Henry Taylor Stedman, II, 88, of Severna Park, died Dec. 30 at his home.

Mr. Stedman was born Jan. 29, 1916, in Baltimore, and reared in Catonsville. He attended Catonsville Elementary School and Catonsville High School, where he was a member of the varsity soccer and lacrosse teams. He attended Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland.

He worked for the Revere Copper and Brass Co. of Baltimore as a senior member of management for more than 30 years until the company closed. Subsequently he worked for a subsidiary of the Chevron Oil Co.

As a teenager, he attended Audubon Society Camp in Maine and developed a lifelong interest in birds. Later he owned a home on Lake Fairlee in Vermont, which he named The Baltimore.

His interests included reading about history, especially the Civil War. He was a member of the Boumi Temple and the Masons.

Surviving are his wife, Louanne Burleigh Stedman, whom he married in 1940; four children, Henry Taylor Stedman III and Phoebe Stedman Schwarz of Severna Park, Timothy Boardman Stedman of Edgewater and Wetherbee Burleigh Stedman of Marathon Key, Fla.; one brother, William Perry Stedman of Bethesda; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

A funeral service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Martin's-in-the-Field Episcopal Church, 375 Benfield Road, Severna Park. Burial will follow in Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore. Arrangements are by Barranco and Sons Severna Park Funeral Home, 495 Ritchie Highway.

Online condolences can be made at www.barrancofuneral
home.com.

As Published in the Capital newspaper Annapolis Maryland on 01/01/2005