Fawcett

On July 24, 2006, JANET RAE FAWCETT; beloved wife of Donald A. Fawcett; loving mother of Barbara Lowman and her husband Richard, Donna Hale and her husband Larry and Carole Thompson; cherished grandmother of Kristi Sauls, Candice Drury, Daniel Hale, Richard Celmer, Jr., and Jeremy Celmer; also survived by five step-grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Mrs. Fawcett will lie in state at the Calvary Baptist Church, 7321 Manchester Road, Dundalk, MD 21222 on Friday, 8:30 A.M. to 9 A.M., the funeral hour.

A vacant building in a prime location at Annapolis City Dock is about to be sold. An investment group led by Mark Ordan, CEO of Sunrise Senior Living, has signed a deal to buy the former Fawcett Boat Supplies building at 110 Compromise St. The building sits in a key spot in downtown Annapolis and will figure into the city's plans to redevelop the City Dock area. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed, and Ordan said it won't be final until the proposal passes a five-month study period "to make sure we have the support and cooperation of the city and the various constituents.

On March 4, 2006, VIRGINIA V. (nee Blair) FAWCETT, devoted mother of Gary L. Deer and Bonnie L. Manning, cherished grandmother of Nelson Jr, and Rena Manning, also survived by 7 great grandchildren and other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the family owned PAUL STELLA FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 7527 Harford Rd, on Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. where services will be held Monday evening at 8:00 P.M. Interment private.

Actress Farrah Fawcett, who was launched into instant pop culture stardom in 1976 with a best-selling wall poster and a featured role in the ABC series Charlie's Angels, is dead at 62. She was a TV presence in our lives right to the end. Fawcett, who battled cancer for several years, was seen last month in an NBC documentary that she produced herself and helped tape with a digital camera. The film, Farrah's Story, which chronicled her struggle with the disease, was a ratings success for the network, and she vowed to continue with a second TV documentary.

Actress Farrah Fawcett, who was launched into instant pop culture stardom in 1976 with a best-selling wall poster and a featured role in the ABC series Charlie's Angels, is dead at 62. She was a TV presence in our lives right to the end. Fawcett, who battled cancer for several years, was seen last month in an NBC documentary that she produced herself and helped tape with a digital camera. The film, Farrah's Story, which chronicled her struggle with the disease, was a ratings success for the network, and she vowed to continue with a second TV documentary.

River Hill running back and linebacker Jason Fawcett is built like a front-end loader -- compact and low to the ground.Add to that physique the mental toughness that believes the bromide, "no pain, no gain," and you have the ingredients of one rugged football player. And wrestler. And lacrosse player.For now, the 5-foot-9, 190-pound senior is concentrating on getting his Hawks into the Class 3A state football playoffs and winning a county championship.Either would be quite an accomplishment for a fourth-year program.

A young publicity photographer shows up on Mulholland Drive with his '37 Chevy truck and Nikon-F reflex camera to shoot pictures of an angel in a rusty red swimsuit. She chose a one-piece. When she smiles, 32 teeth radiate at an inviting angle. When she tilts her head, flips of hair gather on her tan shoulders - a look that would launch a hairstyle fad for a generation. In the time after Betty Grable's World War II pinups and Marilyn Monroe, before the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue mania and Pamela Anderson, the original swimsuit poster of Farrah Fawcett ruled gym lockers, offices and bedrooms.

The pressure was on River Hill's 189-pound wrestler, Jesse Fawcett. The junior needed to pin Howard opponent Joe Sedilko to give River Hill a one-point victory over Mount Hebron at the 33rd annual Howard County Championships last night at Centennial. Sedilko had taken Fawcett to double overtime earlier this season before Fawcett won. This time, second-seeded Fawcett pinned fourth-seeded Sedilko with a cradle move at 4:33. And River Hill completed an unlikely 14-point comeback in the finals to claim its second straight county championship, 242-241.

For the third time in four games, Wilde Lake defeated a league-leading team yesterday. The Wildecats, behind clutch fourth-quarter shooting from Chad Fawcett, knocked Mount Hebron out of first place, edging the visiting Vikings, 56-53. No. 20 Wilde Lake (10-3 overall, 7-2 league) remains in a two-way tie for first place with Centennial at the halfway point of the league season. Fawcett, an All-County point guard who sat out most of the third quarter in foul trouble, sank two three-pointers and went 4-for-4 at the foul line in the fourth quarter, including two free throws that put the Wildecats ahead 56-53 with 16 seconds left.

