Langmead

After Dorothy Langmead was herded into a vault in Randallstown bank and shot to death, her husband Michael didn't know how he was going to make it through the night. He stayed up until 2 a.m. talking to his sister at the kitchen table."Finally, I took the coat that Dottie wore to work that day into the bedroom and went to bed with it," he remembers.Later, he says, "I didn't want to change the bedsheets. They had the smell of Dottie on them."On Oct. 26, Mrs. Langmead and three other bank employees were shot as they lay helpless on the vault's floor.

The Muncie Adolescent Center and School for emotionall disturbed youths will move from Springfield Hospital Center to Crownsville Hospital Center on Jan. 18."The entire unit will move to Crownsville," said Paula Langmead, assistant superintendent at Springfield.State budget cuts have forced the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which oversees the Sykesville school, to consolidate its services, said Mike Golden, department spokesman.The residential unit includes 14 adolescents -- 13 to 17 years old -- with serious emotional problems, and a staff of 41 state-employed health care workers.

The Muncie Adolescent Center and School for emotionall disturbed youths will move from Springfield Hospital Center to Crownsville Hospital Center on Jan. 18."The entire unit will move to Crownsville," said Paula Langmead, assistant superintendent at Springfield.State budget cuts have forced the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which oversees the Sykesville school, to consolidate its services, said Mike Golden, department spokesman.The residential unit includes 14 adolescents -- 13 to 17 years old -- with serious emotional problems, and a staff of 41 state-employed health care workers.

The final prayers ended. Michael Langmead and his teen-age sons, Michael Jr. and Mark, began to walk away from the silver casket with its spray of pink and white flowers.Suddenly, they burst into tears and clung tightly to one another for comfort as the terrible reality set in: It was the last farewell to their Dottie, wife and mother.Meanwhile, a few miles away in Westminster, a similar scene took place at St. John's Catholic Church, where Anastasia "Stacey" George's weeping family and friends said their quiet good-byes before her interment at Evergreen Memorial Gardens nTC in Finksburg.

Ethel StevensFriend of academyEthel Londeree Stevens, who was active in community and Naval Academy alumni affairs in the Annapolis area, died Tuesday of heart and respiratory failure at her home in Edgewater.Services for Mrs. Stevens, who was 91, were to be conducted at 2 p.m. today at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in St. Margarets.She had lived in St. Margarets from 1945 until 1984 when she moved to Edgewater.She was active in the Girl Scout Council of Anne Arundel County in the late 1940s and early 1950s and, as its president, was instrumental in integrating the Scouts.

Dottie Langmead and Yvonne Magee went all through high school together and each was a bridesmaid in the other's wedding.Yesterday, Mrs. Langmead, 44, was dead -- murdered execution-style during Monday's robbery of the Farmers Bank in the 9800 block of Liberty Road in Randallstown. Mrs. Magee was left asking questions for which she had no answers."Why does this happen?" she said.She expressed the shock, anger and bewilderment of many in the Baltimore and Carroll County communities touched by the violence.

WESTMINSTER -- Just a few months after their first successful run of the musical "Oklahoma!" Stone Road Productions Inc. and Friendly Farm are ready to invite audiences back for their second Stage Door Dinner Theatre performance, "Gypsy," which begins tomorrow night.Chock full of local talent, "Gypsy," with a 17-member cast, will light up the Friendly Farm restaurant each weekend in October and the first weekend in November.Harry Langmead, a partner in Stone Road, said that like the production of "Oklahoma" in March, "Gypsy" is well-suited for a dinner-theater crowd.