Darien

PAULA CIARA, of North Falmouth, MA, formerly of Baltimore, MD, died Friday, September 24, 2004. She was 71. She is survived by her husband of 43 years, Mario Ciara; two daughters, Susan Ciara Hathaway of Darien, CT and Ann Ciara Olsen of Magnolia, MD; a sister, Jacqueline Sunderland Finer of Washington, D.C. and three grandchildren. A Memorial Mass will be held at 10 A.M. on Wednesday, September 29, at Saint Elizabeth's Church, N. Falmouth, MA. Memorial contributions may be made to Cape Cod COPD Support Group, 404 Great Marsh, Centerville, MD 02632.

Services for former carpenter Alan C. Stewart of Glen Burnie will take place at 11 a.m. today, at the Singleton Funeral Home.Mr. Stewart, 61, died June 14 of cancer at Kimbrough Army Hospital.He was originally from Stamford, Conn., and graduated from Towson High School in 1947.Mr. Stewart served in the U.S. Army from 1947 to 1969, and worked as a construction carpenter.His interests included his family and camping.Survivors include his wife of 29 years, the former Elisabeth Stewart; two daughters, Sandra Tate and Michelle Sanders, both of Glen Burnie; a sister, Elsie S. Schuetz, and stepmother, Alice H. Stewart, both of Darien, Conn.

A memorial service for Howard Head, the Baltimore philanthropist who made millions by developing lightweight skis and an oversized tennis racket, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursdayat the chapel of St. Mary's Seminary, 5400 Roland Ave.Mr. Head, who was 76, died Sunday at Johns Hopkins Hospital after suffering complications to quadruple bypass surgery.He is survived by his wife, Martha Becker Fritzlen Head; a daughter, Nancy Thode of Greenwich, Conn; a sister, Jean Cooper of Boerne, Texas; three stepdaughters, Lynn Fritzlen of Vail, Colo.

Charles George Werner, 88, an editorial cartoonist who at age 29 was the the youngest person ever to win a Pulitzer Prize in his field, died Tuesday in Indianapolis. With no formal art training, Mr. Werner won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial art in 1938 during his first year at the Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City.Harry A. McQuillen III, 51, the chief operating officer who managed more than 60 magazines for publishing giant K-III Communications, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound over the weekend in Darien, Conn.

A Pasadena man involved in what police called an attempted murder-suicide died Friday at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, a hospital spokeswoman said. Darien Lateef Hudson, 25, was pronounced dead by doctors two days after he was admitted to Shock Trauma for what Anne Arundel County police said was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Authorities said Hudson had fled the scene of a shooting just outside Freetown Village. Police said the shooting was prompted by arguments over a stolen bicycle.

On December 24, 2004, ALVA T. BRYANT (nee Padgett) A resident of the Presbyterian Home of Maryland. Beloved wife of the late James Frank Bryant; devoted mother of Alva Elaine Lancaster and the late George Frank Bryant; grandmother of David Padgett Bryant, Kent Lee Lancaster, Eric Scott Lancaster and Angela Wood; great-grandmother of Andrew David Bryant, Amy Katherine Bryant, Camden Lee Lancaster, Turner Scott Lancaster, Kyle Lee Schweitzer, Kiersten Hope...

Two Baltimore men pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted first-degree murder for their roles in an attack last year on Joplin Street in Southeast Baltimore, according to the city state's attorney's office. Circuit Judge John M. Glynn sentenced Rodney Curtis, 32, of the 1600 block of Joplin St., to 40 years in prison - with all but 15 years suspended. Glynn also sentenced Darien Watson, 17, of the 6300 block of Danville Ave. to life in prison, suspending all but five years, prosecutors said.

Mary Elizabeth Walsh and Markus Paul Mueller were married in the chapel at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in Glyndon, MD on September 13, 2008. The Reverend Monsignor Lloyd E. Aiken performed the ceremony during a nuptial mass. The bride is the daughter of Celeste H. and Francis X. Walsh, Jr. of Westminster, MD and the groom is the son of Rosa and Adolf Mueller of Hilton Head Island, SC and Wernberg, Austria. The bride, who wore an ivory organza and lace gown, was given in marriage by her father.

As part of a restructuring that will include layoffs at its Maryland and New York-area operations, London Fog Corp. yesterday announced that it will move its headquarters back to Eldersburg in the next two months, less than a year after moving it to Darien, Conn."

Princeton's Erin McMunn, a Winters Mill graduate, was named Ivy League Attacker of the Year and teammate Sarah Lloyd, a Severna Park graduate, made first team when the conference's postseason awards were announced Wednesday. McMunn was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year last season and is the first Ivy League women's lacrosse player to win one of the top position awards the year following her rookie selection. She is also only the second sophomore in conference history to win one of the major awards.