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The world was made better by the addition of Katherine Ann Cameron (nee MacDonald) on October 19, 1968, in Washington DC. Born to, and survived by, Douglas Edward MacDonald and Elsa Blanca MacDonald (nee D’Auf der Maur), Katherine will also challenge her husband Michael, her two children, Atticus and Audrey, family, friends, colleagues, and students to honor her memory.

Katherine spent her life pursuing knowledge and her career sharing that pursuit with us. She had an amazing education at the North Carolina School of Science and Math, Davidson College, UCLA, Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland before becoming a tenured professor of psychology at Coppin State University (go Eagles) where she taught for the past 11 years. She was much loved and much respected by students, colleagues, and coaches.

Katherine was an avid fisherwoman, outdoorswoman, Girl Scout troop leader and world traveler who delighted in the wilderness and spent her summers on Whitehead Island NB and Lake Temagami ON with her family and friends. She loved to swim, kayak, ski and lounge.

Katherine died peacefully at home in Baltimore on December 31, 2019 after a short, heroic struggle with cancer.

She will be piped home at The Rawlings Conservatory in Druid Hill Park on Sunday, January 12 at 1 PM.

Donations in Katherine’s memory and in lieu of flowers may be made to the Elijah Cummings Youth Project at ecyp.org.

An honest human here lies at rest,

As e’er God with Their image blest:

The friend of man, the friend of truth;

The friend of age, and guide of youth:

Few hearts like hers, with virtue warm’d,

Few heads with knowledge so inform’d:

If there’s another world, she lives in bliss;

If there is none, she made the best of this.

Adapted from “Epitaph On My Own Friend” by Robert Burns.

Published in Baltimore Sun on Jan. 4, 2020

Melissa “Missy” Terry Fuhrman, age 50, of Norwalk, IA (formerly of Charlotte, North Carolina) passed away unexpectedly on Friday, September 28, 2018, at her home.

A visitation with Melissa’s family will be 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, October 4th at O’Leary Funeral Services in Norwalk, Iowa.  Broyles-Shrewsbury Funeral Home, 111 Market Street, West Virginia 24963 in Peterstown, WV will be handling services there with burial taking place in the Terry Family Section at Peterstown Cemetery in Giles County, VA.  West Virginia arrangements will be posted here as they become available.

Melissa Anne, the daughter of James J. Terry, Jr. and Anne H. (nee: Hamilton) Terry, was born on February 25, 1968, in Charlotte, North Carolina.  She followed her grandfather and father’s footsteps attending Davidson College in Davidson, N.C.,  earning her bachelor’s degree.  She earned her teaching certification at Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, N.C.

During her career she worked for the Boy Scouts of America, as an elementary school teacher, as an administrative assistant at Wachovia Bank and Des Moines University Osteopathic College; and most recently she started to work as a daycare provider at Crossroads Kids Preschool and Early Learning Center in Norwalk.

Melissa married the love of her life, John Richard Fuhrman, on September 26, 2009 at Luxor Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, NV.  Together they made their home in Norwalk and enjoyed spending time watching movies, dining out, and their 90lbs. dog, Max a Dachshund-Labrador mix.

She is survived by her loving husband, John Fuhrman of Norwalk; her mother, Anne H. Terry of Colleyville, TX; a brother, James Terry (wife, Lisa) of Noblesville, IN and their sons, Andrew and Christopher; a sister-in-law, Gina Fuhrman Thomas of Norwalk and her son, David Thomas; and host of aunts, uncles, cousins and several good friends.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents; her father, James “Jim” Terry, Jr. whom passed away on September 9, 2016; and her beloved Maggie, a Catahoula leopard dog, who will be buried with her.

For on-line services, condolences and to send flowers in Norwalk click the “send tributes/flowers” tab on this screen or call O’Leary’s Flowers in Norwalk at (515) 981-0700.

Alyssa “Aly” Kendall, 49, died peacefully on March 28th surrounded by close family and friends.

