Kirkland

On August 24, 2007, LUCILLE KIRKLAND. Family will receive friends at Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue, on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 from 3 to 7 P.M. Funeral service will be held in the sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church, 306 E. 23rd Street, on Wednesday, August 29, 2007. Family hour 11 to 11:30 A.M. Service will follow. Entombment Arbutus Cemetery.

Kirkland's, a home décor and gifts store, will hold a grand opening in Bel Air Plaza in Bel Air on Feb. 9, the retailer announced. The store at 567 Baltimore Pike, one of 324 nationwide, will employ up to 18 people and offer decorative items, gifts and seasonal goods, including mirrors, candles, lamps and rugs. Shoppers who stop in on either Feb. 9 or Feb. 10 can register to enter a $500 gift card drawing, to be selected on the 10 th . The grand opening event will run from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m on Feb. 9 and noon to 6 p.m. on Feb. 10. lorraine.mirabella@baltsun.com

JOHN E. KIRKLAND, 67, of Suwanee, Ga., and formerly of Timonium, Md., passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 after a brief battle with a brain tumor. A memorial service will be held at a later date in Cockeysville, MD.

The Perryville Junior Softball All-Stars, for players ages 13 and 14, continue their quest Friday to reach the World Series for their division of Little League in the East Region at West Haven, Conn. The winner of the week-long East Region advances to the Junior Softball Division World Series beginning Aug. 12 in Kirkland, Wash. Perryville, the Maryland State Champion, begins pool play today at 1:30 p.m. against New York. Perryville's second game is at 1:30 p.m. Saturday against the Delaware State Champion.

ANNAPOLIS -- They call him "Grandpa," "Old Man" or "Geritol Man." Before running a play, the defensive line has what it calls its "Old Man check" to be sure the fellow is still breathing.Andy Kirkland -- Geritol Man -- turned 24 today.Navy's 232-pound senior nose guard arrived at his present station by a circuitous route. From high school outside Pittsburgh, in Adamsburg, he enlisted in the Navy, spending 2 1/2 years in the fleet before enrolling at the academy."The money situation wasn't too good when I was coming out of high school," said Kirkland, who was named Eastern College Athletic Conference Division I-A defensive player of the week after making 16 tackles -- 12 unassisted -- in Saturday's 24-7 loss to Air Force.

A battle for the leadership of the AFL-CIO has surfaced in the wake of Lane Kirkland's decision last week not to seek re-election as president of the federation.The two men maneuvering to succeed Mr. Kirkland are promising to revitalize the labor federation, though such pledges may be difficult to fulfill in an age of declining public support for unions.The contenders are Thomas R. Donahue, who has been Mr. Kirkland's second-in-command for 16 years, and John J. Sweeney, president of the Service Employees International Union, which includes janitors, window washers and other maintenance workers and building service employees.

President Bush has nominated as chief of enforcement for the Environmental Protection Agency a partner in a law firm defending W.R. Grace & Co. against criminal charges in a major environmental case. EPA employees were told late Thursday that Bush had nominated Granta Nakayama to lead the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, according to an EPA memo obtained by The Sun. The Senate must approve the appointment. Nakayama, 46, a specialist in environmental law, is a full partner in Kirkland & Ellis LLP. The law firm is defending Grace against multiple criminal charges alleging that the Columbia-based company and seven of its current or former executives knowingly put their workers and the public in danger through exposure to vermiculite ore contaminated with asbestos from the company's mine in Libby, Mont.

George P. Stamas, a top corporate attorney and investment banker who resigned late last year as vice chairman of Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, has joined the Washington office of the law firm Kirkland & Ellis as a senior partner. At Kirkland & Ellis, Stamas, 50, will work in the firm's corporate practice group. The firm, which began in Chicago, has 850 lawyers worldwide, with four offices in the United States. Some of its biggest clients are Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., General Motors Corp.

When the Pittsburgh Steelers went to the Super Bowl after the 1995 season, Levon Kirkland was just another face in the crowd on their intimidating defensive unit.He was overshadowed by Kevin Greene, Greg Lloyd, Chad Brown and even Rod Woodson, who was returning for the Super Bowl after tearing a knee ligament in the season opener that year.During Super Bowl XXX, though, it was Kirkland who did the overshadowing.He made 10 tackles, sacked Troy Aikman and helped the Steelers hold Emmitt Smith to 49 yards.

