Administrative Assistant

Marjorie J. Bowers, who worked as a senior administrative assistant for city public schools for nearly three decades, died Aug. 22 of complications from leukemia at Stella Maris Hospice. She was 87. The daughter of a minister and a nurse, Marjorie Jones was born in Chestertown and later moved to East Baltimore with her family, where she graduated in 1942 from Dunbar High School. After graduating the next year from the old Cortez Peters Business School on Eutaw Place, Mrs. Bowers went to work as a secretary at Dunbar High School, rising to head secretary.

R. Lucille Eliasberg, a former executive assistant at the Roland Park Country School who was known equally for her charm and toughness, will be remembered Saturday at the school where her daughter and granddaughter followed her. Ms. Eliasberg died of age-related issues Wednesday at Presbyterian Home of Maryland in Towson. She was 93. "She was a woman to admire for her courage, spunk and character, but the message in her eye and her bearing was unmistakable: offend at your peril," said her oldest son, Richard R. Jones, 62, president of PCA, a graphics company in Timonium.

Anne L. Banta, a retired administrative assistant and longtime Towson resident, died Wednesday of multiple sclerosis at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 66. The former Anne Heffern was born and raised in Binghamton, N.Y. She was a 1960 graduate of the Wood School, a New York City business school. She was a secretary at Link Aviation in Binghamton, a manufacturer of training aircraft. She came to Baltimore in 1965 when she took a position as an administrative assistant at Westinghouse Electric Corp's Linthicum plant.

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Evelyn T. Russell, a retired administrative assistant and homemaker, died of respiratory failure Friday at the Annapolis home of a daughter. The Arnold resident was 78. Born Evelyn Trimble in Richwood, W.Va., she moved to Annapolis in 1945. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, she was an administrative assistant for People's Insurance Co. and Nationwide Insurance Co. She was married in 1946 to Graham D. Russell, a Naval Academy nuclear engineer who died in 1994. After raising her family, Mrs. Russell returned to work in the 1970s and for a decade was an administrative assistant at Flowers By James, an Annapolis florist.

Flora M. Rees, former administrative assistant to the dean of what was then the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, died Sept. 25 of heart failure at Atrium Village in Owings Mills. She was 89. The daughter of a barber who owned Miller's Beauty Parlor and a homemaker, Flora Miller was born in Baltimore and raised in Forest Park. A graduate of Forest Park High School, Mrs. Rees worked for the U.S. Post Office during World War II. In 1944, she married Harold B. Rees, an executive for Commercial Credit Corp., which later became Control Data Corp.

Elizabeth "Buff" Conklin, who operated a Towson travel store, worked as an administrative assistant at the Johns Hopkins University and enthusiastically volunteered for numerous local groups and causes, died of lung cancer Tuesday at her Glen Arm home. She was 73. Born Elizabeth Martin to a family with a long Irish Catholic heritage, the Roland Park native was a graduate of Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson. As a teen, she volunteered as a candy striper at Baltimore's Good Samaritan Hospital — beginning a life of volunteerism that would continue for nearly 50 years.

Florence J. Micherdzinski, a retired Bendix Corp. executive assistant and an avid gardener, died Friday of an intestinal blockage at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. She was 88. Florence Januzak was born and raised in Buffalo, N.Y., where she graduated in 1943 from Villa Maria Academy. After graduating from high school, she worked as a secretary for New York state government in Buffalo, until moving to Washington in the late 1940s. In 1953, when the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare was established during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mrs. Micherdzinski became the administrative assistant to Oveta Culp Hobby, who was named to head the department.

Brenda Brewington, an ecclesiastical administrator at St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Ellicott City who had taught earlier in its preschool, died Thursday in her office in a double shooting that also claimed a pastor's life. She was 59. "Brenda had a big, infectious laugh and was the loudest cheerleader at any track meet in Howard County and a few other counties as well," said her sister-in-law, Lisa Brewington of Centerville, Va. "She was a world-class mom, to her own boys and to so many other young people.

He ate at the church pantry in Ellicott City, but something snapped, and police said that on Thursday he came to  St. Peter's Episcopal Church and shot a reverend and an administrative assistant. He then returned to nearby woods and took his own life. Here is today's story by reporter Scott Dance [ read complete coverage here ]: Douglas Franklin Jones was a regular visitor to the food pantry at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City, living just yards away in a wooded area behind a house owned by the church.

COLLEGE PARK - Mike Locksley is 42 years old, a father of four and a $500,000-a-year offensive coordinator. Mike Locksley is also well versed in the art of freestyle rap. Just not well enough, apparently. "My kids will tell you I'm awful at it," Locksley said Tuesday, chuckling heartily before repeating once more for emphasis: "Awful at it. " He knows enough to know what he likes, though, and what he doesn't. So when he strolled through the Maryland locker room after one practice this spring, his first back in College Park in a decade, and heard defensive back Jeremiah Johnson's lyrical barbs aimed at his offense, he turned to the sophomore.

Maryland is still mum on the apparent hiring of Mike Locksley as Randy Edsall's new offensive coordinator. The names I heard Wednesday when word got out that Gary Crowton was the first coaching casualty of Maryland's 2-10 debacle were Locksley as well as former UConn offensive coordinators Joe Moorhead and Norries Wilson, who was recently fired as head coach at Columbia. At least one former Washington high school coach who knows Locksley from his years working for Ron Vanderlinden and Ralph Friedgen at Maryland believes the former New Mexico coach would be a "great fit" despite the troubles he had on and off the field in Albuquerque.