Bray

On August 22, 2004, CATHERINE G., beloved mother of Michael and Stacy Bray; beloved daughter of George W., Sr., and the late Mildred W. Linz; sister of George W., Jr. and Joseph Linz, Veronica A. Kessler, Ruth M. Schoonmaker, Butch Maith, and the late David Linz. Also survived by other relatives and friends. Memorial service will be held at the Gonce Funeral Service, P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway, Friday, 11 am. Interment private.

James F. Bray, a retired grocery store manager, died Tuesday of an aneurysm at his Jessup home. He was 76. Mr. Bray was born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina and Baltimore, where he graduated from city public schools. He served in the Army for three months and was honorably discharged in 1958. Mr. Bray worked for Food Fair and later as an evening grocery manager at Pantry Pride from 1952 to 1981, when he retired. During the 1980s, he worked for several years for Valu Food as a manager.

On Monday, March 15, 2004, HOWARD P. BRAY, beloved father of Shelly Calow (Michael), Andy Bray and the late Ricky Bray, son of Estelle M. and the late Harry Bray, brother of Suzanne, Anne and Paul. Grandfather of Patrick. Relatives and friends may call at the Borgwardt Funeral Home, 4400 Powder Mill Rd., Beltsville, MD., Thursday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral Service and Interment will be private

On June 27, 2007, BETTY LEE A. BRAY (nee Ayers); beloved wife of James E. Bray; devoted mother of Janine Horn and her husband Donald and Kennard Ayers; loving grandmother of Christina Rosendorf and her husband, Daniel and Michelle Horn; adoring great-grandmother of Luke. Relatives and friends may gather for a Memorial Service on Tuesday, July 3, at 1 PM at Wesley Grove Methodist Church, 1320 Dorsey Road, Harmons, MD 21077. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to: Wesley Grove Church.

On June 27, 2007, BETTY LEE A. BRAY (nee Ayers); beloved wife of James E. Bray; devoted mother of Janine Horn and her husband Donald and Kennard Ayers; loving grandmother of Christina Rosendorf and her husband, Daniel and Michelle Horn; adoring great-grandmother of Luke. Relatives and friends may gather for a Memorial Service on Tuesday, July 3, at 1 PM at Wesley Grove Methodist Church, 1320 Dorsey Road, Harmons, MD 21077. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to: Wesley Grove Church.

H. A. "Buck" Bray Jr., printer to the Baltimore Orioles, sportsman and bon vivant, died Wednesday of heart failure at his Severna Park home. He was 86.A member of the Boumi Temple for five decades, Mr. Bray joined his brother, Gerald, in the family's French-Bray printing business in 1942 after graduating from Polytechnic Institute and spending a few years as a semi-professional football and baseball player.His presence in the firm was quickly felt when he capitalized on his contacts in the sports world to secure an exclusive contract to print game programs for the Orioles, launching a relationship that endures to this day. The firm recently printed 250,000 copies of the official Cal Ripkin Jr. commemorative book.

Sure, it plays the race card, toys with gender issues and even sounds a little bit dirty. But ABC's Wife Swap is a neat experience, say the Brays, a Baltimore family who should know. Eric and LaShelle Bray, featured on Wife Swap tomorrow night at 10 (WMAR, Channel 2), say that real good came out of their time spent in separate households and before the cameras. By observing how the other half lives, Eric, 34, says he learned how hard his wife works caring for him and their five children.

French Bray Inc., an 81-year-old commercial printer whose clients include the Orioles and Ravens, has been sold to Mail-Well Inc., an acquisitive conglomerate that's been buying printers at a breakneck pace."

Thomas Bray, former chief financial officer of the now-defunct Network Technologies Group Inc., became the second company official to plead guilty to one count of fraud yesterday in the case of a Baltimore telecommunications firm that collapsed amid an accounting scandal. As part of a plea agreement with the U.S. attorney's office, nine counts of wire, mail and bank fraud against Bray are to be dismissed at sentencing. "The statement of facts make it clear that Mr. Bray's sin is one of omission, not commission," Gerald C. Ruter, Bray's attorney, said after the defendant's appearance in U.S. District Court in Baltimore yesterday.

On April 22, 2004, PAUL A. MIKUSAUSKAS; beloved husband of the late Pauline Mikusauskas (nee Mc Elroy); father of Paula Bray; devoted grandfather of Sean Bray, Kelly G. Dean and Joanne Daly; devoted great-grandfather of Conor Bray Charlow, Natalie Bray, Mc Kenzie Bray Daly and Parker Dean. A Funeral Service will take place at Maryland Veterans Cemetery-Garrison Forest on Monday at 10 A.M. Arrangements by the Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc. In lieu of flowers, donations to Gilchrist Hospice.

