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On January 1, 2008, LEON. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Sunday 10am to 6pm and Monday 8:30am to 8pm where the family will receive friends on Tuesday at 9am. Fu

Aug. 21 1940 Exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin.

IT'S SUCH a cliche: a young, black male whose life is enveloped by violence.But there's something different about 9-year-old Leon Little III. It's rare enough for a child who has been to more funerals than birthday parties to decide that he won't succumb to a violent lifestyle.It's quite a bit more difficult -- and unusual -- for a 9-year-old to reach out to his friends, family, teachers and community, to beg for their help in actually stopping violence.As was detailed in a Thursday article in The Sun, Leon is doing just that in his efforts to start a group called "Young Kids Against Violence" in Howard County.

PRIMERO DE MAYO, Bolivia -- Ever since drought drove his family from a rocky cornfield high in the Andes 15 years ago, Espinosa Leon has been chopping down tropical rain forest to grow coca bushes, which produce cocaine. Now, at 38, Leon finds himself at another crossroads."The army is coming any day to destroy my last coca," said Leon, who had already slashed three-quarters of his crop in recent months in exchange for aid from United Nations technicians forming a forestry project here. "I don't have to like it, but coca has no future."

His father is serving two life sentences for murder, and three of his family members have been killed by acts of violence.Leon Little III is 9 years old."I'm really just sick and tired of the violence," says the fourth-grader at Columbia's Jeffers Hill Elementary School. "I want it to stop."Leon is working to launch a group called "Young Kids Against Violence," in partnership with his mother and several friends -- one of whom had a cousin stabbed to death last year and another whose mother was nearly killed by a rock thrower in August.

A Pasadena woman was in serious but stable condition yesterday after being shot in the chest by a county police officer Sunday night as she was approaching her husband with a kitchen knife. The incident took place during a domestic dispute involving four people and a sword, police said.Police said officers responded about 9: 30 p.m. to a report of a fight between Karen Sue Medura, 40, of 7861 Riverside Road and her husband of more than 20 years, Leon. Police said the cause of the fight had not been determined.

Cliffie Stone, 80, a music industry executive who discovered Tennessee Ernie Ford and pioneered country music on the West Coast, died Jan. 16 in Nashville, Tenn., of a heart attack.John Randel Weeks IV, 70, an expert on metals used in nuclear power plants, died Jan. 9 in Stony Brook, N.Y.Emil Sitka, 83, a veteran character actor best known for his many roles in the "Three Stooges," died Jan. 16 in Camarillo, Calif. He had suffered a stroke in July. Mr. Sitka played 70 roles with the Stooges, including a professor, butler, justice of the peace and eccentric scientist.

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala -- When she was six months pregnant, Gabriela de Leon's husband told her he couldn't afford -- and didn't want -- another child.After he beat her and threatened to kill her and her other two children, de Leon agreed to give the newborn to a lawyer specializing in international adoptions.Her husband received the equivalent of $650 for what was considered by the Guatemalan government a private, legal transaction. Within weeks, de Leon, a 23-year-old school teacher, had left her husband.

After flying 35 missions over Europe as an Army Air Forces navigator in World War II, Leon Shapiro couldn't stop thinking about the bombs that fell from his planes.Mr. Shapiro, a soft-spoken property owner and manager, spent the rest of his life working for peace. He died Tuesday of lymphoma at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson, at age 76."It affected him terribly to think about what happened when the bombs fell," said his wife of 50 years, the former Marillyn Lesser. "Even though they were the enemy, he knew innocent people were being hurt."

SAD TO say, most of the great old delis that gave Baltimore so much of its character and helped to define city life, are gone. But the haunting aromas of warm rye bread, hot corned beef, sizzling pastrami, mustard and pickle barrel brine live on in memory.Nates and Leon's traced its origins to 1937, when Nathan Herr and his friend, Leon Shaivitz, neither of whom knew anything about the restaurant business, opened a deli at North and Linden avenues. But they knew this: If you build better sandwiches, they will come.

