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     Denise Lyndell Murdock was buried at Saint Marys Cemetery, 1441 East Mayberry Road, Silver Run, Carroll Co., Maryland.^1,2 Her married name was Schaeffer.¹ She married Monte Alan Schaeffer.^1,2 Denise Lyndell Murdock was born on December 23, 1953 at Baltimore, Maryland.^2,1 She died on November 30, 1978 at Baltimore, Maryland, at age 24.^1,2 She Denise Lyndell Murdock Schaeffer, 24, of 824 Littlestown Pike, Westminster, died Thursday morning at University Hospital, Baltimore, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Born in Baltimore, she was a member of the Church of the and a 1971 graduate of Westminster High School. Surviving are her husband, Monte Alan Schaeffer; her mother, Mrs. Katherine Lambert Baltimore; her father, Kenneth of Westminster; her adoptive parents, Joseph H. and Gladys P. Beaver of Westminster; and her paternal grandparents, Ernest and Myrtle Sernec of Crownsville. Also surviving are five sisters, Miss Victoria Murdock, Mrs. Brenda Binetti, Mrs. Deborah Garner, Miss Monica Murdock, Mrs. Lisa Lambert; two brothers, Steven and Jonathan Murdock; an adoptive brother, Joseph H. Beaver Jr; and two adoptive sisters, Mrs. Gaynell Loder and Mrs. Phyllis Spencer. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Silver Run. Her pallbearers will be J. Craig Schaeffer, Henry G. Koontz, William Van Fielder, Ivan Loder, Joseph H. Beaver Jr. and Alvie G. Spencer Jr. on December 1, 1978.¹

     Her Social Security Number was 236-38-2320.³ Dama Dorothy Heaster was buried at Gardens of Faith Cemetery, 5598 Trumps Mill Road, Rosedale, Baltimore Co., Maryland.¹ Her married name was Murdock.⁴ She married Kenneth Paul Murdock, son of Theodore Bedford Clark and Myrtle Hellous Murdock.⁴ Dama Dorothy Heaster was born on October 12, 1925 at Kieffer, Greenbrier Co., West Virginia.^3,2 She died on July 14, 2004 at Baltimore, Maryland, at age 78.^3,1 She On July 14, 2004, Dama Heaster Murdock (nee Heaster) devoted mother of Donna Denise Fisher and the late Tanna Paige Small, dear sister of Gloria Small and Roberta Cunningham, loving grandmother of Shannon Dell, Nathan Fisher and the late Raymond Fisher. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery. on July 15, 2004.¹

     Douglas Claypool was buried at Meadowridge Memorial Park, Elkridge, Howard Co., Maryland.³ His Social Security Number was 478-36-8395.⁵ He married Marion Sue Blevins, daughter of Howard Garfield Blevins and Myrtle Hellous Murdock.^6,7,3 Douglas Claypool was born on June 12, 1937 at Red Oak, Montgomery Co., Iowa.^1,5,2,3,4 He died on April 3, 1994 at Maryland at age 56.^5,3

     Rebecca E. Flowers was buried at Meadowridge Memorial Park, Elkridge, Howard Co., Maryland.^1,2 Her married name was Claypool.¹ She married Kenneth T. Claypool, son of Douglas Claypool and Marion Sue Blevins.¹ Rebecca E. Flowers was born on June 25, 1961.² She died on July 18, 1985 at Anne Arundel Co., Maryland, at age 24.^1,2 She Shortly after 10 p.m., the partially clothed body of a 24-year-old Glen Burnie woman was found in a wooded area near Faywood Drive and Benesch Circle by her husband and father-in-law, who began looking for her after finding one of her shoes along a dirt trail, Anne Arundel County police said. The body of Rebecca E. Claypool, of the 7800 block of Americana Circle, was sent to the state medical examiner's office in Baltimore for an autopsy to determine cause of death and to check for possible sexual assault. Police said the slightly built, blonde woman suffered severe blows to the head, but they were unable to determine what kind of weapon was used. Her husband, Kenneth Claypool, 27, and father-in-law, Douglas Claypool, 48, said they had been n returning from a supermarket and walking along a dirt path behind the Pinewood senior citizens complex when they spotted a white tennis shoe belonging to Rebecca Claypool. Police later found her glasses under a street light at Faywood Drive and Benesch Circle and her purse about 100 feet from the shoe. The two men returned to the elder Claypool's apartment in the 7800 block of Gordon Court, where Rebecca Claypool, a hairdresser, was supposed to have gone after leaving her Severna Park job at 9 p.m. Her car was found parked outside the apartment but she was not inside. After looking for the woman at a sister-in-law's apartment, the men returned to the wooded path, which regularly is used as a shortcut by youngsters and shoppers. Using a flashlight, they said, they found her body near where they had found the shoe. Police have no suspects or motive in the case. on July 19, 1985.³