Memorable Members

February 18, 1958 - January 24, 2017 Employee of the fair for 18 years - known as "Wild Bill" William Bonney "Bill" Carter, 58, of Gaithersburg, MD, passed away on Tuesday, January 24, 2017, at Shady Grove Hospital following a courageous battle with cancer. He was...

Fair Pioneer  Eugene B. Casey, 82, a multimillionaire Washington area builder and investor who became one of the largest landowners in Upper Montgomery County during the years after World War II, died of cardiopulmonary arrest July 29 at his home in Potomac. Mr. Casey was also a...

Mrs. Virginia P. Chichester, 91, of Brookeville, died Saturday, Sept. 29, at Montgomery Village Care and Rehabilitation Center in Montgomery Village. She was the wife of Ridgely B. Chichester, to whom she had been married for 53 years. He died in 1985. Born Dec. 30, 1909, in...