Leon Faruq, the director of Safe Streets for Living Classrooms who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, died Wednesday at Sinai Hospital, where he was being treated for kidney disease. He was 58. Mr. Faruq - who was Leon Awkard Jr. until his conversion to Islam - was born in Olney and raised in Northeast Washington, the eldest of five children. His run-ins with the law began early. He was 13 when he started breaking into cars, houses and stores, which resulted in his being sent away by his family to a juvenile institution.

On January 7, 2008, LEON. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Sunday 10am to 6pm and Monday 8:30am to 8pm where the family will receive friends on Tuesday at 9am. Fu

On January 1, 2008, LEON. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Sunday 10am to 6pm and Monday 8:30am to 8pm where the family will receive friends on Tuesday at 9am. Fu

On October 19, 2008. REV. LEON KLEMENS WARCZYNSKI, beloved son of the late Henry and Anna Warczynski, dear brother of Edward and Eugene Warczynski, Alvina Pakula, and the late Wanda Andryszak, loving uncle of Leona Andryszak, Terry Pakula, Ronald Warczynski and the late Linda Warczynski. Mass of Christian Burial at Sacred Heart of Mary Church Thursday 10am. Interment St. Stanislaus Cemetery. Father Leon will lie in state at Sacred Heart of Mary Church Wednesday 2-8pm. Christian Wake 7:30pm.

LEON RHODES AUSTIN, 74 James Brown's hair stylist Leon Rhodes Austin, a musician and associate of James Brown who once styled the singer's famous hair, died Thursday at his home in Atlanta, according to C.A. Reid Memorial Funeral Home. A cause of death was not given. Mr. Austin maintained the hair of the "Godfather of Soul" off and on before stage and media appearances for 20 years. Mr. Brown died in Atlanta on Christmas Day 2006. Mr. Austin, a professional stylist, also owned Leon's DeSoto Club in Augusta DANNY DAVIS, 83 Band leader Danny Davis, a Grammy-winning band leader and record producer who blended swing music with a country style, died Thursday at a hospital in Nashville, Tenn.

On May 25, 2008, LEON, beloved husband of Elva Flournoy. He is also survived by three sons, six grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, one sister, one brother and a host of other relatives. Friends may visit New Shiloh Baptist Church, 105 East Avenue, Turner Station, Wednesday, 3 to 7 P.M. On Thursday, the family will receive friends 10:30 to 11 A.M., with funeral to follow. Services entrusted to JAMES A. MORTON & SONS FUNERAL HOMES, INC.

On February 24,2008, LEON DAVID ISRAEL of Garland, TX., formerly of Union Bridge and Baltimore, MD., after a brief illness; loving husband of the late Beverly (Goldberg) Israel; beloved father of Helen Kravitz of Scottsdale, AZ., Libby Hewes of San Diego, CA. and Eric Israel of Garland, TX.; devoted brother of Adele Loew of Baltimore, MD. and the late Jules Israel of Miami, FL. Also survived by four grandchildren. A Memorial Service will be held in Garland, Texas on Tuesday, March 4.

Sept. 6 1901 President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. McKinley died eight days later.

Aug. 21 1940 Exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin.

On August 17, 2007, CHRYSSANTHI MOSTRIS (Nee Lemonakis) beloved wife of the late Michael J. Mostris, devoted mother of Rita Stewart and her husband John, Penny Mach and her husband Leon and the late John Mostris and his wife Aristea. Loving grandmother of John Stewart lll, Leon Mach lll, Christy Stewart, Krissy Atchison, Michael Mostris, Nikita Mostris and Christopher Mostris. Dearest great grandmother of Deborah Stewart, Ella Atchison, Jake Stewart and Drew Stewart. Friends may call on Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. at the family owned Bradley-Ashton Funeral Home, P.A., 2134 Willow Spring Road at the corner of Dundalk Ave., where a Trisaghion Service will be held at 7 P.M. Additional visitation will take place at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 520 S. Ponca Street, on Tuesday from 10:30 to 11 A.M., where funeral services will be held at 11 A.M. Interment in Oak Lawn Cemetery.