25th Annual Maryland Centenarians Luncheon – Maryland Centenarians Committee
May 11, 2017 – Martin’s West
Pictured (LtoR) Carolyn Cole, event/scholarship committee member; Dr. Odessa Dorkins, event chair; and Rev. Edward Mason, scholarship committee financial secretary
Pictured (LtoR) Friends & family of Brown Pinkney, who turns 100 in October, 2017: Willie Tucker, longtime friend; Mildred Batte, best friend; Brown Pinkney; Oglatha Pinkney-Ingram, daughter; Anita Pinkney, daughter; and Oglatha Pinkney, wife (married 68 years)
Pictured (LtoR) Family of Anna Knach, who turns 100 December 17, 2017: Beth Binan, granddaughter; Edward Knach, husband; Michael Peters, grandson; Deanne Schottler, daughter; and Anna Knach
Pictured (LtoR) Friend & family of Mary E. Purdy, 102: Mary E. Purdy; Brenda Gladden, niece; and Viola Potts, best friend
Pictured (LtoR) Family & friends of Beatrice Yoes, 100: Peaches Camphor, “adopted” daughter; Winky Camphor, great uncle of Peaches; Rita Yarborough, daughter; Sharon Watts, goddaughter; Beatrice Yoes; Ronald Yoes, son; Stephen Scott, adopted son; Velma Yoes, daughter; Jeanette Brown, goddaughter; and Joeann Spears, goddaughter
Pictured (LtoR) Family of Clarice Patterson, 104: Helen Ellis, daughter; Helena Johnson, granddaughter; Clarice Patterson; Ivy Patterson, daughter-in-law; and Marla Bryant, granddaughter
Pictured – Ruth Orfield (R), 102 years old; and Erika Miller (L), daughter
Pictured (LtoR) Friends & family of Bessie Powell, who turns 100 this month: Estella Brock, friend; Teah Bailey, neighborhood “daughter”; Cindi Hackett, granddaughter-in-law; Bessie Powell; William Hackett, grandson; Cheryl Horton, daughter; Sarah Tindel, good friend “like a sister”; Walter Horton, son-in-law; Rhonda Conley, great goddaughter; and Marlene Feaster, in-law
Several dozen of Maryland’s 1,800 centenarians – residents who are at least 100 years old, or will turn 100 this year – along with their friends and families, turned out for the “25th Annual Maryland Centenarians Recognition Luncheon.” The event was put on by The Maryland Centenarian Committee, which – each year – awards a scholarship to a Maryland college student studying in the field of gerontology.
