Gaskins

On Sunday, May 8, 2005, MARY NANCY GASKINS, beloved daughter of the late Hattie and Phillip Gaskins. Relatives and friends are invited to call at Loring Byers Funeral Directors, 8728 Liberty Rd (2 miles W. of Beltway exit 18B) on Friday, May 13 at 9:30 A.M. Funeral will follow at Funeral Home at 10:30 A.M. Interment Arbutus Memorial Park.

On May 7, 2005; MALCOLM OWEN GASKINS; beloved son of Maxine Gaskins and the late John T. Gaskins, Jr; devoted father of Marquida Gaskins-Gilbert, Tanyelle Sutton and Malcolm Gaskins Jr; loving brother of John Gaskins III. He is also survived by a host of other relatives and friends. On Friday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Balto. Nat'l Pike, from 3 to 8 P.M. On Saturday, Mr. Gaskins will lie instate at Douglas Memorial Christian Community Church, 1325 Madison Avenue, where the family will receive from 10 to 10:30 A.M. with services to follow.

Sidna J. Gaskins, a retired school crossing guard, died of complications from a stroke Thursday at Ridgeway Manor Nursing Home. The Ashburton resident was 94. Born Sidna Elizabeth Pamilla Jones, she was raised in the 4600 block of Falls Road, then a historically black neighborhood known as Cross Keys. She was a 1927 graduate of Frederick Douglass High School. In 1935, she married Howard Gaskins, a chauffeur and Crown Cork & Seal laborer. He died in 1980. To help support a growing family, Mrs. Gaskins took in laundry and helped her children sell snowballs and candy applies on her front porch.

On December 9, 2004, EDNA M. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Ave. on Monday, after 5PM. where family will receive friends on Tuesday, at 1 PM. See. www.marchfh.com.

On October 25, 2004 PATRICIA GASKINS of N. Fremont Avenue. On Saturday, Ms. Gaskins will lie in state in Lighthouse Community Baptist Church, 401 N. Patterson Park Avenue. Family hour 10:30 A.M., Celebration 11 A.M. Services entrusted to HARI P. CLOSE FUNERAL SERVICE, P.A. 410-327-3100.

On January 30, 2004 CEOTISVisitation at 2140 N. Fulton Avenue, on Friday 2 to 8 P.M. The family will receive friends in the chapel, on Saturday at 10 A.M. Funeral 10:30 A.M.