Hynson

On Monday, September 19, 2005, Iona D. (nee Hynson) beloved wife of Roland E. Gregory; devoted mother of Cheryle A. Keggins; sister of Hilda Luedtke; also survived by five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren Friends may call on Thursday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. at the Stalling Funeral Home, P.A., 3111 Mountain Road, Pasadena, MD, where funeral services will be held on Friday 10:30 A.M. Interment Maryland Veterans Cemetery, Crownsville. Memorial contributions to the RAACE Foundation, 217 E. Jarrettsville Rd, Suite 2, Forest Hill MD, 21050.

Charles Scones has not visited Thomas Point Lighthouse in years, but his memory must be pretty good. The retired auto mechanic's seven miniatures of the historic building, made from poster board, are exact replicas.The 84-year-old Pasadena resident has built more than 300 miniatures of boats, churches, lighthouses and stores since renewing his old hobby three years ago."I just have a knack for proportions," said Scones, who does not follow a pattern. The retired auto mechanic simply looks at pictures, often from calendars or magazines, to create his structures.

For the second time in two years, the Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis is without permanent leadership, reigniting worries among museum supporters about the future of its collection documenting African-American history in Maryland.Last week, state officials fired Rosalind D. Savage, the museum's executive director for the past nine months."It's the destruction of the museum," said Errol E. Brown Sr., president of the Banneker-Douglass Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the museum.

For the second time in two years, the Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis is without permanent leadership, reigniting worries among museum supporters about the future of its collection documenting African-American history in Maryland.Last week, state officials fired Rosalind D. Savage, the museum's executive director for the past nine months."It's the destruction of the museum," said Errol E. Brown Sr., president of the Banneker-Douglass Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the museum.

Maryland Lottery sales have dropped $24.4 million -- or 9 percent -- since July 1, a decline that could pose budget problems for the state next year if it persists.The drop comes at a time when the state is counting on lottery revenues to balance its budget and provide funds to build a National Football League stadium in Baltimore.Lottery officials are concerned but "somewhat" optimistic they can halt the current sales trend. "We have great concern, but it is not totally impossible to turn it around," said lottery spokesman Carroll H. Hynson Jr.Hynson attributed the sales decline to rainy weather, lower game jackpots and a deliberate slowdown in advertising and promotions over the summer while the state switched to a new lottery computer system and contractor.

Lelia H. HynsonCollege board memberLelia Hodson Hynson, who was active in the Scarsdale, N.Y., community and a former member of the board of Washington College, died July 15 of heart failure at her Scarsdale home at the age of 93.The former Lelia Hodson was a native of Baltimore. Her father started a loan company that was a predecessor of the Beneficial Corp. in Wilmington, Del.Reared in Snow Hill, the 1918 graduate of the Baldwin School had been a member of the original board of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, Miss.

THE ELECTION of officers and board of governors tops the agenda of a meeting of the Point Pleasant-Shoreland Improvement Association at 7: 30 p.m. tomorrow at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 1451 Furnace Ave.The nominees are Robert Everhart, president; Mike Williams, vice JTC president; Linda Schanne, recording secretary; Karen Pappas, financial secretary; Dee McPheron, treasurer.Nominees for the Board of Governors are Leo Brukiewa, Julie Forney, Joyce Sheibe, Joan Valenti, Marge Cary, Doris Heinl, Edward Trott and Bud Valenti.

John H. Brewer, inventor and former research director for Hynson, Westcott and Dunning, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at Genesis Eldercare in Severna Park. He was 92 and lived in Gibson Island. Born in Gorman, Texas, the son of an oil field worker and rancher, Dr. Brewer spent his early years on the family ranch and rode a horse daily to a one-room schoolhouse. His interest in inventions began at an early age. He was 12 years old and living in Abilene, Texas, when he built the town's first radio in 1921, family members said.

YOU COULD almost reach out and touch Bobby Pringle's pain. There he stood, in the middle of a room at the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup, as 15 pairs of eyes stared intently at him. Pringle, his voice quivering a little as it rose, told the 10 boys and five girls about the three days when things go from merely depressing to very depressing for him in prison. "One is Christmas," Pringle told the group. "The other is Aug. 29. That's the day I committed murder." Pringle had begun his story by telling the youngsters - who had come to the prison as part of its IMPACT (Inmates Making a Positive Attempt to Collectively educate Teens)

A summer evening of merriment and drinking that ended with one man accidentally causing the death of an acquaintance led to a plea Tuesday to second-degree assault in an Anne Arundel County courtroom. Ryan Richard Hynson, 25, from Glen Burnie, had been charged with manslaughter in the death of Robert Raeke Jr., 23, an Iraq war veteran who lived nearby. Terms of the plea before Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Michele D. Jaklitsch give Hynson three years of supervised probation that includes psychiatric evaluation, with a five-year suspended prison sentence.