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Services for Lucy Iglehart Howard, an accomplished horsewoman and tennis player who was the widow of a prominent Baltimore physician, will be held at noon tomorrow at St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, St. Thomas Lane and Garrison Forest Road.Mrs. Howard died Wednesday after a stroke at her Green Spring Valley home, Waverly. She was 82.The former Lucy James Iglehart was born in Baltimore andeducated at the Garrison Forest School. She married Dr. John Eager Howard in 1927. Dr. Howard, professor emeritus of medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, died in 1985.

Marian Iglehart braved the cold yesterday morning to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for a $1.7 million child care center at Howard Community College -- and wished it had happened three years ago. Iglehart, who plans to graduate this spring, will not benefit from the child care center, which college officials hope will be open in time for the fall semester. The 14,800-square-foot building will serve 122 children ages 6 weeks to 4 years. Students will pay on a sliding-scale basis, and those in HCC's early childhood development programs will use the center as a lab school.

Katharine I. French, a homemaker and volunteer, died of cancer Wednesday at Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. She was 84. Born Katharine Cary Iglehart in Baltimore, she was the granddaughter of Jacob A. Ulman, who was a co-founder of the Maryland Hunt Cup in 1894. Her father, Joseph A.W. Iglehart, had been the principle investor and chairman of the board of the Orioles. She was raised in the 1400 block of Park Ave., where one of her childhood friends was Frances Scott Fitzgerald, daughter of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In what a federal judge described as a shocking case of misconduct, a Baltimore man who was a key witness in a 1991 police brutality case was himself unconstitutionally harassed by a city officer in retaliation for his testimony.U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis, in a strongly worded written order, said Officer Richard Iglehart acted improperly when he stopped Matthias S. Carter without cause when Mr. Carter was driving in Southeast Baltimore two years ago.Officer Iglehart's action was "planned for months and was intended as a 'payback' for Carter's testimony" in the 1991 brutality case, said Judge Garbis, who heard Mr. Carter's civil suit without a jury.

A 5-year-old boy was killed early today when fire raced through a cinder block rowhouse in the 1300 block of Bunsen Way in O'Donnell Heights in southeast Baltimore.Peter Christoforakis died at the scene from severe burns. Fire officials said Peter's body was found on the floor next to his bed in a second-floor rear room.Peter's mother, Patricia McCauley, 24, is being treated for smoke inhalation at the Maryland Shock-Trauma Center. Her condition was upgraded from serious and stable to fair and stable.

One of Baltimore's largest office buildings, the Candler Building at 111 Market Place, has been sold for about $65 million, adding another to the list of local properties scooped up by investors eager for stable returns. The deal's broker said yesterday that the building was bought by HRPT Properties Trust, a Boston real estate investment trust. It's the second property in the city bought by the trust, which also owns one of the towers at 100 S. Charles St. Though the price was more than the $50.2 million commanded by the 25-story First Union Tower at Light and Baltimore streets that was sold this week, it was less per square foot - $116 vs. $132.

Nutri-System sale hits snagsA deal has been cut to sell Nutri/System Inc. to a group of Philadelphia investors, but it can't be completed until "some legal hang-ups" are resolved, a spokesman for the company's franchisees said yesterday. He said the problems stemmed from the pending divorces of "one or two" of the three current shareholders and the need to regain control of the stock from their estranged wives.The Blue Bell, Pa., company closed 283 company-owned centers around the country, including 19 in Maryland, after lenders seized its cash and bank accounts Wednesday night.

Micros Systems Inc.'s headquarters building in Columbia sold yesterday for $62.1 million, or $256 per square foot, reflecting intense demand for newer, well-leased office properties in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. Wells Real Estate Funds of Atlanta said it bought the 247,624-square-foot, Class A suburban office building on Columbia Gateway Drive from the seller, believed to be a union pension fund. The seller was advised by Great Point Investors of Boston.

On December 11,2 008, MARGARET F. SICHER; beloved wife of Michael Sicher; devoted mother of Peter, Sam and Lexie; daughter of Katharine Iglehart French and G. Ross French; also survived by one brother George R. French, Jr. A memorial reception will be held at the L'Hirondelle Club in Ruxton on Friday, January 9 at 4 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to Jemicy School, 11 Celedon road, Owings Mills, MD, 21117 or the Johns Hopkins University Brian...

Philip L. B. IglehartInvestor, polo playerPhilip L. B. Iglehart, an investor and polo enthusiast who once owned a Baltimore County farm, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at a hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla.He was 80 and lived in Lake Worth, Fla., next to Florida Polo Inc., a combination of the Gulfstream Polo Club and an open polo grounds, which he helped to start.Rated a seven-goal player as a young man, he also collected polo memorabilia and information to form the collection of the Polo Museum and Hall of Fame, to which he was recently named.