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Abigail Hunt
Abigail Hunt, 84, of Albuquerque, N.M., and formerly of Annapolis and Shady Side, died Aug. 13, 2001 at Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque after a lengthy illness.
Mrs. Hunt was the daughter of Otto and Amy Veerhoff, founders of the Takoma Park Baptist Church. Her father also was the owner and manager of Veerhoff Galleries, which was founded in 1871 by her paternal grandfather, W. H. Veerhoff, in the historic Seventh Street arts district in Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Hunt was the granddaughter of Lt. Col. Charles W. Assmussen, a Civil War veteran and confidant of general and later President Ulysses S. Grant, and the great-granddaughter of the Rev. Elihu Gunn, first president of Central College in Iowa and founder of several churches in the midwest.
Born in Washington on Sept. 7, 1916, Mrs. Hunt graduated from McKinley High School and George Washington University. She worked at the former Washington Times-Herald, Veerhoff Galleries and the Annapolis Agency on Aging.
She volunteered at Shady Side Elementary School and several area churches where she taught Bible school. She also was active in politics and was a poll worker for the county Board of Elections.
She was married
on Dec. 15, 1942, to Robert Miller Hunt, who died in 1962. She traveled with him to Kansas and Texas during his military service. They settled in Shady Side in 1957. She moved to Annapolis in 1981 and to Albuquerque in 1998.
She was a member of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Albuquerque and the American Association of University Women.
Surviving are her daughter, Amy Moreland of Severna Park; two sons, Giles Hunt of New York, and Robert Hunt of Albuquerque; a sister, Amy Barton of Rye, N.Y.; and 12 grandchildren.
Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. James Episcopal Church in Lothian.
Bruce Rankin
Bruce Herbert Rankin, 78, a former engineering professor at the Naval Academy from 1959 to 1985, and a 40-year resident of Annapolis, died Aug. 14, 2001 of cancer at his home after an eight-month illness.
Mr. Rankin was born in Perth Amboy, N.J. and raised in Sewaren, N.J.
In 1945 he graduated from the Naval Academy and later earned his doctorate at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
During World War II he served on submarines in the Pacific. After leaving the Navy in 1947, he worked as an engineer in New Jersey then later for Electric Boat Co. in Groton, Conn.
Mr. Rankin was married
to Jean Merrill Rankin for 52 years prior to her death in 1995.
He raced his Alberg 30 with his grandchildren for many years. In recent years, he enjoyed cruising the Chesapeake and in the Caribbean on his Whitby, Morning Light with his current wife, Virginia.
Surviving are his wife of seven months, Virginia Nurco Rankin; two daughters, Linda Rankin Williams of Reston, Va. and Virginia Merrill Rankin of Annapolis; his brother, James Rankin of Venice, Fla.; his sister, Carol Takaki of Berkley, Calif.; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Barranco and Sons Severna Park Funeral Home, 495 Ritchie Highway. Burial will follow at the Maryland Veterans cemetery in Crownsville.
G. Sapp-Smith
Genevieve Sapp-Smith, 82, of Severna Park, died Aug. 15, 2001 at Future-Care in Arnold of complications from a stroke.
Mrs. Sapp-Smith was born in Baltimore on April 18, 1919. A homemaker, she worked for more than 12 years at the former Hochschild Kohn's Department store in Harundale Mall in Glen Burnie.
She was first married
to Joseph Sapp who died in 1966. Her second husband, Ray Smith, died in 1990. While she was married
she traveled extensively to Thailand, Tahiti, Europe and the Caribbean
Her interests were cooking, reading and sewing.
She is survived by her son, Joseph Sapp Jr. of Glen Burnie; her daughter, Leona Mundt of Severna Park; her brother, Charles Hamilton of Bedford, Va.; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. She was the sister of the late Louis Hamilton, William Shea and Marie Schmitz.
Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Singleton Funeral Home, 1 Second Ave., S.W. in Glen Burnie, where the funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Monday. Burial will be in the Baltimore National Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, Anne Arundel County Unit, 1041 Route 3 North, Gambrills, MD 21054 or to the Alzheimers Association, 1850 York Road, Suite D, Timonium, MD 21093-5142.
Elsie Simms
Elsie Annie Simms, 82, of Capitol Heights and formerly of Lothian, died of heart and kidney failure Aug. 12, 2001 at Prince George's General Hospital. She had diabetes.
Mrs. Simms was born in Lothian, where she attended Lothian Elementary School. She was a home attendant and domestic worker for a West River family.
She was a member of Mount Zion United Methodist Church, the Senior Choir and the Golden Leaf Circle of the United Methodist Women. She was named the mother of the Usher Board.
She was known for her southern fried chicken recipe. She enjoyed cooking, sewing, ironing and gardening.
In 1935 she married
John Emory "Em" Simms who died in 1988. She was the mother of the late John E. "Little John" Simms Jr. and Roy Simms and the grandmother of the late Roy Simms Jr.
Surviving are one son, Roger Simms, and two daughters, Nettie Mae Bonds and Annie G. Spencer, all of Capitol Heights; one brother, Marshall Hall of Annapolis; three sisters, Clemance Hall of Lothian, Catherine Bias of Annapolis and Mary Easton of Clinton; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
Visitation is from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Mount Zion Church, 41 Ark Road, Lothian, where services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Arrangements are by Reese and Sons Mortuary.
Thomas Stone
Donna Stone
A memorial service for Thomas Edwin Stone Sr., 56, and his wife, Donna Jean Stone, 52, of Crownsville, will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Severn Baptist Church, Route 170, Severn.
Mr. and Mrs. Stone died Aug. 12, 2001 in an airplane crash on South Mountain near Hagerstown.
A retired master sergeant in the Air Force, Mr. Stone was born in South Bend, Ind. He was in the Air Force from 1964 to 1990, serving in Vietnam as a combat medic during the Tet Offensive. He received top secret security clearance and served in Korea, at the National Security Agency, in the Star Wars program and at the Pentagon.
He received the Air Force Commendation Medal with one device, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Air Force Achievement Medal, the Air Force Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Air Force Good Conduct Medal with eight devices, the Vietnam Campaign Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal with four devices and the National Defense Service Medal.
Following retirement from the military, he opened his own dental laboratory, starting in the basement of his home. He then moved to the Stone Dental Laboratories on Route 175 in Odenton. Last year he began working at the Veterans Association Dental Laboratories in Washington, D.C.
In 1974 he began his private pilot career. He loved to fly.
Mrs. Stone was born in Suitland, the daughter of the late Clifford and Velma Beyer. She graduated in 1969 from Frostburg University and became a Prince George's County school teacher. She had retired in 2000, but continued teaching.
She loved the water, swimming, crabbing, collecting shells and building sandcastles with her children and grandchildren.
Her oldest sister Shirley, died in a 1975 car accident, leaving behind a two-year-old daughter, Laura Ziton, now of Orlando, Fla., whom she raised.
In addition, the couple are survived by their son, Thomas Edwin Stone Jr. of Odenton; their daughter, Annabelle Leigh Stone of Odenton; Mr. Stone's daughters, Lisa Darlene Hiatt of Georgia, Carol Lynn Shaw of Mississippi and Melinda Mabel Stone of Arizona; his sister, Rosemary Haraguchi of New York; Mrs. Stone's children, Kenneth Lee Johns and Julia Jean Johns of Crownsville; her sister, Linda Reynolds of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.; his eight grandchildren; and her three grandchildren.
Inurnment will be in Lakemont cemetery in Davidsonville.
Arrangements are by Hardesty Funeral Home in Gambrills.
Contributions in her memory may be made to the Donna Stone Memorial Fund in care of the Bank of Glen Burnie.
