Bernice

The Officers, Board of Governors and Members of Woodholme Country Club, regret the passing of our Member, BERNICE SCHAPIRO and extend our sincere sympathies to her family. Arthur H. Adler, President

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On July 23, 2005, BERNICE PHYLLIS MITCHELL. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 A.M. where the family will receive friends on Friday at 6:00 P.M. followed by funeral service at 6:30 P.M. See www.marchfh.com.

Bernice Robinson, a retired bank secretary, died of complications from arthritis and osteoporosis Aug. 3 at her Lutherville home. She was 83. Born Bernice Jeffery in Newark, Del., she was a 1946 graduate of Newark High School, where she played field hockey and basketball and was a member of the school band, glee club and dramatic society. She moved to Baltimore and became a teller and then a secretary to the president, S. Page Nelson, at the old Savings Bank of Baltimore at Charles and Baltimore streets.

On February 23, 2003, BERNICE BALLARD (nee Robinson), beloved wife of the late Roy Ballard, loving mother of Phyllis Brent, Ray Douglass, and the late James R. Douglass, Jr., devoted grandmother of Greg Brent, James Phillip Douglass, Kim Brent and James R. Douglass, III, great-grandmother of eight. Services and interment private.

Bernice H. Cohen, a retired Johns Hopkins University scientist who was an early advocate of showing how genetics and epidemiology could be connected, died of congestive heart failure April 12 at the North Oaks Retirement Community. She was 86. "She was unique in having the foresight to bring together the scientific fields of genetics and epidemiology, and established the first formal academic training program in genetic epidemiology at Johns Hopkins in 1979," said a Hopkins colleague, Terri H. Beaty of Cockeysville.

On December 16, 2009, ANN HUNLEY. Services were held on Tuesday at St. Francis Xavier Church. Contributions are requested to be made to The A. Bernice Suggs Hunley Scholarship Fund at Morgan State University.

On November 1, 2009, BERNICE, devoted wife of Willie Clark. Friends may visit the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Thursday after 8:30 AM where the family will receive friends on Friday at 9 AM followed by funeral service at 9:30 AM.

On July 21, 2009, BERNICE E. MERCER. Friends may visit the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Monday after 2 PM, where the family will receive friends on Tuesday at 9:30 AM.