Office Manager

Dorothy C. Toler, a retired office manager and former Catonsville resident, died of congestive heart failure May 7 at St. Agnes Hospital. She was 86. Dorothy Cratch was born and raised in Washington, N.C., where she graduated from high school. After her 1942 marriage to Dumay Toler, the couple settled in Baltimore, where her husband attended the Maryland Institute College of Art. During the 1940s, she was a buyer for Hochschild Kohn department store. She left in 1949 to raise her family.

Wedding date: Feb. 24, 2013 Her story: Kimberly Carlins, 32, grew up in Ocean Pines. She is a government contractor for URS Corp. in Germantown. Her father, Leo, is a repairman for Sears, and her mother, Renee, is a secretary for a nonprofit organization. His story: Sigmund Young, 32, grew up in Bethesda. He is an engineer at Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington Navy Yard. His father, Charles, is a physician, and his mother, Sue, is her husband's office manager.

Elizabeth B. Green, a retired secretary and office manager, died May 4 of pneumonia at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. She was 83. Elizabeth Belknap was born in Baltimore and raised on Beechdale Road in Roland Park. She was a 1944 graduate of Garrison Forest School. Mrs. Green was employed as secretary and office manager for the Boy Scouts of America in Baltimore for 26 years. She retired in the early 1990s. She was an active communicant of St. David's Episcopal Church where she had been a member of the Altar Guild and choir mother for the Boys' Choir.

Businesses in Annapolis near where President Barack Obama met with Senate Democrats on Wednesday said road closures for security were affecting them, with some shutting their doors. "I had to shut down until 2. Nobody can get in," said Riccardo Santoro, owner of Varuna Aveda Salon Spa in the Park Place complex, adjacent to the meeting. He said the closing, due to the expected traffic woes, was his decision — and he expected to lose about $1,200 in revenue. City streets closed right around Westgate Circle, where the Westin Annapolis hotel is located.

Kenneth David Mitchell, a retired office manager and World War II veteran, died Friday at a nursing home in Davis, Calif. The former longtime Idlewylde resident was 88. Mr. Mitchell, who had moved to Davis five weeks ago, was born in Kelso, Wash. When he was an infant, he moved with his family to Mannasota Avenue in Northeast Baltimore. He was a 1938 graduate of City College and attended Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College. During World War II, he enlisted in the Army Air Forces and served with the 5th Air Force in Italy as a bombardier and navigator aboard B-24 Liberator bombers.

Gwendolyn Townes, a retired office manager and former barmaid, died of cancer Friday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The West Baltimore resident was 85. The former Gwendolyn Brown was born in Baltimore and raised on Division Street. She graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in 1954. Mrs. Townes was a Hecht Co. sales associate before becoming a security clerk at Fort Holabird in 1967. Three years later, she became a barmaid at the Sphinx Club on Pennsylvania Avenue, where she became a favorite of the private club's members.

Sharon L. Clogston, a homemaker and former office manager, died of complications after surgery May 27 at a hospital in Kingston, Jamaica, where she had been vacationing. She was 59 and lived in Cockeysville. She was born Sharon Lucille Vaughn in Baltimore and raised in Randallstown. She was a graduate of Milford Mill High School. Mrs. Clogston had been an office manager for 14 years at R&H Motor Cars. Since leaving in 1996, she was a homemaker. Mrs. Clogston especially enjoyed Christmas and decorating her home.

Lucille Leona Drane, a retired medical secretary and office manager, died March 12 of congestive heart failure at Mountain View Medical Center in Norton, Va. The former Northeast Baltimore resident was 91. Born Lucille Sands in Tom's Creek, Va., she was raised in Coeburn, Va. She returned to Coeburn in 1992 when she retired. She moved to Dundalk in 1944 and owned and operated the Classic Restaurant on Merritt Boulevard for several years. She later worked as a Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. operator in downtown Baltimore.

Dorothy P. Conklin, a retired office manager and homemaker, died of an abdominal tumor Aug. 16 at Bonnie Blink, the Maryland Masonic home in Hunt Valley. The former Pasadena resident was 87. She was born Dorothy Perry and raised in Baltimore, one of nine children. She was a graduate of the old Samuel Ready School, and in 1935 married Herbert E. Conklin Sr. For 25 years, until retiring in 1985, Mrs. Conklin was office manager of the family-owned Greenmount Moving and Storage Co, which had been established by her father-in-law in 1910 and where her husband became president.

Anne Theresa Strott, a retired office manager and secretary, died of a heart attack Monday at her North Baltimore apartment. She was 74. Born in Baltimore and raised in Govans, Miss Strott was a 1945 graduate of Notre Dame of Maryland, now Notre Dame Preparatory School. She began working as a secretary in the late 1940s. For many years, she was the office manager for PIC Engineering Co. until her retirement in 1984. Miss Strott enjoyed collecting china angels, which she displayed in her home.

