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On April 7, 2004, DONALD LEE GUNTER, beloved husband of Helen Gunter (nee Gibson); loving father of Ann Johnson, Mary Ellen Martin, Donald Lee Jr., Wayne D. and Russell G. Gunter; dear brother of Patricia Truslow; also survived by ten grandchildren. A private family gathering was held Friday. Interment private. Arrangements by the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home Inc.

Wiley Gunter's is an easy place to like. It has everything a great neighborhood bar needs: super-friendly bartenders, big TVs, walls covered with sports memorabilia and a menu stocked with well-executed takes on familiar bar food. With all that, it's no surprise that around 7 on a recent Thursday night, the place was packed. Groups of friends wearing matching Kickball League of Baltimore T-shirts filled both of Wiley Gunter's two floors, grabbing beers before heading to games near the bar's Federal Hill-meets-Locust Point location.

On May 22, 2009, WALTER EUGENE GUNTER SR. (Gene); beloved husband of Laura Lee Gunter (nee Dunlap); devoted father of Walter Eugene Gunter Jr., Susan Anne Eubank, Sally Jane Roberts, and the late Dixie Lee Pugh; loving son-in-law of Lillian Dunlap and the late Clyde Dunlap. Also survived by 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. A Memorial Service will be held at the Crossroads Baptist Church, 3201 Lynch Road, on Sunday 3PM. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the church.

The city's longest stretch of the year without a homicide was snapped when a 25-year-old man was killed Thursday afternoon after a gunman fired into the front window of his home. About 4:30 p.m., police said, a man approached a home in the 100 block of S. Highland Ave. in the Baltimore Highlands community and banged on the door. Donte Gunter came to the front window and was shot three times, according to Detective Donny Moses, a police spokesman. Officers responded to the area for a report of shots fired and saw three bullet holes in the window, Moses said.

On July 17, 2005, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GUNTER, previously of Glen Burnie, passed away at Greenville Memorial Hospital in South Carolina. Loving husband of the late Gertrude Cecelia Sneade Gunter. Devoted father of Linda Ritter, Donna and Carl Rutherford, Jim O. and Mary Gunter. Caring brother of Dorothy Webb and Laura Polk. Remembered grandfather of Angie Chipps (nee Bolyard), Diane Lively (nee Ehlers), Debbie Tinger, Jim Gunter, Jr., Miranda Perkins, Emily Whetzel (nee Bradshaw), Elbert J.B. Rutherford, Zachery A.L. Rutherford, and Carla L.A. Rutherford.

"Too Far Afield," by Gunter Grass. Harcourt. 658 pages. $30. The Nobel Prize awarded last year to Gunter Grass seems one of the better literary decisions of those Swedish Academicians. From "The Tin Drum" on, his novels have been meditations on his native Germany, cast in a mode somewhere between symbolism and allegory. Like Germany itself, he prefers other things to realism. Grass always takes an idea and spreads a generous amount of prose on it. This time it's German reunification -- a topic on which he surely should be worth reading.

Crabwalk, by Gunter Grass. Harcourt. 240 pages. $25. Information is the ultimate waste product of our age. Gunter Grass' new novel, Crabwalk, deliberately clutters up its pages with masses of irrelevant detail, as it traces the quest by the son of a woman who survived the torpedoing of a German ship during World War II, to reconstruct the event. But in this ultimate postmodernist novel, the narrator lacks definition, and, like the reader of this book, seems buried in the information he is collecting.

David Gunter had listened to all kinds of advice. He had tried all sorts of adjustments at the plate. And while his production continued to slip, so did his position in Glenelg's batting order. Such is lifewhen you're mired in a batting slump.But Gunter erased three weeks' of frustration with one swing Friday. His fifth-inning, three-runhome run off Mount Hebron pitcher Alan Vandeberg turned a 6-5 deficit into an 8-6 victory for the Gladiators.Gunter's homer capped a four-run inning and rescued Glenelg, which had blown a 4-2 lead.

Hartford, Conn. -- The toughest question facing LSU women's basketball coach Pokey Chatman now is: Who's going to replace All-America point guard Temeka Johnson? For some coaches, this might be a difficult problem. But compared with what Chatman had to deal with in previous months, it wasn't a big deal. For example: How am I going to help 23 family members displaced by Hurricane Katrina? Or, how do we deal with the fact that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has taken over our locker room and our arena has turned into a triage center where people are dying?

SAN ANTONIO -- It was a couple of days ago that Patti Gunter inhaled the fresh air and reveled in the blue, blue skies overhead. This, she thought, is how she describes her beloved San Antonio when she brags to the less fortunate who live elsewhere.The only problem was that those blue skies belonged to Denver, where Gunter was on a business trip.Back home yesterday, she was once again deep in the haze of Texas.For three dreary weeks, a murky shroud of smoke and soot from more than 200 fires in Mexico has settled over the state, broken occasionally by a shift in the wind or a smattering of rain.

