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Albert James Gardner Jr., a retired senior vice president of the old Equitable Trust Co., died of congestive heart failure Saturday at Howard County General Hospital. The Ellicott City resident was 91. Born in Baltimore, he was a 1934 graduate of Forest Park High School. He studied at the Baltimore College of Commerce and the Johns Hopkins University and was a certified public accountant Before joining Equitable Trust Co. in 1960, he was the Gunther Brewing Co.'s assistant vice president.

The Lord Peacefully called LAVENIA GARDNER home on Saturday, July 21, 2007. She is survived by daughters Alice Smith, Eleanor Jones, Trevor Smith and one son Tracy Smith and a host of other relatives and friends. The late Lavenia Gardner will lie instate on Friday July 27, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Ronald Taylor, II Funeral Home, 108 W. North Avenue, Baltimore, MD. A Wake will be held on Saturday, July 28, at 10:30 a.m. until time of service at 11 a.m. at Bethel A.M.E. Church, 1300 Druid Hill Avenue, Baltimore.

Harford Tech sophomore third baseman Chase Gardner is creating a stir around the county with his bat and glove. Gardner is not only second on the team with a .458 batting average, but his coach, Johnny Watson, said, "He's been a steadying influence on our infield. Just catching everything. Making the plays. Making even the hard plays look easy. He's a magician with the glove. He makes everything look easy." At the plate, the 5-foot-11, 175-pound Gardner has been a "nice line-drive hitter," Watson said.

Player of the Year Julie Gardner Severna Park A multitalented midfielder, the junior brought a little bit of everything to the state 4A-3A state champions. Gardner showed off slick moves in the arc and finished with 50 goals, including four in the Class 4A-3A state title game, a 13-9 win over Dulaney. Small but slippery, Gardner also proved key on controlling the draw and dished out 15 assists. A prolific scorer against the best teams, Gardner had five goals in the Anne Arundel County championship game victory over Broadneck and three more in the regional final over the defending champion Bruins.

For Paula Gardner and her 7-year-old daughter, Marisa, it's a question of environment."The environment she's in now is not conducive to learning," says Gardner, 39, a single parent who lives in Edmondson Village in West Baltimore. "She was picking up bad habits. It's not so great in the public school she's in."Marisa attends Mary E. Rodman Elementary School and is one of 500 low-income children who won scholarships yesterday to private and parochial schools of their choice. Her mother, who earns $28,000 a year as a tenant counselor for the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, said the scholarship comes as a blessing.

CONCORD, N.H. -- The 48 bits of cardboard read like a Who's Who of American presidential politics: John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Colossus G. Benson.Yes, Colossus G. Benson. And Billy Joe Clegg, Georgiana Doerschuck and Arthur O. Blessitt, all people -- or at least primates -- with one-time presidential ambitions and now stars of New Hampshire Presidential Primary Trading Cards.First printed last year as a civics lesson for the state's fourth-graders, the trading cards have become keepsakes for political junkie types who mainline C-SPAN and know Edmund S. Muskie's middle name (it's Sixtus)

Baltimore County officials are launching a program to alert senior citizens by phone to crimes against the elderly, as police cope with the latest rash of burglaries against older residents.Officials said senior citizens who agree will have their phone numbers added to the Police Department's automated dialing system.When crimes are committed that affect the elderly, the phone system will call and play a recorded message informing residents about a pattern of crimes.`Intended to protect'The program -- using a system known as Telephone Reassurance Information Auto Dialer (TRIAD)

Baltimore police are searching for a 78-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease who wandered away from his Pimlico home two weeks ago wearing blue pajamas and brown slippers.William Booker of the 3300 block of W. Garrison Ave. was reported missing by his wife May 29. Louisa Booker, 77, told police she saw her husband go to bed about 1: 30 a.m. but that he was not there later that morning.Detective Timothy W. Gardner of the missing-persons unit said Booker was spotted June 1 near Old Court Road in Baltimore County, several miles from his home, but that the woman who saw him assumed he was a neighbor getting his morning newspaper.

A Crownsville man was resting at home yesterday, recuperating from face and shoulder wounds inflicted by his 12-year-old son, who accidentally shot him with a 20-gauge shotgun during a hunting trip on the Eastern Shore.Eric Scott Gardner, 41, said he will suffer no permanent damage from the Tuesday accident when he trekked with his son, stepfather and uncle to the D & D Hunting Club in Dorchester County just before sunrise.The group was in dense woods about 6: 30 a.m. waiting for turkeys.

Arthur Miller's "The Price" is a play with a lot to say about responsibility -- responsibility to yourself, responsibility to a parent, and what happens when the two conflict.At Everyman Theatre, director Grover Gardner's production not only conveys that theme with stunning intensity, but the production's backstage saga exemplifies the meaning of responsibility.Three days before the opening, Gardner suddenly found himself without an actor in the play's largest role, that of Victor Franz, a New York city police officer.