Aly endeared herself to medical communities near and far, having been treated for cancer over the last 10 years at UVA, Moore Cancer Center in San Diego, UC Davis, as well as Tahoe Forest Hospital/Cancer Center.

By the end of each nursing shift during her many hospital stays, Aly invariably knew her nurse’s life story.

A career educator and fierce Scrabble wordsmith born in Maryland and educated at Davidson College (BA) & Vanderbilt University (MA), Aly came to Truckee in 2009 to teach Spanish. Head of Lake Tahoe School Ruth Glass hired Aly in 2014 to run the school’s library.

Lake Tahoe School teachers who brought their students to library story time described Aly as “magical” for her spellbinding reading of the books she had selected for the school library. Here in Truckee, the medical community came to know her as the patient who could always manage to smile through the pain, explain details of her illness as articulately and thoroughly as a physician, and repeatedly rally back to better health against all odds.

Aly is survived by her son, Casey Jobe; husband, Peyton Jobe; parents, Chuck and Verona Kendall; sister, Ashley Kendall; and the family pet, Sonny, who Aly adopted after organizing a student volunteer effort at the Truckee Humane Society.

In lieu of flowers, the family has asked for donations to be made to the ACPMP Research Foundation at URL https://paddlechallenge.acpmp.org/campaigns/245.

Jennifer loved to be outside.  She loved the sunshine more than anyone else.  She was the only person who would say, “Thankfully, it’s going to be 94 degrees tomorrow!”

She loved fireworks; when she heard them going off she would grab a kid and run around town together until they could see them.

Jen loved mashed potatoes.  She loved cheese. She loved laughing.  She loved driving a stick shift with the top down. She loved dancing in the kitchen to whatever her girls put on the radio. She was incredibly generous and gracious.  Jen loved her family above all else.

Jen was born Jennifer Lynn Hoffman on March 6, 1968, in East Lansing, Mich., to Judith Lee Stangel Hoffman and Alan John Hoffman.  Jen grew up in Tucker, Ga., and graduated from Shamrock High School in Decatur in 1986. She served as the school’s Miss Shamrock her junior year.  Jen studied political science at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., and served as editor of its student newspaper, The Davidsonian. She graduated in 1990.

Jen was a journalist. She began her professional career as a college intern at The Chronicle of Philanthropy. She joined the newspaper full-time as a staff writer the summer immediately after she graduated from college. She launched many of the then-new newspaper’s now-signature reports, including The Philanthropy 400 and its annual survey of charitable-organization salaries.

Jen was a gifted writer and editor, and eventually earned the role as The Chronicle’s managing editor. She was known for having a deft touch with profiles and how-to stories, and had a great ‘bedside manner’ with her reporters.

Her longtime friend and editor, Stacy Palmer, writes that Jen “always knew just how to tell a reporter what a story needed to be stronger and supported the journalists at COP with intelligence and compassion all the way through the editing process.” Jen later worked for Amtrak in Washington, D.C., and BLH Technologies, Inc., in Rockville, Md.

Jennifer Lynn Hoffman married Thomas Hampson Moore ’90 in Two Rivers, Wis., on June 23, 1990, as her grandparents Helen and Hugo Hoffman celebrated their 50^th wedding anniversary. Though they divorced in 2011, their marriage produced three amazing children: Katherine Violet Moore, born 1997; Joseph Hugo Moore, born 2000; and Eleanor Rose Moore, born 2002.  They were truly the loves of Jen’s life and she could not have been more proud of their many accomplishments.

Jen died October 14, 2017, at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md., as the result of a long illness. The last of Jen’s many gifts to the world was her donation of her organs and tissues.

Among those left to mourn Jen are her children, Katie, Joey and Ellie, of Rockville, Md.; her sisters, Laura Jane Cohen, of Burke, Va., Brenda Crellen, of Lady Lake, Fla., and Allison Sutton, of Norcross, Ga.; her father and stepmother, Alan and Nancy Hoffman, of Dumfries, Va.; her mother and stepfather, Judith and Ken Crellen, of Lawrencevillle, Ga.; two nieces (and one on the way); three nephews; countless in-laws and cousins (particularly on the Hoffman side); and many devoted friends and colleagues.

