Fader

On February 29, 2004 MAURICE H. FADER; beloved husband of the late Anne Fader (nee Simon); beloved father of Jerry Fader and Brenda Pariser; devoted father-in-law of Rheda Fader and Joseph Pariser; devoted brother of Ida Zigman, Ellis Fader, Esther Berelowitz and the late Sarah Grossman and Edna Dackman; loving grandfather of Steve and Judi Fader, Brian and Jodi Fader, Scott and Roberta Fader, Alan, Andy and Gail Pariser. Also survived by five great-grandchildren. Services at SOL LEVINSON AND BROS.

Jodi Fader, a condo owner at Baltimore's Ritz-Carlton Residences at the Inner Harbor, will tell you there's nothing like knocking out a few walls to welcome in a world of light and water views. "We've been watching this property develop for the last 11 years," said Jodi Fader who, along with her husband, Brian, was the first to occupy the ground floor, wrap-around unit. "We made architectural changes to make it more like a home. " In addition to opening rooms off of a main hallway to allow for a more circular flow, she and her husband added wood paneling in the kitchen and great room, chose wide-planked, old wood flooring to contrast with the marble of the entrance hall and kitchen area, wallpapered the dining room with a hand-painted scene of Chinese-inspired birds and foliage, and finally, integrated antique family pieces with her transitional decor.

At age 100, Fader's Tobacconist is showing absolutely no signs of kicking the habit.Drop by 107 E. Baltimore St. and ask for Barking Dog, St. Bruno, Navy Flake, Condor, Three Nuns or Baby's Bottom.The salesman, dressed in a well-ironed shirt and a tie, will comply and perhaps suggest you might try some Calvert, Westview, Melvin's Madness or Cave Man's Delight.Be it a Connecticut cigar or snuff from Oslo, Fader's probably stocks it. Baltimore's oldest retail purveyor of the weed has more tobacco variants than there are no-smoking signs in Columbia.

We're only 72 hours past the sanctioned Day of National Gluttony, Thanksgiving, when it's considered unpatriotic to take on anything less than 25,000 calories. I'm sure everyone by now has had enough turkey, dressing, cranberries, mashed potatoes, peas, wedges of Aunt Maude's world famous pumpkin pie and Alka-Seltzer to last until Christmas, which comes around in only 26 days. However, I'm hoping that you've saved a little room for a calorie-free sliver of Thanksgiving history that was brought to my attention the other day by retired Baltimore County Circuit Judge John F. Fader II, whose hobbies include collecting and committing to memory arcane facts and incidents relating to U.S. history.

Daniel Fader, an English teacher and author, died Monday of cancer at his Truro, Mass., home. The former Northwest Baltimore resident was 73. Born in Baltimore and raised in Ashburton and on Dolfield Avenue, he was a 1948 City College graduate and attended Loyola College. He earned degrees at Cornell University and a doctorate at Stanford University. He also studied at Cambridge University. In 1961, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, where he taught English and was the founding chairman of the English Composition Board.

Fader's, the century-old cigar and pipe emporium that has counted H. L. Mencken and Tom Selleck among its clients, has been sold to a Pennsylvania cigar distributor, Ira B. "Bill" Fader Jr., president, said yesterday.Fader, whose grandfather started the business in downtown Baltimore in 1891, sold the six-store chain to a corporation headed by Lancaster businessman and Baltimore native Michael J. Goeller for an undisclosed amount. Goeller distributes cigars to 80 mini-markets, country clubs and restaurants in central Pennsylvania through Lancaster Venture Corp.

Judge John F. Fader II's benign, fatherly appearance doesn't fool anybody once he starts lecturing troubled families in his Baltimore County courtroom.The Circuit Court judge tells a divorced couple fighting over visitation with their teen-age sons: "We can't have two armed camps at their weddings."He tells a belligerent man in leg chains who owes $13,000 in child support: "There are murderers, there are pedophiles, and there are people who don't pay child support."As the Maryland Court of Appeals considers establishing family courts in Maryland's largest counties, Fader has carved a niche for himself as an authority on family law -- divorce, custody, child support, domestic violence.

Fader's Tobacconist, the century-old cigar and pipe emporium that the Fader family sold in February, will move its downtown flagship store early next year to a former Cadillac dealership on South Calvert Street.Fader's building at 107 E. Baltimore St., home to the tobacco products supplier since 1972, will be razed sometime next year to make way for construction of a 34-story skyscraper set to include a suites hotel, office space, restaurants and a parking garage.Fader's expects to close a $265,000 deal to buy the 7,500-square-foot building at 12 S. Calvert from Williams, Jackson and Ewing within the next 10 days, said Michael J. Goeller, Fader's new owner and president.

Seventy years after a Water Street factory closed and ended A. Fader & Son's cigar-making days, one of the Baltimore tobacconist's premium cigars is back.The cigar, called "La Flor de Iraba," returned this week with its colorful label and "AF" logo to A. Fader & Son's six stores."I wanted to do this for a long time," Ira B. "Bill" Fader, the grandson of the company's founder, said at his East Baltimore Street shop. "I thought we should have a cigar that has our name on it. I finally took the bull by the horns and did it."

