Obituaries

Myrna Baughman Secretary

Myrna Baughman, 69, a former legal secretary with the litigation unit of State Farm Insurance in Lanham, died June 15 at Prince George's Hospital Center of complications from leukemia. She was a resident of Kettering, in Prince George's County.

Mrs. Baughman was a legal secretary in the Bladensburg law offices of Miller, Markey & Hoffman from 1975 to 1992, when she joined State Farm. She retired in 2003.

Myrna Ilene Anthony was born in Penn Township, Pa. She attended Humboldt Institute Airline Secretarial School in Minneapolis. She also attended Prince George's Community College, where she studied English and art.

From 1957 to 1959, she worked as a radio operator for Capital Airlines in Ypsilanti, Mich., and National Airport. After that, she was a homemaker until becoming a secretary for Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Bladensburg in 1972.

She was a member of Hope Presbyterian Church in Mitchellville and volunteered as a Prince George's County election judge.

A son, Gregory W. Baughman, died in 1960.

Survivors include her husband of 50 years, Allen B. Baughman of Kettering; two children, Byron A. Baughman of Damascus and Dana L. Main of Front Royal, Va.; two brothers; and three granddaughters.

-- Joe Holley

Carole Finnin Silver Spring Church Secretary

Carole Finnin, 65, a secretary in the early 1980s at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Silver Spring, died June 15 at her home in Gaithersburg of a rare form of melanoma.

Mrs. Finnin, a former member of St. Michael the Archangel, had been a basketball coach at the church's elementary school in the 1960s.