Abraham

On January 2, 2009, SHIRLEY M.; devoted mother of two sons Wayne and Pierre. She is also survived by seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, two daughters-in-law, nieces, nephews and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the Carlton C. Douglass Funeral Service, P.A., 1701 McCulloh Street, on Thursday, 2 to 9 P.M. Family will received friends Friday, 10 to 10:30 A.M. at the St. Abraham Baptist Church, 1124 W. North Avenue, with services following. Interment King Memorial Park.

Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln By John Stauffer Twelve / 432 pages / $30 Frederick Douglass didn't think much of Abraham Lincoln's assertion in 1862 that blacks were the cause of the Civil War or his plan to send as many of them as possible to the republic of Colombia. The innocent horse does not make the horse thief, Douglass fumed. It is "the cruel and brutal cupidity of those who wish to possess horses, or money, and Negroes" that ought to be blamed.

On November 6, 2008, LILLIAN. Friends may visit at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends at St. Abraham Baptist Church, 1124 W. North Avenue on Friday at 10 A.M. Funeral services will follow at 11 A.M.

On October 15, 2008, ALPHONSO Q.; devoted father of one daughter. He is also survived by two sisters; two brothers; four grandchildren; one sister-in-law; special friends Michelle Holley and Juanita Perry and other family and friends. Friends may call at the Carlton C. Douglass Funeral Service, P.A., 1701 McCulloh Street on Monday 2 to 9 P.M. Family will receive friends Tuesday 12:30 to 1 P.M., at St. Abraham Baptist Church, 1124 W. North Avenue with services following. Interment Trinity Cemetery.

John Seabrook, the author of the original New Yorker story about Bob Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper, loves the movie adaptation with the same name, Flash of Genius. It retains every pungent line Seabrook put on paper, no matter how outlandish. It's exhilarating in an authentic, pathos-streaked way to see Kearns, through Greg Kinnear's inspired characterization of a wary obsessive, representing himself during his trial against Ford Motor Co. for stealing his design.

On August 22, 2008, NELSON ABRAHAM. Friends may call at the CHATMAN- HARRIS FUNERAL HOME, 5240 Reisterstown Road, on Friday, 1 to 8 p.m. The family will receive friends at the above chapel on Saturday 9 a.m. Funeral Services will begin 9:30 a.m. Interment Arbutus Memorial Park.

Mr. GREGORY R. PARK of Lyndhurst Street. On Tuesday, friends may call at HARI P. CLOSE FUNERAL SERVICE, P.A., 5126 Belair Road from 5 to 7 P.M. On Wednesday, Family Hour at 11 A.M., and Celebration at 11:30 A.M. in St. Abraham Baptist Church, 1124 W. North Avenue.

MRS. IDA W. EVANS of McCulloh St. On Friday, friends may call at HARI P. CLOSE FUNERAL SERVICE, P.A., 5126 Belair Road from 4 to 7 P.M. On Saturday, Mrs. Evans will lie in state in St. Abraham Baptist Church, 1124 W. North Ave. Family hour at 9:30 A.M. and Celebration at 10:00 A.M.

The best physicians are the ones who learn not only to cheat the rules of death, but also how to do it preventively. Theodore Abraham, an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, as well as one of the nation's leading cardiologists, has seen more than a few young men and women die from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, enough to wonder what he could do to help more of them get the better of death, or at least forestall it for a while....

On May 11, 2008, Mr. STEVEN SALLIEY of Harford Road. On Tuesday, friends may call from 5-7 P.M., at HARI P. CLOSE FUNERAL SERVICE, P.A., 516 Belair Road. On Wednesday, Mr. Salliey will lie in state in St. Abraham Baptist Church, 1124 W. North Avenue, Family Hour 11 A.M., Celebration 11:30 P.M.