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Hebrew Free Loan Association of Baltimore notes with sadness the passing of Clara Salazar, Mother-in-Law of our board member Felix Kestenberg. Signed, Adam Miller, President.

Stories from one of American history's most revered women, Clara Barton, filled the Fallston library April 11, when more than 50 people watched Mary Ann Jung portray Barton during a living history presentation that spanned Barton's brave life as a teacher, government worker, Civil War nurse and eventual founder of the American Red Cross. Through enthralling stories and interaction from the audience, Jung was able to portray Barton's independent spirit and perseverance despite meeting much opposition throughout her life.

On August 3, 2004; CLARA. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 East North Avenue on Monday after 8:30 AM, where the family will receive friends on Tuesday at 9 AM. Funeral Services will follow at 9:30 AM. See www.marchfh.com

Clara Mae Boender, a retired reading specialist and elementary school teacher who taught for 54 years, died of multisystem organ failure Jan. 12 at Howard County General Hospital. The Ellicott City resident was 86. Born Clara Mae Crouch in Baltimore and raised in the Paradise section of Catonsville, she was the daughter of Harry Crouch, a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad worker, and Ruth Crouch, who founded the Kinder Kraft Kindergarten, a school located in Catonsville and later Ten Hills.

On May 19, 2009, Clara Gertrude Mullineaux Services and Interment private at the request of the family. Please direct inquries to the Slack Funeral Home, P.A. 410-465-4400. Those who may desire can honor Ms. Mullineaux' memory with a memorial contribution to the Maryland SPCA, 3300 Falls Rd., Baltimore, MD. 21211

On May 20, 2005 CLARA L. HAWKINS (nee Jones); dearest wife of the late William A. Hawkins; devoted mother of William J. Hawkins and wife Glenda, Vernon (Jake) Hawkins and wife Linda, Ray Hawkins and wife Jennifer and the late Clara (Sis) O'Donovan; beloved sister of Betty Cunningham; loving grandmother of nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held at the Charles L. Stevens Funeral Home Inc., 1501 E. Fort Ave., Locust Point, MD., on Wednesday 12 noon.

On April 19, 2003, CLARA RUTH BOND (nee Stamm); beloved wife of John Bond, Jr.; loving mother of James Mullenax; dear sister of Joan Biermann and the late Deborah Odell; devoted grandmother of Vernon Lockard. Friends may call at THE HUBBARD FUNERAL HOME INC., 4107 Wilkens Avenue on Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. where services will be held on Tuesday at 2 P.M. at the funeral home. Interment Loudon Park Cemetery.

On September 16, 2003, CLARA ISABELLE KLEMM beloved wife of the late Charles A. Klemm, loving mother of M. Carol Klemm, dear sister of Otis F. "Pete" Peters Jr. Also survived by many other family members and friends. Friends may call at the HUBBARD FUNERAL HOME INC., 4107 Wilkens Avenue on Wednesday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral services will be held Thursday 10 A. M at the funeral home. Interment Loudon Park Cemetery.

On December 9, 2005, CLARA WHILBY. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Wednesday after 8:30 A.M. Family will receive friends on Thursday at the First Apostolic Faith Church of Jesus Christ International, Inc., 27 S. Caroline Street at 6:30 P.M. followed by funeral service at 7 P.M. See: www.marchfh.com

When Clara Henry was 3, she fell off her bed and hit the corner of a table in her room, breaking her skull in three places. She underwent surgery and stayed at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital for a week. Recovery took a year. When she thinks back on that time, Clara, now 7 and a second-grader at Centennial Lane Elementary School in Ellicott City, remembers that it was "sort of scary," that she wore a paper gown and that she had a homemade blanket donated by a group called Project Linus.

Clara W. Armour, a retired switchboard operator and world traveler, died July 18 at Sinai Hospital from complications of a fall. The Windsor Mill resident was 93. The daughter of a farmer and a homemaker, Clara Wall was born in rural Rockingham, N.C., where she received her early education. When she was 13, she relocated with her family to Morristown, N.J., in 1931, and went to work as a domestic and caring for children. During World War II, she worked at nearby Picatinny Arsenal as a switchboard operator, and then became one of the first African-American switchboard operators when she took a job at the Veterans Hospital in Lyons, N.J. She moved to Dundalk in 1955 when her husband, a career Army officer, was transferred to Fort Holabird.

Basketball Tucker's 7 steals help U.S. to U-16 women's gold medal New Town guard Jannah Tucker broke a U.S. record with seven steals as the Americans won the FIBA Americas U-16 women's gold medal late Saturday night with a 73-40 rout of Brazil in Merida, Mexico. "It is surreal," Tucker, a rising junior, said of winning gold. "It's a great accomplishment, and I'm just proud to represent the USA. " Tucker finished with 11 points, five rebounds and five assists.

Swimming Phelps wins 100 fly, takes 2nd in 100 free at Santa Clara Michael Phelps won the gold in the 100-meter butterfly final Friday night at the Santa Clara International Grand Prix in Santa Clara, Calif., the seventh and final stop of the 2010-2011 USA Swimming Grand Prix Series. Phelps, of Fells Point, also took silver in the 100 freestyle final. Phelps recorded a time of 52.41 seconds in the butterfly final, touching the wall ahead of Australian Nicholas D'Arcy , who posted a 53.34.

A recent column on the wreck of the steamer Clara Nevada, which went to the bottom in 1898 while returning from the Alaska gold fields with the loss of all hands and a cargo of gold dust worth $13.6 million today, brought interesting reader feedback. The story of the Clara Nevada was brought to life by Steven C. Levi, an Anchorage-based freelance and technical writer, in his recent book, "The Clara Nevada: Gold, Greed, Murder and Alaska's Inside Passage. " The lust for riches set off gold fever, as thousands packed suitcases and whatever they could carry on their backs and headed West for Seattle and Portland, gateway to the Klondike.

The wreck of the Clara Nevada in Alaskan waters at the height of the Klondike gold rush in 1898 has a Baltimore connection and is the subject of a recently published book, "The Clara Nevada: Gold, Greed, Murder and Alaska's Inside Passage. " "It's a fairly well-known story in southeast Alaska," said Steven C. Levi, an Anchorage freelance and technical writer. "They tell it on the ferries, and the first time I heard about the Clara Nevada, I didn't believe it and decided to look into it," "And the more research I did, the stranger the story became," he said in a telephone interview last week.