Glenn Ira Kirkland, a physicist who became an advocate for those suffering from Alzheimer's disease and their families, and who later founded the Alzheimer's Disease Association of Maryland, died of heart and kidney failure Monday at Riderwood Village Retirement Community in Silver Spring. He was 89. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Mr. Kirkland was a 1937 graduate of Taylor Allderdice High School and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from what is now Carnegie Mellon University.

Aramark will lay off 64 workers in Silver Spring in May when it stops managing the Kirkland Conference Center at the National Labor College, the company told state officials Tuesday. Aramark filed a notice with the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. The company said it would stop providing management services as of May 21. Lorraine.mirabella@baltsun.com Text BUSINESS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun Business text alerts

After days of public displays of profanity and abuse - in Congress, at the U.S. Open tennis championships, during the MTV Video Music Awards - news came Wednesday of another such incident closer to home. Baltimore County police released details of the arrests of two women accused of dispensing an obscenity-laden tirade against a police officer who pulled them over Monday night in Randallstown after noting that a rear light on their car was not working. The driver, Kelli Dorschell Oliver, 40 - whose father, Baltimore County Councilman Kenneth N. Oliver, pleaded guilty in July to two counts of campaign fund violations - was charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and second-degree assault after the police officer reported that she had bitten, scratched and kicked him as he tried to place her in handcuffs.

On September 1, 2009, ROY JAMES DAVIS, SR. Devoted son of Roy O. and Alberta Davis; beloved husband of Carolyn Davis. Survived by two sons Roy J. Jr. and Nathaniel Davis; daughters Yolanda and the late Tracy Davis; brother Joshua Davis; five sisters Betty Howard (NY), Delores Kirkland (NY), LaJune, Jennie and Jenell Davis, and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call the WYLIE FUNERAL HOMES P.A. OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, 9200 Liberty Road, on Wednesday from 6 to 8 PM. On Thursday, Roy J. Davis, Sr. will lie in state at Mt. Piscagh CME Church, 1034 N. Fulton Avenue, 9:30 AM Wake, 10 AM Funeral.

Glenn Ira Kirkland, a physicist who became an advocate for those suffering from Alzheimer's disease and their families, and who later founded the Alzheimer's Disease Association of Maryland, died of heart and kidney failure Monday at Riderwood Village Retirement Community in Silver Spring. He was 89. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Mr. Kirkland was a 1937 graduate of Taylor Allderdice High School and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from what is now Carnegie Mellon University.

On August 24, 2007, LUCILLE KIRKLAND. Family will receive friends at Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue, on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 from 3 to 7 P.M. Funeral service will be held in the sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church, 306 E. 23rd Street, on Wednesday, August 29, 2007. Family hour 11 to 11:30 A.M. Service will follow. Entombment Arbutus Cemetery.

KALISPELL, Mont. -- By her own count, Sarah Knapton has been "married" more than 250 times. So when she recently took her vows before Municipal Judge Heidi Ulbricht, it was just another day for her. "I do," she said, and at that, Ulbricht pronounced her married, by proxy, for the umpteen time to the man by her side, Kyle Kirkland, a former high school classmate. It wasn't an altar; Knapton and Kirkland really weren't married to each other. In fact, Knapton has a steady boyfriend, and Kirkland is happily married to someone else.

On February 18, 2007, MATTIE E. Friends may call at the CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME, 5240 Reisterstown Road, Thursday 4-8PM. The family will recieve friends at the above chapel Friday, 11:30AM. Funeral Services will begin 12 Noon. Interment Baltimore Cemetery.

President Bush has nominated as chief of enforcement for the Environmental Protection Agency a partner in a law firm defending W.R. Grace & Co. against criminal charges in a major environmental case. EPA employees were told late Thursday that Bush had nominated Granta Nakayama to lead the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, according to an EPA memo obtained by The Sun. The Senate must approve the appointment. Nakayama, 46, a specialist in environmental law, is a full partner in Kirkland & Ellis LLP. The law firm is defending Grace against multiple criminal charges alleging that the Columbia-based company and seven of its current or former executives knowingly put their workers and the public in danger through exposure to vermiculite ore contaminated with asbestos from the company's mine in Libby, Mont.