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Janet Smith Carr, a retired school crossing guard, died Sunday at her daughter's West Baltimore home. She was 75. Born and raised in Accomack County in Virginia, Janet Smith moved to Baltimore in 1951. She took nursing training at Carver Vocational-Technical High School and briefly worked at the former Rosewood State Hospital before becoming a city schools crossing guard. She worked for 27 years at Franklin Square Elementary School at Saratoga and Stricker streets before retiring in 1988.

Christopher C. Clarke, a Patterson High School senior and athlete, was looking forward to becoming a Baltimore police officer. "He was an outstanding, well-rounded and well-focused student," Patterson Principal Laura D'Anna said yesterday. "He knew what he wanted to do and was polite and respectful. He was very well-liked at the school and was a big part of the Patterson family." His mother, Anita Ann-Marie McDonald, said he had acceptances from several colleges but had decided to enroll at the Baltimore City Police Academy.

Tony Q. Mobley, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. bricklayer, died Oct. 13 of emphysema at Millennium of Franklin Square. He was 76 and a 50-year resident of North Milton Avenue in East Baltimore.He lined the walls of blast furnaces at the steelmaker's Sparrows Point plant for 37 years and retired in 1987.The native of Chester, S.C., moved to Baltimore as a youth and left school after the eighth grade to help support his family."He loved to read and largely was a self-educated man," said his daughter, Antoinette Mobley of Baltimore.

Mary Ellen Baileys, 82,Naval Hospital workerMary Ellen Baileys, former supervisor of medical transcriptions at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, died April 17 from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Stella Maris Hospice. She was 82.Mrs. Baileys, a former Bethesda resident, worked at the hospital from 1969 until she retired in 1983 and moved to Cockeysville.The former Mary Ellen Norton was born and raised in Scranton, Pa., where she graduated from high school. In 1938, she married Daniel R. Baileys Sr., a federal mine inspector.

Alfonso M. Bell, 67, HUD employee, catererAlfonso M. Bell, a retired federal employee and a caterer, died Saturday of cancer at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Northeast Baltimore resident was 67.The native of Norfolk, Va., moved to Baltimore in 1951 and served in the Army from 1954 to 1956. He graduated from Morgan State College in 1961 and was a schoolteacher and social worker before he joined the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1973.In 1988, he retired from HUD, where he was a housing program specialist, running several housing projects around the country from his office in Washington.

Ann Lickle Scotland, 74, owned decorating firmAnn Lickle Scotland, who had owned an interior decorating company in Riderwood, died April 14 from complications of throat cancer at Union Memorial Hospital. The Cross Keys resident was 74.She began her career as an interior decorator in the late 1950s, working for Peggy Hook Interiors in Towson. After Mrs. Hook's death, she opened Ann Lickle Interiors in 1972 and did residential and commercial decorating. She retired in 1990.The former Ann Brigham was born in Macon, Ga., and moved to Baltimore as a child.

Oakley Mears Bailey, 79, cabdriver, plumberOakley Mears Bailey, who had been a cabdriver and plumber, died Thursday of heart failure at Liberty Medical Center. The West Baltimore resident was 79.The native of Accomack County, Va., moved to Baltimore in the early 1940s and was a cabdriver for many years before he started working as a plumber at Bowie State College. He later was a plumber at then-Morgan State College.He was a member of New Psalmist Baptist Church, 4501 Old Frederick Road, where services are scheduled for 10 a.m. today.

Gregory "Pops" Smith drew pictures of the men who gathered on Baltimore street corners and sipped from small brown bags. He sketched women who clutched their children's hands as they walked in Lexington Market. And he depicted the people who played percussion instruments at Druid Hill Park on warm days.Mr. Smith drew pictures of the life he saw every day. His artwork was funny, sad and often dealt with life's dark side. But his work had a common thread: amazing realism.Mr. Smith, a Baltimore native who friends said "just seemed to blend into any group" while he sketched, died Wednesday of heart failure at his home in Montclair, N.J., where he had lived since November.

As the annual Army-Navy football classic gets under way today at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, some 70,000 fans will witness the 100th clash of the midshipmen from Annapolis and the West Point cadets.Next year, the excitement will be in Baltimore, when the two teams take to the gridiron at PSINet Stadium. It will be the first time that the game will be played locally since 1944.That year, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered that the game be moved to Baltimore's Municipal Stadium on 33rd Street from the West Point and Annapolis campuses.

