Funeral

R. George Hopkins, a retired Anne Arundel County funeral director who filled his lawn each year at Christmas with handmade decorations he created and his basement with admirers of his model railroad empire, died Dec. 6 of cancer at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. The Crownsville resident was 61. The son of an Aberdeen Proving Ground firefighter and a homemaker, Ray George Hopkins, who was known as George Hopkins, was born in Elkton and raised in Betterton. After graduating from Chestertown High School in 1970, he enrolled at McAllister Institute of Mortuary Science in New York City, from which he graduated in 1971.

This episode we start by following Kandi, NeNe, and Cynthia on their extremely boring trip to Miami. From the looks of this scene, the editors really fished for content. They chatted about the latest cast member fight between NeNe and Sheree. If you've been watching "RHOA" you know that these fights are on a heavy rotation between the cast members. While sipping on cocktails, Kandi asked if NeNe really told Sheree she was rich. NeNe replied with the best quote of the episode, "I told her I was rich.

Funeral services for IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon will be Saturday, 10 a.m., at First Presbyterian Church of St. Petersburg (Fla.). Wheldon, 33, was killed in a 15-car crash on lap 11 during Sunday's IndyCar series finale at Las Vegas Speedway. His wife, Susie, released the following statement and invited members of community to attend the service: "Although the last few days have been unbearable for our family, the overwhelming love and support we have received are rays of sunshine during these dark days.

Prior to his weekly news conference at the Ravens' training facility in Owings Mills, coach John Harbaugh and several other team executives attended the funeral mass of Patricia Breslin Modell, the late wife of former Ravens and Browns owner Art Modell who died Wednesday at the age of 80. “It was just a beautiful, beautiful ceremony down at the basilica,” said Harbaugh, who was nattily attired in a black suit. “David and John [Modell] did an incredible job with the eulogies, and it kind of makes you remember how important family is. I think the Ravens are a family, Raven nation, the fans, everybody, our families, and the Modells are just a great family.

With their similar-sounding first names and look-alike dress, brothers Ja'Quis Lucciano Manigo and Tyquis Tyuan Moore enjoyed making people guess which was which. "Pick one," the younger brother, Ja'Quis, would playfully demand. It was just one of the games the two played together. The other was football. They wore the red of the Arbutus Golden Eagles. So it was appropriate that their silver and white caskets, side by side at a church altar, were adorned with placards with a red letter "A. " Their teammates wore their jerseys to the funeral Friday.

The wake and funeral for Orlando Brown will be Oct. 7 at Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton. Times are expected to be finalized Friday. Brown will be buried later in South Carolina. The former Ravens offensive tackle affectionately called "Zeus" was found dead Friday at his Baltimore home. He was 40.

I feel that the article by The Sun's Annie Linskey on the funeral of Delegate Ruth M. Kirk was the most classless piece of journalism ever written ("Ehrlich describes friendship in address at Del. Kirk's funeral," June 25). The funeral was about Ruth Kirk not Bob Ehrlich and his campaign. Jeffrie Zellmer, Annapolis

Olivia R. Constants, an avid sailor and soccer player who had just completed her freshman year at Broadneck High School in Annapolis, died Thursday in a sailing accident. She was 14. Ms. Constants was raised in Edgewater and Annapolis. Last year she graduated from Annapolis Area Christian School. "She was a very happy person, always brightening people's day," friend Ryan Bugarin, who attended soccer camp with Constants and went to the same high school, told The Baltimore Sun on Friday.

Former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. struck a wistful tone while speaking at his first public event since two top campaign aides were indicted, saying to the mostly African-American audience at the funeral Friday for former Del. Ruth M. Kirk that a "generation of political leadership is passing us by. " Ehrlich's address at a West Baltimore Baptist church came a week after the state prosecutor's office accused workers in his 2010 gubernatorial campaign...