Esther

The National Board of Hadassah, WZOA, mourns the death of ESTHER BLOOMBERG, mother of Jackie Cohen, our esteemed colleague. Our heartfelt condolences go to the entire family. May her memory be forever blessed. JUNE WALKER, National President

Esther M. Bacot, a former dress designer and Talbot's sales associate, died March 25 from kidney failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 88. The daughter of a physician and a homemaker, the former Esther Philinda Murray was born in Baltimore and raised on Charlesmeade Road in North Baltimore. She was the granddaughter of the Rev. John G. Murray, the seventh Episcopal bishop of Maryland and the first to be elected presiding bishop of the United States. She was a 1945 graduate of Bryn Mawr School and attended Goucher College.

On November 25, 2005, ESTHER MERWITZ (nee Auster), beloved wife of the late Harry Isaac Merwitz, loving mother of Edward Merwitz and Diane Postol, both of Baltimore, devoted mother-in-law of Harold Postol and Harriette Merwitz, beloved sister of the late Harold and Judah Auster, loving grandmother of Stacie and Jonathan Merwitz, Jodi and Steven Postol, and loving great-grandmother of Ashley and Gregory Merwitz. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS INC., 8900 Reisterstown Rd. at Mt. Wilson Lane, on Sunday, November 27, at 1 P.M. Interment at Bnai Israel Congregation Cemetery, 3701 Southern Ave. Please omit flowers.

Mary Esther R. "Essie" Feldmann, a retired registered nurse and pioneering Rodgers Forge resident, died Sunday of complications from dementia at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. Earlier this month, family and friends gathered to celebrate Mrs. Feldmann's 103rd birthday. She was born Jan. 13, 1910, in Baltimore. The daughter of a carriage maker and a homemaker, Mary Esther Roche was raised in Mount Washington. After graduating from Mount St. Agnes High School in 1929, she earned her nursing degree from the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in 1932.

On June 4, 2008, ESTHER CECILIA SCOTT, 83, formerly of Baltimore. Former owner/operator of a beauty salon, Esther's in Baltimore. Devoted wife of the late Reid C. Scott; beloved sister of Rosemary Hill, Salisbury; Milton Eser and wife Gloria, New Windsor and Thomas Eser and wife Henrietta, Racine, WI. also survived by many nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews. A committal service will be held 11:30 A.M., Saturday at Oak Lawn Cemetery. Contributions may be made to St. James Lutheran church, P.O.Box 1060, Union Bridge, MD, 21791.

On January 11, 2005, ESTHER; beloved sister of David Beckman and the late Rebecca, Freda and Howard Beckman. Also survived by nieces and nephews. Funeral Services and Interment will be held at the Arlington Cemetery- Chizuk Amuno Congregation, 4300 N. Rogers Ave., on Wednesday, January 12, at 11 AM. Please omit flowers. In mourning at (North Oak) 725 Mt. Wilson Lane, Apt 639 (21208). Arrangements by SOL LEVINSON & BROS, INC.

On December 2, 2007 ESTHER DORSEY. Survived by her husband Alfred Dorsey. Friends may call at the family owned and operated Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Ave. on Wednesday, December 5, 3 to 7 P.M. Funeral Services on Thursday, December 6 at the Howell Funeral Home Chapel, 10:30 A.M. Wake, 11 A.M. Funeral. Interment King Memorial Park.

On April 12, 2004, ESTHER (Knight); devoted mother of Cheryl Weems and Chesteena Greene. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 A.M. Family will receive friends on Friday at the Heritage United Church of Christ, 3106 Liberty Heights Avenue at 6:30 P.M., followed by funeral services at 7:00 P.M. See www.marchfh.com

On Dec. 8, Esther Morrow celebrated her 100th birthday with her friends, family and fellow residents at Rock Spring Village, an assisted living community in Forest Hill.

Esther Everitt Dombrowski, a retired Bel Air High School librarian who also wrote feature stories for The Aegis newspaper, died of pneumonia Oct. 8 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center. She was 81 and lived in Bel Air. Born Esther Everitt on a farm near Bel Air, she was the daughter of a construction foreman and a homemaker. She was a 1948 graduate of Bel Air High School, where she returned after earning a bachelor's degree at what was then Millersville State College in Pennsylvania and a master's degree in library science at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Sometimes the only barrier separating a pastoral paradise from hell on earth is a thin line of birch trees. Before she died in 2001 at age 74, Frederick dressmaker Esther Krinitz created 36 oversized fabric panels that provide persuasive proof that both worlds exist - sometimes within the same frame. In scraps of fabric and cheerily colored yarns, the panels tell the story of how young Esther and her sister escaped from the Holocaust during the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II. The panels went on display this weekend at the American Visionary Art Museum as part of a new exhibit, "The Art of Storytelling: Lies, Enchantment, Humor and Truth.

Esther "Penny" Love, a Baltimore public school guidance counselor for nearly 40 years who was an outspoken advocate for emotionally challenged and dyslexic students, died Monday of lung cancer at Sinai Hospital. She was 89. Esther Shulman, whose parents owned a dry-goods store in the 2900 block of O'Donnell St., was born and raised in Canton. She graduated from Patterson High School in 1941. The summer after graduating from high school, she took a job washing test tubes in the detection laboratory at Edgewood Arsenal, under the direction of Solomon "Sol" Love, and earned his ire when she dipped the wrong end of a pipette in bleach.

One of the things I like about "the Vampire Dairies" is the loopholes that exist in the complex world where vampires, werewolves, witches and hybrids all intermix. When faced with an either-or situation, the outcome is usually somewhere in-between. That happened again in tonight's episode. Let me explain. Esther came to see Bonnie and Abby Bennett to ask them to help her with her ritual to kill her children. She needs to channel their energy. Elena feels guilty that Elijah has to die for the latest plan to kill Klaus to work.

Esther L. Sandstrom, a former middle school librarian and a world traveler, died May 26 of heart failure at Franklin Square Hospital Center. She was 95. Esther Louise Plancon, the daughter of French immigrants, was born and raised in Springfield, Mass., where she graduated in 1933 from Classical High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from American International College in Springfield in 1937. She worked as a telephone operator after college and in 1937 married John Russell Sandstrom.