Dr. Joshua Breschkin, a retired optometrist whose early work with contact lenses earned him the respect of well-known Baltimore Colts and Orioles players, died of stroke complications Nov. 6 at his Cross Keys home. He was 94. "He saved my career in pro football," said former Baltimore Colts wide receiver Raymond Berry . "Dr. Breschkin was on the cutting edge of contact lens technology. He came up with something that was stable enough to take the hits during a game. He was a dear man to me. " Born in Baltimore and raised on Woodhaven Avenue in Northwest Baltimore, he was the son of Meyer and Lillian Schuchat Breschkin.

Wedding day: Oct. 14, 2012 Her story: Lauren Webb, 26, grew up in Glen Burnie. She is the grants manager for Young Audiences Arts for Learning Maryland. Her father, Gary Webb, works for Verizon, and her mother, Renee Webb, is a neonatal nurse at the University of Maryland Medical Center. His story: Brennan Tolstoi, 29, grew up in Gaithersburg. He is an assistant branch manager for M&T Bank. His father, Joel Tolstoi, owns Oval Office Supply, and his mother, Deborah Tolstoi, works for the family company as a bookkeeper/office manager.

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation named Andrew Robinson, of Carney, Kelehan, Bresler, Bennett and Scherr, a general practice law firm headquartered in Columbia, one of "Howard County's Finest Under 39. " He was honored for success in business, community leadership and fundraising commitment. As a member of the firm's real estate practice division, Robinson specializes in land-use, administrative and construction law. He assists clients with subdivision and condominium development, planning, zoning and commercial leasing.

John A. Jarosinski, a Baltimore businessman who was an active member of several veterans organizations, died Thursday of cancer and a stroke at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 88. The White Marsh resident had earlier lived in Govans for 30 years. Born in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown, John Adam Jarosinski was a 1942 graduate of Polytechnic Institute. After graduating from high school, he worked at General Motors' Eastern Aircraft Division in Baltimore, before enlisting in the Navy in 1943.

Sonya Reinhart, a longtime supervisor in the Social Security Administration's Office of Disability Operations who had been a child actress, died July 18 of a massive coronary at Sinai Hospital. The Owings Mills resident was 82. The daughter of a tailor and a homemaker, Sonya Benjamin was born in Baltimore and raised on North Avenue. When she was 3, Mrs. Reinhart, who could sing and dance, became a member of Uncle Jack's Kiddie Club, which performed at the Hippodrome Theatre.

A 61-year-old white woman, who says she was wrongfully fired from the Baltimore prosecutors' office after 25 years on the job, has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit alleging age, race and gender discrimination in the 2010 termination. Antoinette E. Swiec, of Baltimore, is seeking $400,000 in compensation from the Baltimore state's attorney's office on each of two counts, claiming she was fired because the predominantly young, African American division she worked for wanted her out. The lawsuit was filed in  U.S. District Court Monday, and was to be served on Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg Bernstein, though the firing occurred under his predecessor, Patricia C. Jessamy.

Doris Hauswald Moran, former office manager for Hauswald's Bakery, died Saturday of a brain hemorrhage at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. She was 78, and had been a resident of Heartlands Senior Living Village in Ellicott City since 1999. Born Doris Hauswald in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville, where she graduated from high school, she studied music at the Peabody Conservatory. She began working as a teen-ager, icing and boxing cakes in the Baltimore bakery her maternal grandmother had founded in 1915.

Donna Marie Amadio, an office manager for the Sherwood Forest Club, died of ovarian cancer Thursday at her home in the Anne Arundel County community. The former Hamilton resident was 60. Born Donna Marie Toomer in Baltimore, she was a 1962 graduate of the Institute of Notre Dame. From 1962 to 1963, she was a clerical worker for Commercial Credit Corp. and then became a Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. service representative. She was a C&P business office supervisor from 1967 to 1972 in downtown Baltimore.

Dr. Raymond L. Markley Jr., a retired Baltimore gynecologist whose specialty was female urology, died March 4 of pneumonia at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The former longtime Towson resident who was residing at Oak Crest Village, was 89. The son of a Lutheran minister and a homemaker, Raymond Law Markley Jr., was born in Chambersburg, Pa. When he was a teenager, he moved with his family to Lynchburg, Va., when his father was assigned to a church in the city. They later moved in 1936 to Greencastle, Pa., where he graduated in 1939 from Greencastle High School.

Lawrence R. "Larry" Sibley, a retired Baltimore County police officer who had a second career in security and as an office manager, died Thursday from heart disease at his home in Shrewsbury, Pa. He was 64. The son of an Old Bay Line seaman and a homemaker, Mr. Sibley was born in Baltimore and raised on Frankford Avenue in Gardenville. After graduating in 1965 from City College, Mr. Sibley entered the police academy, from which he graduated the next year. He joined the Baltimore County Police Department in 1967 and had worked as a detective.