Russell L. Pinder

HURLOCK - Russell Lowell Pinder passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2006, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, where he had been hospitalized since the end of November.

He was born Feb. 19, 1915, in Drawbridge, son of James and Maggie (Chester) Pinder. He was one of 14 children in a close-knit family.

Mr. Pinder was educated in the public schools in Vienna to which he, along with his other siblings, walked about four miles one way to school. His father passed away when he was about 8 and he was raised on a farm by his mother in the Vienna (Indiantown) Community.

When he finished elementary school, he returned three additional years to study more seventh grade work, since there was no transportation provided to Cambridge to attend the high school there. His mother allowed him to return until he was needed more to help with the farm work.

Mr. Pinder married Marjorie Olivia Spry and from that union six children were born. He lived in Vienna (Indiantown) on a 100-acre farm as a sharecropper. He was a successful produce farmer and went on to add dairy farming, poultry and trapping. He was widowed in 1966.

Mr. Pinder attended Vienna United Methodist Church with his family, taking his children to Sunday School. He supported church programs and enjoyed camp meetings.

In 1950, Mr. Pinder purchased his own farm in Hurlock and continued farming. On occasion he attended Hurlock UM Church.

In later years he opened a store where he continued his entrepreneurial skills.

Mr. Pinder enjoyed hunting and always kept his dogs close by. He enjoyed new traveling experiences provided by his children and looked forward to receiving postcards and souvenirs from their journeys.

Mr. Pinder is survived by two sisters, Mildred Bookins and Lillie Corinda Anderson; his six children, Delores (William) Jessup, Dorothy Camper of Baltimore, Russell Pinder of Oxon Hill, Carolyn (Warren) Young, Edward (Glenda) Pinder of Baltimore and Gwendolyn Pinder of Atlanta, Ga.; grandchildren, Robert "Bobby" HudsonJr., Ronda Crumbie, Russell Pinder Jr., Jennifer Pinder, Angela Pinder, Edward Pinder Jr.; great-grandchildren, DeVaughn "Donnie" Harris, Quon-J Holmes and Legacy Hudson; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Also surviving are John and Shirley Cottom and family of the late Susie Mae Cottom, a long time companion.

Funeral services will be held at noon on Saturday at the Hurlock United Methodist Church where family and friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at the church and again from 11 a.m. to noon on Saturday preceding the services. Burial will follow at the Petersburg Cemetery in Hurlock.

Arrangements are being handled by the Bennie Smith Funeral Home of Hurlock.