NEWS
By FREDERICK N. RASMUSSEN | December 4, 2008
Dr. Charles Ellis Ellicott, a retired Lutherville internist who worked with the disabled, died of pneumonia Nov. 25 at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. He was 85. Born and raised in Baltimore, Dr. Ellicott was a 1941 graduate of the Gilman School. He earned a bachelor's degree in botany from Yale University and his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at what is now Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Vanderbilt University and the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y. In 1950, Dr. Ellicott married Dr. Marjorie Jean Foote, who also graduated from the Hopkins medical school.
NEWS
May 5, 1995
Donald Allen BakerFood brokerA memorial service for Donald Allen Baker, a food broker, was to be held at 11 a.m. today at the Wilde Lake Interfaith Center, 10431 Twin Rivers Road in Columbia.The body of Mr. Baker, who was 52, was recovered from the harbor April 21 after he disappeared March 12 while taking a walk near his home in the Harbor View Towers condominiums.He moved to the Baltimore area in 1982 to become president of a brokerage, Randall Associates. Then, after a merger, he became a partner in the Chesapeake Randall Co. which was sold last year, becoming McCready Marketing.
NEWS
February 7, 2007
Orlando F. Furno, a retired schools administrator and World War II veteran, died of complications from diabetes Jan. 31 at Union Memorial Hospital. The Guilford resident was 85. Born in Moonachie, N.J., he enlisted in the Navy in 1940 and survived the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor while aboard the destroyer USS Chandler. A chief machinist's mate, he later served aboard the aircraft carriers Essex and Yorktown and fought at Midway, Truk, Saipan, Guadalcanal and Okinawa. His decorations included eight battle stars and two Presidential Unit Citations.
NEWS
April 4, 2005
Greg Garrison, 81, who directed such stars as Dean Martin, Jack Benny, George Burns and Lucille Ball during a 40-year television career, died of pneumonia March 25 at his home near Los Angeles. Mr. Garrison directed nearly 4,000 shows in his career, but was probably best known for his work on The Dean Martin Show and Martin's popular Celebrity Roasts. He also directed Your Show of Shows, the comedy-variety program that starred Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris. When he directed such stars as Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald on Celebrity Roasts, Mr. Garrison always had their respect, recalled Dom DeLuise, who appeared frequently on The Dean Martin Show.
NEWS
January 22, 1999
Eugene S. Pulliam, 84, publisher of the Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News and a staunch defender of press freedom during a 64-year career, died Wednesday night in Indianapolis. He became publisher after his father, Eugene C. Pulliam, died in 1975. The Star won the Pulitzer Prize that year for an investigation of police corruption and in 1991 for a series on medical malpractice. In the early 1950s, Mr. Pulliam assailed the smear tactics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and throughout his career defended the free speech protections of the First Amendment.
NEWS
October 15, 1990
Services for Lawrence Edwin Hennemann, a retired railroad clerk who had been active in Masonic organizations for 70 years, will be at 11 a.m. today at the Harry H. Witzke Funeral Home, 4112 Columbia Road in Ellicott City.Mr. Hennemann, who was 91 and lived in Ellicott City, died Thursday at St. Agnes Hospital after a brief illness.A native of West Virginia, he moved to Baltimore at the age of 14. He worked many years for the Canton Railroad, retiring in 1963 as chief clerk.Mr. Hennemann was past master and a life member of the Adherence Masonic lodge; he received his 70-year membership pin in June.
NEWS
By Angela Gambill | May 5, 1991
Traffic accidents yesterday in Baltimore and Western Maryland took two lives, and a third person died as the result of a crash on the Eastern Shore Friday afternoon.William Louis Toth, 69, of Pittsburgh, was killed yesterday afternoon when the car he was driving hit a guard rail on the National Freeway, overturned and went down on embankment, ejecting him and his son.He was pronounced dead at the scene, state police at Hagerstown said. His son, William Lee Toth, 28, was taken to Washington County Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.
NEWS
March 17, 2001
Bramwell Terrill, 92, Sun copy editor Bramwell Terrill, a retired Evening Sun copy editor and amateur jewelry-maker, died Monday of heart disease at Oakwood Center retirement community in Eustis, Fla. The former Overlea resident was 92. Mr. Terrill began his career as an Evening Sun copy editor in 1942. He moved to The Sun in a similar capacity in 1946. He later returned to the Evening Sun, where he remained until retiring in 1979. Mr. Terrill also wrote articles for The Sun Magazine on such topics as gem cutting and polishing, and "Emerald Prospecting for $3 a Day" in Little Switzerland, N.C. He also liked writing about such colorful Baltimore figures as the oldest woman stall keeper at Hollins Market who was renowned for her sliced coconut and horseradish.
NEWS
By JONI GUHNE and JONI GUHNE,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | November 11, 2005
The founders of St. Martin's-in-the-Field Episcopal Church in Severna Park will be honored Sunday when current members and friends of the church gather to celebrate St. Martin's 50th anniversary. The celebration begins at 10 a.m. in Heck Hall, where guests can tour a display of old photographs and historical documents tracing the church's past and anticipating its future. The celebration will continue at 11 a.m. in the newly renovated chapel at a service led by former Rector Fred Vanderpoel and the church's interim rector, Jim Sell.
FEATURES
By Steve McKerrow and Steve McKerrow,Sun Staff Writer | April 18, 1995
Does the magic of "Star Trek" rub off on other genres? That's the question involving a new Paramount series from producer Michael Piller, who helped launch "Star Trek: Voyager." And while we're at it, the original "Star Trek" creator is also on view tonight.* "Legend" (8 p.m.-10 p.m., WNUV, Channel 54) -- "MacGyver" meets James West? That's the association vaguely evoked by this new series starring Richard Dean Anderson. The former inventive agent of "MacGyver" plays a writer of dime Western novels who sometimes has to assume the persona of his fictional hero, Nicodemus Legend.