Emmanuel Episcopal Church

Inflated PricesWhat a spectacle it will be to watch them bury each other.Thomas CulbertsonBaltimoreThe writer is rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church.

On October 11, 2009 LOIS RUBY KERSHAW beloved wife of the late Harvey Barnsley Kershaw; dear mother of Robert Barnsley Kershaw and John Harvey Kershaw; dear grandmother of Leah Radcliffe Kershaw and Julia Talmadge Kershaw; devoted sister of Josey Virginia Anthon and Hilda Jean Lewis. A memorial service will be held Saturday, November 14, 11 a.m. at Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be made to Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 811 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.

On October 11, 2009 LOIS RUBY KERSHAW beloved wife of the late Harvey Barnsley Kershaw; dear mother of Robert Barnsley Kershaw and John Harvey Kershaw; dear grandmother of Leah Radcliffe Kershaw and Julia Talmadge Kershaw; devoted sister of Josey Virginia Anthon and Hilda Jean Lewis. A memorial service will be held Saturday, November 14, 11 a.m. at Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be made to Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 811 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.

On September 30, 2009, Eugene "Euke" Todd Services will be held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Bel Air, MD on Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 10 A.M. Interment will be in Bel Air Memorial Gardens, Bel Air, MD. Memory tributes may be sent to the family at mccomasfuneralhome.com

On January 28, 2005, ESTHER C. IRIQUIN. A Memorial Service will be held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 811 Cathedral Street, on Sunday, March 6, at 11:30 A.M. Arrangements by Henry W. Jenkins & Sons, 410-343-3000.

On September 30, 2009, Eugene "Euke" Todd Services will be held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Bel Air, MD on Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 10 A.M. Interment will be in Bel Air Memorial Gardens, Bel Air, MD. Memory tributes may be sent to the family at mccomasfuneralhome.com

On August 27, 2003, CHRISTOPHER D. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the Schimunek Funeral Home, Inc., 610 W. MacPhail Road, at Route 24, on Sunday and Monday from 3 to 5 P.M. A Funeral Service will be held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in the chapel at 11 A.M. Interment Bel Air Memorial Gardens.

On July 31, 2003, HARRIETT VANE KRATZER, of Chestertown; beloved mother of Harriett K. Kelly, Trudy K. Anderson, Gretchen K. Starling and Philip V. Kratzer. A Memorial Service will be held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, in Chestertown, MD, at 1:30 P.M., on Monday, August 4, 2003.

An obituary Sunday on Eleanor L. McKnight Snyder incorrectly listed the name of one organization and deleted the other. Memorial donations may be made to the Maryland Dietetics Association Foundation, 212 Witherspoon Road, Baltimore 21212, or Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 811 Cathedral St., Baltimore 21201.The Sun regrets the error.

On December 10, 2004, C. ELIZABETH NICHOLS KASPER, beloved wife of Francis (Frank) Kasper, devoted sister of Allen and Frederick Doveton Nichols Jr. both of VA. Also survived by eight nieces and nephews. Due notice of a memorial service will be given. In lieu of flowers contributions may be sent to Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 811 Cathedral St., Balto., 21201. Arrangements by family owned Henry W. Jenkins and Sons, 410-343-3000.

On August 31, 2008, Lisa M. Biedermann A service will be held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Bel Air, MD on Friday, September 5, 2008 at 1:00 P.M. Friends may call at the family owned McComas Funeral Home, P.A., Bel Air, MD on Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. Those who desire, may contribute to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for the Cure, P.O. Box 650309, Dallas, TX 75397. Memory tributes may be sent to the family at mccomasfuneralhome.com

Several messages run through Jonathan Dove's Tobias and the Angel, a shimmering work that received its North American premiere Thursday night by Opera Vivente: the need for social justice and responsibility, the value of parenting skills and filial duty, the incalculable rate of return on a good deed, the rewards of faith. In the end, though, the moral of the opera boils down to: Stop and smell the roses. Or, in this case, take time to hear the songs of the trees and mountains, the secret sounds of a river.

The motet The lowdown -- The Baltimore Choral Arts Society will explore the motet -- works of generally short duration with sacred texts -- in a program that offers music by Monteverdi, Purcell, Bruckner and others. There will be room, too, for Broadway songs by Bernstein and Sondheim. Leading the concert will be Leo Wanenchak, assistant conductor of Choral Arts. If you go -- The concert is at 3 p.m. Sunday at Grace United Methodist Church, 5407 N. Charles St. Tickets are $25 and $30. Call 410-523-7070 or go to balti morechoralarts.

On June 24, 2007, MARGUERITE FINNEY DANCE of Bel Air, MD, devoted mother of Macey Dance Kimsey, Laura Dance Alexander and Sarah Dance Parr, loving sister of Patricia Jane Hansen. Also survived by six grandchildren, David Kimsey, Finney Kimsey, Thomas Kimsey, MacLean Kimsey, Bryan Alexander and Skyler Parr and one great-granddaughter, Ariana Jaylese Knight. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, June 30, 2007, at 11 A.M., at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Bel Air, MD. Those who desire may contribute to the Library at the Maryland Horse Foundation, P.O.Box 427, Timonium, MD, 21093 or to Stella Maris Hospice, 2300 Dulaney Valley Road, Timonium, MD, 21093.

ANN CRAFT LEADBETTER; beloved wife of Frederick Leadbetter, Sr.; mother of Frederick Leadbetter, Jr., died on October 3, 2006. Funeral services on Monday October 9, 2006 at 11 A.M. at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Chestertown, MD. Relatives and friends may call on Sunday October 8, 2006 between the hours of 5 and 7 P.M. at Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home, 130 Speer road, Chestertown, MD. Contributions to UDC or DSDI or Chester River Hospice, 6602...

On May 23, 2006, DORIS O. (nee Osborne), beloved wife of the late William H. Barker; devoted mother of Ellen Lee Adajian, Linda L. Barker, Elizabeth H. B. Southall and William H. Barker; dear sister of Leah C. Holland. A Funeral Service will be held at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc., Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale) on Saturday 7:30 P.M. Friends may call on Saturday from 1 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. Inurnment will be held at Parkwood Cemetery at later date. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Emmanuel Episcopal Church for the William H. Barker Gallery, 811 Cathedral, Baltimore, MD 21201.

On March 24, 2006, DR. GORDON GRAHAM HEINER, III; beloved husband of Jutta Dugge Heiner; dear father of Michael Gordon Heiner and Eleanor Heiner Fulton. A Memorial Service will be held Tuesday, March 28, 2 P.M. at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Cathedral and Reed Street. Interment private. Please omit flowers. Contributions may be made to Temple Medical School Scholarship Fund, 3400 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19140.

On July 18, 2005, ELLEN LAVELLE MOSER, beloved daughter of Christine W. Moser and Rev. Paul H. Moser; loving sister of Agatha Moser Clark, Jacob H. Moser III, and Alexandra M.V. Moser; Aunt of Madeline Clark and Alex Moser. Memorial Service Thursday July 21, 11 A.M. Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Main St & Broadway, Bel Air MD. Memorial contributions to Ellen Moser Memorial, Emmanuel Church, PO Box 628, Bel Air 21014.

In 1982, the ever-provocative stage director Jonathan Miller famously put Verdi's Rigoletto into a time machine and hit the 1950s button, while turning on an equivalent geography-spinner. As a result, this opera about love, hedonism, physical deformity, paternal devotion and the cruelty of fate in 16th-century Mantua took place in a Mafiosi-milieu of New York's Little Italy. Rigoletto Opera Vivente, 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 811 Cathedral St. Tickets $22-$42.