Leah

On July 16, 2007 MINISTER VICTORIA LEAH Visitation at 2140 N. Fulton Avenue on Friday, 4-8pm. The family will receive friends in the chapel on Saturday at 2pm. Funeral at 2:30pm.

MIDDLESEX, Va. -- Leah Congleton, who five years ago was quoted in her high school yearbook as saying she would never wear bell-bottoms, now wears inmate attire: orange pants, orange tunic, orange flip-flops.Smart, popular and pretty, she seemed to have it all together as a student at Middlesex High. She was on the honor roll, a cheerleader and planned to be a teacher. But the 19-year-old's future now includes a prison sentence for dealing marijuana.For Leah, perfection in high school academics and activities masked problems at home, where there were discipline and substance-abuse problems.

Leah L. Staley, 82, helped seniors prepare taxesLeah L. Staley, a former partner in Staley Supply Co. and founder of a tax-assistance preparation program for senior citizens, died Saturday of emphysema at her Cambridge home. She was 82.Mrs. Staley, who formerly lived on a farm in Baldwin, moved to Cambridge in 1960, and with her husband founded Staley Supply Co. The couple sold the business in 1982.She established the tax preparation program for the elderly in 1980 that is based in the Dorchester County Public Library.

Leah Goldstein, 10, prefers the tuba to the violin."The violin is too perfect. People who play it act too perfect," said Goldstein, who lives in Pikesville and attends Wellwood International School. "Most tuba people have a sense of humor, and they fool around."And Leah, along with more than 200 other musicians, showed nearly 2,500 listeners just what the tuba and tuba players can do yesterday at Baltimore's 14th annual Tuba Christmas, held at the Inner Harbor. It featured mostly local tuba players ages 2 1/2 to 73 playing Christmas songs and carols from "Adeste Fideles" to "Jingle Bells."

SHE STARTED LIFE in a big, poor family on the Eastern Shore, one of eight children whose parents had to scrub, polish and mow for wealthy white folks to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads.There was no reason to expect Leah Goldsborough or her seven brothers to get much further than their parents. Not in a town where black children were barred from the local library. Not in a country where black teachers earned less than butlers.So there was a sense of triumph when a crowd of 350 gathered at Martin's West last October to celebrate the retirement of Leah Goldsborough Hasty: teacher, principal and educational pioneer.

Leah Susan Ek Asplin, a student at Meade Senior High School whose life was defined by her concern for others, died Tuesday of a brain tumor at her home in Severn. She was 16. She had been ill for 14 months with glioblastoma multiforme, a rare and extremely malignant brain tumor."Leah was always concerned about other people, even in her dying," said her father, the Rev. David R. Asplin, pastor of Christ The Servant Lutheran Church in Severn. "She was a very loving person who worried how her family and friends would be hurt by her death."

A year ago a young woman who lives nearby graduated from a major Northeastern university after four intense, busy years, during which she did everything right -- attended every class, worked three jobs, earned good grades and glowing recommendations from her teachers."

"Five years ago this month, Neal, my first husband and college sweetheart, was killed when the small company plane in which he and his supervisor were flying crashed somewhere in the mountains of Colorado," says Leah, 29, her blue eyes filling with tears. The two men were returning from a routine check of one of the company's remote power plants when a storm came up suddenly and the pilot got lost in the dense fog. The bodies were never recovered.Leah thought that by now she would have gotten over the tragedy, especially because she's been happily remarried for three years to Jim. "In the beginning, everything was fine.

IF YOU KNEW MEAnne RoipheLittle, Brown! 212 pages. $19.95Ollie Marcus teaches his high school English students "to honor their own stories." And in her latest novel, "If You Knew Me," Anne Roiphe tells a story worthy of honor. Leah Rose, a middle-aged New York scientist, is on sabbatical in an East Coast ocean resort town when she meets Marcus, a year-round resident who lives with his mentally deficient sister.Ms. Roiphe relates the details of Leah and Ollie's reluctant romance in such lyrical, almost poetic, prose that the bulk of the novel reads like a mood piece.

Helping children deal with death has become a growth industry, with grief counselors flocking to the site of tragedies and offering workshops for parents who want to ease their children's pain.But books have been doing that for a long time. From "Old Yeller" to "Charlotte's Web" to "Bridge to Terabithia," stories have taken kids into worlds in which they learn about losses. The term "bibliotherapy" never cropped up when I was a kid, but crying with Wilbur when Charlotte died helped me sort through my confusion when my grandmother died.

An Anne Arundel County woman and her attorneys say police overreacted when officers' efforts to check on her - at the request of hospital staff - led to her husband's shooting. Michael Housley, 51, is recovering at Maryland Shock Trauma Center from gunshot wounds to the jaw, neck and shoulder after a confrontation with officers Sunday in his home. "It is outrageous," said Leah Housley, 44, his wife, who was barred from seeing her husband, who was in critical condition, for several days.

