Stephen Brian Suddeth

Roger Kyle-Keith, 51, died January 22. Roger was a 1978 graduate of Bowie High School and the University of Maryland, and a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard. He was known in Bowie High as a joker, good friend and an actor in the Drama Club.  He was a jockey at Bowie Race Track and at Charles Town. Roger was a writer and editor who worked for various ad agencies as well as publishing some fiction of his own. He also worked for awhile at Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore.

For the last few years, Roger had run his own business, Modern Culture, which sold antiques and retro items online and on consignment. He is survived by his sister, Jill Walker; her husband, Bill; two nephews, Scotty and Toby; and his mother, Margo, all of Bowie. Services were held on Sunday, January 29, at Robert E. Evans Funeral Home, 16000 Annapolis Rd., Bowie.  Many of his classmates and members of the BHS Thespian Society were in attendance.

He served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1980-1984 earning the rank of Yeoman on the USCGC Cherokee (WMEC 165), with active service in Granada and Haiti. He was a Boy Scout in a Bowie troop meeting at Samuel Ogle.

I've known Roger since we were toddlers.  He had a "persona" as well as a sense of style.  From his Alpine Sunbeam sports car collection, his private country "El Armandine", that stupid pipe he affected, writing lies as "advertizing", acting with confidence whether he had any or not, his Hot Wheels obsession, dating the same statuesque hottie, or even trying to free a mouse from a glue trap and injuring the poor thing terribly, he was one of a kind.  I miss you Rog.  You were as close to Hunter Thompson as I've known in this life (without the drug experimentation of course!)