Lancaster

Edward Howard Schultz, a manager for the old Hamburger's menswear shops who later brought the pleasures of pit beef to his Pennsylvania community, died July 6 at a Mechanicsburg rehabilitation center of complications after open-heart surgery. He was 61 and had lived in Lancaster since 1971. Mr. Schultz was born in Baltimore and graduated from Parkville High School, then served for two years in the Army. He worked briefly in a shoe store before joining Hamburger's in 1966. He was a salesman at the company's Reisterstown and Charles Center stores, and a manager at the Harundale and Eastpoint stores until 1971.

The state's second-highest court yesterday solidified judges' abilities to protect witnesses from intimidation and bar defense attorneys from sharing information about witnesses with their clients. The case arose in 2005 after Jovon Brian Lancaster's girlfriend received a counterfeit $100 bill in a drug deal. Lancaster and his brother, Pablo Guillermo Lancaster, retaliated by robbing the people who had used the counterfeit money, according to the court ruling. At the request of Montgomery County prosecutors, the trial judge placed witnesses to the crime under a protective order, which barred Jovon Lancaster's lawyer from sharing their names, criminal records, statements and grand jury testimony before trial.

PORT TOBACCO -- First the mourners sat in the narrow white pews, and when those were filled they took to the balconies of the 202-year-old steepled church. And when there was no more room there, they stood in the aisles and the foyer and then spilled onto the sidewalks and into the street. All told, more than 300 people showed up yesterday at St. Ignatius Catholic Church to pray for Janice Lancaster and her husband, James Steven Lancaster, the man who killed her and then himself. What advocates for women want to know is why nobody -- especially criminal justice workers -- was around when Janice Lancaster was alive, begging for help.

Before Stacey Lancaster left last month for Ramstein Air Base in Germany to complete his training in the U.S. Navy's officer commissioning program, the 29-year-old Glen Burnie resident decided to stow all his worldly belongings in self-storage for safekeeping. Or so he thought. On Aug. 11, when he returned to the states, Lancaster discovered that the storage unit that he had "packed to the gills" with more than $8,000 worth of belongings had been overrun with rodents. The filthy little critters had pooped all over his couch, loveseat, queen-size mattress set, desk and linens, Lancaster said.

A woman who police say was visiting her relatives in North Laurel was found dead in their pool in the 7800 block of Murray Hill Road yesterday morning. Rescue workers attempted to resuscitate Lucia Lancaster, 23, of an unknown address before transporting her to Howard County General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Howard County police and Howard County fire and rescue officials were called to the scene about 7 a.m. yesterday after a caretaker at the residence found Lancasters's body at the bottom of the pool, officials said.

Fader's, the century-old cigar and pipe emporium that has counted H. L. Mencken and Tom Selleck among its clients, has been sold to a Pennsylvania cigar distributor, Ira B. "Bill" Fader Jr., president, said yesterday.Fader, whose grandfather started the business in downtown Baltimore in 1891, sold the six-store chain to a corporation headed by Lancaster businessman and Baltimore native Michael J. Goeller for an undisclosed amount. Goeller distributes cigars to 80 mini-markets, country clubs and restaurants in central Pennsylvania through Lancaster Venture Corp.

Supermarket giant Supervalu Inc. is closing its Harford County grocery distribution center and two others in Pennsylvania because the company wants to consolidate its supply chain network. The three centers, including those in Harrisburg and Easton, Pa., will be merged into the company's Lancaster, Pa., plant, the company announced Wednesday. The move will affect 600 people, including 90 workers at the Perryman facility, Supervalu spokeswoman Haley Meyer said yesterday. She would not say whether the affected workers would be laid off or relocated to Lancaster.

On Saturday June 12, 2004 WILLIAM N. ROSSER, age 94, formerly of Roland Park, died in Willow Street, PA. He was the son of the late Harry E. Rosser and Minnie Noble Rosser; survived by his wife of 35 years, Ilene Barker Rosser, two daughters Grace R. and her husband Richard A. Bonney of Ocean View, DE., Doris Jane Grabner of Woodstock, MD., a brother Thomas E. and his wife Fern C. Rosser of Baltimore, MD., four grandchildren, R. Scott Bonney of Chesapeake, VA.,...

Patricia Marie Clark, a manager at a North Baltimore women's fitness club, died March 5 of cancer at her Pinehurst home. She was 42. Known as Patti, she had been a personal fitness trainer and sales manager at Lynne Brick's Women's Health and Fitness Center in Belvedere Square. Friends recalled her as possessing the skill to raise the self-esteem of her fitness clients. "She led by example and was a leader in the fitness community," said Monica M. Reinagel, her partner. "She was unusual among competitive athletes in that she liked nothing better than to see other people win."

Maj. Mark ConnellyDoctor in PennsylvaniaServices for Maj. Mark Alan Connelly, an Army doctor with relatives in Baltimore who was killed Feb. 28 in the Persian Gulf region, were held March 9 at the Grace Brethren Church of Lititz, near Lancaster, Pa.Major Connelly died when a land mine exploded as he was riding in a convoy from Kuwait back to Saudi Arabia.Before being called to active duty in the Army Medical Corps at the end of November, Dr. Connelly was associate director of the Depart- ment of Family and Community Medicine at the Lancaster General Hospital.