Dyson

On December 12, 2004 Vivian Joyce (nee Tucker); the beloved wife of Howard J. Dyson, Sr. Survived by six daughters, one son, seven grandchildren and other relatives and friends. Viewing at the Lewis T. Gwynn Funeral Home, 4517 Park Heights Avenue on Friday 12 noon to 7 P.M. Family hour Saturday 11 to 11:30 A.M. at St. Ambrose Catholic Church, 4502 Park Heights Avenue followed by A Mass of Resurection. Interment Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 2:30 P.M. in Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery.

On December 21, 2003 MARY CECILIA DYSON, a Telephone Pioneer, devoted mother of Marsha A. Young, Michelle R. Morgan, Michael A. Dyson and the late Mark S. Dyson. Loving daughter of the late Paul and Anna Yaren. Also survived by five grandchildren, five great grandchildren, two brothers and one sister. A Funeral Service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue, on Saturday at 8 P.M. Interment private. Friends may call on Saturday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M.

Thanksgiving in Iraq for the policeman and the college student from Maryland did not differ too much from how the U.S. Army reservists would have celebrated the holiday back home. They had the day off, ate turkey, watched football and promptly fell asleep. By yesterday, however, Staff Sgt. James Dyson Jr. and Specialist Charles R. Ellison were headed back to their Military Police posts in Karbala, one of Islam's holiest cities, 55 miles south of Baghdad. Their job: bodyguards. Dyson, in civilian life a patrolman for the Prince George's County Police Department, and Ellison, a freshman at Howard Community College, were activated in February and now find themselves cruising the streets of Karbala in black Chevy Suburbans, providing security for Coalition Provisional Authority employees who work with Karbala's governor.

Moves Baseball DEVIL RAYS: Agreed with free-agent P Paul Abbott, who had been with Royals, and free-agent P John Halama, who had been with Athletics, on one-year contracts. GIANTS: Acquired C A.J. Pierzynski and player to be named or cash from Twins for P Joe Nathan, P Boof Bonser and P Francisco Liriano. INDIANS: Declined to exercise $5 million option on P Danys Baez for next season. ORIOLES: Named T.J. Brightman VP of corporate sales and sponsorships. PADRES: Claimed OF Henri Stanley off waivers from Astros; added him to 40-man roster.

Lawrence L. Dyson Sr., a retired Baltimore County special education teacher who invented a sliding gadget to help his young pupils learn mathematics, died Wednesday of cancer at his home in Ellicott City. He was 69 and had lived in Ellicott City for more than 20 years. A Baltimore native, Mr. Dyson was educated in the public school system and served in the Army from 1954 to 1956 as a military police officer. While putting himself through college, he worked for the U.S. Postal Service, an insurance company and in a number of part-time jobs.

On February 12, 2003, LAWRENCE L. DYSON, SR; beloved husband of Jean E. Dyson. Devoted father of Junetta Smith and Lawrence L. Dyson Jr. He is also survived by 3 sisters; Lena Washington, Eleanor Gough and Juanita Dyson, one brother, James Gray, one son-in-law, four grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends. ON Monday friends may call at the Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Service, 5151 Balto. Nat'l Pike (Rt40) from 4 to 8 P.M. On Tuesday, Mr Dyson will lie-in-state at the Ellicott City Assembly of God, 10600 Frederick Rd., where the family will receive friends from 10 to 10:30 A.M. with Services to follow.

In his debut committee performance testifying on behalf of the administration, Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele defended the governor's charter school plan yesterday, arguing that it would rescue low-income students mired in substandard schools. "Without this bill, the choices of students, particularly the children of poor parents, will be limited," Steele told the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee. Charter schools are nonsectarian, tuition-free schools that operate within the public school system but are organized by private groups and generally allowed more freedom to choose curriculum and policies.

A 39-year-old man was arraigned yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges of second-degree murder and child abuse in the death of his infant son, who died from blunt force injury to the head, the state's attorney's office announced. Charles Dyson of the 1700 block of Ramblewood Ave. had his son, Daquan Antonio Dyson, at his home July 27 when the incident occurred. Daquan was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he died two days later. Assistant State's Attorney Julie Drake, chief of the felony family violence division, will handle the case, which is scheduled to begin Feb. 7 before Judge John N. Prevas.