Diana

On May 8, 2007, DIANA. Friends may call at the CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME, 5240 Reisterstown Road, Sunday 12 noon to 8 P.M. The family will receive friends at the above chapel, Monday 11 A.M. Funeral Services will begin 11:30 A.M. Interment King Memorial Park.

Dale and Deborah Tobin of Havre de Grace announce the engagement of their daughter, Diana "Shelly" Tobin to Michael W. Shenk, son of Dee Hewitt of Havre de Grace and Woodrow Shenk of Conowingo. Tobin is a 2006 graduate of Havre de Grace High School and a 2012 graduate of Harford Community College with a degree in nursing. She is a registered nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital in Towson. Shenk is a 2000 graduate of Havre de Grace High School and is an electronic technician with Intelect Corporation in Baltimore.

On November 14, 2004, DIANA V. CYMEK (nee Di Dominicus), beloved wife of the late Milton S. Cymek, Jr.; devoted mother of Susan Cymek, Stephanie Brewer, Albert Pritchett, Anthony Pritchett, Diana Shew, Richard Cymek, Jr., and the late Milton Cymek III; dear sister of Carl Di Dominicus, Angela Kachnowich, Helen Ancorrow, Florence Di Dominicus, Gloria Seaman, Mary Ruskiewcz, and Celeste Godman. Also survived by nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the family owned Bruzdzinski Funeral Home, P.A., 1407 Old Eastern Avenue, Essex, at Route 702 (beltway exit 36)

There is nothing normal about "Next to Normal"at Columbia's Red Branch Theatre Company. This 2009 Broadway musical is a tuneful consideration of a family that is being ripped apart by the mother's mental illness. It's not the cheerful musical norm, that's for sure. The rock-oriented score by Tom Kitt energizes the book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey. Anything but shy when it comes to tackling such a sensitive topic, Yorkey even boldly rhymes "sociopath" with "Sylvia Plath," a poet who committed suicide.

On April 17, 2005, DIANA De GRAFF, beloved wife of the late James H. De Graff Sr.; dear mother of James H. De Graff Jr., Louis and Paul De Graff; loving grandmother of Robert Rizer and devoted sister of Mary Schneider Funeral From the Gregory J. Gonce Funeral Home, P.A., 169 Riviera Dr., Pasadena, on Wednesday at 11 A.M. Interment in Glen Haven Memorial Park. Family requests friends call on Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M.

On May 9, 2006, VETA L.; beloved mother of Diana Greig Samuels; beloved grandmother of Ronald A. Samuels and Arielle Samuels. Ms. Greig is survived by a host of relatives and friends. Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday, May 16, 2006, at 12 noon at the St. James Episcopal Church, 1020 W. Lafayette Avenue. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to LKM Sorority for the FKN Scholarship Fund, 6718 Purple Martin Court, Eldersburg, MD 21784. The family would like to thank you for your calls, cards and acts of kindness.

On July 2, 2006, DIANA BARBARINO (nee Walker); beloved wife of Louis V. Barbarino, Jr.; devoted mother of Paula Burke and Shelly Kizina; dear grandmother of Jerry Cooper, III, Bartholomew Grap, IV, Danielle Grap and Austin Burke; sister of Stanley Walker and Pamela Gregory. Friends may call at the family owned Bruzdzinski Funeral Home P.A., 1407 Old Eastern Avenue, Essex, at Rt 702, (Beltway Exit 36) on Wednesday from 3-5 and 7-9 P.M. Funeral service on Thursday at 1 P.M. Interment Holly Hill Memorial Gardens.

On September 18, 2006, DIANA ETHEL STAMATAKOS (nee Passas) beloved wife of Pierre Stamatakos, loving mother of Steven Stamatakos and his wife Roula, sister of Effie Hogan and Vaso Passas, also surviving several nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Family will receive friends on Wednesday, September 20 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M., at Sterling Ashton Schwab Witzke Funeral Home of Catonsville, Inc., 1630 Edmondson Avenue, with a Trisaghion Service beginning at 7:30 P.M. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday, September 21 at Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Annunciation, 24 W. Preston Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201 at 10:30 A.M., with viewing beginning at 10 A.M. Interment will follow in The Greek Orthodox Cemetery.

