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By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun | November 14, 2010
Sister Agnes Miriam Hradsky, a retired teacher and member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 61 years, died of pneumonia Nov. 3 at Maria Health Care Center, her order's motherhouse in Woodbrook. She was 95. Agnes Beatrice Hradsky was born in Baltimore to Czechoslovakian parents who had arrived in the United States during their teens. She grew up on Collington Avenue and attended St. Wenceslaus Catholic School, taught by the School Sisters of Notre Dame. In 1928 she graduated from grammar school with perfect attendance and went on to the Institute of Notre Dame.
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By Mary Johnson, Special to The Baltimore Sun | July 24, 2010
Dignity Players has lined up a sumptuous summer theater feast, with the new play "Bloodlines," by local playwright Dan Baum, staged earlier this month, and the coming Stephen Adly Gurgis 2005 play, "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot," now in rehearsal. In "Bloodlines," Baum sets his story during the Passover Seder. Widowed mother Lila (Lisa Gilbert) invites her dead husband's parents, Miriam (Carol Cohen) and Herb (Edd Miller), to help her college student daughter, Sarah (Hallie Garrison)
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By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun | April 18, 2010
Sister Ruth Miriam Carey, who taught English at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland for nearly 40 years and was a mentor to young writers, died of complications from diabetes April 10 at her order's motherhouse in Woodbrook. She was 82. Born Anna Ruth Carey in Baltimore and raised on East Biddle Street, she attended the St. Katherine of Sienna school and was a 1944 graduate of the Institute of Notre Dame. She earned a bachelor's degree in English at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.
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March 3, 2010
Every day, as we commute to work, or drive our kids to school, we face the dangerous reality of an encounter with an impaired driver. This reality can be hidden by impersonal statistics until it becomes all too personal, as it did for the friends and family of Miriam Frankl, a 20-year-old student at Johns Hopkins University, whose promising life was ended on October 17 by a hit and run driver. Today the Maryland House of Delegates Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on the "Eliminate Drunk Driving" act, which could prevent, or at the least greatly reduce the probability, of such tragedies in the future.
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November 17, 2009
On Thursday, November 12, 2009, Miriam Horst; Visitation will be held at the Yurs-Wittenberg Funeral Home in Geneva IL from 9 to 11 A.M. on November 19, 2009 with funeral services at 11 A.M. Internment will take place in the East Batavia Cemetery in Batavia IL. Memorials may be made to the Glen Meadows Benevolent Fund, 11630 Glen Arm Road, Glen Arm MD 21057.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | November 9, 2009
Miriam H. Coffin, a homemaker and former federal worker, died Friday of a stroke at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville. She was 92. Miriam Hilton, the daughter of farmers, was born and raised in Mercer, Maine. She was a 1934 graduate of Skowhegan High School in Skowhegan, Maine, and earned a bachelor's degree in home economics in 1938 from the University of Maine at Orono. She moved to Washington in 1939 and worked during World War II for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.