Martinsburg

Delora Ann Weatherholtz, 53, of Martinsburg, W.Va., died Wednesday, May 1, 2013, at City Hospital. A celebration of life service will be held at a later date. Arrangements are by Brown Funeral Home, Martinsburg.

Elijah Burcker, infant son of Amy Burcker and Michael Terrell, died Monday, April 29, 2013. The service and burial will be private. Arrangements are by Brown Funeral Home, Martinsburg, W.Va.

Karen Jennings, 60, of Martinsburg, W.Va., died Thursday, April 25, 2013, at City Hospital. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service Friday at Brown Funeral Home. The service will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home with Bishop David Perrin officiating. Burial will be private.

A blessing of the foundation was held Wednesday for the third house, the first for a military veteran, in Habitat for Humanity of the Eastern Panhandle's Auburndale subdivision. The house will be home to Robert Scott, 57, a homeless veteran who lives in transitional housing at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Martinsburg. The house will be built in a week. Construction will begin May 13 with the ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for May 19. “It's my first house,” said Scott, who stood among the nearly 30 persons in the audience who participated or showed up in support of the ceremony.

The site plan for a new McDonald's restaurant site in Martinsburg's north end received conditional approval Wednesday from the Martinsburg Planning Commission. The 4,350-square foot restaurant is proposed to be built in the Old Courthouse Square shopping center along Edwin Miller Boulevard. It would replace the current McDonald's at the intersection of Eagle School and East roads. The approval was made contingent upon the state Division of Highways' final approval of a traffic impact study conducted in the vicinity of the proposed restaurant site.

Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of 11 people in Martinsburg this week on drug-related charges as a result of an investigation over the past several weeks, Martinsburg Police Department announced. Those arrested were: Richard Mikel Bowers, 25, of 312 N. Maple Ave., charged with single counts of distribution of heroin and conspiracy and two counts of possession with intent to deliver heroin. Brittany Ann Ulery, 26, of 312 N. Maple Ave., charged with single counts of distribution of heroin and conspiracy to distribute heroin.

Dorothy Ann McBee, 77, of Martinsburg, W.Va., died Monday, April 29, 2013, at Heartland of Martinsburg. A memorial service will be Friday at 3 p.m. at Brown Funeral Home, Martinsburg. Burial will be at Pleasant View Memory Gardens, Martinsburg.

Birthday Today - Bob Myers, Martinsburg, W.Va., turns 41. To submit a milestone, mail the information to The Herald-Mail, P.O. Box 439, Hagerstown, MD 21741; fax it to 301-714-0245; or email tonym@herald-mail.com.

Two people were taken to City Hospital in Martinsburg after a tractor-trailer and two passenger vehicles collided Monday night on Interstate 81, the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office said. The accident occurred at 9:17 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-81 near the 15-mile marker, which is northwest of Martinsburg, according to a sheriff's office news release. Deputies said the drivers of the passenger vehicles were taken to the hospital. The sheriff's office said Tuesday morning that the names of the drivers were unavailable.

Revolutionary War Major Gen. Adam Stephen, Martinsburg's founder, was a rival of George Washington's in Virginia politics before he was removed from his post in the Army, his biographer said Tuesday. Stephen's dismissal after the battle of Germantown in 1777 and his subsequent return to what was then “back country” in the Shenandoah Valley are possible reasons why a portrait might not exist, University of Richmond emeritus professor Harry M. Ward said in a telephone interview.