Olga

Suddenly, on Sunday afternoon, January 30, 2005, DOUGLAS D. BROWNE, age 48, beloved son of Joan and Robert R. Browne, and grandson of John and Olga de Sparre and of Mary Byrd and Robert R. Browne; great-grandson of Mc Kee Barclay of Baltimore; devoted nephew of Olga and James H. Rowland, Jr., of Sparks and, Elizabeth and Eugene Randolph of Cumming, GA. Also survived by many devoted cousins. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, February 5, at the Nativity Episcopal Church, 419 Cedarcroft Rd., at 11 A.M. Interment will be private.

On January 13, 2004, MERLE SCHACT, in Los Angeles, CA, formerly of Baltimore, daughter of the late Olga Schact (nee Abrams) and Charles Schact, niece of Terry and Marvin Abrams, friend of Naomi Baron and Margie and James Dillenger of Los Angeles.Graveside services Sunday 1:15 P.M Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery.

On March 13, 2005, HENRIETTA, M. beloved wife of the late Louis Brown. Dear mother of the late Joseph Wiedecker; sister of Irene Meyer and the late Mary Goldsmith, Olga Greenfeder, Phillip and Michael Demchuk. Also survived by generations of nieces and nephews. Services and Interment private. Arrangements by Gonce Funeral Service, P.A.

Dimitri and Olga Kargman opened the Baltimore area's first "Russian pharmacy" in March with a built-in clientele of immigrant Russian Jews looking for herbal remedies and prescription drugs with instructions written in their native language.They quickly forged a relationship with a Russian doctor, Victoria V. Tsinberg, who sent patients from her Northwest Baltimore office to the couple's new Health-Rite Pharmacy in Pikesville.But after a little more than a month, say the Kargmans, Dr. Tsinberg stopped sending prescriptions their way, routing them instead to another new "Russian pharmacy" called Five Star.

It is nearly midnight on open-mike night at Leadbetter's in Fells Point when Tom Swiss plugs in his Ovation guitar. Leaning on know-how gleaned from the World Wide Web, he strums a C chord, then an F and performs a rock classic."

A three decade-old missing person case prompted Wednesday's daylong search by police and the FBI outside a Pasadena home, though no human remains have been positively identified, a source with knowledge of the investigation said yesterday. Police were searching for the body of Karen Kamsch, a teenage girl who lived at the home on Wishing Rock Road with her grandmother and disappeared in the mid-1970s. According to a neighbor, she was presumed to be a runaway at the time. Despite news media reports that a body or human remains had been located in a well on the property, authorities did not find anything conclusive, according to the source.

"The Handmaid of Desire," by John L'Heureux. Soho. 264 pages. $23.It has often struck me as strange that many publishers shy away from academic novels, presumably on the grounds that fiction with such a rarefied setting can only attract a small readership. Surely a high proportion of readers have at least a nodding acquaintance with the realms of higher education, and many more readers, whatever their academic background, have enough imagination to enjoy novels set everywhere from 18th century England to the Starship Enterprise.

On March 10, 2003, JANET OLGA HAYES; mother of Robert, Marcus, Rico and Alonzo. She is also survived by ex-husband Robert; sister Lauretta Pryor, half brothers Gilbert and Hulga Condon and other relatives and friends. Friends may call on Thursday, from 11 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. Funeral Services to follow at the Christian Life Church, Liberty Heights and Patterson Ave. Arrangements by Wm. Reese & Son's Mortuary.