Premium cigar sales, which burned fiercely in the mid-1990s, have tapered off significantly in recent years, leading the two top investors who bought the venerable A. Fader & Son Inc. cigar and pipe chain in 1998 to sell four of its six stores in recent months. Each investor wound up owning a store, while former Fader's employees now own the rest. The chain's flagship downtown location at 12 S. Calvert St. will remain in the hands of one of the investors, Stephen L. Gurba, who said he's dedicated to keeping open.

At the ESPN Zone, there were a gazillion games to be played, autographs and photos to be gotten with Baltimore Orioles players like Melvin Mora and Aubrey Huff, loads of food to dig into, and a silent auction chock-full of sports memorabilia. Guest Pat Benhoff and son Connor Benhoff squeezed a lot into a few short hours of Brian's Baseball Bash. "We've shot baskets. We got Brian Roberts' picture and his autograph. And we've seen Melvin Mora," Benhoff recounted. Meanwhile, mom Kelly Horner, with daughter Kelsey and son C.J., had just finished eating and it was time for the next thing on their agenda.

My column last week regarding author Bob Staab's book, Growing up in Dundalk: Precious Memories, brought a flood of e-mails, phone calls and inquiries from Dundalkians past and present. They came from Florida, upstate New York and as far away as Minnesota, where Bob Bayne, wrote, "As [a former] Dundalkian now living in Minnesota, I would LOVE this book." It seems that the miles and years have not diminished the fondness people feel for Dundalk, its people and its way of life. Kaye Kourkoules wants to give a copy of the book to several Dundalk relatives so they can "share their memories," she said.

On Saturday April 22, 2006 HARRIET FOLUS (nee Smith) loving wife of the late Stanford Folus, beloved mother of Jayson Folus of Baltimore, Brian Folus of Bel Air, MD, and Mira Fader of Baltimore, devoted mother-in-law of Judy Folus, and Tammie Folus, loving grandmother of Tamar and Oren Folus, Sarah and Jacob Folus, Olivia Mc Faden, Alyssa and Lauren Fader. Funeral services and interment at the Beth Tfiloh Congregation Cemetery, 5800 Windsor Mill Rd., on Monday April 24 at 2 P.M. Please omit flowers, In mourning at 10327 Malcolm Circle, Apt A, Cockeysville, MD (21030)

On August 26, 2004, HERBERT J. AULL, the beloved husband of the late Ottillie Aull (nee Kleinschmidt), devoted father of Jo Ann M. Fader and her husband James A. Fader, Jr., grandfather of Mark James Fader, Andrew James Fader, Anne Marie Fader and the late Wendy Anne Woessner. Also survived by seven great-grandchildren Funeral Services will be held at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Lutherville on Saturday at 10 A.M. Interment Oak Lawn Cemetery. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1609 Kurtz Ave., Lutherville, MD 21093 or the American Heart Association, 415 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201.

On February 29, 2004 MAURICE H. FADER; beloved husband of the late Anne Fader (nee Simon); beloved father of Jerry Fader and Brenda Pariser; devoted father-in-law of Rheda Fader and Joseph Pariser; devoted brother of Ida Zigman, Ellis Fader, Esther Berelowitz and the late Sarah Grossman and Edna Dackman; loving grandfather of Steve and Judi Fader, Brian and Jodi Fader, Scott and Roberta Fader, Alan, Andy and Gail Pariser. Also survived by five great-grandchildren. Services at SOL LEVINSON AND BROS.

Ask Erykah Badu about her music -- what inspires it, what keeps it fresh -- and she becomes metaphorical. "Have you ever had some hot tea when you had a cold? Some good tea?" she asks, her voice mellow with an old-soul Southern accent. "It works and makes you feel better, don't it? My music, I think, is like some good tea." Phoning from her Dallas home, the artist continues: "Each album has its own life. I'm not the same person I was in 1997." These days, Badu, who will play the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Tuesday night, is much richer in several ways.

Anyone who has spent much time in Courtroom 11, the 21-year home of Baltimore County Circuit Judge John F. Fader II, knows that the only person who is right about everything, 100 percent of the time, is Mrs. Fader. The judge has dispensed that pearl of wisdom countless times in his legato lilt, halting countless high-stakes debates between countless high-strung lawyers. His clerks and assistants know it by heart - to the slight embarrassment of Kathryn Fader. But as of this month, that piece of advice will be doled out fewer and fewer times in Fader's courtroom, until, in January, it disappears.

Translation? How do you say Believe? Mayor Martin O'Malley's Office of Neighborhoods has issued 56,000 "Believe" pins in six languages, distributing them throughout the city. There are 44,000 pins in English, 4,000 in Spanish, 4,000 in Korean, 2,000 in Hebrew, 1,000 in Arabic and, in honor of visitors from the Irish-American mayor's homeland, 1,000 in Gaelic. "They're way more popular than we ever expected," said Israel C. "Izzy" Patoka, director of the Office of Neighborhoods. The underlying language of all the pins is money.