Jen’s memorial service will be held at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad (5020 Battery Lane, Bethesda, Md., 20814) on Saturday, October 28, 2017, from 5-8 p.m.

“Peter “Pete” Breen Halverstadt, a Nashville attorney and advocate for the legally underserved, died July 24, 2014 from complications related to cancer surgery. He was 46.

Pete was born July 12, 1968 in Richmond, Va., to the Rev. Dr. Hugh Fleece Halverstadt and Barbara Ann Hornby. He was the grandson of Presbyterian missionaries James Andrews Halverstadt (1912-2000) and Charline Fox Fleece (1915-1976) of Atlanta and later of the Belgian Congo and Nashville, and Lewis Alfred Hornby (1909-1965) and Doris Louise Breen (1911-2010) of Welch, W. Va. Besides his grandparents, he is preceded in death by his brother, David Andrews Halverstadt (1969-2012).

An attorney since 1994, he gave freely of his time and talents to benefit the legally disadvantaged and underserved by regularly participating in the Dial-a-lawyer and Pro-Bono clinics and most passionately with the nonprofit Guardianship and Trust Corp. on whose Board he served for more than a decade and to whose operations and clients he donated his services. GTC, the only nonprofit trust company in Tennessee, provides management and certain other personal and legal services to people who, faced with impairment of intellect, are unable to make informed and rational decisions about their finances, medical care and other matters.

Pete also served for more than 20 years on the Board of the Herbert and Gertrude Halverstadt Foundation, the last three years as secretary/treasurer. Originally established in the 1960s, the family foundation has more than tripled its endowment since 1984 while quietly gifting more than $2 million to various religious, charitable and educational entities since its inception.

A graduate of Davidson College and the University of Tennessee College of Law, Pete chose to dedicate more than 13 years of his legal career to public service with the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, specializing in worker’s compensation law and was given the responsibility of being the primary drafter of the 2004 worker’s compensation reform Act.  He strongly believed in a fair and impartial system that protected both worker and employer.

He was a man of deep and abiding faith who believed love was the most important ingredient for a meaningful life. In Barbara Anice Doak, a fellow Nashville attorney, he found a soul mate. They married April 18, 2009 in Nashville after a courtship of 16 months and settled in Fairview where they supported and volunteered at the local food bank and joined Emmanuel Presbyterian Church nearby.

Pete gave time and resources to help family, friends and the public in general. He was never too busy to lend a helping hand and was always ready with a pickup truck and a strong back. With three friends, he became a partner in The Board Room, a bar on Hermitage Ave. now called the Batter’s Box Bar & Grill. The investment nature of the business seemed almost secondary to the joy it gave Pete and his friends of congregating weekends to watch SEC Football, especially the Tennessee Vols, and root for his beloved Pittsburgh Steelers, the Tennessee Titans and the hapless Chicago Cubs. An avid sports fan,

Pete was sometimes particular about the level of sports he enjoyed, preferring college basketball to the professional teams; but watching both college and professional football and baseball.  Pete also loved watching NASCAR, rooting for drivers that no one else supported.

Pete’s love of history was insatiable and enduring throughout his life and he took great pleasure in reading accounts of events or people that were either from a different perspective or were previously unknown to him. A Civil War buff well read on all aspects of the conflict, he was delighted to learn something previously unknown to him when he read about Jones County, MS, the lone county in that state to vote against Mississippi’s seceding from the Union in 1861.

Pete is deeply mourned by his wife, Barbara, his father Hugh Fleece Halverstadt of Oak Park, Ill., and his husband, R. Craig Endicott, the Doak and Halverstadt families, and many friends and colleagues.

A memorial service to celebrate Pete’s life, officiated by the Rev. Blake Hawthorne Interim Pastor of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at Second Presbyterian Church, 3511 Belmont Blvd., in Nashville, with a wake to follow. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Pete’s name to the Guardianship and Trust Corp., 95 White Bridge Pike, Nashville, Tenn., 37205.