They were a group of prominent African-American educators - deans of Morgan State College and city schools administrators - pillars of their community searching for advice on how to grow their meager savings. In 1931, in the face of the Great Depression and segregation that kept blacks virtually shut out of Baltimore's mainstream banks and investment houses, the men stepped out on their own, pooled their money and founded an elite investment club. Seventy-five years later, the Club of Baltimore, as it is simply known, still meets in all its tradition and regalia.

On Monday, July 31, 2006, BEATRICE E., of Fairhaven, formerly of Woodlawn, beloved sister of the late Elaine Sauter Richarts and her husband the late Charles E. Richarts, aunt of Leah Bray and her husband Locher, Tom Richarts and his wife Colleen, great aunt of Katie Bray, Tyler Bray, Emily Bray and Matthew Richarts. Graveside service and interment Friday, August 4, 2:45 P.M. at Lorraine Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Alzheimer's Association, 1850 York Road, Suite D, Timonium, MD 21093.

Charles W. Bray III, 72, who was press secretary for Secretary of State William P. Rogers during tumultuous times in the Nixon administration, died of pneumonia Sunday at his home in Milwaukee. Mr. Bray, who later became an ambassador, was the State Department's chief spokesman for much of the Vietnam War and during border disputes between India and Pakistan and continuing American tensions with the Soviet Union. But President Richard M. Nixon had come to rely more heavily on the counsel of his national security adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, than on the State Department.

Faced with a "stacked house" of angry constituents at their final meeting before Election Day, members of the Aberdeen City Council refrained from re-election posturing and instead licked their wounds from a barrage of attacks that have set the stage for the city's most contentious election to date. Critics of the mayor and much of the council have been able to portray contention over police salaries and the firing of two city employees as indicative of broader leadership problems - a view that was hammered home again at Monday's council meeting.

On June 17, 2005, WILLIAM J., devoted father of Nancy Lyn Dawson. Father-in-law of Paul B. Dawson. Loving grandfather of Melissa and Corey Lee Dawson. Relatives and friends may gather at MILLER-DIPPEL FUNERAL HOME, INC., 6415 Belair Road, on Sunday only, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral service will be held on Monday, 11 A.M. Interment Parkwood Cemetery.

Without a word, archivist Robert W. Schoeberlein holds the 17th-century world in his white-gloved hands, turning one amber-colored book page after another. "The pages will chip if you don't use a palette knife," he says of the tool he uses to handle the Latin- engraved pages. The books came from Thomas Bray, a highly educated Englishman with a big job in the Old World. As the Church of England's commissary for Maryland, he started a trans-Atlantic book club of sorts, shipping heavy volumes in Latin and Greek to the newly settled colony and its seaport city, Annapolis.

On Monday, July 31, 2006, BEATRICE E., of Fairhaven, formerly of Woodlawn, beloved sister of the late Elaine Sauter Richarts and her husband the late Charles E. Richarts, aunt of Leah Bray and her husband Locher, Tom Richarts and his wife Colleen, great aunt of Katie Bray, Tyler Bray, Emily Bray and Matthew Richarts. Graveside service and interment Friday, August 4, 2:45 P.M. at Lorraine Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Alzheimer's Association, 1850 York Road, Suite D, Timonium, MD 21093.

Beginning today, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Cecil Bray willbe able to make a profound declaration: "I pronounce you husband andwife."Bray, 56, is becoming a minister.He was scheduled to be ordained at 7 p.m. today at Immanuel's Church in Montgomery County, where he has been a member for three years.He will be able to marry couples, preside over funerals, baptize, and preach sermons, said the church's Senior Pastor Charles P. Schmitt."He's a very spiritually gifted man," Schmitt said, adding that Bray becomes the first black person to have a top leadership position in Immanuel's Church, which has 1,200 members.

Sure, it plays the race card, toys with gender issues and even sounds a little bit dirty. But ABC's Wife Swap is a neat experience, say the Brays, a Baltimore family who should know. Eric and LaShelle Bray, featured on Wife Swap tomorrow night at 10 (WMAR, Channel 2), say that real good came out of their time spent in separate households and before the cameras. By observing how the other half lives, Eric, 34, says he learned how hard his wife works caring for him and their five children.

On August 22, 2004, CATHERINE G., beloved mother of Michael and Stacy Bray; beloved daughter of George W., Sr., and the late Mildred W. Linz; sister of George W., Jr. and Joseph Linz, Veronica A. Kessler, Ruth M. Schoonmaker, Butch Maith, and the late David Linz. Also survived by other relatives and friends. Memorial service will be held at the Gonce Funeral Service, P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway, Friday, 11 am. Interment private.