Cusimano

On Friday, November 26, 2004, ANNA NOREEN (nee Edell) CUSIMANO, 82; beloved wife of the late Joseph Anthony Cusimano; devoted mother of Joan Ann Wall and Mary Daisy Cusimano; sister of Helen Smith and Sylvia Venanzi. Friends may call at the family owned Peaceful Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Center, P.A., 2325 York Road, Timonium, on Monday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M., where a funeral service will be held on Tuesday, November 30, at 11 A.M. Interment Parkwood Cemetery.

Anthony Cusimano, who worked for much of his life in a produce and food market on Lombard Street, died Nov. 21 of respiratory failure. He was 80. Mr. Cusimano, who was known as Tony, was born in Baltimore in 1928. He left school after the eighth grade to work in his father's store on Corned Beef Row on Lombard Street. Known as Tony's Market, the place sold retail and wholesale produce. During Mr. Cusimano's younger years, Lombard Street was a thriving commercial strip. The market sold goods to many of Baltimore's well-known restaurants, including Sabatino's and Caesar's Den. "Sundays used to be the busiest day of the week," said his son, Fred Cusimano of Bel Air. "It was a huge day."

On Sunday, October 31, 2004, JOSEPH ANTHONY; beloved husband of Doris C. (nee Pearce); devoted father of Jerome Melvin Cusimano. Friends may call at the Miller-Dippel Funeral Home, Inc., 6415 Belair Road, on Wednesday from 9:30 until 10 A.M., after which Catholic Prayers will be said at 11 A.M. at the Lakeview Memorial Park.

On Friday, November 26, 2004, ANNA NOREEN (nee Edell) CUSIMANO, 82; beloved wife of the late Joseph Anthony Cusimano; devoted mother of Joan Ann Wall and Mary Daisy Cusimano; sister of Helen Smith and Sylvia Venanzi. Friends may call at the family owned Peaceful Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Center, P.A., 2325 York Road, Timonium, on Monday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M., where a funeral service will be held on Tuesday, November 30, at 11 A.M. Interment Parkwood Cemetery.

On May 8, 2003, FREDERICK J.; beloved husband of Myra R. (nee Racusin); dear brother of Joseph, Anthony Cusimano, Ann Zoppo and Mazie Juliano; father to Craig Tillman, Charlene Ramirez, Renita Bayliss, Karen Holbrook, Gary, Brian, William DeCosmo and the late Janet Delph. Also survived by many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A Vigil Service will be held at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck Inc. Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale), on Sunday. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Anthony's Church, on Monday at 10 A.M. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

Marion Vincent Cusimano was a strong-minded woman who wanted more out of life than she was getting in an Essex nursing home.Determined to live as normally as possible despite using a wheelchair, Cusimano bought a small brick house in 1993 and hired Ronald and Patricia Thomas to care for her.But two weeks ago, her decomposed body was found by police in the back bedroom of the house on Homberg Avenue in Essex, where it had apparently been for almost a...

Marion Vincent Cusimano was a strong-minded woman who wanted more out of life than she was getting in an Essex nursing home.Determined to live as normally as possible despite using a wheelchair, Cusimano bought a small brick house in 1993 and hired Ronald and Patricia Thomas to care for her.But two weeks ago, her decomposed body was found by police in the back bedroom of the house on Homberg Avenue in Essex, where it had apparently been for almost a...

Anthony Cusimano, who worked for much of his life in a produce and food market on Lombard Street, died Nov. 21 of respiratory failure. He was 80. Mr. Cusimano, who was known as Tony, was born in Baltimore in 1928. He left school after the eighth grade to work in his father's store on Corned Beef Row on Lombard Street. Known as Tony's Market, the place sold retail and wholesale produce. During Mr. Cusimano's younger years, Lombard Street was a thriving commercial strip. The market sold goods to many of Baltimore's well-known restaurants, including Sabatino's and Caesar's Den. "Sundays used to be the busiest day of the week," said his son, Fred Cusimano of Bel Air. "It was a huge day."

DETROIT -- It rained octopuses in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals between the Detroit Red Wings and the New Jersey Devils, and there is every indication it will rain octopuses even larger in Game 2.Tomorrow at noon, Kevin Dean, who co-owns Superior Fish with his brothers Michael and David, will auction for charity Stanley, a 52-pound octopus, and his younger brother, Oscar, 36 pounds."

The daughter of a woman accused of starving a 66-year-old invalid to death and then leaving her decomposing body in a bedroom for more than a year testified yesterday that her mother ignored the dying woman's pleas for help.Jeanetta Tolson testified during the first day of the trial of her mother, Patricia F. Thomas, 51, who is charged with first-degree murder, abuse of a vulnerable adult and two counts of theft in the death of Marion V. Cusimano.Thomas, a former nursing home aide, was the primary caregiver for four years for Cusimano, who was crippled by multiple sclerosis.

