Bernadette

Bernadette "Bee" Baldwin Darrow, who owned a Severna Park arts and crafts supplies shop for nearly two decades, died Saturday of complications from Alzheimer's disease at her home in Sunrise Assisted Living in Severna Park. She was 76. Bernadette Baldwin was born in Annapolis and graduated from St. Joseph's High School, a boarding school in Emmitsburg. She attended Dunbarton College in Washington for two years. In 1948, she married Paul Darrow, who was then a graduate student at Georgetown University.

Bernadette Virginia Rogers, a school secretary and homemaker, died of Alzheimer's disease Wednesday at Brighton Gardens in Towson. She was 83. Bernadette Arndt was born in Baltimore and grew up near Reisterstown Road. She worked at her family's stall at the Cross Street Market on the weekends during the Depression. In 1940, she graduated from Forest Park High School and went to work as a telephone operator. Three years later she married Wyman Merle Rogers, who also worked for the telephone company.

Bernadette Perilla, who restored her historic Howard County farmhouse and opened it to many visitors, died in her sleep Thursday at the Woodbine home. She was 80. Born Bernadette Imbach in Baltimore and raised in Forest Park, she was a 1943 graduate of Mount St. Agnes High School and earned a bachelor's degree in history at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Family members said she was voted best-dressed in college and did modeling for Charles Street shops. She also worked briefly for the city's old Department of Public Welfare.

Bernadette Cider began studying psychology to understand her children a little better.After earning a master's degree in the field, Mrs. Cider helped a generation of Baltimore schoolchildren understand themselves a little better."

Bernadette Mary Comeaux, a registered nurse who established the Good Samaritan Hospital Parish Nursing Program and served as its coordinator, died in her sleep of undetermined causes Wednesday at her Homewood residence. She was 53. Miss Comeaux, who had held nursing positions at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, St. Joseph Medical Center and Staff Builders Inc. during her nearly 30-year career, approached officials at Good Samaritan Hospital several years ago with a novel idea. She wanted to offer outreach and support services to the elderly, shut-ins and sometimes fearful patients through community churches.

Sister Ann Bernadette Cafferty, a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia who spent 45 years at Mount St. Mary's College, died of cancer Thursday at her order's retirement home in Aston, Pa. She was 91. Born Bernadette Theresa Cafferty in Baltimore and raised in East Baltimore, she entered her congregation in 1935 and took the name Ann Bernadette. She did domestic work for her order at Immaculate Conception Convent in Elkton and moved to Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg in 1939, where she worked and was a driver for students and seminarians until 1984.

Her Toyota Corolla collects leaves outside the Paca Street apartment. A Shasta soda can squinches in a cup holder. The passenger-side seat belt is missing on account of Lola, her husky pup, who chewed it off. "Live Tough. Live Hard. Live Rugby" reads Bernadette Lewis' bumper sticker.Inside her apartment, books cram a squat bookshelf: "The Complete Walker" and "West Virginia Hiking Trails" and "Dog Behavior." Compact discs from the feminist folkie Ani DiFranco lounge about the rowhouse in Ridgely's Delight, a snug community where everybody knows your dog's name.

Bernadette Gross and Janice Stanfield create works of art out of some pretty ordinary stuff: unvarnished baskets from discount stores and napkins from party-supply shops.The intricate patterns and subtle colors of their decorative baskets are so much a part of the weave they look as if they've been painted on. Instead the two sisters create them with a 17th-century decorating technique called decoupage.Traditionally the process involves cutting out pictures and fixing them to a flat surface with decoupage glue or other sealer.

Bernadette M. Spangler: An obituary for Bernadette M. Spangler in Saturday's editions of The Sun incorrectly listed the name of her deceased son, Nelson Lyle Spangler.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 10/07/96

The first thing you see when you enter the small, spotless living room of Patricia Stevenson's Dundalk rowhouse is a framed color photograph of her youngest child.That picture is almost all that remains of Bernadette Marie Stevenson Caruso. On Sept. 27, 1986, the 23-year-old woman walked out of Eastpoint Mall and vanished without a trace. No body, no bones, no car, no clothes have been found.But her family has never stopped looking."We just couldn't think of letting go -- and my children feel the same way. We owe this to Bernadette," Stevenson, 62, says.