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Elmer Thomas Myers
Posted 2/27/07
Elmer Thomas Myers, 95 CAMBRIDGE, Md. - Elmer Thomas Myers of Cambridge died Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, in his home. He was 95. Mr. Myers was born Nov. 21, 1911, in Westminster, son of the late Harvine …
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Elmer Thomas Myers
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Elmer Thomas Myers, 95
CAMBRIDGE, Md. - Elmer Thomas Myers of Cambridge died Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, in his home. He was 95.
Mr. Myers was born Nov. 21, 1911, in Westminster, son of the late Harvine Charms and Elmer Ellsworth Myers.
He was educated in the Carroll County school system, graduating in 1929. He continued his education at the institution which was then called Bowie Normal School. The last two years of his undergraduate work and all of his graduate study was completed at Virginia State College, Petersburg, now known as Virginia State University. Other work was pursued at Towson State, Tuskegee Institute and Washington College, Chestertown. Mr. Myers had an abiding interest in the propagation of flowers and took several courses in floriculture from Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science in Greenhouse Growing.
Beginning in 1931, Mr. Myers became a teaching principal in several schools located in Carroll County. His administrative abilities were recognized early on and by 1935 a member of the state Department of Education persuaded him to come to the Eastern Shore.
His teaching career was interrupted for service in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946, serving a total of three years, one month and 24 days.
In August 1949, Mr. Myers became the husband of 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 IIV coordinator. During the late 1950s, 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 United Methodist Church; a past Master Mason; held membership in the Alumni Association of Virginia State University, the Dorchester County Retired Teachers Association, and the Maryland State Retired Teaches Association; was a life member of the Maryland Congress of P.T.A.; was a member of the Maryland Administrative Supervisory Assoc.; was a member of the planning committees for the construction of North Dorchester Middle School, Sandy Hill and Warwick; was a member of the local Citizen's Advisory Committee; sat on the board of directors of the Waddell Foundation; and served under Gov. Hughes and Gov. Schaefer as a member of the Trial Court Judicial Nomination Commission.
Spectator sports and growing flowers provided many pleasant hours for Mr. Myers.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Myers is survived by a sister, Dora Gaskins of Philadelphia; 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 Kane of Decatur, Ga.; and a number of nieces, nephews and friends.
Preceding him 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.
Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday in Bennie Smith Funeral Home, Cambridge, where family and friends may call one hour earlier, and also from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Burial will be in the Maryland Veterans Cemetery, Hurlock.
CAMBRIDGE, Md. - Elmer Thomas Myers of Cambridge died Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, in his home. He was 95.
Mr. Myers was born Nov. 21, 1911, in Westminster, son of the late Harvine Charms and Elmer Ellsworth Myers.
He was educated in the Carroll County school system, graduating in 1929. He continued his education at the institution which was then called Bowie Normal School. The last two years of his undergraduate work and all of his graduate study was completed at Virginia State College, Petersburg, now known as Virginia State University. Other work was pursued at Towson State, Tuskegee Institute and Washington College, Chestertown. Mr. Myers had an abiding interest in the propagation of flowers and took several courses in floriculture from Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science in Greenhouse Growing.
Beginning in 1931, Mr. Myers became a teaching principal in several schools located in Carroll County. His administrative abilities were recognized early on and by 1935 a member of the state Department of Education persuaded him to come to the Eastern Shore.
His teaching career was interrupted for service in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946, serving a total of three years, one month and 24 days.
In August 1949, Mr. Myers became the husband of 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 IIV coordinator. During the late 1950s, 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 United Methodist Church; a past Master Mason; held membership in the Alumni Association of Virginia State University, the Dorchester County Retired Teachers Association, and the Maryland State Retired Teaches Association; was a life member of the Maryland Congress of P.T.A.; was a member of the Maryland Administrative Supervisory Assoc.; was a member of the planning committees for the construction of North Dorchester Middle School, Sandy Hill and Warwick; was a member of the local Citizen's Advisory Committee; sat on the board of directors of the Waddell Foundation; and served under Gov. Hughes and Gov. Schaefer as a member of the Trial Court Judicial Nomination Commission.
Spectator sports and growing flowers provided many pleasant hours for Mr. Myers.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Myers is survived by a sister, Dora Gaskins of Philadelphia; 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 Kane of Decatur, Ga.; and a number of nieces, nephews and friends.
Preceding him 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.
Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday in Bennie Smith Funeral Home, Cambridge, where family and friends may call one hour earlier, and also from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Burial will be in the Maryland Veterans Cemetery, Hurlock.
