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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | August 1, 2014
Elizabeth C. Bellavance, an educator, social activist, and patron of the academic and arts communities who was also an outspoken advocate for the Eastern Shore's Hispanic community, died July 24 of cancer at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va. She was 77. "Liz was an extraordinary, extraordinary woman. I used to call her the Grand Dame of the Eastern Shore," said Kim Propeack, a lawyer who is the political and communications director for Casa de Maryland.
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By Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun | July 4, 2014
Mary Elizabeth Dyer Corrin, a code-breaker during World War II and former teacher at two Towson-area elementary schools, died June 30 of lung cancer at the Blakehurst retirement community. She was 92. The daughter of Navy Vice Adm. George C. Dyer, Mrs. Corrin was born in Manila in the Philippines; by the time she graduated from high school, she told her family later, she had attended 22 different schools. While her family was stationed in Hawaii, Mrs. Corrin traveled by boat and train to attend Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in math.
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By Jonah Goldberg | June 30, 2014
Paging Elizabeth Warren: This is your moment. In 2007, Democrats were delirious with rage about the Iraq war. Hillary Clinton, the "inevitable" presidential front-runner, had voted for the war and refused to apologize for it. Other leading candidates, including Joe Biden, John Edwards and Chris Dodd, voted for it too. This left a huge opening for a credible antiwar candidate. Barack Obama, inexperienced and underqualified, nonetheless jumped into the vacuum. The rest, as they say, is history.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | June 25, 2014
Elizabeth A. "Betty" Baker, the longtime church secretary at Aisquith Presbyterian Church, died Saturday of cancer at Good Samaritan Hospital. She was 78. The daughter of the Rev. Edward G. Conrad, pastor of Aisquith Presbyterian Church, and Elizabeth A. Brooks Conrad, a teacher, Elizabeth Ann Conrad was born in Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. She was raised in Lansdowne, Pa., and Baltimore, where she had lived since 1949. She graduated in 1953 from Eastern High School and attended business school for a year.
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By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun | April 1, 2014
Grace Elizabeth Crowder, a homemaker who canned vegetables from her farm, died of stroke complications Tuesday at Providence Place Assisted Living in Chambersburg, Pa. The Mount Airy resident was 86. Born Grace Elizabeth Dieter in Baltimore, she was raised in East Baltimore and attended city public schools through the sixth grade. As a young woman, she worked at Montgomery Ward on Washington Boulevard. Family members said that her mother died of cancer when she was 9 and that her father was frequently absent.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | February 16, 2014
Elizabeth P. "Betsy" Johnson, a homemaker and former educator who had lived in Stoneleigh for many years, died Feb. 5 of influenza at the William Breman Jewish Home in Atlanta. She was 92. Mrs. Johnson, who had a home in Devon Hill in North Roland Park, had lived in Atlanta for the past three years after breaking a leg, family members said. The daughter of an attorney and a homemaker, Elizabeth Pruitt was born and raised in Hickory, N.C., where she graduated in 1938 from Hickory High School.