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Martin Willen, a retired jewelry salesman who made news during World War II when he sang Jewish liturgical music in a captured castle owned by the Nazi propaganda chief, died of heart disease April 22 at Seasons Hospice at Northwest Hospital. He was 96 and lived in Pikesville. Born in Baltimore and raised on Washington and Eden streets, he was the eldest child of Russian immigrants. He attended City College and won a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory. A tenor, he studied with teacher Frank Bibb.

Miriam B. Stokes, a retired job placement counselor who was a longtime active member of Faith Baptist Church, died Saturday of renal failure at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. She was 91. Miriam Lorraine Burns, the daughter of a Canton Railroad crane operator and an educator, was born in Baltimore and raised on Chester Street. In 1936, she left high school to help support her family. "She returned to school and graduated from Douglass High School in 1953 and then went on to Coppin State University, where she earned a degree in 1957 in education," said her granddaughter, Miriam M. Stokes of Abingdon.

Marriotts Ridge High School senior Zoe Hamberger gathers with friends in her basement every Tuesday night for what she says is the highlight of her week: watching "Glee," the music-comedy- drama television series featuring a teen show choir similar to the school programs that Hamberger performs in. "They pick a wide variety of music and show how fun music can be," said Hamberger, who, along with her classmates in Howard County, is wowed by its...

Carol N. Kelly, who was head librarian at St. Paul's School for Girls for two decades and an active church member, died Sept. 29 of Alzheimer's disease at the Maples of Towson, an assisted-living facility. She was 71 and had lived in Cockeysville. Carol Ann Newman, the daughter of an insurance executive and a homemaker, was born in Hartford, Conn., and graduated from East Hartford High School. She was an undergraduate at Drew University in Madison, N.J., when she met and fell in love with a classmate, John Frederic Kelly.

Dr. Joan S. Morrison, a former longtime Goucher College mathematics instructor who also had a deep love of music and sang with the Archdiocesan Choir of Baltimore, died Wednesday of cancer at the Brightwood Center in Lutherville. The Govans resident was 63. Joan Scott, the daughter of printers, was born and raised in Eddystone, Pa. After graduating from Eddystone High School, she earned a bachelor's degree in 1969 from what is now West Chester University. She joined the Peace Corps in 1969 and worked as a teacher in Manila for a year.

John Wesley Henson, a retired postal worker and active church member who enjoyed singing in choirs, died Aug. 10 of a stroke at Northwest Hospital Center. He was 91. Mr. Henson, the son of a farmer and homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised by an uncle and aunt in Lincoln, Del. After graduating from high school in Delaware, he began his college studies at Delaware State College for Colored Students, which became Delaware State College in 1947 and later Delaware State University.