John J. Carlin Jr.Park operatorJohn J. Carlin Jr., a...

John J. Carlin Jr.

Park operator

John J. Carlin Jr., a retired Ohio amusement park operator and former Baltimorean, died May 17 of heart failure at a hospital in Newark, Ohio. He was 85.

He was the son of Elizabeth McCormick and John Jacob Carlin, who founded Carlin's Park in 1919. The Park Circle amusement park closed in 1954 and the younger Mr. Carlin moved to Buckeye Lake, Ohio, to operate another family-owned amusement park.

Raised in Guilford, he was a 1929 graduate of Calvert Hall College and earned a bachelor's degree from Mount St. Mary's College in 1933.

After working briefly on tunnel construction for the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was electrifying its lines through Baltimore in the early 1930s, he managed the Orioles ice hockey team that played at Carlin's Iceland Arena.

During World War II, he served in the Coast Guard and was discharged in 1945.

In 1947, he married Mary R. Conroy, who died in 1981.

A Mass of Christian burial for Mr. Carlin was to be offered at 10 a.m. today at SS. Philip and James Roman Catholic Church, 2801 N. Charles St.

Survivors include a son, John J. Carlin III of Baltimore; a sister, Eleanor M. Beers of Roland Park; three grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

Memorial donations may be made to the church.

Bernard H. Waranch

Auto shop owner

Bernard H. Waranch, a retired automobile transmission shop owner, died Sunday at a Daytona Beach, Fla., convalescent center of complications of injuries from an automobile accident eight weeks earlier near Palm Coast, Fla.

Mr. Waranch, who was 67, had moved to Palm Coast 14 years ago after he retired as owner of the Crest Automatic Transmission Service in Northwest Baltimore.

The Baltimore native was a merchant seaman during World War II, and served in the Army during the Korean War.

Services were to be held today in Palm Coast.

He is survived by his wife, the former Bernice Stein; two daughters, Judy Lempert of Baltimore and Wendy Psomas of Daytona Beach, Fla.; a son, Harry Waranch of Jacksonville, Fla.; three sisters, Leona Brager of Miami, Jean Lavigne of Baltimore and Rose Kramer of Lexington Park; and two grandchildren.

Kathryn Zimmerman

School nurse

Kathryn Young Zimmerman, who had been a nurse in Hagerstown and in Pennsylvania, died Monday at Stella Maris Hospice of a respiratory illness. She was 90 and had moved to Towson from Mercersburg, Pa., about 10 years ago.

The former Kathryn Young was a native of the Hagerstown area. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in the Union Memorial Hospital nursing school.

After her graduation, she did private duty nursing in Hagerstown and in Mercersburg, where she later became a public school nurse. She retired in the late 1970s.

In Mercersburg, she was regent of the Franklin County Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and a member of Trinity United Church of Christ.

After moving to Towson, she was active at the Bykota Senior Center and attended Trinity Episcopal Church, 120 Allegheny Ave., where a memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday.

She is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth Z. Kahl of Towson; two sons, John Gordon Zimmerman of Philadelphia and David W. Zimmerman of St. Paul, Minn.; four grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.

Henry C. Schluter

Production manager

Henry C. Schluter, a retired production manager for what is now the the Environmental Technologies Group in Parkville, died May 8 of heart failure at his home in Columbus, N.J. He was 77.

The Baltimore native was a graduate of Polytechnic Institute. He was a third baseman for the International League Orioles and other teams in the league and for the Brown Derby, a semiprofessional team in the Overlea area.

A memorial Mass for Mr. Schluter will be offered at 11 a.m. June 3 at Holy Assumption Roman Catholic Church in Roebling, N.J.

He is survived by his wife, the former Verna Kreiner; a daughter, Patricia Paul of Mount Laurel, N.J.; a son, Ronald W. Ayres of Bel Air; six grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.

Thomas Hart, 56, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. shipyard worker, died Sunday of injuries he suffered in a traffic accident in Jersey City, N.J., where he lived.

Born and raised in East Baltimore, he was a graduate of city schools and moved to Jersey City in 1969. In 1970, he married the former Regina Dixon, who died in December.

Services will be held Friday at St. Luke Methodist Church in Jersey City. He is survived by a daughter, Jacqueline Capers of Baltimore; and a granddaughter.