Melissa

On Monday, November 29, 2004, MELISSA ELAINE YOURKOVIK of Brooklyn Park, loving wife of Kurt Yourkovik, cherished mother of Brandon and Kurt Yourkovik Jr., devoted daughter of George and Lorraine Neumeister, caring sister to Mary Lou Sachs, Karen Cowger, Cindy Davis, Laura Propert, George Neumeister and Julia Johnston. Also survived by 20 nieces and nephews. The family will receive visitors at the family owned Singelton Funeral Home, 1 Second Avenue S.W., (at Crain Highway) Glen Burnie, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P. M on Wednesday and Thursday.

Larry and Pam Wieciech of Forest Hill, along with Dave and Dorothy Caporaletti of Olney, announce the engagement of their children, Kevin Wieciech and Melissa Caporaletti. Wieciech, a 2003 Fallston High School graduate, graduated with a business finance degree from the University of Maryland College Park and is pursuing his career in sustainable food development. Caporaletti is also a graduate of the University of Maryland and earned her master's degree in physicians assistant sciences at Saint Francis University.

Melissa and Jeffrey Simmons, of Bowie, announce the birth of their son, Kenzo Braylon Simmons, on Aug. 8, 2011, at 11:47 a.m. He weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces, and has three siblings. Kenzo is the grandson of Jean Manall, of Laurel; and Grace and Jeffrey Simmons Sr., of Upper Marlboro.

In addition to the Ravens on the field for Super Bowl XLVII, Baltimore viewers are going to see some familiar faces on the NFL Network's coverage leading up to the game. Starting Jan. 28 through gameday Feb. 3, the channel will offer 140 hours of game-related coverage, and such one-time Baltimore-based broadcasters as Melissa Stark, Amber Theoharis and Brian Billick will have significant roles. Here's the channel's release: For the 10th year, NFL Network is on-location providing comprehensive, wall-to-wall coverage of Super Bowl week.

On February 4, 2004, MELISSA ANNE MARTIN; beloved daughter of Sharon McArdle; sister of Joseph and Christopher McArdle; devoted mother of Justin Martin. Also survived by a large loving family. Friends are invited to call at the Burgee-Henss-Seitz Funeral Home, Inc., 3631 Falls Road, on Monday from 9:30 to 11:30 A.M. Services to follow at the funeral home, on Monday, 11:30 A.M. Interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Mt. Airy, MD.

On December 3, 2004, MELISSA O'FERRALL (nee Mann); beloved wife of David M. O'Ferrall; darling daughter of Alcide and Audrey Mann, from Elkton, MD; sister of Alcide, III and James Mann. She is also survived by nine nieces and nephews and two grandnieces. A Memorial Service and Wake will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made on her behalf to the Make A Wish Foundation of America-Gift Processing Center, PO Box 29119, Phoenix, AZ 85038-9119. Arrangements by Leonard J. Ruck, Inc.

On December 22, 2005, MELISSA S. SPICER of Linthicum; beloved mother of Anne Brownson and her husband Jack, Edgar B. Sellers and his wife Brenda; loving sister of Mary Helen Farmer and her husband Guy Cone; dearest grandmother of four and great-grandmother of seven. The family will receive visitors at the family owned Singleton Funeral Home, 1 Second Avenue S.W. (at Crain Hwy), Glen Burnie on Monday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 7 P.M. A graveside service will be held at 11 A.M. on Tuesday at Glen Haven Memorial Park.

So, here we are. Big finale night. At the beginning of the season I was pretty sure we'd be seeing Shawn tonight, but Melissa and Kelly are somewhat of a surprise. I'm also surprised by how much I've turned around on Kelly Monaco -- I would've ranked her one of my least favorite at the beginning of the season and now she's the one I hope wins it all. I'm going to tell y'all straight out -- I'm not going to recap the replays of stuff from earlier in the season. You've seen it, I've seen it, I've written about it, you've read about it. Let's just cover the new footage here.

Rocker Melissa Etheridge became the latest celebrity to endorse gay marriage in Maryland. The singer sent out a letter Tuesday on behalf of Marylanders for Marriage Equality, saying everyone deserves to be treated the same under the law. She also said she'd be offering campaign donors a chance to meet her backstage before an upcoming concert in Bethesda. "Two of my dearest friends are Marylanders in a committed relationship without legal protection," she wrote. "They are not treated with the same basic equality as their next door neighbors.

Melissa D. McCarty, a homemaker, volunteer and docent, died Saturday at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. She was 94. The daughter of an attorney and a schoolteacher, Melissa Belle Dunham was born and raised in Northville, N.Y., where she graduated from the Northville School in 1935. She attended Middlebury College and Northwestern University, where she studied theater arts. Mrs. McCarty was married in 1937 to her childhood friend, Horace Dowman McCarty, from Baltimore, whom she met during vacations in the Adirondacks.

They start the show with a ridiculous graphic of Gavin in his rowboat on the dance floor, getting overwhelmed by a giant wave. Oh, silly dancing show, it's fun when you have a little bit of a big budget. It's Motown night and one can only hope that they've managed to rescue 71-year-old Fontella Bass for a performance on Motown night. That song is absolutely on my "Desert Island Jukebox. " Oh, cool - they've got a  spotlight replica of the Motown logo on the dance floor. And we start off with a performance from Smokey Robinson, "Tracks of My Tears" while the troupe dances.

Joan Rivers played the Hippodrome on Friday night. Rivers apparently wanted a Maryland crab cake before the show. And, after some back-channel communications, it came to pass that the Prime Rib delivered a crab cake dinner, along with a floral arrangement and a bottle of red wine, to Joan Rivers' dressing room before the show.  I know for a fact that Joan Rivers is a nice person because my neighbor Cookie Hymer told me so. Cookie was a manager at...

When a young woman is diagnosed with cancer, getting pregnant is probably the last thing on her mind. But if she wants children in the future, it's something she should think about. The chemotherapy and radiation treatments used to treat cancer can hurt a women's fertility. Nearly 10 percent of the 1.5 million diagnosed with cancer each year are of childbearing age, according to the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Melissa M. Yates, an assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins Fertility Center, says these women need to think about fertility preservation before they begin treatment for cancer.

Melissa Schehlein, a Towson native, walked the streets and byways of the Baltimore County seat in search of what was while documenting with her camera what is. The result of her search was the recently published book, "Towson: Then and Now," a 96-page photo essay that takes readers on a tour of contemporary Towson, which she contrasts photographically with images of earlier years. In her introduction, Schehlein writes that Towson is the "commercial, political and cultural heart of Baltimore County," and her mission and "primary emphasis is York Road, our defining corridor.