Bessie

Ladies Auxiliary, Ner Israel Rabbinical college, note with deep sorrow the passing of our Life Member BESSIE SCHULMAN. Heartfelt sympathy is extended to the family.

On January 24, 2010, Bessie Fink Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS., INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road at Mount Wilson Lane on Monday, February 1 at 9 A.M. Interment Maryland Veterans Cemetery, Garrison Forest Road. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to Rodger C. Snyder Jewish War Veterans c/o Erwin Burtnick, 1 Ivory Crest Court, Baltimore, MD 21209 or Calvary Luthern Church, 16151 Old Frederick Road, Mt. Airy, MD. 21771. In mourning at 130 Slade Avenue, #524, Baltimore, MD 21208.

On April 19, 2006, BESSIE, beloved wife of Gus Xenakis; devoted mother of Effie Hondrelis, Maria Chrisopoulos and Virginia Polychronis. Also survived by seven grandchildren. Funeral service will be celebrated at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 520 S. Ponca Street on Thursday 11 A.M. Interment Oak Lawn Cemetery. Arrangements by Charles S. Zeiler and Son, Inc.

On November 24, 2009, BESSIE SALLIE GILMORE. On Tuesday, friends may call Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services

On July 4, 2008, BESSIE PINKNEY, loving cousin of Gloria Johnson, Geraldine Farrow and Hazel Townes. Friends may call the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST-INC., 4300 Wabash Ave. on Wednesday after 9. Family will receive friends on Thursday at Ames United Methodist Church, 615 Baker St. at 10:30, followed by funeral services at 11.

On January 16, 2009, BESSIE CLAIRE COX. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Friday after 8 A.M where the family will receive friends on Saturday at 9:30 A.M. Funeral services will follow at 10 A.M.

On October 13, 2003, BESSIE THOMPSON. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC, 4300 Wabash Ave, on Friday after 9 A.M. Family will receive friends on Saturday at Pentecost Baptist Church, 1615 Poplar Grove at 10 A. M followed by funeral services at 10:30 A.M. See www.marchfh.com

On June 14, 2004 BESSIE GRIFFITHS beloved wife of the late Joseph Griffiths. Also survived by many grandchildren, relatives and friends. Friends may call at the Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights on Thursday at 11 a.m. Interment is private.

On October 5, 2009 Bessie Ada Gassaway, Friends may call on Thursday from 7 to 9 P.M. at the Haight Funeral Home & Chapel, 6416 Sykesville Road in Sykesville where a funeral service will be held on Friday at 11:00 A.M. Interment White Rock United Methodist.

On September 16, 2009, BESSIE MAY, 95, beloved wife of William K. Palmer of Edgemere, MD. Also survived by two sisters, two sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews. Services will be held at Browns Funeral Home in West Virginia on Sunday at 1 P.M.

Bessie Y. Fishman, a retired Baltimore businesswoman who was a longtime active member of Beth Tfiloh Congregation, died in her sleep July 28 at her Stevenson Village home. She had celebrated her 100th birthday last month. Bessie Yaniger, the daughter of Russian immigrant parents, was born and raised in East Baltimore near Patterson Park, above her family's grocery store. After graduating from Eastern High School in 1926, she worked as a bookkeeper at Gelfand Mayonnaise Co. In 1932, she married Albert H. Fishman, owner of L. Fishman and Son. The business, which had been established in 1919, supplied buttons and thread - including the thread used on McCormick & Co. tea bags - to Baltimore's then-burgeoning garment industry.

Bessie W. Kaufman, a longtime volunteer with the Baltimore-based Red Cross Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Center that helps families locate and learn the status of relatives who were last seen in Europe during World War II, died Feb. 23 at Sinai Hospital of complications from a hip fracture. She was 89. For the past 19 years, Mrs. Kaufman, a part-time volunteer with the center located in the Red Cross of Central Maryland headquarters in Seton Business Park in Northwest Baltimore, worked to bring closure for families whose relatives were victims of the Nazis.

On January 23, 2009, BESSIE M. SCOTT (nee Quackenbush); beloved wife of the late Benjamin R. Scott; devoted mother of James R. Scott and the late Richard J. Scott; loving grandmother of Michele R. Pasch, Michael D., Jason R., Justin R., Jeffrey R., Richard J. Scott, II, and Jessica J. Perrsson; also survived by 16 great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at the Essex United Methodist Church, 524 Maryland Avenue on Saturday at 11 A.M. Visiting hours will be held at the Connelly Funeral Home of Essex, 300 Mace Avenue on Friday 3 to 7 P.M. Interment private.