Evening Sun

James Hall Bready, an Evening Sun editorial writer for more than three decades and originator of the "Books and Authors" column that was published in The Baltimore Sun for nearly 50 years, died Saturday of renal failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Homeland resident was 92. Mr. Bready, whose parents were staff members of the old Philadelphia Ledger, was born in Philadelphia and raised in South Jersey. He was a graduate of Woodbury High School and Moorestown Friends School, both in New Jersey.

Roger Testud, a French-born baker who became a familiar presence at Baltimore's open-air markets, died of cardiac arrest Oct. 21 at St. Agnes Hospital. The Charring Cross area resident was 81. "He is about as French a baker as you can get," said a 1979 Evening Sun profile of him. "He looks as though he was created by Balzac, shaped by Rodin and taught by Savarin. " Born in Avignon, Mr. Testud was 14 when he began his baking apprenticeship there. He baked throughout his teens and later went into demonstrating and selling commercial baking equipment.

Alice F. Bowie, a former newspaper reporter and editor who enjoyed gardening, died Thursday of lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Lutherville resident was 87. The daughter of a farmer and suffragette, Alice Forbes was born in Baltimore and raised in Bolton Hill and Harford County. When Mrs. Bowie was a child, she began riding horses bareback in Harford County, and through her 20s rode with the Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club. After graduating from Bryn Mawr School in 1942, she earned a bachelor's degree in 1945 from Vassar College.

Lucy C. Acton, a former Evening Sun feature writer who later was editor of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred, formerly Maryland Horse Magazine, died June 7 of cancer of the appendix at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Timonium resident was 63. "She was a deliberate person and real dedicated to the Maryland horse racing industry. She really cared and that was her life," said Joseph B. Kelly, retired Washington Star racing editor and turf historian. "It is a very complicated business, and she wrote about and participated in every phase of it," said Mr. Kelly, who had worked with Ms. Acton's father, Wilton Snowden Carter, in the late 1940s when both were young reporters covering racing for The Baltimore Sun and the old Evening Sun. "Lucy was a very quiet person but a real hard worker and a little giant," he said.

Phil Evans, city editor of the old Evening Sun during the 1960s, died of cancer May 8 at his Silver Spring home. He was 77 and had lived in Roland Park. Born Philip Morgan Evans in New York City and raised on a Dorchester County farm, he graduated from the Peddie School in Hightstown, N.J. He studied for a semester at Yale University. He later drove a truck in Morocco in North Africa and served in the Army. He joined the Associated Press in Salisbury and worked in West Virginia before joining The Evening Sun as a reporter.