Elizabeth

Jeff and Corinne Plank , of Baltimore, announce the birth of their daughter, Whitney Elizabeth Plank , on Oct. 4. Her grandparents are Mike and Sissy Plank, of Ellicott City; Mary Anne and Tom Williams, of Perry Hall; and Susan and Harold Campbell, of Abingdon.

It's difficult to imagine what Laura Moriarty's four novels would have been like if she had chosen a place to live other than Kansas, with its endless wheat fields and abundance of ordinary light. Moriarty, 42, focuses her gaze on the most common, everyday things in the world - a single mom cooking a grilled cheese sandwich, a visit to the convenience store - and finds in them characters and events of remarkable depth, complexity and variety. Though the author is a Marine's daughter who was born in Hawaii and spent her childhood in places renowned for their physical beauty, she decided as an adult to settle in Kansas.

Last week, reader Bucky contributed this Top 10 list of Food Quotations on Dining@Large (baltimoresun.com/diningat large): Somewhere along the way, I started jotting down quotations that struck me as insightful or funny or potentially useful for staff meeting arguments in a little spiral-bound notebook that I carried around with me in my briefcase. ... I went into my collection of quotations (now stored on Microsoft Word) and dug out some of my favorites that would meet the pesky "food-related" requirement.

The small wooden trunk is covered with red leather, painted with an ocher floral embroidery and studded with brass nails - and it couldn't have announced its owner's intention more clearly. The 19-year-old Baltimore beauty who packed the trunk with her books and with a black lace mantilla wasn't planning to merely travel between two continents. She was determined to conquer them. On one side of the trunk, plain and simple, is stenciled her birth name, "Elizabeth Patterson. " But on the other side, not one, but two labels declare the trunk to be the property of "Madame Bonaparte, nee Patterson.

If Elizabeth Large isn't hungry for dessert after dinner, very soon she will not order it. The longtime Baltimore Sun restaurant critic plans to retire and start dining out like a civilian. "It will be nice to be able to order exactly what I want and not order more than I want because I need to test it," said Large, who announced Tuesday that she will retire at the end of the month, nearly 37 years after her first restaurant review. In that span, Large has seen exotic cuisine, small plates and big names come to a restaurant scene once dominated by crab fluffs and sour beef and dumplings.

On September 24, 2005, ELIZABETH CHESONIS, passed away in Colorado. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice of Larimer County, CO, c/o Bohlender Funeral Chapel, 121 W. Olive St., Ft. Collins, CO 80524.

On May 11, 2008, Elizabeth A memorial service will be held in Salisbury, MD at the Bounds Funeral Home, 705 E. Main St., Salisbury, MD 21804 on Friday, May 30 at 11 a.m.

On MARCH 1, 2008 ELIZABETH (nee Leonard) of Baltimore. Funeral arrangements are being handled by THE JOHNSON FUNERAL HOME, P.A. Notice of services will be posted on Tuesday.

From the prayer book she carried to the flower petals she kept pressed inside its pages, Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange has long been a vivid presence at the headquarters of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the order of African-American Catholic nuns she founded in Baltimore in 1829. Now pilgrims and worshippers can get even closer to Lange. As part of a campaign to have her declared a saint, church officials received and reinterred her remains at the order's mother church in Relay on Monday.

Sarah Elizabeth Hancock, an effervescent and outgoing college junior whose lifelong ambition was to become a social worker so she could help others, was remembered Thursday by family and friends as a thoughtful and caring individual. "Sarah always put other people's problems in front of hers," said Steve J. Kotowski, 20, who is a materials engineering student at the University of Maryland, College Park. "She was the kind of person that if you had a problem, you could call at midnight and she'd talk to you as long as it took.

Elizabeth T. Littleton, a homemaker and volunteer, died March 6 of complications from a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 86. Elizabeth Margaret Taylor was born in Camden, N.J., and raised in Collingswood, N.J., where she was a graduate of Collingswood High School. Mrs. Littleton attended Drexel University and Houghton College and the medical technology program at Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She worked in physicians' offices in Collingswood and Cherry Hill, N.J. In 1949, she married H. Richard Littleton, a mechanical engineer.

Wedding date: Dec. 29, 2012 Her story: Elizabeth "Beth" Passapae Sauer, 28, grew up in Baltimore. She is an associate attorney for Semmes, Bowen & Semmes in Baltimore. Her father, Francis A. Sauer, is an attorney in Towson, and her mother, Janet Passapae Sauer, is a social worker at William Paca Elementary School in Baltimore. His story: Carroll Francis "Frank" Hopkins III, 28, grew up in Bel Air. He works in medical device sales as a video sales associate for Karl Storz.

The Aberdeen Eagles stayed unbeaten in girls basketball, going on the road and beating Elizabeth Seton, 65-45, Friday to run their record to 5-0. Aberdeen poured in 25 points during the first quarter and led at halftime, 34-24. After three quarters, the Eagles held a 49-34 advantage. Freshman Stephanie Jones led Aberdeen in scoring with 18 points, and dad eight rebounds. Her sister, Brionna Jones, a senior, scored 17 points and had 13 rebounds. Their teammate, Endia Jones, scored 12 points.

Elizabeth G. Kirkpatrick, a homemaker who had been an Army nurse during World War II, died Oct. 29 from complications of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. The longtime Ruxton resident was 91. The daughter of a career Army officer and a homemaker, Elizabeth Reily Gross was born and raised in Harrisburg, Pa., where she graduated from the Seiler School. A boarding student, she graduated in 1939 from St. Timothy's School and earned a bachelor's degree in 1942 from Bryn Mawr College.

Wedding day: Sept. 29, 2012 Her story: Elizabeth Lerie, 24, grew up in Baltimore and is a coordinator of information technology for the University of Maryland. Her parents, Vincent and Debbie Lerie, are both X-ray technicians. His story: Zachary Zentz, 26, grew up in Baltimore. He is a heating, ventilation and air-conditioning technician, as well as a part-time bartender. His father, John Zentz, is also an HVAC technician. His mother, Lesley Zentz, is a homemaker.

As a young girl visiting her grandmother's cabin on the Delaware River in the 1960s, Elizabeth Clarke-Shaw fashioned necklaces from acorns, crafted fairy gardens on old aluminum pie plates, and collected rocks in the time-honored tradition of adventurous children everywhere. “Nature really sang to me,” says the longtime Columbia resident. That persistent melody inspired Clarke-Shaw, now 57, to create one-of-a-kind furniture pieces that sprout branches in all their pristine glory as they pay homage to those halcyon days of innocence and imagination.