On Friday, February 19, 2021, at 4:35 a.m., firefighters from Seventh District, Leonardtown, Mechanicsville, Hollywood, Bay District, Valley Lee, NAS Patuxent River and multiple departments from Charles County responded to the 39500 block of Potomac Avenue in Leonardtown, for the reported house on fire.
December 30, 2020
UPDATE 12/30/2020: On Friday, December 18, 2020, at approximately 9:15 p.m., Troopers from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack responded to a single vehicle motor vehicle accident on Morganza Turner Road, just south of Rt 235.
Witnesses advised that the vehicle crossed the center yellow lines and left the roadway and struck a tree.
The sole occupant and operator of the vehicle, Joseph Allen Stilwell, 43, of Hughesville, was trapped in the driver’s seat, unconscious with no pulse. Mechanicsville Volunteer Rescue Squad responded and began performing life saving measures on Stilwell and were able to obtain a pulse.
Stilwell was transported to St. Mary’s MedStar Hospital in critical condition, and was later transferred to PG Shock Trauma.
William Clarence Watts, 92, from Breton Bay, in Leonardtown, died Saturday, December 05, 2020, at St. Mary s Hospital. Born July 29, 1928, on his Mother s birthday, in Andover, MA. He was the son of the late Merrill C. and Isabella Leuchars Watts. He was raised and attended school in Andover.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force immediately after graduating from Punchard High School in 1946. He went to basic training at SAACC in San Antonio, TX, then was trained in Boca Raton, FL, as a Radar Mechanic/Operator for Ground Controlled Approach Radar systems. He was stationed at Lajes AFB, in the Azores Islands, a mid-Atlantic refueling stop, during the Berlin Airlift. He was honorably discharged with the rank of S/Sgt in 1949. He was awarded the Good Conduct Medal, the American Theater Ribbon and World War II Victory Medal.