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Carole Husted Bade died at home Friday, February 1, 2008, after an eight year fight against lung cancer. Heinz Werner Bade, her husband of 31 years, children, and many friends continuously provided strength and support. Carole Husted was born April 1, 1940 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to Stephen and Dorothy McComick Husted. The Husted family moved to Baltimore in 1943 where Stephen worked as Director of Sales for the Bethlehem Steel Company during the Liberty Ship era. On June 22, 1944 at the tender age of 4, Carole participated in the launching of the Liberty Ship "S.S.

If everything had gone as planned, there would already be apartments in the old Bagby Furniture Co. building near Little Italy. Instead the 93-year-old warehouse sits idle while the neighborhood and the developer argue over who said what to whom. It's time to move on so this project can be completed and enhance the community.Henrietta Corp. developer Patrick Turner announced the renovation plans for the Bagby building in 1993. He said the seven efficiencies, 16 one-bedroom and 33 two-bedroom apartments would be rented at prices ranging from $600 to $1,200 a month.

Within the flyleaves of crumbling old Bibles rest the remnants of history -- birth, marriage, children and death.The worn leather andrag paper covers don't look like much on the outside, but their contents, for county genealogists, are priceless and irreplaceable.Tomorrow, the Shadyside Rural Heritage Society, south of Annapolis, is sponsoring a presentation by the county genealogical society topreserve that information."In the 1700s there were no birth or death certificates," explained Audrey Bagby, program director of the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society.

On August 24, 2003, JAMES D. ALSOP SR., loving husband of Etta Alsop; beloved father of James Jr., daughter-in-law Marlene, grandson Justin, and other family and friends. Friends may call at the JOSEPH L. RUSS FUNERAL HOME, 2222 W. North Avenue on Thursday from 3 to 8 P.M., with family hour 7 to 8. Wake Saturday, August 30, 10 A.M. with Funeral to follow at 11 at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 21180 Bagby Road, Sparta, VA.

Frances Boone BagbyLongtime RealtorFrances Boone Bagby, who had been active in the real estate business and in many organizations, died after a stroke Wednesday at Broadmead, the Cockeysville retirement community.Mrs. Bagby, who was 87, retired about a decade ago after many years with Russell T. Baker & Co., during 1975 PHOTOwhich she became a life member of the Realtors' Million Dollar Club.She was born Frances Boone in Greensboro, N.C., and educated there. She was proud of being a descendant of Daniel Boone.

A Baltimore Circuit judge dismissed yesterday four lawsuits filed by a Little Italy community organization seeking to block a developer from converting a vacant warehouse into apartments that will include subsidized housing.Judge Richard T. Rombro ruled that the Little Italy Community Organization and Richard Ingrao, a former president of LICO, did not have the proper standing to sue the mayor and City Council to block building permits for the renovation project.Residents object to developer Patrick Turner's plan to renovate the old Bagby Furniture Co. warehouse, at Exeter and Fleet streets in Little Italy, into 57 units, with 10 apartments set aside for low- to moderate-income residents.

On October 31, 2003, ADAM BENJAMIN LESNIEWSKI; beloved husband of Lillian (nee Komorowski); devoted father of Dennis and Wayne Lesniewski and the late Ronald Lesniewski; dear brother of Adam Theodore Lesniewski, Helen Davis, Connie Cubbage, Joseph Lane, Gertrude Backler and Angeline White and the late Marion Lesniewski, Stella Rowe, Martha Bagby and John Lesniewski. Also survived by five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Relatives and friends may gather at Miller-Dippel Funeral Home, Inc., 6415 Belair Road, on Tuesday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M., where a Christian Wake Service will be held at 4 P.M. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Church of the Annunciation, on Wednesday at 10 A.M. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery.

The Bagby Furniture Co. building near Little Italy, a downtown landmark since 1902, will soon become Baltimore's newest upscale apartment complex, a $5 million project tentatively called One Thousand Fleet Loft Apartments.Baltimore's Planning Commission approved a pending City Council bill this week that would rezone the property at 509-521 Exeter St. to allow it to house 56 apartments and 117 parking spaces. The full council must still vote on the zoning change.The developer is Henrietta Corp.

A man was arrested yesterday in South Baltimore and charged with robbing a police officer of her service handgun on Monday.Sgt. Michael Wingler said two men were robbing the McDonald's restaurant in the 700 block of Washington Blvd. about 10 p.m. when they spotted Officer Helena Mills. The robbers went outside and one of them pulled a handgun and took Mills' gun. They drove off in a late-model Ford pickup truck that was traced to a residence in the 2800 block of Joseph Ave. in Westport, Wingler said.

A project to convert a Little Italy warehouse into apartments, which upset community residents because some units would house low-income tenants, has been scuttled because the developer did not get state and federal financing, according to officials involved.In the planning stages for over two years, the $5.6 million project by developer Patrick Turner would have turned the old Bagby Furniture Co. warehouse at Exeter and Fleet streets into 57 loft apartments, of which 10 were to be for low-income tenants.