Barbara Anne Shivnan, 70, journalist, secretaryBarbara...

Barbara Anne Shivnan, 70, journalist, secretary

Barbara Anne Shivnan, a journalist and retired secretary, died Tuesday of heart failure at the Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville. She was 70.

From the early 1980s until her retirement in 1990, Mrs. Shivnan was employed as a secretary for the Christ Child Society, a nonprofit charitable organization based in Washington.

The former Barbara Anne Brown was born and raised in London and was a graduate of Nonesuch Country School. She earned her bachelor's degree in English and journalism from Pitmans College.

She was married in 1952 to Martin P. Shivnan, assistant to the secretary of the World Bank, who died in 1981.

During the 1950s, Mrs. Shivnan was a journalist for Women's Day magazine in London and Bristol. She moved from England to Washington with her husband in 1963.

A memorial Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Monday at Our Lady of the Angels Chapel, 711 Maiden Choice Lane, Catonsville.

She is survived by four daughters, Jane Shivnan of Joppa, Sally Shivnan of Churchton, Lucy Shivnan of Takoma Park and Helen Shivnan of Lynchburg, Va.; and a grandson.

Sister Carmella Schramm, 90, principal, librarian

Sister Mary Carmella Schramm, S.S.N.D., a retired teacher, librarian and parochial school principal, died Thursday of cardiac arrest at Villa Assumpta, the motherhouse of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, in the Woodbrook section of Baltimore County. She was 90.

Sister Carmella worked in the business office of Archbishop Keough High School, now Seton-Keough High School, from 1976 to 1980. She had been librarian at the school from 1967 to 1973.

From 1980 to 1983, she was pastoral minister at Villa Maria in Glen Arm, and from 1983 to 1990 at Villa Assumpta.

She began her career teaching elementary school students at St. Ambrose Parochial School in Baltimore, and taught at St. Michael Parochial School in Baltimore from 1937 to 1941.

Other assignments included parochial schools in Florida and Delaware. She was on the faculty of the Institute of Notre Dame from 1941 to 1953, and was superior and principal of School Sisters of Notre Dame schools in Puerto Rico.

Born Florence Schramm, she was raised in Philadelphia, and was a graduate of St. Savior in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was a stenographer and bookkeeper before entering the School Sisters Notre Dame in 1928 and professed her vows in 1932.

A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Villa Assumpta, 6401 N. Charles St.

She is survived by a sister-in-law, Helen Schramm of Pompano Beach, Fla.; and several nieces and nephews.

Charlotte A. Warren, 76, accountant at Morgan State

Charlotte Adelaide Warren, a retired accountant at the former Morgan State College, died Tuesday of kidney failure at her Northwest Baltimore home. She was 76.

A Baltimore native, the former Charlotte Brown graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in 1939 and the old Cortez Peters Business School in 1954. She was an accountant at Morgan from 1958 to 1970.

She married Ira Franklin Cox in 1943; they divorced in 1960. She married Charles R. Warren in 1965; he died in 1990.

Mrs. Warren was an avid cardplayer and enjoyed crocheting and traveling.

Services are scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday at Payne Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1714 Madison Ave.

She is survived by a son, Ira Richard Cox; a daughter, April Cox; two sisters, Myrtle Joyner and Alice Beatrice Bevans; and two grandchildren. All are of Baltimore.

Carlton O'Neale, a retired Bethlehem Steel worker, died Tuesdayof Parkinson's disease at his East Baltimore home. He was 76.

A native of Trinidad, Mr. O'Neale came to Baltimore in 1967 and was employed by a security agency before going to work at the Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point plant.

Services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at the Jones Tabernacle Baptist Church, 2100 W. Baltimore St.

His wife, the former Pearl Zephrine, died in 1996.

He is survived by three daughters, Primadonna Steele of Trinidad, Denise O'Neale of Lauderhill, Fla., and Valdor O'Neale of Darby, Pa.; a brother, George O'Neale of Venezuela; three sisters, Olga Ramdoo and Ivy Robinson, both of Miami, and Sheila Martin of Trinidad; and three grandchildren.

Morris Oberman, 86, regional sales manager

Morris Oberman, a former regional sales manager for the old National Brewing Co. who sang in area synagogue choirs, died Tuesday of Alzheimer's disease at Mariner Health of Silver Spring. He was 86.

Mr. Oberman, a longtime Silver Spring resident, went to work in 1950 as a salesman for the now-closed Southeast Baltimore brewery. In 1953, he was transferred to Washington when he was promoted to branch manager. He was later appointed regional sales manager, a position he held until retiring in 1977.

For many years, Mr. Oberman was a member of the Beth Tfiloh and Chizuk Amuno synagogue choirs. He was a member and sang with the choir of Beth Shalom Synagogue in Washington.

Born and raised in East Baltimore, he was a graduate of City College and in the 1930s and 1940s worked for the Pimlico Bowling Alley.

Services were Thursday.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, the former Augusta Hirschberg; two sons, Ron Oberman of Los Angeles and Michael Oberman of Washington; a brother, Charles Oberman of Baltimore; and a sister, Anne Engel of Baltimore.