigonella, Sicily.
Capt. Utgoff received his bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1948 and his master of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949. He also was a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College and the Naval War College.
His naval service included a tour of duty on the staff of the Commander Naval Air Forces Pacific Fleet; on the carriers USS Yorktown, USS Wasp and USS Valley Forge; in the Office of Naval Research; and as deputy director of the Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dalhgren, Va.
Capt. Utgoff was a member of the Army Navy Club, the Army Navy Country Club, the City Tavern Club and the Tarratine Club of Dark Harbor, Maine.
He also belonged to a number of professional societies, including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Helicopter Society, the Soaring Society of America, the Experimental Aircraft Association and the Naval Institute.
Surviving are his wife of 55 years, Mimi Scott Utgoff; three children, Vadym Wilmer Utgoff of Edmondton, Alberta, Canada, Alixe Utgoff Day of Andover, Mass.; and Marina Utgoff Braswell of Washington, D.C.; five grandchildren; and his sister, Valeska Scott of Rockland, Maine.
Services will be at noon Aug. 20 at the Naval Academy Chapel, followed by burial in Arlington National cemetery at 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, 801 N. Randolph St., Suite 1228, Arlington, VA 22203.
