Mr. Roger Edgar Wolfe

Our beloved husband, father and grandfather, Roger Edgar Wolfe, 85, passed away peacefully at his home, on the 13th of November 2022, 13 being his favorite number. He was the son of Gladys Romaine Cook and Wilbur Earle Wolfe, born on Friday, August 13th 1937. Roger was a devoted Carroll County resident, born and raised in Medford. His first job while in high school was at the Medford Grocery Store. He graduated as class president from Westminster High School in 1955. He then went part time to Western Maryland College and worked his first real full-time job as a lab worker with Domino Sugar in Baltimore. He met his future wife, Jane Chandler, at Goucher College. Several years later they were married in Sarasota, FL in 1959 and drove back to Carroll County the day after the wedding in his old Pontiac convertible. Vietnam happened and he found himself in the Reserves, while finishing up his college at night school at Johns Hopkins. He met Ken Inskeep, a Nationwide insurance agent at the new Presbyterian Church in Westminster who hired Roger to fill a sales agent job in Montgomery County. Charlie Reichelt joined him in Burtonsville, the business grew and they started Wolfe and Reichelt Insurance Agency. Charlie Reichelt became his longtime friend and partner in their successful business. Years later he started a second business, Pine Valley Farms, a Christmas tree farm in Sykesville, which his son Holden now runs. He was a passionate member of the Lions Club, being a life time member for 60 years, initially in Burtonsville and then the Freedom District Lions Club. He held numerous positions throughout his membership with the Lions including President. He is survived by Jane Wolfe his wife of 63 years, three children, Lorna Wolfe Kaylor and husband John; Deborah Romaine Bigger and husband Keith and Holden Earl Wolfe and wife Karen; grandchildren, Carson and Clairissa Kaylor and Lindsay, Kailey and Miles Wolfe. He was predeceased by his sister Carolyn Dayton and survived by his sister Janet, brothers Byron and Marvin. He also leaves behind many nieces and nephews. He was a consummate, self-made man and we will miss him deeply. The family will receive friends on Wednesday from 2-4 PM and 6-8 PM at Haight Funeral Home & Chapel, 6416 Sykesville Road, Sykesville where a funeral service will be held on Thursday at 10 AM. Interment to follow at Pipe Creek Cemetery in Union Bridge. The Freedom District Lions Club will hold a memorial service at 7:30PM Wednesday at the funeral home. Those desiring may send donations to Freedom District Lions Club, 1363 Progress Way #1663, Sykesville, MD 21784.

Mr. Roger Edgar Wolfe

August 13, 1937 - November 13, 2022