Olga

Suddenly on August 4, 2007 Olga Mallary of Ferndale, devoted mother of Shelly L. Thompson, Roger And Darlene L. Mallary. Friends may call at the family owned Kirkley-Ruddick Funeral Home, P.A., 421 Crain Hwy., S.E., Glen Burnie on Tuesday from 3-5 and 7-9 P.M. Services will be held on Wednesday at 12:00 P.M.

On December 30, 2006, JOSEPH EUGENE BLACK; loving son of Bonita and Thomas Ginn and Raymond and Olga Black; cherished brother of Wayne Black, John Ginn, Wanda Black, Raymond Black, Jr. and Sarah Ginn. A Funeral Service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue, Saturday 10 A.M. Interment Holy Rosary Cemetery. Friends may call Friday 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M.

On September 28, 2006, OLGA E.; beloved wife of Francis J. Raysinger; devoted mother of Lois Krok and husband Michael, Barbara Rzepkowski and husband Thomas; grandmother of Michael, Brittany, Matthew, Adam and Alec; sister of Rodney and Wesley Byron and the late Charles and Kenneth Byron. Friends may call at Gonce Funeral Service, P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway on Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M., where services will be held on Saturday, at 10:30 A.M. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the American Kidney Foundation.

In Polynesian culture, a celebration, by definition, is not a private affair. Word of good news spreads as if it were carried by the wind, touching uncles, cousins, brothers, friends, sisters, girlfriends, ex-girlfriends and strangers, and without hesitation, people simply show up. This, it seems, is how it came to pass that on the morning of April 30, 2006 - on one of the most anticipated days of his young life - Haloti Ngata found himself completely and...

Dr. Olga Julia Catter, an athlete and a bilingual specialist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, died of cancer July 30 at her Columbia home. She was 65. Born in Talara, Peru, she was a well-known track and field and volleyball athlete who represented Peru in competitions throughout South America and Europe, including the 1962 Iberian-American games. She earned a medical degree at the Universidad de San Marcos but did not practice. She moved to Michigan in 1971 and eight years later relocated to Fallston before settling in Columbia.

Olga Mary Grove, a homemaker and department store worker, died of a stroke Friday at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The Parkville resident was 89. Born Olga Mary DeNardi in Chicago, she moved as a child to Baltimore's Little Italy with her parents. They later lived in Highlandtown, and she attended Our Lady of Pompei school. She worked for many years at Irvin's department store on Eastern Avenue. Family members said she was a baseball fan and watched Orioles games. She was also the family cook and prepared large meals that included minestrone, gnocchi and spaghetti.

Olga B. "Sue" Kessler, a homemaker, died June 22 of old-age complications at a hospice in Statesboro, Ga. The former Dundalk resident was 90. Born Olga Bernadette Sipes in Halethorpe, she was a 1932 honors graduate of Seton High School. Family members said she turned down an offer to attend college to take sales jobs at Montgomery Ward and Hutzler's to help support her family during the Depression. In 1935, she married Althea "Al" Kessler, and the couple moved to Dundalk in the early 1940s when he began working for Bethlehem Steel Corp.

On June 22, 2006, OLGA B. KESSLER; beloved wife of Al Kessler; loving mother of Robert J., Kenneth M., Richard A. Kessler and Carol Sowell. Also survived by ten grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren and one great great-grandchild; devoted sister of Kenneth Sipes. Family will receive friends Wednesday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9, at HARRY H. WITZKE'S FAMILY FUNERAL HOME, INC., 4112 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City. A Mass of Christian Burial will be said Thursday 10 A.M. at the Franciscan Friars, on Folly Quarter Road.

On May 11, 2006, OLGA B. (nee Benda); beloved wife of the late Joseph Petrush; devoted mother of Joseph G. Petrush and his wife Linda, Mary Jean Levengood and her husband Scott; loving grandmother of Joseph Petrush, Lorie Tomko, David and Jason Levengood; great-grandmother of Tyler and Ian Tomko. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the SCHIMUNEK FUNERAL HOME, INC., 9705 Belair Road (Perry Hall), on Saturday and Sunday 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M., with a Vigil Service on Sunday at 2 P.M. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Fullerton at 9:30 A.M. Interment St. Joseph's Cemetery.

On Monday, March 27, 2006, OLGA, beloved daughter of the late Timofave and Jenovia Kowall, devoted wife of the late Alexander Bylen, loving mother of John A. Bylen and Katherine A. Garrett, devoted grandmother of four and great-grandmother of two. She was predeceased by two brothers and six sisters. She was a member of the St. Andrew's Orthodox Church in Baltimore. Funeral services will be held at the Pritts Funeral Home and Chapel, 412 Washington Road, Westminster on Friday at 11:00 A.M. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.