Paul D. Kerman, Developer, Executive, 98

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Paul David Kerman, a developer of the Drum Point Beach, Maryland,
vacation community in Calvert County, Maryland, and president in the
1940s of District Grocery Stores, died of pneumonia September 21,
2002, at his home in the Leisure World community in Silver Spring,
Maryland, at the age of 98.

He and his wife, Lily Rose Kerman, operated a DGS on Franklin Street
NE, Washington DC, in the 1930s and 1940s. He was president of the
consortium of independent store owners for eight terms.

In 1946, the Kermans bought 2,400 acres of waterfront property near
Lusby and Solomons and developed Drum Point Beach. The residential
community, which fronts on the Chesapeake Bay, Patuxent River and Mill
Creek, now has about 1,000 homes. The Kermans had a home there about
40 years.

Mr. Kerman was born in the small village of Truchenbud in Russia and
raised in Petersburg, Virginia, and Washington DC.

He was a founding member of the Calvert County Chamber of Commerce and
Calvert Bank & Trust Co., which later became Mercantile Bank. He was a
member of the Calvert County Lions Club and Southeast Hebrew
Congregation in Washington. He served on the Maryland state judicial
selection commission in the 1970s.