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Catherine L. "Kay" O'Neill, a retired parochial school educator and a former Northwood resident, died April 10 of cancer at the Brightwood Center in Lutherville. She was 84. Catherine Loftus, the daughter of Irish immigrants, was born in Philadelphia, the second of seven children. She was a 1942 graduate of Little Flower High School in Philadelphia and attended St. Joseph's College. During World War II while working as a clerk at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, she met her future husband, William Francis O'Neill, Jr., a career naval officer, whom she married in 1945.

Bertha Streeter, a retired art teacher who had been active in Girl Scouts for most of her life, died of heart failure Friday at Azalea Manor, an assisted-living home in Orlando, Fla. She was 87 and formerly lived in Bolton Hill. Born Bertha Moulton Kidd in Baltimore and raised in Walbrook, she joined the Girl Scouts in 1929 and retained her membership for 75 years. She led Girl Scout troops in Walbrook and Roland Park from the 1940s through the 1960s. On a 1934 visit to Washington with Scouts, she met and was photographed with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House.

William Henry Zeidler Jr., a retired electrical engineer and decorated World War II fighter pilot, died of heart failure Wednesday at Sinai Hospital. The Roland Park resident was 87. Mr. Zeidler was born at home on William Street in Federal Hill. He was a 1937 graduate of Polytechnic Institute where, as a shortstop on the baseball team, he was named to the 1936-1937 all-state team. In 1939, he began his career with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Two years later, he left to enlist in the Army Air Forces.

Sister Mary Evangeline Waters, a retired educator and member of the Sisters of Mercy for more than seven decades, died of heart failure Friday at The Villa, her order's retirement home in the Woodbrook section of Baltimore County. She was 97. She was born Ellen Ford Waters in Leonardtown and raised in Baltimore. She attended Margaret Brent Elementary School and was a 1928 graduate of Western High School. One day, she and several friends went to visit the Sisters of Mercy motherhouse on the grounds of St. Agnes College in Mount Washington.

Christopher O'Neil, Loyola High studentChristopher O'Neil died in an auto accident Friday, trying to meet his midnight curfew.The popular 17-year-old Loyola High School student, who lived in Homeland, will be buried at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens today, after a 10 a.m. funeral Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.The young man was killed at 11:55 p.m. Friday when the 1990 Nissan Sentra in which he was a rear-seat passenger veered out of control on Jerome Jay Drive near Oregon Ridge, flipped over a barrier and plunged into a streambed.

C. Arthur "Otts" Eby, Jr. a retired real estate lawyer, World War II veteran and longtime youth volunteer, died of cancer Tuesday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Roland Park resident was 81. Mr. Eby was born in Baltimore, raised on Woodlawn Road in Roland Park and graduated in 1942 from Loyola High School. He interrupted his studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, to enlist in the U.S. Marine Air Corps. He attained the rank of sergeant and was a platoon leader before turning 19, family members said.

Robert Stuart Burch, an executive recruiter who worked with senior officials in the technology industry, collapsed and suffered an apparent heart attack Thursday at his downtown Washington office. He died several hours later at George Washington Medical Center. He was 43 and lived in Highland in Howard County. Mr. Burch was a managing director of Russell Reynolds Associates in Washington, the global recruiting firm, where he led its North American technology practice. He was formerly an IBM manager in downtown Baltimore.

Joseph Emmett Queen Jr., who spent three decades as a systems engineer for Westinghouse and its successor company, Northrop Grumman, died of unknown causes Sept. 12 at his home in Riva. He was 57. A Baltimore native, Mr. Queen grew up in and around the Guilford and Roland Park neighborhoods. He attended the Cathedral School, Loyola High School and Loyola College (now Loyola University Maryland). He received his master's degree in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1983.

Hugh Kavanagh Jr.Owned tavernHugh I. Kavanagh Jr., a tavern owner and former police official, died Monday at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center after a blood vessel broke. He was 78 and lived in Govans.For about the past 15 years, he and his sons owned Kavanagh's Pub on West Madison Street.From 1971 until 1973, he was chief of police at Baltimore-Washington International Airport and reorganized the department during that period, starting with obtaining special police commissions for 18 patrolmen, who had been making arrests without legal authority.

Margaret M. Feeley, a homemaker, former businesswoman and longtime Eucharistic minister, died Tuesday of progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain disease, at Oak Crest Village retirement community in Parkville. She was 87. Margaret Evans was born in Baltimore and raised on Guilford Avenue. After graduating from Mount St. Agnes High School in 1938, she attended what is now Towson University. During World War II, she was a telephone operator for Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. In 1944, she married Jerome L. Feeley Jr., her teenage sweetheart, who was then a Navy bomber pilot.