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On Friday, June 11, 2004, RITA GABRISZESKI BEYER (nee Zalenski); beloved wife of the late Charles Gabriszeski and Lawrence Beyer; devoted mother of Charles, Robert, Ronald, Joseph and Paul Gabriszeski, Rita Marie Ebbert and David Gabriszeski; loving grandmother of Lisa, Laura, Shane, Jesse, Lauren, Vincent, Hallie and Meghan; dear sister of Buddy Zalenski, Helen Roby and Robert Zalenski. A Memorial Gathering will be held at the Charles S. Zeiler & Son, Inc. Funeral Home, 6224 Eastern Avenue, on Wednesday from 7 to 9 P.M., where a memorial service will be held 7 P.M. Interment private.

On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, DR. MANFRED SKLAR, beloved husband of Rosalie Sklar (nee Grossblatt); loving father of Rabbi Alan Sklar of Israel and Barbie Kadin and Judy Nabozny, both of Baltimore, MD; dear father-in-law of Judy Sklar, Tzvi Hersch Kadin and Barry Nabozny; loving grandfather of Shimmy, Josh and Yoni Nabozny, Ariella Abramsom, Sara, Gabbi and Hallie Kadin, Shoshana, Tziv Hirsch, Aryehleib, Shimon, Dovid, Azraham Yeshayaho, Yechiel Yaacov...

On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 JACK L. STOTSKY loving husband of Lynda Stotsky (nee Kaufman); beloved father of Eden Stotsky of Baltimore, MD; loving son of the late Yetta and Morris Stotsky; beloved brother-in-law of Tobee and James Waxenberg; loving uncle of Natalie Waxenberg, Andrew and Hallie Waxenberg; devoted great-uncle of Lily Waxenberg. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road at Mt. Wilson Lane on Sunday, February 20 at 1 p.m. Interment Beth El Memorial Park, Randallstown.

A Darker Domain By Val McDermid Harper / 368 pages / $25 During the 1980s, a coal-mining strike changed the landscape of many Scottish towns. Tight-knit communities and families were torn apart by the long strike that drained meager savings and by the workers who left for other jobs. That historical footnote provides the background for Val McDermid's powerful A Darker Domain. Mick Prentice, a union supporter, was one of those men who left. Mick's abandoned wife and daughter became outcasts who could barely afford food.

A Halethorpe man under indictment on weapons charges blasted his way into a Hampstead home with a shotgun Tuesday morning and killed his ex-wife's fiance and then himself, police said. Michael Leo Swift III, 45, pulled into the driveway in the 1200 block of Allview Drive, left the engine running in his dark-green Saturn and burst through a sliding-glass door in the back of the house with the 12-gauge shotgun. Police found Zaidan Stephen Asid, 51, dead in a first-floor family room, said Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley.

SEEN ON THE SCENE: Yesterday was a great day. The war was over and I had the pleasure of attending the grand opening of the International Book Bank (IBB) along with first lady Barbara Bush.Mrs. Bush has been a longtime advocate of literacy and education, which is what IBB is all about. They procure and ship large quantities of educational materials to countries all over the world.There was an air of excitement as the helicopters hovered, and Mrs. Bush's limo arrived with her police escort and a hoard of Secret Service men. She looked very smart in a red suit and her famous pearls.

Services for William H. Evans, a printer for the Monotype Composition Co., will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at the Providence Baptist Church, Pennsylvania and Lafayette avenues.Mr. Evans, who was 51 and lived on Forest Hill Road in Lochearn, died Tuesday of a respiratory illness at University Hospital.Before going to work for Monotype, he worked for 25 years at the Baltimore News American until it closed in 1986 and for three years at the Afro-American Newspapers.He operated a Linotype machine for many years before switching to a computer operation.

DONA JOINES DANZ, 86, of State College, formerly of the Baltimore area, died Mon., Feb. 6, 2006, at Greenhills Village in State College, PA. She was born Dec. 28, 1919 in Long Bottom, NC, a daughter of the late Hilary and Hallie Johnson Joines. She was a graduate of Watson Secretarial School in Baltimore, MD, and retired as Secretary to the Headmaster at Gilman Private School for Boys in Baltimore. She was preceded in death by her loving husband Henry H. Danz. She is survived by a daughter Carol R. Danz and her daughter Cathleen A. Danz, a son David H. Danz and his sons Lee C. and Benjamin C. Danz.

Services for Elsie Irene Beaver, who had owned antique stores in Baltimore and Harrisburg, Pa., will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Leroy M. and Russell C. Witzke Funeral Home, 1630 Edmondson Ave., Catonsville.Mrs. Beaver, who was 78 and lived on South Highland Avenue, died of cancer Tuesday at the Forest Haven Nursing and Convalescent Home in Catonsville.She moved to Highlandtown in 1979 after her retirement as owner for 12 years of Capitol Antiques in Harrisburg.Before moving to Pennsylvania, she had owned Elsie's Antique Cellar in Baltimore for about 13 years, first on Pratt Street near Monroe Street and later on Madison Street near the Howard Street Antique Row area.

On September 21, 2004 MARY GARNETT SIZER TUCK, 94. She is predecesed by her husband Richard Lee Tuck. She is survived by two daughters Thelma Magyar and husband Mike of Aylett, Doris Kinder and husband Henry of Millersville, MD; two brothers Thomas Sizer and wife Jeannette of Hanover and Lewis Sizer of Baltimore, MD; three granddaughters, Sarah King and husband Tom of Camden, DE, Hallie Murcko and husband Matthew of Arlington, VA, Carrie Fischetti and...