Garfield

GARFIELD MEEKINS, was last seen on September 6, 1999. Garfield leaves wife Dorothy, daughter Rubie, sister Maude Banks of Cambridge, MD, brother-in-law Alford Banks, nieces, nephews and friends. Daughter Regina Meekins and sister Irene Chester predeceased him in death. A Memorial Service has been scheduled for Saturday, September 9, 2006 at 11 A.M. The service will occur at First Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, 1142 N. Fulton Ave., Baltimore, MD.

The world according to polls, or some part of it anyway, is telling us that former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain is now the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. The latest NBC News/Wall Street public opinion survey has him the choice of 27 percent of GOP primary voters asked, to 23 for Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and only 16 for Rick Perry of Texas. Is there anybody in the general audience willing to bet his first-born, or even second or third, that Mr. Cain will be his party's nominee next year, let alone be sitting in the Oval Office come January 2013?

Baltimoreans were astonished to find resting on their porches and steps early on the morning of July 3, 1881, an "Extra" edition of The Baltimore Sun. This was a first time in The Sun's 44-year history that the paper had been printed on a Sunday, and it was for urgent reasons. (It would not regularly start publishing a Sunday edition for another 20 years, on Oct. 6, 1901.) The gravity of the extra was instantly obvious. It told of the attempted assassination of President James A. Garfield in a Washington railroad station, as he was about to board a train with his two sons for a visit to his wife, Lucretia, who was recuperating from a case of malaria on the Jersey Shore at Elberon.

Baltimoreans were astonished to find resting on their porches and steps early on the morning of July 3, 1881, an "Extra" edition of The Baltimore Sun. This was a first time in The Sun's 44-year history that the paper had been printed on a Sunday, and it was for urgent reasons. (It would not regularly start publishing a Sunday edition for another 20 years, on Oct. 6, 1901.) The gravity of the extra was instantly obvious. It told of the attempted assassination of President James A. Garfield in a Washington railroad station, as he was about to board a train with his two sons for a visit to his wife, Lucretia, who was recuperating from a case of malaria on the Jersey Shore at Elberon.

On March 17, 2003, GARFIELD HENRY CAUDILL; of Bel Air, MD.; beloved husband of the late Juanita W. McNutt Lyons Caudill; stepson Charles M. Lyons, Jr., and his wife Rosemary and their children Charles Lyons III, and Colleen Lyons. A service will be held at the Bel Air United Methodist Church, Bel Air, MD., on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 2 P.M. Interment will be in Mt. Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery, Bel Air, MD. Friends may call at the church on Wednesday from 12-2 P.M. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Caudill Maintenance Fund at Bel Air United Methodist Church, 21 Linwood Ave., Bel Air, MD., 21014-3914.

Kids have been watching Saturday morning cartoons on TV since the dawn of the television age. No more -- at least not on the CBS and NBC local network affiliates, which are dropping Saturday cartoons for expanded news coverage.This is part of a larger trend toward local weekend newscasts. Cable and independent operators have been chipping away at network audiences to the point where only top-rated shows make money for affiliates. Some shows being dropped, such as "Garfield," "Ninja Turtles" and "Muppet Babies," are big hits in their category -- but they still can't cut it in today's competitive market.

On Saturday, December 20, 2003, BEBE RAE GARFIELD (nee Sachs); loving wife of Raymond Garfield; beloved mother of Iris Hubert, of Owings Mills, MD, Craig Garfield, of Canton, MD and the late Geraldine Ellen Garfield; beloved mother-in-law of Arnold Hubert and Roberta Garfield; beloved sister of the late Jayne Nochumowitz and Anna Leah Herling; loving grandmother of Ira Hubert, Stacy Hubert, Eric Garfield, Lindsay Garfield and Shawn Garfield; loving great-grandmother...

On December 17, 2007 ARTHUR G. SMITH devoted husband of Mabel Rodgers-Smith. Also survived by other loving family and friends. Friends may call at the Joseph L. Russ Funeral Home, P.A. on Monday from 3 to 6 P.M. Family hour Wednesday 11 A.M. where funeral services will follow at 12 noon. at Mt. Hebron Church of God Christ, 2221 W. North Ave.

On December 19, 2004, GARFIELD "Garf" W. RODGERS, died of Lymphoma, born October 17, 1943. Mr. Rodgers retired from Armco Steel then started a second career at Western Branch Metals where he served as a member of the Board of Directors. He served in the Air National guard. Known for his sharp wit and as a master of family gatherings, he will be missed. Garf is survived by his wife of 40 years, Donna Jean Rodgers (Mc Kay), his four children, Tina, Jeffrey, Michael and Kevin Rodgers, 7 Grandchildren, his niece and nephew Kimberly and Tony Cerenze, his brothers and sister-in-law and many other family and friends.

