NEWS
October 2, 2007
On Thursday, September 6, 2007, CARL GENE ABERNATHY, Jr., age 42 passed away after a lengthy illness. He is survived by three children, Ishtar, Elizabeth and Austin, long time girlfriend, Cynthia Carnes. Son of Carl and Judy Abernathy, dear brother of Carol Chapman and Shannon Feeser and loving uncle of Brandon Chapman and April Feeser; also survived by many aunts, uncles and cousins. Funeral services were held at Bruzdzinski Funeral Home, P.A. Interment Holly Hills Memorial Gardens.
SPORTS
By CANDUS THOMSON and CANDUS THOMSON,SUN REPORTER | December 19, 2005
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. --Famous Ice Age mammals: woolly mammoth, mastodon, saber-toothed tiger, Anne Abernathy. While the other three are extinct, Abernathy is on her way to a sixth consecutive Winter Olympics. At 52, she'll break the record she set in 2002 as the oldest female competitor at the cold-weather Games. "Grandma Luge" - a nickname she picked up when she was a mere 40 - will put on the colors of her native U.S. Virgin Islands one more time because she has a message to send to everyone of her generation.
SPORTS
By Candus Thomson and Candus Thomson,SUN STAFF | December 13, 2004
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - In a sport in which a race against the clock is measured in thousandths of a second, Anne Abernathy is a calendar girl. That's not a reflection on the time it takes her to get to the finish line on a luge track. To the contrary. Abernathy, born during the Eisenhower administration, defies eras. In her skintight racing suit, she duels members of the Mountain Dew generation in feetfirst, double-dog-dare runs on tiny pieces of plastic. With a broken elbow, multicolored bruises the shapes of mini-continents and scars from repair jobs and cancer operations, Abernathy feels a half-century old every time she tugs on her helmet.
NEWS
November 5, 2003
On November 1, 2003 CHRIS A. WEBB ABERNATHY; beloved daughter of Calvin and Dorothy Webb; devoted mother of Kirsten M. Webb, C.J. and Alex Abernathy; dear sister of Pat Curry, Joseph Webb and Kathy Bigus; loving fiancee of Stephen H. Culhane and his daughter Kirsten. Friends may call at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc. Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale), on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral mass will be celebrated at St. Ursula Church on Thursday 10 A.M. Interment Moreland Memorial Park.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen and Frederick N. Rasmussen,SUN STAFF | December 1, 2001
Mark S. "Abe" Abernathy, a master carpenter and award-winning brewer, was found dead Wednesday in the water alongside his sailboat, the Sandpiper, which he lived on and kept berthed at Center Dock Marina in Fells Point. He was 32. Until recently joining Old Dominion Brewery in Leesburg, Va., Mr. Abernathy had been head brewer at Capitol City Brewing Co. restaurant at Harborplace for three years. His interest in brewing began in the mid-1990s, when he set up a microbrewery in the basement of his Hampden home.
NEWS
By Julianne Malveaux | May 8, 1998
THIRTY years ago, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy led caravans of people to Washington in the Poor People's March to protest poverty and racial discrimination. Abernathy had picked up the baton from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., but who has picked up the baton from Abernathy?A generation ago, it was possible to rally people to the nation's capital on such issues, but today poor people have become the targets of our nation's contempt.How else do we explain congressional reluctance to increase the minimum wage by just a dollar an hour?