Oct. 4 Fire Service Memorial Honors Top-Ranking Female Member, Among Others

Towson, Md. (Sept. 29, 2009) - A memorial service honoring members of the Baltimore County Fire Service who have died during the past year will be held Sunday, October 4, in Towson.

The ceremony is scheduled at 6:30 p.m. at the Towson United Methodist Church, 7501 Hampton Lane (Beltway Exit 27 North).

This annual memorial service honors all career and volunteer firefighters, emergency medical personnel, ladies' auxiliary members and other fire service members who have died during the previous year. Following the service, Fire Chief John Hohman and other fire officials travel to Patriot Plaza, in front of the courthouse in Towson, where they lay a wreath at the fire memorial.

The Honorees

The honorees this year include:

• Ret. Division Chief Danelle England-Dansicker, the Baltimore County Fire Department's highest-ranking female member and a lifelong member of Pikesville VFC.
• PM Brian Neville of Hillendale Station #11, who died unexpectedly while working at the Texas Fire Station in October 2008.
• Mickey Lippy of the Owings Mills VFC, killed in a Medevac helicopter crash last fall while working as a Maryland State Police flight paramedic.

Other career honorees: Vernon Mathena Jr. (Randallstown Station #18); Robert A. Hohman (Middle River Station #12); Harry Card (Catonsville Station #4); Russell E. Palmer (Headquarters); Earl Lanham (Fire Investigation); Thomas E. Rice Sr. (Towson Station #1); James F. Whittaker (Fullerton Station #8); John J. Lilley (Fire Investigation); John Heim (Middle River Station #12); Carell Mothershed (Headquarters); Ernest Elgert (Halethorpe Station #5); and Howard Heim, (Fire Communications).

The volunteer honorees are:

• Bowleys Quarters
  Mrs. Frances Echardt, Rosalie Eichelberger, Annie M. Reed-Mack, Marlene Morris
• Butler
  Stephen Lee Dundas, Charles Crumbie
• Cockeysville VFC
  Bernard J. Meinschein, Margaret Powers, Mary E. Taylor
• English Consul
  Charles R. Courtney, Mason Maddox (cadet)
• Glyndon
  Terry Brennan, Betty Curtis, Kate Gossard, John C. Amole, LaRue Brown
• Hereford Ambo
  Gerald Bitzel
• Hereford
  Robert R. Miller, Samuel J. Thomas
• Kingsville
  Mary Rose Patricia Kurrle, Thomas E. Rice Sr.
• Lansdowne
  Harry Card, John C. Amole
• Liberty Road
  Eunice Katherine Jones
• Long Green
  J. Lewis Breidenbaugh
• Lutherville
  Milton R. Jones
• Middle River VFC
  Robin Naresky
• North Point-Edgemere
  Clarence Higgs, Ted Priester Sr., George Morgan Sr.
• Owings Mills VFC
  Mickey Lippy
• Pikesville VFC
  John W. Berryman Sr., Jerome N. Goldberg, Raymond Mitchell, Michael W. Bud Purcell, Danelle England-Dansicker
• Providence 
  Thomas E. Rice Sr.
• Rosedale
  Randy Meyer
• Violetville
  Russell W. Marks
• Wise Avenue
  Sherry Brooks