Jenny Janeski-Endley was heading to the bank about 1:20 p.m. Tuesday when she got a call from her husband, Charles.

The 57-year-old dump truck driver for Reliable Contracting told his wife he was leaving Annapolis and was on his way home to Mountain Road in Pasadena. Mrs. Janeski-Endley said she'd call him back when she was done running errands.

But Mr. Endley didn't answer his cell phone when Mrs. Janeski-Endley called at just after 2 p.m., she said. Instead, a nurse at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Parole answered the call and gave Mrs. Janeski-Endley the terrible news.

Charles William Endley Jr. had a medical...