Adelaide

On January 1, 2004, ADELAIDE E. ( nee LINTHICUM) BOBBYE LOTTERER; dear wife of the late Herman E., beloved mother of Dolores E. Valentine and the late Herman G. Lotterer, devoted grandmother of six grand, thirteen great grand, and five great, great grandchildren. The family will receive friends at FINK FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 426 Crain Highway SW (at 5th Avenue) on Monday from 3-5 and 7-9 PM where services will be held on Tuesday at 11 AM. Internment Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

DOROTHY ADELAIDE THOMSON, age 91, of Williamsburg, VA., passed away Friday June 6, 2003. She is survived by her sister Mary Louise Walbeck and her husband William S., also her niece Anita Edmonds. Service arrangements private.

On February 24, 2003, ADELAIDE JANE (nee Zych) of Howard County, MD, formerly of Annapolis, MD, beloved wife of the late Eddison W. Kipp. Loving mother and mother -in-law of Joan K. and Rev. Anders Lunt of Columbia, MD. Cherished grandmother of R. Kipp Lunt of Germantown, MD and David A. Lunt of Columbia, MD. Sister of Zenobia Wetmore and the late Ted, Gene, Dorrothy, Helen and Tillie. Graveside Services will be held Monday 11:30 am at Memory's Garden, 983 Waterlivet Shaker Road, Albany, NY 12205.

Adelaide Close Riggs, one of the great supporters of Maryland's thoroughbred horse breeding and racing industry, rode until the age of 77, when her favorite pony had to be put down and she decided she was too old to break in a new one.Mrs. Riggs died Dec. 31 from complications of pneumonia at Happy Retreat, her 540-acre farm near the Howard County village of Daisy between West Friendship and Lisbon. She was 90."She was certainly one of the grandes dames of Maryland racing and an absolutely wonderful sportswoman," said Snowden Carter, retired editor of Maryland Horse magazine.

Adelaide N. Noyes, a 1920s Baltimore debutante who became a peace activist and civil rights advocate, died April 16 of pulmonary complications at the Bel Air Convalescent Center. She was 91.The daughter of Waldo Newcomer, who had been board chairman of the Baltimore Trust Co. and a Johns Hopkins University trustee, she brought an unlikely background to the causes she grew to champion.Born and reared in a townhouse on West Monument Street, she attended Calvert School and graduated from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn.

LONDON -- American-born jazz singer Adelaide Hall, who shared the stage with Duke Ellington and other jazz stars, died in London yesterday at the age of 92, a hospital spokesman said.Born in New York, she was the daughter of a music professor and first performed on stage at 14. Her credits include appearing in the London stage premiere of "Kiss me Kate" as well as Ellington's "Chocolate Kiddies" with Josephine Baker.

SOON AFTER I moved to Washington in 1975, among the first people I met, and immediately liked, was a charming and exceedingly bright woman named Adelaide Eisenmann from Panama. It soon turned out that Adelaide was far more than the retired social worker, plus committed Democratic Party activist, that she seemed."There has got to be democracy in Panama," she would say emphatically to carefully chosen interlocutors. "Since 1903, all patriotic Panamanians have desired a new canal treaty, but today's first concern is restoration of democracy and human rights."

A memorial service for Adelaide Rodgers, a retired medica office administrator, will be held at 4 p.m. today at Baltimore's Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation, University Parkway and St. Paul Street.Miss Rodgers, who was 75 and lived at the Thirty-Nine Hundred Apartments, died of cancer Wednesday at the home of a nephew.The native of Brandywine Summit, Pa., was raised in Baltimore. She was a graduate of Western High School, where she had earned straight A's. She graduated in 1936 from Goucher College and studied at the Strayer Business College.