Barber

Enrico "Henry" Tumminello, a retired barber, died Tuesday of myelodysplastic syndrome at Oak Crest Village in Parkville. The longtime Timonium resident was 89. Born in Shreveport, La., Mr. Tumminello went to live in Sicily at the age of 4 and as a boy picked up barbering as a trade in the village of Cefalu. He moved to Baltimore when he was 16, with little in the way of money or English language skills. He worked at various barbershops and lived with relatives. He married Teresa Muffoletto in 1942.

Antonio Charles Jeffers had one haircut too many.After holding up a Charles Street bank yesterday, police said, Mr. Jeffers walked into a west side barber shop for a quick trim with more than $1,000 in stolen money stuffed into his pants pocket.In the middle of his $12 "fade" haircut, police entered the LeFall & Company Hair Styling Salon and arrested the 22-year-old suspect, who federal authorities believe has robbed at least nine area banks since Aug. 29."It was just like Jesse James days," said Waymon LeFall, who owns the barber shop on Edmondson Avenue.

Tiki Barber is the least-used most valuable player in the league. The New York Giants running back has raced to the league lead in rushing with 240 yards on just 24 carries. It's a small number of opportunities, leading to bigger returns and fewer doubters. The role is tailor-made for Barber, a finesse back who doubles as a punter returner and tends to wear down over long periods. Barber's two-game figure leaves him 108 yards behind last year's team-leading total for the entire season, 348 yards by Joe Montgomery.

A barber in the middle of giving a customer a haircut was shot to death last night in his Greenmount Avenue shop in an apparent robbery attempt, Baltimore homicide detectives said.Two Northern District officers on patrol at Greenmount and 31st Street heard two gunshots about 6:30 p.m. and chased two men they saw running from the barbershop in the 3000 block of Greenmount, but lost them, police said.Neither the barber nor his customer -- who police said was "scared half to death" by the shooting -- was identified by the detectives.

Pauline Boyd Barber, a homemaker and former Pen Lucy-Govans area church activist, died Feb. 28 of congestive heart failure at Howard County General Hospital. She was 72 and lived in Laurel. Born Pauline Boyd in Vienna, Va., she attended Manassas High School in Manassas, Va., where she graduated with a home economics specialty in 1948. She moved to Baltimore in 1958 and initially lived in East Baltimore on Decker Avenue. In 1951, she wed the Rev. Theodore L. Barber of the Refuge Way of the Cross Church of Christ, an apostolic holiness congregation in the Govans-Pen Lucy section of North Baltimore.

Services for Raynaldo Mark Allen, a barber who was fatally shot Monday outside a downtown nightclub, will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Bethel AME Church, 1300 Druid Hill Ave., where he was a member. Mr. Allen, who was 27, lived in the city's Mondawmin area. He was a men's haircutter at Asiatic's Cutz Barber Shop in the Northwood Shopping Center, and earlier at shops in East Baltimore. Born in the city and raised in the Hollander Ridge neighborhood, Mr. Allen attended the Baltimore School for the Arts and graduated from Lake Clifton High School in 1992.

On Dec. 20, 1990, a weary Robert Alston dozed off in a barber chair only to be awakened by gunfire. When Mr. Alston came to his senses, he discovered that the barber, James Remsburg, had been shot dead.Mr. Alston, 54, testified yesterday in the trial of Renard Wheeler, 19, who has been charged with first-degree murder and attempted robbery with a deadly weapon. Mr. Remsburg was slain during a robbery at his barbershop in the 3000 block of Greenmount Avenue.Mr. Alston, a heavy-equipment operator for the city, told a Baltimore Circuit Court jury that he went to the crowded barbershop after work and spent hours waiting for his haircut.

Robert Hezekiah Green, a barber for more than 50 years, died of congestive heart failure March 25 at his East Baltimore home. He was 76. Known as "Kiah," he was born on a farm in Brunswick County, Va., and moved to Baltimore in 1947, after serving in the Navy during World War II. He received a diploma from the old Apex Beauty and Barber School on Pennsylvania Avenue. He initially cut hair in Turners Station. In 1957, he opened Green's Barber Shop at Oliver and Rose streets and several years later bought a building at Luzerne Avenue and Oliver Street, where he taught many apprentice barbers their trade.

Ralph Lanzano, a gregarious Baltimore barber who carefully cut and trimmed the hair of mayors, officials, judges, lawyers, clergymen and stockbrokers for more than 40 years, died Monday of liver failure at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson. He was 77 and lived in Randallstown. "He was the favorite barber of city, state and federal officials, newspaper editors and ballplayers. You name them, and he had them," said Richard A. Lidinsky, former deputy city comptroller and a customer.

There were two things you could be assured of getting when you went to Art Barber Shop when Elmer Wright was working: a good haircut and some knowledge. Mr. Wright doled out equal doses of both.Mr. Wright, 85, died Oct. 5 from a heart attack at University of Maryland Medical Center. He had worked at the three-chair barber shop at Fremont and Edmondson avenues for more than 50 years before retiring last year and was the only barber many of his customers ever had."Being a barber is an art," said his grandson, Michael Rice of Baltimore.