Cayla Harris

Santa Wayne, who made the holidays cheery for generations of Marylanders, died Thursday of heart complications. He was 77.

Susan Van Buren, a landscape architect and longtime Bolton Hill resident who cared for a massive home garden, died April 15 of liver cancer. She was 78.

Kevin Curley, the longtime McDaniel College basketball coach who amassed the most wins in school history, died May 27 of cancer. He was 54.

Shina Parker, who founded Integrity Title and blazed a path for Black women in the real estate industry, died May 28 of natural causes. She was 63.

Joni Holifield, the founder and executive director of the youth-focused nonprofit HeartSmiles, died this week after a battle with ovarian cancer.

Hoye, a competitive spirit who loved putting on a good outfit and orchestrating pranks, died May 30. She was 50.

Share this via... Oscar had a good life, as far as lab rats go. After completing his testing service at the Johns Hopkins University, he graduated to office pet.

Ron Singer, the owner of Baltimore's popular gay bar Leon's Backroom, died Tuesday, the venue announced in a social media post . He was 66.

Share this via... At the end of a long day of a community stream cleanup, when her West Baltimore neighbors started to head home for a shower, Susan Goering stayed to sort the recycling from the trash.

Rev. Annie Chambers, a Baltimore civil rights icon who advocated for the poor, died July 2 of an infection. She was 84.