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By Larry Carson and Nick Madigan | August 26, 2009
Retired Baltimore Transit Company worker Earl Lafayette Wilder, the 87-year-old accused of killing a 91-year-old fellow resident at their Columbia assisted-living home, is a one-time boxer who suffers from dementia, according to court records. The eldest of Wilder's five children, who is his guardian, said Tuesday that she was still struggling to comprehend the Aug. 17 incident in which Wilder is alleged to have risen from his wheelchair and attacked James W. Brown with his fists as the victim sat on a metal bench outside Harmony Hall.
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July 27, 2009
On July 23, 2009 ANNE MARY SINDELAR (nee Wolczyk), beloved wife of the late Joseph B. Sindelar, M.D.; loving mother of Mary Josephine Blair, Patricia K. Cheatham, Joseph B. Sindelar, Jr. and Elizabeth Ann Plowman; cherished grandmother of seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. A Memorial Mass was celebrated on Saturday, July 25 at St. Joseph's Nursing Home Chapel. Interment is private. Arrangements by Sterling-Ashton-Schwab-Witzke Funeral Home of Catonsville, Inc. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to St. Joseph Nursing Home, 1222 Tugwell Drive, Catonsville, MD 21228.
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By Aaron C. Davis, Avis Thomas-Lester and William Wan | March 19, 2009
Inside Prince George's County police headquarters yesterday, a squad of homicide detectives and nearly a dozen other senior investigators moved into a separate office and began poring over two recent cases that were suddenly the department's top priority. Not far away, in a quiet neighborhood near FedEx Field, all anyone talked about was the possibility that the cases - two double homicides - were connected, that someone is killing mothers and their daughters. The Loftons, Karen and Karissa, were the first, shot in late January in their Largo home.
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November 9, 2008
Veterans Day ceremony slated at City Dock Annapolis Branch 24, Fleet Reserve Association, will host the City of Annapolis' Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Memorial Circle at City Dock. Veterans groups, youth organizations and the Annapolis Police Department will parade the colors before opening ceremonies. The Annapolis High School Band will play the national anthem. Annapolis Mayor Ellen Moyer will be the speaker. A member of the Naval Academy Band will play Taps. Information: 410-267-0621 or 410-533-7113.
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July 11, 2008
DORIAN LEIGH, 91 Early supermodel Dorian Leigh, an early supermodel who made Revlon's 1950s "Fire and Ice" cosmetics line famous, died Monday at a nursing home in Falls Church, Va. Ms. Leigh was among the first models who signed with the Ford Agency.
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By STEFEN LOVELACE | May 14, 2008
Archbishop Curley's Andrew Sellers is the consummate athlete. The senior dominated on the football field this season as a middle linebacker, registering 176 total tackles and shattering the school season record by nearly 50 in the process. He wrestled for three varsity seasons, too, but his favorite sport is lacrosse. He helped Curley win a Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference title last year, and the Friars are expected to repeat this year, having reeled off 25 straight B Conference victories.
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By Jacques Kelly | May 14, 2008
Mary Leonora Jones, a retired nursing home director who once challenged Parren J. Mitchell for a congressional seat, died of congestive heart failure May 3 at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The Woodlawn resident was 85. Born Mary Leonora Williams in St. Pauls, N.C., she earned a nursing degree from Shaw University and moved to Baltimore with her parents in 1940. She worked as a nurse at the old Provident Hospital on Division Street and in 1959 became a Sinai Hospital charge nurse at a time when few African-Americans held the job. In 1970, she became head nurse at the Maryland General Hospital emergency room and went on to become the hospital's nursing director.
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By June Arney | April 2, 2008
Work on a proposed nursing home at the western edge of Turf Valley could begin this year after Planning Board approval for the Lorien Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facility. The facility, which would feature 62 nursing home beds and an additional 100 assisted living beds, is to be on 6 acres on the east side of Marriottsville Road just south of Interstate 70. "It's an exciting first step in the creation of Lorien at Turf Valley," said Gina Ellrich, a spokeswoman for Mangione Family Enterprises, the developer.
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By Frank D. Roylance | September 30, 2007
We are in so much trouble, boomers. I know, I can hear the Gen-XYZs saying, "Please, not another baby boomer whining about getting older." Well, bear with me here. Our pain might be your pain one day. I've just come back from visiting my mom. She lives in a large, Baltimore-area retirement community. She'll turn 95 this fall, but she still steams through the halls behind her walker as if the place were on fire. She calls it "playing golf," and walks the "links" at least three times a day. But she is struggling with vascular dementia (hardly anybody hits 90 without slipping a cog)
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By Madison Park | August 26, 2007
Jacqueline A. Speciner, a staunch advocate for disabled people, died of undetermined causes Tuesday at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 49. Friends and family described a gregarious and independent woman who didn't let her cerebral palsy get in the way of enjoying life. "She didn't like the word disabilities, said Phyllis Godwin, who co-wrote Mrs. Speciner's autobiography. "She liked the word challenge. She wanted to let people know they could live on their own." Mrs. Speciner lived in the Virginia Towers in Towson.