Daisy

*Amanda Gorsuch, a nurse at at Mercy Medical Center, is being honored with the DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation's program to recognize nurses. The foundation, based in Glen Ellen, Calif., was established in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, who died in 1999 at the age of 33 from complications of an autoimmune disease. The nursing care Barnes received inspired the award. Gorsuch is the first DAISY honoree in Maryland. She was nominated by a patient who was touched by her care.

A Columbia Democrat venturing west to Republican-dominated Glenwood to hear residents' complaints could run some political risk of hostility, but County Executive Ken Ulman encountered only civility at his recent public forum, despite high frustration over two local issues. Ulman started with an advantage - the sparkling, recently built county community center, public library and regional park complex where the standing-room-only meeting took place. Just down the road is another treasured county asset - the big, new Bushy Park Elementary School.

Hazel Butler was a little unsure about whether she should enter the hat contest. When you're 90 years old, you don't take such matters lightly. The contest, a signature event at the 91st annual Flower Mart yesterday, attracted the usual cheery mix of birds, butterflies, Ascot clones, Edwardian finery and Carmen Miranda fruit baskets to Mount Vernon Place. But the brimmed straw-weave number on Butler's head was infinitely more modest. "I don't know if I should," she said as her potential competitors swooped by, feathers fluttering, to line up at the foot of the main stage in the Washington Monument's shadow.

On January 14, 2008 DAISY D. EITEMILLER (nee Hensley) beloved wife of Charles V. Eitemiller; devoted mother of David and Steve Blankenship, John, James and Terry Barnes. Also survived by numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue on Friday at 11 a.m. Interment Parkwood Cemetery. Friends may call Thursday 3-5 and 7-9 p.m.

On January 10, 2008, DAISY BELL ROBINSON. On Monday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES 5151 Baltimore National Pike from 4-8 P.M. On Tuesday, Mrs. Robinson will lie in state at City Temple Baptist Church, Eutaw and Dolphin Streets, where the family will receive friends from 10:30- 11 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries (410) 233-2400.

On December 29, 2007 MRS. RHUE. Visitation at 2140 N. Fulton Avenue on Thursday, 5-8pm. The family will receive friends in the chapel on Friday at 9:30am. Funeral at 10am.

The 4.2-acre used-car lot that Frank Saglimbeni wants to build doesn't seem outsized in this era of big-box stores, but to hundreds of residents who live near the bucolic 19th-century crossroads known as Daisy in far western Howard County, it's a monster. On a field where narrow, winding Daisy Road meets hilly, scenic Union Chapel Road in an unevenly aligned intersection, Saglimbeni plans to build a 3,850-square foot, two-story building and a lot for 155 vehicles on land that has been zoned for business for more than 50 years.

Daisy F. Paska, a homemaker and avid gardener, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer at her Severna Park home. She was 80. The former Daisy Frink was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and her family moved to Gardenville in Northeast Baltimore when she was a baby. She attended Baltimore public schools. She was an office worker for the Sun Life Insurance Co. before her marriage in 1948 to Daniel Paska. The couple lived in Gardenville for many years until moving to Severna Park in 1982. Mr. Paska, who had worked in various accounting positions at Martin Marietta Corp.

On October 13, 2007, DAISY A. (nee Lehman); beloved wife of the late Glenn A. Watkins, Jr.; devoted mother of Barbara J. Aiken, Karen L. Webner and Kimberly W. Ford; also survived by five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Arrangements by E.F. Lassahn Funeral Home, P.A., 410-592-6100.

Daisy Adele Watkins, a homemaker and Sunday school teacher, died of Alzheimer's disease complications Saturday at the Barton House in Nashville, Tenn., where she had been living for the past five years. She was 83 and a former Kingsville and Joppatowne resident. Born Daisy Adele Lehman in Baltimore and raised on Aisquith Street, she attended city public schools. In 1944 she married Glenn A. Watkins Jr., who was an Army Air Corps pilot during World War II, in Eagle Pass, Texas. She later assisted him in his architectural practice.