On Sunday, October 31, 2004, JOSEPH ANTHONY; beloved husband of Doris C. (nee Pearce); devoted father of Jerome Melvin Cusimano. Friends may call at the Miller-Dippel Funeral Home, Inc., 6415 Belair Road, on Wednesday from 9:30 until 10 A.M., after which Catholic Prayers will be said at 11 A.M. at the Lakeview Memorial Park.

On May 8, 2003, FREDERICK J.; beloved husband of Myra R. (nee Racusin); dear brother of Joseph, Anthony Cusimano, Ann Zoppo and Mazie Juliano; father to Craig Tillman, Charlene Ramirez, Renita Bayliss, Karen Holbrook, Gary, Brian, William DeCosmo and the late Janet Delph. Also survived by many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A Vigil Service will be held at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck Inc. Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale), on Sunday. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Anthony's Church, on Monday at 10 A.M. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

A dispute between two residents of an Aberdeen group home for mentally challenged adults ended with one of them critically stabbed and the other arrested late yesterday afternoon. About 5:30 p.m., John Cusimano, 54, was stabbed twice in the chest, twice in the back and once in the arm in the home where he lived in the 100 block of Spesutia Road, said Ginger Rigney, spokeswoman for the Harford County Sheriff's Department. Cusimano was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he underwent surgery last night.

An elderly Pennsylvania woman was killed and a mother and her 15-month-old child were injured last night in a head-on collision on U.S. 1 in Darlington, state police in Harford County reported. Emma Lloyd, 78, of Folcroft, Pa., was driving a 1991 Chevrolet Lumina southbound on U.S. 1 near Castleton Road about 7:30 p.m. when her car was struck head-on by a northbound 1993 Mercury Sable that had crossed the double-yellow line, said Tfc. Michael Cusimano of the Bel Air state police barracks.

BY A bizarre quirk in Maryland statutes -- one the legislature needs to rectify -- individuals don't have to report deaths to the state health department.This anomaly came to light recently when the Anne Arundel County state's attorney could not press charges against Richard "Prince" Marshall, 25, for failing to report the death of his 4-year-old daughter eight months ago or his burial of her in county woods.The father might only be liable for a misdemeanor for dumping on public property, as he would be if he left behind mere garbage.

An Essex woman convicted of manslaughter after a disabled woman in her care died of neglect and malnutrition was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison -- a decision her lawyer called "a gift."Patricia Thomas, 51, who has served almost a year in jail, could be paroled as early as next month, said her attorney, Stephen L. Miles. She was indicted after the mummified corpse of Marion V. Cusimano was discovered in the house Cusimano shared with Thomas, her husband and her daughter."She is relieved," Miles said.

Baltimore County police continued their investigation yesterday into the death of an Essex woman whose severely decomposed body was found in her room, questioning relatives and friends of the couple who shared the woman's home.The state medical examiner had not determined the cause of Marian V. Cusimano's death as of late yesterday.Officials have said she might have been dead 10 to 14 months.Ronald G. Thomas, 49, and his wife, Patricia, 50, reported Cusimano's death to police Thursday.Police also are investigating complaints filed with the Baltimore County Department of Social Services that Cusimano, 66, had been financially exploited.

The caller told police that an elderly woman living in his Essex home had died in her bed. What he didn't say was she had died almost a year ago -- and was still there.Baltimore County police believe the mummified body discovered under a blanket is that of 66-year-old Marian V. Cusimano, and yesterday they began investigating why the couple who shared Cusimano's home left her corpse in an upstairs bedroom.Police are investigating the reclusive woman's financial situation."They have been looking into the finances of the dead woman -- income from pension checks, disability checks," Baltimore County Police spokesman Bill Toohey said yesterday.

The caregiver of a 66-year-old disabled woman found mummified in an Essex home last year was convicted yesterday of manslaughter by a Baltimore County judge who sharply rebuked the dead woman's friends and family -- and the Department of Social Services.Patricia Thomas, 51, also was found guilty of two counts of felony theft and one count of abuse of a vulnerable adult in the death of Marion V. Cusimano. Thomas could receive 45 years in prison when she is sentenced in April.In grim, often macabre testimony, witnesses described Thomas' abuse of Cusimano, a strong-willed woman victimized by advanced multiple sclerosis and her own refusal to accept help.

The daughter of a woman accused of starving a 66-year-old invalid to death and then leaving her decomposing body in a bedroom for more than a year testified yesterday that her mother ignored the dying woman's pleas for help.Jeanetta Tolson testified during the first day of the trial of her mother, Patricia F. Thomas, 51, who is charged with first-degree murder, abuse of a vulnerable adult and two counts of theft in the death of Marion V. Cusimano.Thomas, a former nursing home aide, was the primary caregiver for four years for Cusimano, who was crippled by multiple sclerosis.