So I get the new stickers for my car registration in the mail. They arrive at the end of the month, just as I'm preparing to leave for vacation. In the haste of the moment, I forget to put the stickers on my car. I leave them stuck to the refrigerator with a Garfield magnet. I take off for vacation, leaving my car behind. I return 10 days later. The day I am due back at work, I hop into the car and drive off. Two miles into my morning commute, a cop pulls me over. He says I'm driving with expired tags.

The temperature was already climbing into the high 60s early on the morning of July 2, 1881, a Saturday, bringing with it all the promise of another muggy and humid summer's day in Washington. President James A. Garfield entered a White House bedroom to wake his two sons, Harry and Jim. They were about to embark with their father on a railroad journey to the Jersey Shore to meet their mother, Lucretia, who had been convalescing there after suffering an attack of malaria. Garfield attempted to rouse his sleeping sons with a rendition of "I Mixed Those Babies Up," his favorite song from the new Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "H.M.S.

The turbo-charged guy with a head full of swirling salt-and-pepper hair sitting at the lower end of Grand Cru busily sketching most Saturday afternoons, dressed in faded blue jeans, bumpy tweed sport coat, Irish country farmers vest, shirt and tie, is the loquacious Kevin O'Malley. The Belvedere Square bar is O'Malley's home away from home, living room or branch office-studio. He comes here to think, draw, laugh, pick up a few ideas while quaffing a few cold ones with his usual cadre of boon companions.

As a young man released from prison after a lengthy term for an atrocity committed when he was a child, Andrew Garfield pulls off a death-defying act of imagination. With a new name, Jack Burridge, and a made-up past, the protagonist gets a job and falls in love. His case worker (Peter Mullan) views Jack as his "greatest accomplishment." Jack is not so sure. The genius of Garfield's performance is that he fills him with equal amounts of terror and wonder. Garfield shows you waves of tenderness and joy washing over Jack's face when he's in bed with his patient lover (Katie Lyons)

On June 5, 2008, JAMES GARFIELD SR., devoted husband to Irene Carter. Friends may visit the family-owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Wednesday after 8:30 AM where the family will receive friends from 5 to 7 PM. The family will also receive friends on Thursday at Metropolitan United Methodist Church, 1121 W. Lanvale Street at 11 AM followed by funeral service at 11:30.

On December 17, 2007 ARTHUR G. SMITH devoted husband of Mabel Rodgers-Smith. Also survived by other loving family and friends. Friends may call at the Joseph L. Russ Funeral Home, P.A. on Monday from 3 to 6 P.M. Family hour Wednesday 11 A.M. where funeral services will follow at 12 noon. at Mt. Hebron Church of God Christ, 2221 W. North Ave.

Apart from one urban cliffhanger set in a parking garage - it should have an afterlife as an action sequence long after the rest of this sorry celluloid has turned to soup - the grandiose, grimly silly revenge thriller Death Sentence will mostly benefit free-form players of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Bacon can now readily be linked to nonpareil macho movie star Charles Bronson, because Death Sentence is based on novelist Brian Garfield's 1975 sequel to Death Wish, which Bronson and director Michael Winner turned into a hit vigilante film in 1974.

There are worse things than watching a second Garfield movie. I just can't think of them now. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties is tedious almost beyond endurance, an exercise in diminishing returns that takes the minor pleasures of the first film (so minor that none of them comes to mind, either) and makes believe the public is desperately clamoring for more. They aren't, and this film explains why. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (20th Century Fox) Starring Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, voice of Bill Murray.

Leon "Lee" Garfield, whose nickname was synonymous in Baltimore with Oreeeo, Halvah, Reese's, Sir Fig Newton and Tequila Sunrise ice cream, died Tuesday of a heart attack at his Owings Mills residence. He was 67.Mr. Garfield worked for many years in the insurance industry, but ice cream was the great love of his life.He founded Lee's Ice Cream. in 1979, fulfilling a lifelong dream with the opening of his first store on York Road in Towson.Exotic flavors and a 17 percent butterfat content were keys to Lee's success.

On October 18, 2006, MILTON GARFIELD GARDNER. Survived by loving and devoted wife Mildred M. Gardner, three children, Ralph Hill, Pamela Gardner and Curtis Gardner and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the William C. Brown Community Funeral Home- Harford, P.A., 321 S. Philadelphia Boulevard, Aberdeen, MD, Monday 4 to 8 P.M. Family will receive friends Tuesday at the Shining Star Baptist Church, 11832 Eastern Avenue, Chase, MD at 10:30 A.M. Funeral 11 A.M.

GARFIELD MEEKINS, was last seen on September 6, 1999. Garfield leaves wife Dorothy, daughter Rubie, sister Maude Banks of Cambridge, MD, brother-in-law Alford Banks, nieces, nephews and friends. Daughter Regina Meekins and sister Irene Chester predeceased him in death. A Memorial Service has been scheduled for Saturday, September 9, 2006 at 11 A.M. The service will occur at First Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, 1142 N. Fulton Ave., Baltimore, MD.