Queenie

On September 1, 2005, BARBARA E., devoted daughter of Queenie Webb. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Wednesday after 8:30 A.M., where the family will receive friends on Thursday at 11:30 A.M., followed by funeral service at 12 noon. See www.marchfh.com.

On March 16, 2004, QUEEN ESTER JACOBS, affectionately known as "Queenie" (of the Cherry Hill Community); beloved mother of Andrew James and Harold Lee Jacobs; she is also survived by a host of other relatives and friends. Visitation at THE DERRICK C. JONES FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 4611 Park Heights Avenue on Monday, March 22, 1 until 8 P.M. Mrs. Jacobs will lie in state at First Baptist Church of Cherry Hill, 823 Cherry Hill Road, on Tuesday, March 23, at 10 AM. Family will receive friends at 11 with funeral service to follow at 11:30 AM. Interment in Arbutus Memorial Park Cemetery.

On December 18, 2009, QUEEN, beloved mother of Elsie, Jesse, Dallas, Angela, Robert, Anthony and Queenie. Visitation at Calvin B. Scruggs Funeral Home, 1412 E. Preston St. on Tuesday, 2 to 7 P.M. and Wednesday 12 to 3 P.M. Family will receive friends on Wednesday, December 23rd, at Second Antioch Baptist Church, 2001 E. Baltimore Street, from 6 to 6:30 P.M., at which time funeral will begin. Interment, December 24th, Antioch Baptist Church. Cemetery, Emporia, Virginia

Clean out your basement then shop for cool stuff and save lives in the process. The Humane Society of Harford County hosts a two-day yard sale, Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 benefiting the adorable animals in its shelter, including Louis the rabbit (she's a girl) and Queenie a sweet 2-year-old kitty.   There are many ways to get involved. Here, the most obvious: 1. You can make donations for the sale. Bring your household items, pet supplies, holiday decor, games, books and what-have-you to the shelter.  (No clothing, TVs or computers)

Elsie Hartzell Rau, 73, longtime director of music at churchElsie Hartzell Rau, music director for 48 years at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, died of a stroke Aug. 28 at Howard County General Hospital. The Ellicott City resident was 73.Mrs. Rau began her association with the Catonsville church in 1947 and retired in 1995.An organist and choir director, she often accompanied choirs at Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church and Christ Lutheran Church.In addition to directing Salem's senior choir, she directed youth, children's and bell choirs.

On June 21, 2006, SHIRLEY L. WARNER; devoted wife of Paul E. Warner; beloved mother of Paula L. Warner; loving sister of Bernice Boyer and the late Louise Heathcote and Spencer Lomax; dear sister-in-law of Hilda Daly and Queenie Lomax. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. The family will receive visitors at the family owned Singleton Funeral Home, 1 Second Avenue S.W. (at Crain Highway), Glen Burnie, from 3-5 and 7-9 P.M. on Monday and Tuesday. The funeral ceremony will be held on Wednesday at 11 A.M. in the funeral home chapel.

On April 3, 2005, JANET (nee O'Donnell) KNIGHT, beloved wife of the late Martin L. Knight, Sr. Mother of Amy Dell and Martin L. Knight, Jr. all of Sykesville, MD. Loving daughter of Marie "Queenie" (Manner) and the late Gerald A. O'Donnell. Cherished grandmother of 5. Dear sister of Joyce Howes, Tim, Jim, and Jerry O'Donnell. Also survived by many other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the family owned Slack Funeral Home, P.A. 3871 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City, MD 21043 on Wednesday from 3-5 & 7-9 p.m. Graveside services Thursday 11 a.m. at Crestlawn Memorial Gardens, Mt. View Rd., Marriottsville, MD 21104.

Today: Nimble will face only four sprinters as he goes for his eighth victory of the year in the $50,000 E. William Furey Memorial Stakes. The seven-furlong event will be contested over the main track.The 7-year-old son of Afleet, who has been dabbling in the allowance and high-priced claiming ranks, puts a four-race winning streak on the line in search of a rare stakes victory.Just Call Me Carl, runner-up in the recent Chesapeake Stakes, is also in the lineup. The 4-year-old colt has been postward four times this year, winning an optional claiming test locally and an allowance event at Pimlico.

Brimming with sex, violence and substance abuse, Andrew Lippa's musical adaptation of Joseph Moncure March's 1920s narrative poem The Wild Party is pretty racy fare for relatively sedate Theatre Hopkins. But Todd Pearthree's direction, choreography and casting imbue The Wild Party with a style that elevates the material above its seamy foundation, without falsely prettifying it. Just watch the ensemble slither across the stage in tightly choreographed unison, displaying a movement vocabulary that can change in a moment from celebratory to predatory.

"The Rufus Chronicle: Another Autumn," by C.W. Gusewelle. Ballantine. 217 pages. $19.95. Some men learn about forgiveness by studying the lives of saints," C. W. Gusewelle remarks winningly in "The Rufus Chronicle," his lively account of nearly 13 years, and 12 autumns in the field, with a lively Brittany spaniel. "And some of us keep dogs."A quail hunter and author of five previous books, Gusewelle is an associate editor and columnist with the Kansas City Star, and his columns about Rufus originally appeared there.