Remembrances – Bolton Hill

The Bolton Hill Bulletin

Remembrances

Neighborhood icon Lottie Shivers dies; and more

As the Bulletin returns from summer hiatus, we remember several cherished neighbors lost in recent months: 101-year-old matriarch Lottchen “Lottie” Shivers, former longtime resident Natasha Zavoico Mathias (87), and Laurie Gillespie, known fondly as “L” (61). We also remember longtime resident Henri Daniels, whose gardening stewardship was honored with a new commemorative plaque placed on the Eutaw Place median by BHCA and the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge.

Remembering Susan Van Buren and Debby Phinney...

Bolton Hill lost two grande dames in April. Over many years they separately brought to the neighborhood originality, community spirit and energy that helped make Bolton Hill the unique place that it is. Read about Susan Van Buren and Debby Phinney:

Memorial to be held for famed MICA professor, artist Timothy App

A memorial service for Timothy Lee App, a nationally celebrated painter and educator at MICA, will be held on Sunday, March 1 at the former Corpus Christi church in Bolton Hill, now known as The Basilica Oratory at Corpus Christi. He died on Nov. 19, after a long battle with cancer. He was 78.

Bolton Hill ‘pioneer’ remembered for her energy and activism

Henri Ann Daniels, a longtime resident of Bolton Hill and an activist in neighborhood and city affairs, died at the age of 83 on Dec. 15 after a brief hospitalization. A funeral at Douglas Memorial Community Church a few days later attracted a hall filled with family, neighbors, professional colleagues and friends who came to remember the diminutive woman who helped restore Eutaw Place half a century earlier.

Remembering Bolton Hill’s Dr. Jeremy Walston...

The Banner and The Sun both ran warm obituaries for Dr. Jeremy Walston, 64, a Bolton Hill resident and geriatrician who died of cancer during the summer. He was a world-renowned physician who ran the Human Aging Project at Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and worked tirelessly to improve the quality of life for people as they age and better manage the progression of disease in the elderly.

Remembering Sally Gold...

Bolton Hill residents who knew her used the same words to describe their West Lanvale Street friend: “colorful;” “cheerful;” “flamboyant;” “sparkling.” Sally Gold, a lawyer and longtime resident of the neighborhood who more recently spent most of her time in New York, died of cancer there last month. She was 75.

Longtime Bolton Hill resident June Carr remembered

A memorial service was held this month for June Carr, a longtime Bolton Hill resident and neighborhood advocate, who died in January at the age of 96. She was a native of England who first came to America as a child during the German blitz attacks on Britain.

Two community stalwarts, Nancie Verkerke and June Carr, have died

The first issue of the Bolton Hill Bulletin appeared in April 1972, a large tri-fold printed newsletter that would undergo surprisingly few changes over the next decades. Only in 2016 did it surrender to technology and become an online-only publication for what was then the Mt. Royal Improvement Association, now BHCA.

Mourning and celebrating a former neighbor: William G. Noel, 1965-2024

Dr. William Noel, 58, a former Bolton Hill resident and a distinguished scholar, was hit by a van and killed on April 10 while walking along a road in Edinburgh, Scotland. He directed the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, an international collaboration to conserve, image and study the erased texts lying beneath a 13th century prayer book. He also pioneered the presentation of machine-readable, openly licensed datasets of digitized illuminated medieval manuscripts at The Walters Art Museum.