Librarian

Laurene J. "Laurie" Baccala, a retired librarian and teacher, died of pneumonia Tuesday at Franklin Square Medical Center. The former Potomac resident was 84. Born in Gardenville, Mrs. Baccala graduated from Eastern High School and enrolled at what was then Towson State Teachers College. She was later accepted at the Johns Hopkins University and earned a bachelor's degree in modern languages while working in the school's chemistry lab. She held various jobs in the publishing industry until her 1949 marriage to James N. Baccala.

Anne Fiske Sturtevant, a retired public and university librarian, died Thursday of complications from lung cancer at her home in the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. She was 86. A Baltimore native, Miss Sturtevant was a graduate of Friends School and earned degrees from Goucher College and the University of Michigan. From 1941 to 1953, she held administrative positions at the city's Enoch Pratt Free Library, and libraries at the University of Iowa and what is now Towson University.

Catharine Marcella Foy Mackintosh, a longtime librarian at the Bryn Mawr School and an enthusiastic world traveler, died Dec. 27 at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center after a brief illness. She was 79.Miss Mackintosh, whose greatest loves were books and visits to faraway places, fell ill with an undiagnosed ailment last month after returning from a visit to Nairobi, Kenya, and a cruise on the Indian Ocean, according to her friends.The Canadian-born Miss Mackintosh was known as a stylish, dramatic and adventurous bibliophile who "didn't look like a librarian."

Elmer E. Spurrier, a retired Baltimore County librarian who enjoyed teaching and reading poetry to public school students, died Friday of heart failure at Franklin Square Hospital Center. The former longtime Wilson Point resident was 86. Mr. Spurrier, a former welder, began his career with the county public library system in 1968 after working at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point plant for 26 years. Until retiring from the Essex branch in 1981, Mr. Spurrier had also worked as a librarian at libraries in Northpoint, Cockeysville and Perry Hall.

Charlotte Goldsborough Fletcher, a Maryland historian and author whose career as librarian at St. John's College spanned nearly four decades, died of pneumonia March 29 at Anne Arundel Medical Center. She was 90. Born and raised in Cambridge, she was a descendant of Maryland governors Charles Goldsborough and Phillips L. Goldsborough. After graduating from Cambridge High School, she earned her bachelor's degree in 1935 from what is now Hollins University in Roanoke, Va. After earning her bachelor's degree in library science in 1939 from Columbia University, she began her career at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.

Mary Elizabeth Brown, a retired librarian for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory who also raised sheep and sheared their wool for weaving projects, died of complications from cancer Saturday at Mercy Medical Center. The Ten Hills resident was 70. Born Mary Elizabeth Bomberger in Washington, she was raised in Alaska while her father served in the Civilian Conservation Corps. She earned a degree in geography from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she also took theater courses.

Hennie R. Snyder, a retired statistician and librarian, died Wednesday of complications from a stroke at Highland Park Hospital in Highland Park, Ill. The Baltimore native was 81. Born Hennie Rand and raised on Eutaw Place, she was a 1939 Western High School graduate. She earned a degree in library science from the University of Maryland, College Park and had a master's degree from Simmons College in Boston. She was a statistician at the Housing Authority of Baltimore City and was later a librarian for the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Agriculture.

Eleonore Rosina Buehl, a retired librarian who worked at the old Baltimore City Hospital and earlier at the University of Pittsburgh, died Thursday of complications from a circulatory disorder at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville. She was 96. Miss Buehl was born in Montague, Mich., the daughter of the Rev. Louis Frederick Christian Buehl, a German Methodist minister who later was professor of theology at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. Miss Buehl earned her bachelor's degree from the college in 1929.

Margery C. Flinner, 87, librarian, gallery employee Margery C. Flinner, a retired librarian who worked part-time at the Craig Flinner Gallery, died Monday of respiratory failure at the Charlestown Retirement Community. She was 87 and formerly lived in Armagh Village in North Baltimore. A resident of the Catonsville retirement community since the late 1990s, the former Margery Patterson Craig was born in Baltimore and raised on Guilford Terrace. She was descended from the Craig family of Fells Point, owners of Craig Wharf.