Elmer T. Myers

CAMBRIDGE - Elmer Thomas Myers, 95, passed away Friday, Feb. 23, 2007.

He was born in Westminster on Nov. 21, 1911, the son of Harvine Charms and Elmer Ellsworth Myers.

Mr. Myers was educated in the Carroll County School System and was graduated in 1929 from its high school. He continued his education at the institution which was then Bowie Normal School. The last two years of his undergraduate work and all of his graduate study was completed at Virginia State College in Petersburg (now Virginia State University).

Other work was pursued at Towson State, Tuskegee Institute and Washington College at Chestertown.

Mr. Myers had an abiding interest in the propagation of flowers and took several courses in Floriculture from Kansas Sate College of Agriculture and Applied Science in Greenhouse Growing.

Beginning in 1931, he became a teaching principal in several schools located in Carroll County.

Mr. Myers' administrative abilities were recognized early and by 1935 a member of the State Department of Education persuaded him to come to the Eastern Shore.

Mr. Myers' teaching career was interrupted for service in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946. In August, 1949 he became the husband of the former Alda Wilson-Creighton.

His professional life spanned a period of 43 years, 39 of which he served in Dorchester County at Pine Street and St. Clair. The latter school became the first elementary school in the county to be accredited by the State Department of Education. Mr. Myers served as Supervisor of Elementary Schools from 1965 until his retirement in 1974.

He was also the county's ITV Coordinator. During the late 50s he and his faculty made a decision to be an example for those who were far too young to realize that smoking was detrimental to the health of one's body.

Mr. Myers was a member of Waugh UM church; a past master mason; help membership in the Alumni Association of Virginia State University; Dorchester County Retired Teachers Association; the Maryland State Retired Teachers Association; life membership in the Maryland Congress of PTA; a member of the Maryland Administrative and Supervisory Association; member of the planning committees for the construction of North Dorchester Middle School, Sandy Hill and Warwick; a member of a local Citizen's Advisory Committee; member of the Board of Directors of the Waddell Foundation; and served under Governors Hughes and Schaefer as a member of the Trial Court Judicial Nominating Commission.

Spectator sports and growing flowers were his favorite pastime activities.

Survivors, besides his wife, include one sister, Dora Gaskins of Philadelphia, Pa.; two "special" daughters, Joyce D. Matthews of Annapolis and Joan B. Wilson of Cambridge; a "special" son, Leroy C. Kane of Tucson, Ariz.; a special granddaughter, Allison Sutton of Lithonia, Ga. and a number of nieces and nephews.

Preceding Mr. Myers in death were his twin, Ada Adderley; two sisters, Agnes Childs and Mary A. Myers; three brothers, Milton, William and David Myers and a brother-in-law, James Gaskins.

Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday at the Bennie Smith Funeral Home in Cambridge. Burial will be at the Maryland Veterans' Cemetery at Hurlock.

Friends can call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home and from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday preceding the services.