Michael R. Holbrook, a health care worker, died Thursday of complications of AIDS at Good Samaritan Hospital. He was 37 and lived in Northeast Baltimore.Born in Cheverly, he attended public schools in Prince George's County and Houston and moved to Baltimore in 1982. He had worked at the Artisans, a Hamilton Street gift shop, and was an airlines baggage delivery clerk. He also sold real estate.In 1988, he started working with elderly patients and patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Catharine C. "Kitty" Smith, a watercolorist, art collector and avid sailor, died Friday of congestive heart failure at Duncaster Lifecare Community in Bloomfield, Conn. The former longtime resident of Kerneway in Guilford was 97. Catharine Carton, the daughter of a lawyer and homemaker, was born in Chicago and raised in Lake Forest, Ill. Mrs. Smith was a 1929 graduate of the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., and attended Miss Schoff's School in Paris from 1929 to 1930. She later attended Smith College in Northampton, Mass.

Rachel A. Green, a homemaker and former longtime Northwest Baltimore resident, died Sunday of multiple organ failure at Northwest Hospital Center. She was 74. Rachel Alberta Murphy was born and raised in Washington. She was a graduate of public schools and attended Cortez Peters Business School. Mrs. Green moved to Baltimore and was married to Samuel William Green Jr., a career noncommissioned Navy officer, who died in 1984. Until moving to Catonsville five years ago, Mrs. Green lived for many years on Shirley Avenue.

The Rev. William E. "Little Buddy" Lambirth, a retired machinist, World War II veteran and ordained minister, died in his sleep June 7 at a Lancaster, Pa., nursing home. The former Baltimore resident was 90. Mr. Lambirth was born in Kinston, N.C., and moved to Baltimore in 1931. He was a 1936 graduate of George Washington Carver Vocational School and attended the Baltimore College of Commerce. During World War II, he served with the Army's 4341st Quartermaster Corps under Gen. George S. Patton in Europe.

Patricia "Tricia" Kummerow, a retired teacher who helped raise funds for local charities and educational institutions, died of a stroke Tuesday at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Ruxton resident was 68. Born Mary Patricia Brosnahan in New Rochelle, N.Y., and raised in Chicago, Cleveland and Darien, Conn., she graduated from the Madeira School, near Washington, D.C., and received an English degree from Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. Mrs. Kummerow moved to Baltimore in 1973 and began her career teaching and tutoring dyslexic students at the then-new Jemicy School.

Sara H. L. Bodie, the retired vice president of a Baltimore manufacturing company, died of breast cancer May 7 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The North Baltimore resident was 78. Born Sara Long in Drexel Hill, Pa., she attended Warrenton Country School. Family members said she was an accomplished pianist but grew tired of the school's requirement that she play classical music - and not the jazz she wanted. "Mom shut the piano cover and never touched a piano again," said a daughter, Sarita Foster of Cockeysville.

There are days when the currents of history flow together to illuminate a particular place or time. So it is here in Baltimore where President-elect Barack Obama will pause today to speak on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend as he travels to Washington. Mr. Obama's trip by rail from Philadelphia to his inauguration Tuesday is intended to evoke memories of Abraham Lincoln's inaugural journey, and Baltimore is rich with the ghosts of people who played significant roles in the long struggle of African-Americans , a journey in which his election represents an important milestone.

Her bold canvases made her a bright star in the 1950s New York art world, but she "sank from view faster than the Titanic" when she moved to Baltimore, The New York Times said. Grace Hartigan, who ultimately found a second career offering her wisdom and advice to generations of young painters at the Maryland Institute College of Art, died of liver failure yesterday at the Lorien Mays Chapel nursing home. She was 86. "I feel that I am an aristocrat as far as painting is concerned; I believe in beautiful drawing, in elegance, in luminous color and light," she said in a 1990 biography.

We asked Baltimore author Michael Kimball about his just-released third novel, Dear Everybody, a collection of letters, diary entries, lists, news articles, encyclopedia entries and other snippets that document the sad life and tragic end of a TV weatherman. On writing in snippets I was trying to make each fragment its own finished piece. But I needed the readers, and wanted the readers, to supply certain things. I showed a few pages to a friend who writes here in Baltimore and he said, "You can't do this."

Steven Soifer, New York-born, moved to Baltimore in 1994 to take a job as associate professor of social work, University of Maryland, Baltimore. He has taught community organizing, community economic development and social action, and helped create three nonprofit organizations. 1 An electric car that works: "When I get a new car, I guess I'll have to go with a hybrid, unless I can get one of those electric cars that the governor of California is driving around. I can't think of anything more important to reduce my carbon footprint."

Two hours before game time, the sky darkened beyond the left-field fence of Oriole Park at Camden Yards. An omen to a team that had lost 15 consecutive Sunday games, or perhaps a silver lining in those ominous clouds that a rainout could wash away the specter of losing again? Judy Bisi of Dundalk held the answer as a hard rain fell about an hour before the first pitch yesterday afternoon. "The rain is a good sign. It's good luck," she said, sitting along the first-base line as the wind blew, lightning flashed past the warehouse and thunder rumbled.