In London, motorists shouted profanities at photographers outside Buckingham Palace. At the Paris hospital where Princess Diana died early Sunday, the epithets were worse: "Murderers," medical staff shouted at the men and women with cameras outside. And at the tunnel where the fatal car crash occurred, angry mourners scrawled red graffiti labeling paparazzi cowards.What had seemed a sort of game -- though an increasingly aggressive one -- changed early Sunday when probably the world's most photographed woman died after trying to elude paparazzi on motorcycles.

Downtown's Howard Street was jammed on the Saturday before Easter, and Diana Kane was busy with her new modeling agency. That was five decades ago. Back then, as a black woman, she was a pioneer: She founded a business on what was then Baltimore's principal shopping street at a time when few African-Americans could shop in the fashion houses there. Within a few years, Kane saw results. The glossy department store catalogs started showing African-American models. It was the 1960s, and their appearance was something of a first for Baltimore.

Anyone who is thoroughly confused by tonight's events, please raise your hand. The episode began with Nate asking Diana to go public about being a couple. Tell me if I'm wrong, but since when does winking across the room and hooking up on desks constitute as a real relationship? I always think Nate can't possibly get any dumber, but he always proves me wrong. Every time. Side note, guess where he wanted to make the big announcement? A party … of course.  Elsewhere, Dan continued to whine and complain.

The room was silent for a full five minutes after tonight's "Gossip Girl" episode ended. Yeah, we got more Chuck. Yeah, we finally got a Serena/Blair scene. But we also got scheming royals, a certifiably insane blackmailer and a whole new level of snooping. On the Louis/Blair front, they finally told their families about the baby. But remember Beatrice? (Yes, Louis' sister. The one that made-out with a priest in the back of a limo). Well, somehow she managed to team up with Diana to turn her mother against Blair and Louis.

The young theater ensembles around town haven't cornered the market on the edgy or the avant-garde. The Vagabond Players , more readily associated with mainstream (or at least near-mainstream) repertoire, is closing its 95th season with a decidedly offbeat item, "Abducting Diana," by Italian playwright Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Prize laureate for literature. It's a gutsy choice for the company, but the play, a combination of satire, farce and a dash of commedia dell'arte, seems to suffer in the translation.

Serious clowning has been the means through which Italian playwright Dario Fo makes political comments about contemporary society. Proof that Fo's goofy plays are themselves taken seriously came when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1997. You can laugh yourself to the same conclusion by watching "Abducting Diana" at Vagabond Players. This near-surreal comedy is characteristic of Fo's work in a less fortunate way as well, because the playwright often ventures from silly into just plain stupid.

Those of us who set the alarm for the middle of the night to watch Diana marry Charles, and who were witness to all that happened after, are holding our breath as Prince William and Kate Middleton take the leap. Diana's adorable "Wills," as we came to know him, proposed to his college sweetheart during a safari last month in Kenya, a country that has become a conservation passion for the prince. He gave Kate his mother's sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring to wear. It is a piece of jewelry that might be as well-known as his mother's lovely face, but it became a gaudy symbol of a marriage that should never have occurred.

Diana J. Pillas, longtime coordinator-counselor of the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital who was known for the level of personal care and involvement she extended when working with patients and their families, died Saturday of breast cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 69 and had lived in Lutherville. Diana Jacqueline Pillas, the daughter of restaurateurs, was born in Baltimore and raised in the 5700 block of The Alameda. After graduating from Eastern High School in 1958, she earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1962 from the University of Maryland, College Park.

On January 25, 2010 DIANA S. VENDETTI, beloved wife of Frank Vendetti; sister of Rita Kaufman, Marie Sham, Darrell Port, Edward Kus as well as many other relatives. She was preceded in death by siblings Ruth Port, Donald Kus and Frank Kus. A memorial service will be held at St. Joseph Church Fullerton at 8420 Belair Road in Baltimore, MD on February 1, 2010 at 9:30 A.M.