The pressure was on River Hill's 189-pound wrestler, Jesse Fawcett. The junior needed to pin Howard opponent Joe Sedilko to give River Hill a one-point victory over Mount Hebron at the 33rd annual Howard County Championships last night at Centennial. Sedilko had taken Fawcett to double overtime earlier this season before Fawcett won. This time, second-seeded Fawcett pinned fourth-seeded Sedilko with a cradle move at 4:33. And River Hill completed an unlikely 14-point comeback in the finals to claim its second straight county championship, 242-241.

It was nine years ago to the day that Survivor: Borneo debuted on CBS, ushering in a new era of reality TV as the dominant form of prime time network and cable programming. Remember Richard Hatch, the naked contestant known as "the snake"? Since that first summer, critics like me have been wondering how far we as an audience would let the voyeuristic cameras go before we decided we'd had enough. Obviously, we have yet to hit that wall. But it appears that without much notice, we have entered a new and darker realm of the genre in recent weeks - one that is making some viewers feel a little queasy.

An encounter with the undead ... paparazzi Woody Harrelson is likening a paparazzo he tussled with at a New York airport to one of the undead zombies he battled in his most recent film. In a statement released Friday, Harrelson jokingly compares the scrutiny of the paparazzi to his being "constantly under assault by zombies" in his upcoming film, Zombieland. Celebrity gossip site TMZ posted a video on Thursday of Harrelson chasing one of their photographers, who followed the actor and his 12-year-old daughter through New York's LaGuardia Airport.

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon By David Grann Doubleday / 352 pages / $27.50 For each summit reached or Machu Picchu-like discovery, the history of exploration marks more deaths and failures than can be counted, armies of men after whom nothing was named, who spent their lives chasing after the unnamable. The Amazon - biodiverse, so unknown, so full of life while having obliterated so many explorers - has been, for many, that singular, unconquerable thing.

On May 2, 2007 JAMES F. FAWCETT; beloved husband of the late Helen Jarrett Fawcett; loving father of J. Bruce Fawcett and wife Rhoda, Cathy Ann Lawrence, Roger Alan Fawcett and wife Marlene, David Lee Fawcett and wife Anita, Larry Keith Fawcett; cherished grandfather of Justin, Jason, Chad, Darcy, Jesse, Jessica and Seth; dear brother of the late Slats and John Fawcett; dear friend of Elizabeth Davidson. Family will receive friends on Monday, May 7 from 6-9PM at STERLING-ASHTON-SCHWAB-WITZKE FUNERAL HOME OF CATONSVILLE, INC.; 1630 Edmondson Avenue.

Most elementary school pupils would agree: Any school day that starts with a teacher asking you to burp is one that's off to a good start. That's what happened to Marshall Demaree. "Can you belch on cue?" Elsa Fawcett, the gifted-and-talented resource teacher at West Friendship Elementary School asked Marshall. "You can even gulp some air if you want to." Marshall, a fifth-grader, gave it his best effort. He gulped in some air and emitted a small, authentic burp. Fawcett was delighted.

A young publicity photographer shows up on Mulholland Drive with his '37 Chevy truck and Nikon-F reflex camera to shoot pictures of an angel in a rusty red swimsuit. She chose a one-piece. When she smiles, 32 teeth radiate at an inviting angle. When she tilts her head, flips of hair gather on her tan shoulders - a look that would launch a hairstyle fad for a generation. In the time after Betty Grable's World War II pinups and Marilyn Monroe, before the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue mania and Pamela Anderson, the original swimsuit poster of Farrah Fawcett ruled gym lockers, offices and bedrooms.

As an undersized freshman, River Hill's Jesse Fawcett made the 189-pound weight class, "No problem." But the past two years, "I had been really struggling." "After lifting and playing football in the fall, I'd come in at around 210 or 220. I could get down to weight, but it was hard to stay down. I lost strength: My bench press dropped from like 270 to below 240," said the senior, winner of last year's 189-pound Howard County title. "At the end of last year, I knew I'd have to move up to heavyweight this year because I just couldn't do it [189]

LANDOVER -- Pushed down at the outset and then again by methodical, determined Germany, the U.S. women pushed back hard in a storybook second half last night and advanced to the Women's World Cup semifinals with a 3-2 victory."

Fawcett Boat Supplies in Annapolis has a new -- well, newish -- toy. It is about 4 feet tall, grayish and tucked away in a corner in the back of the store. It is a chart printer. Even in a computer- and technology-saturated era, there is something surprising about seeing a nautical chart -- a map showing things such as channel depths, buoys and lighthouses -- created before your eyes. "Once that thing starts going, it's like flies to a light; people just come over and watch it," said Stephen B. Ripley, who has owned Fawcett with his brother Tom for a year.