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On February 2, 2006, BERNARD J. ANDREWS III, of Edgewood, MD. He is survived by loving wife Kimberly; adored father of Kara and Kaitlyn. Son of Colleen Woodward; brother of Brendon; step-mother Sharon Andrews, and his grandmothers. Friends may call at 6:30 p.m. at the Oak Grove Baptist Church 2106 Churchville Rd. Bel Air, MD.

On November 27, 2008, HENRY ROBERT, loving father of Kara Lee Partyka, devoted son of the late Henry and Lillian Partyka. A Memorial Mass will be held at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church (S. Wolfe St & E. Lombard St.), on Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 10am. Interment private. Arrangements by the family owned JOSEPH N. ZANNINO JR. FUNERAL HOME.

School plays -- Bel Air High School drama students will perform 1960s suspense thriller Wait Until Dark, Thursday and Saturday in the auditorium, 100 Heighe St. Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, including Ivan Plis (left) as Petruchio and Kara Procell as Kate, will be performed Friday. Shows start at 7 p.m. $8 for adults, $7 for students and $6 for age 12 and under and 60 and over. 410-638-4600.

PRESCOTT "Len" WILBUR, age 64, of Oroville, WA, passed away March 5, 2003. He is survived by wife, Cathy of Oroville. Mother, Elizabeth McAlpine of Baltimore. Two daughters, Barbara and Donna, brothers, Jack and Bob, grandchildren Kara, Melissa, and Stephen and a great-grandson Angelo. Memorial Services are to be held Sunday, May 18 at 3 P.M. at Essex United Methodist Church, 524 Maryland Avenue, Essex, MD 21221. 410-686-2867. Rev. James Chambly, Jr.

On Friday, September 9, 2005, ANNA E. (nee Gawens) DELL'ACQUA, 71; beloved wife of the late Samuel Dell'Acqua; devoted mother of Dion D. Dell'Acqua, Sr. and Denise K. Avery and her husband Glenn; grandmother of Dion D. Dell'Acqua, Jr., Kristin A. Buttke and her husband Keith and Kara B. Kingsbury; great-grandmother of Dylan A. Hill. Services and interment private. Arrangements by Peaceful Alternatives Funeral & Cremation Center, P.A.

The Rest of Her Life By Laura Moriarty Hyperion / 306 pages / $24.95 Your 18-year-old daughter is driving the family SUV, and she kills someone. What do you do? In Laura Moriarity's second novel, The Rest of Her Life, Leigh Churchill confronts that dilemma head on. After her daughter, Kara, accidentally hits a pedestrian in the crosswalk, Leigh tries to help her daughter cope with the legal and emotional ramifications of the accident. But despite her best efforts, she can't get through to Kara, even though she has a good rapport with just about everyone else in the story: her husband, Gary, a college professor, her prepubescent son, Justin, her sister, Pam, her friend, Eva, and the middle-school students she teaches.

On Saturday, June 17, 2006, ANSELLA M. SEARS (nee Morganstein); beloved wife of Elliott Sears; loving mother of Dr. Robert Sears, of Round Hill, VA, Lynn Dee Sears, of Coral Springs, FL and Laurie Sears, of Crofton, MD; devoted sister of Marion Fine, of Boca Raton, FL; loving grandmother of Kara (Dene) Sears Carter, Maura Sears, Seana Sears, Spencer Miller, Bryan Greenberg and Nichole Greenberg. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS., INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road at Mt. Wilson Lane, on Monday, June 19, at 1 P.M. Interment Oheb Shalom Memorial Park-Berrymans Lane.

On October 10, 2006, JOHN "Jan" VAARTJES, SR., of Street, MD, beloved husband of Kathy Ann Vaartjes (Redman), devoted father of John Vaartjes Jr., Scott B. Vaarjtes and Christopher M. Vaartjes, loving brother of Kees "Casey" Vaartjes, Albert Vaartjes, Truus Abicht and Anja Shannanhan. Also survived by four grandchildren, Liah Vaartjes, Kayla Vaartjes, Erin Vaartjes and Kara Vaartjes. Services will be held at the family owned McComas Funeral Home, P.A., Bel Air, MD, on Saturday, October 14, 2006, at 10 A.M. Interment will be in Bel Air Memorial Gardens, Bel Air, MD. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday, October 13, 2006, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. and on Saturday from 9 to 10 A.M., prior to the service.

In a legal settlement with a twist, Rhode Island Gov. Bruce Sundlun has acknowledged that he is the father of a Michigan teen-ager, agreed to pay her college costs and invited her to spend July at his Newport, R.I., estate.Mr. Sundlun announced the out-of-court settlement of the paternity suit that was filed against him last week with his daughter, Kara Hewes, standing beaming at his side during a televised news conference yesterday in Providence."I think the important thing is not to look back," the 73-year-old chief executive told reporters.