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James Owen Knotts III
Posted 12/14/06
James Owen Knotts III, 78 DENTON, Md. - James Owen Knotts III, a lifelong resident and former states attorney of Caroline County, died Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006, in Caroline Nursing Home, Denton. He …
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James Owen Knotts III
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James Owen Knotts III, 78
DENTON, Md. - James Owen Knotts III, a lifelong resident and former states attorney of Caroline County, died Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006, in Caroline Nursing Home, Denton. He was 78.
Mr. Knotts was born in Easton, son of the late Honorable James Owen I, Chief Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, and Margaret Bidwell (Smith) Knotts.
He was in an automobile accident during a snowstorm around Christmas when he was 5. He overcame severe head injuries to become a 1946 graduate of Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind., and a 1950 graduate of George Washington University Law School.
Mr. Knotts was an officer aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter in the North Atlantic during the Korean War.
He served as a states attorney from 1966 until 1974. He then conducted an extensive practice specializing in commercial law that covered all of the counties on the Eastern Shore as well as portions of the Western Shore. He retired on Sept. 11, 1990.
Mr. Knotts represented the Immaculate Conception Parish, Marydel, for a number of years at the annual Chrism Masses conducted in the Diocese. He served on the Committee for Capital Improvements to the Parish buildings. He attended St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church, Denton. He was also a member of the Dorchester Memorial American Legion Post 91, Cambridge.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, James Owen Knotts II; and a sister, Margaret Jane (Knotts) Huber.
He is survived by three daughters, Mary Margaret Knotts, Ann Elizabeth (Knotts) Isbert, and Carol Lee (Knotts) Collins, all of Baltimore; a sister, Mary Ann Walsh of Denton; and six grandchildren.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be 11 a.m. Monday in Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church.
Burial will be in Maryland Eastern Shore Veterans Cemetery, Beulah.
Instead of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, P.O. Box 99, Marydel, MD 21649.