Loretta Herring, 80, Hutzler's employee Loretta...

Loretta Herring, 80, Hutzler's employee

Loretta Herring, a homemaker and retired department store employee, died Saturday of heart failure at her Arnold home. She was 80.

Mrs. Herring was an assistant department manager in women's clothing at Hutzler's department store's Southdale branch in Pasadena during the 1960s and 1970s. She also had been a Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. operator at the Severna Park exchange.

Born Loretta Beauchamp in Baltimore, she was raised in Abingdon and the Federal Hill section of southern Baltimore. She attended Harford County and Baltimore public schools.

She married Edward E. Herring, a Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. employee, in 1943. He died in 1988.

A grandson, Nicholas M. Fillmann III, died in 1991.

Services for Mrs. Herring will be held at 12:30 p.m. today at Barranco & Sons, 495 Ritchie Highway, Severna Park.

She is survived by five daughters, Nancy Kotmair of Hampstead, Patricia Hastings of Glen Burnie, Barbara Fillmann of Severna Park, Elizabeth E. Leslie of Arnold and Loretta L. Lawson-Munsey of Annapolis; a sister, June Fair of Baltimore; 15 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.

Elizabeth A. Sanborne, 89, secretary, volunteer

Elizabeth Alden Sanborne, a secretary to five editors over 37 years at the National Geographic Society, died Dec. 15 of complications of Parkinson's disease at Genesis Eldercare in Annapolis. She was 89 and had been a resident of Severn Heights.

Born Elizabeth Alden Taylor in Morganton, N.C., she majored in music at Converse College in Spartansburg, S.C., and attended the Washington School of Secretaries.

In 1936, she married Henry Gates Sanborne, a salesman for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. He died in 1996.

Beginning in 1946, the couple commuted from Washington to their Severna Park home on weekends. They retired in 1970 and made the Severna Park property their full-time home.

She was a volunteer with Meals on Wheels, Red Cross and Rotary International, and a Crownsville State Hospital auxiliary member.

She attended religious services in Severna Park, first at St. Martin's in the Field Episcopal Church and more recently at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church.

A memorial service is being planned for the spring.

She is survived by a brother, T. Herbert Taylor of Millersville; a sister, Mary Lou Taylor Kenyon of Summerland, Calif.; and nieces and nephews.

Leonard C. Graham, 84, senior business analyst

Leonard C. "Bill" Graham, a retired Bendix Corp. senior business analyst, died Tuesday of an infectious illness after a long battle with Parkinson's disease at St. Agnes HealthCare. He was 84 and lived at Charlestown, the Catonsville retirement community.

Mr. Graham worked for Bendix for 27 years, retiring in 1978 from its Field Engineering Corp.

The Baltimore native grew up in the Waverly neighborhood and graduated from City College in 1933 and from Western Maryland College in 1938.

For the next three years, he taught English and history and coached soccer and baseball at Washington High School in Queen Anne's County.

During World War II, he joined the Army Air Corps in 1941 and was captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. He survived the Bataan Death March.

Shortly after being discharged with the rank of first lieutenant, Mr. Graham married Jane Lee Mills in 1947. The couple resided for nearly three decades in Ellicott City. In 1997, they moved to Charlestown.

Services will be held at 1 p.m. today at the Harry H. Witzke Family Funeral Home, 4112 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City.

He is survived by his wife; a son, Robert C. Graham of Baltimore; a daughter, Janet Lee Graham Cummings of Silverdale, Wash.; and two grandchildren.