On October 7, 2009, FRANCES ELIZABETH GARDNER (Revised Service Info). On Thursday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Baltimore National Pike from 4 to 8 P.M. On Friday, Mrs. Gardner will lie instate at St. John Baptist Church, 9055 Tamar Drive, 21045, where the family will receive friends from 10 to 10:30 A.M. with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

Aisling Gardner and Nick Fernandez were married on May 16, 2009 at St. Anne's Episcopal Parish in Annapolis, MD. Parents of the bride are Maureen Grace Gardner and Thomas Gardner. The groom is the son of JoAnne Zawitoski Fernandez and the late Guy Fernandez. The bride and groom are both graduates of the University of Maryland, College Park. The couple now resides in Richland, WA.

Elbert Gardner Jr. was in his basement apartment late Tuesday night when he heard his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend together in her bedroom. Gardner, who still shared the rental house with Lei Tyree Johnson on a quiet Annapolis street, grabbed his .38-caliber revolver from under a pillow and went upstairs, he told police. The 56-year-old Navy veteran shot Samuel Marshall Fowlkes Jr., 49, once in the head, then shot his 38-year-old former girlfriend once in the chest, charging documents say. On the way out of the bedroom, he ran into his ex-girlfriend's 12-year-old son, Anthony.

A Baltimore jury Tuesday convicted a couple of paralyzing a 21-year-old man after an argument over a cleaning cart at a BWI Hilton erupted into a high-speed chase and ended in a near-fatal shooting, according to the state's attorney's office. On the night of Oct. 24, 2007, prosecutors said, hotel server Sean Levy got into an argument with another server, Keya Gardner, over the cart. Thinking the dispute was over, Levy agreed to give another co-worker a ride home. But according to prosecutor Patrick Moran, Gardner, 23, called her then-boyfriend, Darryl Newsome, 22, and the two of them chased Levy on Interstate 295 in separate cars into the city, going up to 100 mph. Thinking he had escaped, Levy dropped off the co-worker, but a car with three unidentified men pulled up next to Levy.

A simmering argument between two servers at the BWI Hilton Hotel erupted into a high-speed chase that ended when one server was shot and nearly killed by the other's boyfriend, a Baltimore prosecutor told jurors during opening statements Monday. Describing it as a "wild ride" from the hotel along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and into the city, prosecutor Patrick Moran said the incident was rooted in a dispute over a cart the servers used to clean after events. On the night of Oct. 24, 2007, server Sean Levy, 19, left the hotel with another co-worker, thinking the argument had been resolved, but Moran said the other server, Keya Gardner, chased after him in her car, with her boyfriend in another car. Thinking he was safe, Levy dropped off a co-worker at his Baltimore home.

On February 16, 2009, beloved wife of J. Donald Gardner, loving mother of Emily Gardner and partner Sean Gray, beloved sister of Nora Leyland and husband Mike Manley, Jennifer Cichonski and husband Mark, Martin Mansfield and wife Christine. She is also survived by a host of other loving relatives and friends. A Memorial Mass will be held on Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 10 A.M at St. John Roman Catholic Church, Wilde Lake Interfaith Center, 10431 Twin Rivers Road, Columbia, MD 21044. Contributions may be made in her memory to: House of Ruth Baltimore, 2201 Argonne Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21218.

On August 24, 2008, BETTY JEAN, beloved wife of Robert A. Gardner; devoted mother of Gwendolyn, Reggie, Billy, Robin, Roderick and Rodney Gardner. Also survived by a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME, 5240 Reisterstown, Road Friday, 2 to 8 P.M. The family will be present 6 to 8 P.M. Funeral Service will be held at Mt. Calvary AME Church, 300 Eudowood Lane, Towson, MD, Saturday. Wake, 10 A.M. Funeral, 11 A.M. Interment Druid Ridge Cemetery.

Betty Anne Gardner, a tap dancer who performed on a Baltimore bar at the age of 3 and never lost her love for the spotlight, died of emphysema Friday at the home of her daughter in Baltimore. She was 75. "Her parents owned Leo's Cafe on Montford and Preston streets ... and we have pictures of her up on the bar when she was little," said her daughter, Susan Gardener. Mrs. Gardner studied both ballet and tap, but "mostly she was a tap dancer," her daughter said. In her youth, she studied in the Baltimore studios of Eloise and Joe Tinker, and became one of their best dancers.

Boys Woody Wlodarczyk C. Milton Wright, baseball The three-year starting catcher led the No. 3 Mustangs to the Class 4A state final for the second time, the previous time being in 2006. Wlodarczyk went 4-for-7 with two doubles, a triple, three runs scored and three RBIs in this year's state tournament. On Friday in the state final, a 7-6 loss to Sherwood of Montgomery County in eight innings, Wlodarczyk was 2-for-4, including a double that tied the score in the fifth. Wlodarczyk, who is headed to Harford Community College, led his team in batting average (.513)

A 29-year-old Howard County man was convicted yesterday on charges that he assaulted a man, then ordered him to "stop snitching" and commissioned his beating after they both ended up at the same Anne Arundel County jail. David Thomas Leaken Jr. of the 9000 block of Old Scaggsville Road in Laurel, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and a misdemeanor charge of inducing or inhibiting testimony. Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge William C. Mulford II sentenced Leaken to a 3 1/2 -year suspended sentence and three years' probation for assaulting Derek Gardner, 22, of the 6600 block of Washington Blvd.