Roger Vermillion Laynor1

M, #44879, b. Feb 17, 1900, d. Sep 22, 1993
ChartsWittler Descendants Chart

Family 1

Anita Boehm Wittler b. Sep 15, 1897, d. May 4, 1946

Family 2

Catherine Rigg d. Jul 7, 1966

Chronological Events

Birth*Feb 17, 1900 Roger Vermillion Laynor was born on Feb 17, 1900 at Elkridge, Howard County, Maryland, United States.1 
Marriage*Apr 25, 1925 He married Anita Boehm Wittler, daughter of Charles John Wittler and Marguerite A. Boehm, on Apr 25, 1925 at Baltimore, Maryland, United States.1 
Marriage*circa 1949 Roger Vermillion Laynor married Catherine Rigg circa 1949 at Maryland, United States.1 
Death*Sep 22, 1993 Roger Vermillion Laynor died on Sep 22, 1993, at age 93 at Cantonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.1 
ObituarySep 25, 1993  OBITUARY: Roger V. Laynor, a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates who had headed the Alcoholic Beverage Division of the state comptroller’s office and the Howard County Metropolitan Commission, died Wednesday, Sept. 22, 1993 of pneumonia at the Charlestown Care Center in Catonsville. He was 93.

Mr. Laynor lived in Elkridge for many years before moving to Ellicott City in 1962. He moved to the Charlestown Retirement Community in 1990.

He retired from the comptroller’s office in 1970, having headed his division since 1936.

In 1945, he became a member of the new Metropolitan Commission established to oversee the Howard water and sewer systems. He was its chairman from 1960 to 1967.

The Elkridge native was a 1917 graduate of Baltimore City College. He operated a hardware and general store in Elkridge in the 1920s.

He was a Democratic member of the House of Delegates from Howard County before joining the comptroller’s office.

He had been corresponding secretary of the Elkridge Country Club, a founder and board president of the Elkridge Volunteer Fire Department and a member of the Howard County Democratic State Central Committee.

The former of the Howard Lodge of the Masons had been grand inspector for the Grand Lodge of Maryland.

He had been on the vestry of Grace Episcopal Church in Elkridge and later was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Columbia.

A memorial service was to be held at 9:30 a.m. today, Saturday, 25 Sept. 1993, at Our Lady of the Angels Chapel in the Charlestown Retirement Community, 711 Maiden Choice Lane.

Mr. Laynor’s first wife, the former Catherine Rigg, died in 1966.

He is survived by his wife, the former Helen Schreiner; a daughter, Roberta Reid of Williamsburg, VA; two stepsons, John Colhoun of Harwood and William Bramer of Columbia; two sisters, Helen Robinson of Greensboro, NC and Grace Laynor of Seaford, DE; 10 grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.

Published in The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), 25 Sept. 1993.2
 

Citations

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  2. [S19] Obituary - Online, Newspaper or Funeral Home.