On July 12, 2009, LILLIAN A. DUNLAP (nee Ashley); beloved wife of the late Clyde C. Dunlap; devoted mother of Laura Lee Gunter and Doris Freda Dejong; loving father-in-law of Bob Dejong, and the late Gene Gunter. Also survived by eight grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren and eleven great-great-grandchildren. One grandchild, Dixie Lee Pugh predeceased her in 2005. Friends may call on Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. at the BRADLEY ASHTON FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 2134 Willow Spring Road at the corner of Dundalk Avenue, where services will be held on Friday at 10 A.M. Interment in Bel Air Memorial Gardens.

On May 22, 2009, WALTER EUGENE GUNTER SR. (Gene); beloved husband of Laura Lee Gunter (nee Dunlap); devoted father of Walter Eugene Gunter Jr., Susan Anne Eubank, Sally Jane Roberts, and the late Dixie Lee Pugh; loving son-in-law of Lillian Dunlap and the late Clyde Dunlap. Also survived by 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. A Memorial Service will be held at the Crossroads Baptist Church, 3201 Lynch Road, on Sunday 3PM. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the church.

Police seeking suspect in Ednor Gardens killing Baltimore police are seeking Kevin Armstead, 24, of the 700 block of E. 43rd St., in the fatal shooting of Ricardo Paige, 54, whose body was found in a vacant house near the victim's home in the 500 block of E. 43rd St. on March 20, authorities said. Police said they knew of no motive for the killing.

On Thursday, January 19, 2006, DORIS C., wife of the late Willard Gunter, Sr. and Arthur L. Parsons. Beloved mother of Willard "Dee" Gunter, Jr., Martha Peyton and the late Richard D. Gunter, step-mother of Allen Parsons, Rita Gunter, Carolyn Parsons and the late Denny Parsons, sister of Maude Mc Lain and preceded in death by four brothers and one sister. Also survived by 13 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Friends may call on Monday from 3 to 5 at the STALLINGS FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 3111 Mountain Road, Pasadena and 7 to 9 P.M. at Jenkins Memorial Church, Riviera Dr. and Jenkins Rd., Pasadena where funeral service will be held at 8 P.M. Interment private.

Hartford, Conn. -- The toughest question facing LSU women's basketball coach Pokey Chatman now is: Who's going to replace All-America point guard Temeka Johnson? For some coaches, this might be a difficult problem. But compared with what Chatman had to deal with in previous months, it wasn't a big deal. For example: How am I going to help 23 family members displaced by Hurricane Katrina? Or, how do we deal with the fact that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has taken over our locker room and our arena has turned into a triage center where people are dying?

HELEN JOYCE GREENER ZVONAR LAFFERTY, 74, passed away on Saturday, October 1, 2005 in Austin, Texas. She was born on July 9, 1931 in Baltimore, Maryland to George Greener and Carolyn Bothe Greener. Mrs. Lafferty lived in Baltimore for 71 years before moving to Austin. She was retired from the Baltimore City school system. Her primary school was Roland Park Junior High School where she was the head of the Art Department for 27 years. Mrs. Lafferty earned and enjoyed the respect of her peers and students alike.

HAMBURG, Germany -- Once again, German critics are calling for the head of their resident literary lion. So once again Gunter Grass is taking cover.But unlike previous rounds of such intellectual gunfire, the 67-year-old Mr. Grass is this time being targeted as much for his politics as for any literary shortcoming.With his new novel, "A Wide Field," Mr. Grass has become the first serious author to tackle the topic of German reunification, and all the wrenching changes it set in motion five years ago. Judging from the pained rantings of the critics, the wounds are still tender.

TAYLORSVILLE, N.C. - A judge's decision to charge an Alexander County couple with adultery under a seldom-used 1805 law could cause havoc in the courts, some lawyers say. District Judge Jimmy Myers of Davie County issued the charges at the end of an otherwise routine custody hearing recently, shocking lawyers and others in the Alexander County courtroom and starting a buzz of discussion in the legal community. "This statute is rarely ever prosecuted by private citizens or by judges, mainly because a substantial part of our population violate it. If it's prosecuted, it opens the floodgates for people to engage in vengeance in custody cases," " said Chas Coltrane, chairman of the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association.

On July 17, 2005, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GUNTER, previously of Glen Burnie, passed away at Greenville Memorial Hospital in South Carolina. Loving husband of the late Gertrude Cecelia Sneade Gunter. Devoted father of Linda Ritter, Donna and Carl Rutherford, Jim O. and Mary Gunter. Caring brother of Dorothy Webb and Laura Polk. Remembered grandfather of Angie Chipps (nee Bolyard), Diane Lively (nee Ehlers), Debbie Tinger, Jim Gunter, Jr., Miranda Perkins, Emily Whetzel (nee Bradshaw), Elbert J.B. Rutherford, Zachery A.L. Rutherford, and Carla L.A. Rutherford.

On April 7, 2004, DONALD LEE GUNTER, beloved husband of Helen Gunter (nee Gibson); loving father of Ann Johnson, Mary Ellen Martin, Donald Lee Jr., Wayne D. and Russell G. Gunter; dear brother of Patricia Truslow; also survived by ten grandchildren. A private family gathering was held Friday. Interment private. Arrangements by the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home Inc.