This was no ordinary Tuesday afternoon. Indoor soccer games were skipped and piano lessons forsaken. Megan Foard of Forest Hill apologized in advance to her pony, A.J., for bowing out of their regular after-school ride. "He was cool with it, though," the 13-year-old said. And why wouldn't he be? Megan and her friends had to-die-for concert tickets - for Hannah Montana, who played at the 1st Mariner Arena last night before a sold-out crowd of screaming tweens. Thousands of lucky girls, and not a few boys, scampered home from school to prepare for the arrival of the 15-year-old singer-cum-actress, whose real name is Miley Cyrus, and who holds the youthful audience in the palm of her pretty hand.

On August 7, 2007, LEAH FRANCES MCBRIDE. Friends may call at Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Ave. on Sunday, August 12, 2007 from 1-5PM. Funeral Service will be held at Union Memorial United Methodist Church, 2500 Harlem Ave. on Monday. Family hour 10-11AM. Service immediately following. Interment King Memorial Park.

On July 16, 2007 MINISTER VICTORIA LEAH Visitation at 2140 N. Fulton Avenue on Friday, 4-8pm. The family will receive friends in the chapel on Saturday at 2pm. Funeral at 2:30pm.

On Thursday June 21, 2007 LEAH "Grace" MILLER (nee Fisher) 98 of Westminster. Beloved wife of the late Nelson T. Miller. Devoted mother of Leah and husband Larry Gahan Loving Grandmother of Julie and husband Skip Baylor, Kevin Gahan, Dennis and wife Peggy Gahan, Theresa Gahan, Kerry and wife Lisa Gahan, Larry Barnard, Cheryl Smith and Edward Barnard. Also survived by numerous great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by daughter, Lillian Joan Barnard and grandchild Steve Barnard, sisters Lillian, Shanze, Beatrice Raley and Helen Columbo.

On July 12, 2006, LEAH BAUMGARDNER ; beloved daughter of the late Charles and Kitty Baumgardner; devoted sister of the late Louise Ovitt Baumberger; loving aunt of numerous nieces, nephews, grand-nieces, grand-nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. Interment Private. Arrangements by SCHIMUNEK FUNERAL HOME INC.

On February 16, 2006, AGNES LEAH (nee Stickler); beloved wife of the late Raymond C. Wanner; devoted mother of Raymond E. and Charles R. Wanner; loving mother-in-law of Linda and Nancy Wanner; dear grandmother of Michelle Crouse, Sherrie Vicencio, Derek Wanner and Rebecca Pearsall. Also survived by eight great-grandchildren. Mrs. Wanner will lie-in-state at Oak Crest Chapel, 8800 Walther Blvd. on Monday from 9 to 10 A.M. A Mass of Resurrection to follow. Interment Parkwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc. Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale)

I have returned from a work trip and need to make things right with the 3-year-old princess in my house. My daughter Leah has always loved to hear stories while snuggling with a parent. And, as do most preschool girls I know, she has a fascination with tiaras, dainty slippers, ball gowns and happily-ever-afters. Where she got it, I do not know. But when your child is 3, imaginative and imperious, you go with what works. So I cuddle up close and begin the story of Rapunzel -- she of the hair long enough for a prince to climb.

On Wednesday, October 12, 2005, LEAH TURKEL (nee Meyers), beloved wife of the late Herschel Turkel; devoted mother of Ben Turkel and Henry Turkel, both of West Palm Beach, FL, Shlomo Turkel and Channa Turkel, both of Baltimore, MD; dear mother-in-law of Yael Turkel; loving grandmother of Sharon and Jeffrey Bazensky and Iris, Harel and Dana Turkel, Mira and Larry Lichter and Jonathan Turkel; caring great-grandmother of Avichai and Liora Bazensky. Services at SOL LEVINSON AND BROS, INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road, at Mount Wilson Lane on Sunday, October 16 at 3 P.M. Interment at Arlington Cemetery - Chizuk Amuno Congregation - 4300 N. Rogers Avenue.

On August 15, 2005, HENRY; beloved husband of Bea Salditch Herling and the late Tillie Herling; devoted father of Brad Herling, Arlene Wasserman and Jodi Davis; beloved stepfather of Mark Salditch and Ian Salditch; devoted father-in-law of Pat Herling, Irv Wasserman and George Davis; beloved stepfather-in-law of Madolyn Salditch and Ilene Salditch; beloved brother of Irene Scherr, Ray Herling, Irv Herling and Jerry Herling; beloved brother-in-law of...