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On Saturday 18, 2004, SHIRLEY JOAN CROSS of Glen Burnie; cherished wife of the late James Cross; beloved mother of Bruce D. Cross and Lawrence G. Cross; dear mother-in-law of Lisa and Debbie Cross; loving grandmother of Tommy and Pamela and great grandmother of Seth; dear sister of Joe Klein and Margaret Deckman. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. The family will receive visitors at the Singleton Funeral Home, P.A., 1 Second Avenue S.W. (at Crain Highway), Glen Burnie from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. on Tuesday.

On May 25, 2003, ANNA LUCILLE MORRIS CROSS, 98 years old, beloved wife of J. Harry Cross, devoted mother of John H. Cross, Jr. of Weston, CT, dear grandmother of John H. Cross, III of Greenwich, CT and Brent Crawford Cross of Weston, CT, dear daughter of the late William B. and Alice Bryan Morris of Queenstown, MD. Friends may call at the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook) on Wednesday from 9:30 to 10:30 A.M. at which time a Prayer service will be held at the funeral home.

Ambrose D. Cross, a Howard County Circuit Court bailiff and the county's oldest employee, died Friday at his Ellicott City home of heart failure. He was 80.A mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church in Ellicott City.Before being named baliff in 1976, Mr. Cross was a deputy sheriff in Howard County. Before that he worked 43 years for the U.S. Postal Service.Surviving are his wife, Gladys Cross of Ellicott City; five daughters, Shirley M. Greene of Columbia, Gloria Cross Hollis of Catonsville, Patricia D. Cook of Catonsville, Teressa Cross of Ellicott City and Mona Lisa Cosgrove of Alexandria, Va.; a sister, Montray Rochon of Seat Pleasant; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

On March 9, 2006 ETHEL MAE CROSS (nee Perkins); beloved wife of the late Gordon E. Cross; devoted mother of Samuel W. Walters, Eunice L. Hall, Carolyn T. Prassinas, Lillian B. Rose and William J. Walters. Also survived by seven grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Visitation Sunday 3-5 and 7-9 P.M. at the Cvach/Rosedale Funeral Home, 1211 Chesaco Avenue. Funeral Service Monday 10 Am. at the Mt Vernon Hampden United Methodist Church. Interment Moreland Memorial Park Cemetery.

CBS sent along Randy Cross' thoughts at approximately the halfway point of the NFL season. Here's what he had to say about the Ravens: "If this defense can hold up for another 10 games, the Ravens stay in the hunt, but a couple of injuries and 2008 could get real long, real quick." (Either they asked him before the Ravens played their seventh game or he has them going to at least one playoff game.) (For more, go to baltimoresun.com/mediumwell)

Gail Reilly Cross has been named Carroll County campaign manager anddelegate candidate to the national convention by the Bill Clinton for President Committee.A former Carroll County Orphans Court judgeand longtime Democratic activist, Cross said she accepted both positions because she is "absolutely convinced that Bill Clinton is the moderate Democrat we've been looking for."I think he's got mass appeal. He's very intelligent and he has asense of the working class and their problems, and he's a true patriot," she said.

TWO RECENT incidents in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia illustrate the growing problem Americans have talking about race, especially to young people.The first incident involved a fund-raiser held by some fraternities and sororities at George Mason University. The event was a "Dress a Sig" contest, in which women from six fraternities dressed members of the fraternity Sigma Chi up as women. A woman from the Gamma Phi Beta sorority dressed up one male student in a blouse, a wig, a pillow strapped to his rear end -- and made him up in blackface.

OUR SEMI-RURAL community is dotted with white crosses bearing silent testimony to the treachery of small country roads. Down by the lake there's a white cross, a mile or so up the road there's another one. Now there's a new one in front of our house. It was the usual story: a summer night, young men speeding, alcohol. An eyewitness said the car turned over three times. A 17-year-old died, another was in critical condition for a while. The third -- the driver -- was less seriously injured.