Harry A. Love, 87, Maryland horse breederHarry A. Love, a...

Harry A. Love, 87, Maryland horse breeder

Harry A. Love, a Maryland horse breeder, died Thursday at Union Memorial Hospital of complications from a stroke. He was 87.

On his Butler farm, Mr. Love raised championship horses, such as Peale, who was Steeplechase Horse of the Year in 1962, and Third Army, who won the Maryland Hunt Cup and the Grand National in 1953. Mr. Love also was an avid fox hunter with the Green Spring Valley Hounds.

The Baltimore native played varsity lacrosse for Johns Hopkins University and was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving in the Pacific during World War II.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at St. John's Episcopal Church in Glyndon.

His wife, the former Margaret West Dennis, died in 1983. Survivors include five daughters, Margaret C. Love of Washington, Dorothy L. Ballantyne of Madison, Wis., Eleanor L. Ammermann of Munich, Germany, and Anne L. Hall and Mary G. Love, both of Philadelphia; a brother, Dick Love of Baltimore; and eight grandchildren.

The family requests memorial contributions to New Bolton Center, Equine Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 382 W. Street Road, Kennett Square, Pa. 19348.

Stacey Sherril Smith, 28, mailroom supervisor

Stacey Sherril Smith, mailroom supervisor for a health-care company in Baltimore, died of a brain aneurysm Wednesday at St. Agnes Hospital. She was 28.

Born and raised in Atlantic City, N.J., Ms. Smith attended public schools and received training in word processing and data processing at the Atlantic City Community College.

She attended Greater Faith Deliverance Temple of Pleasantville, and was its treasurer.

After working for the Sands Hotel and Casino and Seashore Gardens in Atlantic City, Ms. Smith moved to Baltimore in January and became a mailroom supervisor for Interstate Health Care Services.

Services are planned for 6 p.m. tomorrow at Second Baptist Church, 110 Isaac Cole Plaza, in Atlantic City.

Ms. Smith is survived by her mother, Lizzie Smith; a brother, Derrick Smith; four sisters, Vanessa Smith, Stephanie Smith, Nichelle Smith and Angela Smith, all of Atlantic City; two grandmothers, Jossie Rollins of Chicago, Ill., and Anna Lee West Atlantic City; and her fiance, Joey Bright of Baltimore.

Joseph A. Onesti Jr., 60, Realtor, war veteran

Joseph A. Onesti Jr., a real estate agent, died Wednesday of undetermined causes at his Gardenville home. He was 60.

Mr. Onesti, a Realtor for about 15 years with Schmidbauer Realty Overlea, was proud of serving as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division of the Army during the Korean War, said his sister, Gloria R. Perkowski, of Gardenville.

Mr. Onesti, a City College graduate, also spent his life caring for his mother, the former Marie L. Giannerini, 85. "We're a very close-knit Italian family," Mrs. Perkowski said. Joseph E. Onesti Sr. died in 1950.

A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. Anthony of Padua's Roman Catholic Church in Gardenville.

Other survivors include four nieces; three great-nieces and three great-nephews.