Queenstown

A Mass of Christian burial for Anne Kunkel O'Leary, a retire pharmacologist, will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Queenstown.Mrs. O'Leary, a resident of Queenstown, died Friday of cancer at the Memorial Hospital at Easton. She was 74.Born in Baltimore, she was a graduate of Notre Dame Preparatory School and the College of Notre Dame, where she received her bachelor of arts degree in 1938. She received her master's degree in pharmacology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1939.

It may not matter much if, in New Zealand, water swirls clockwise down the drain or even that the shady side of the street is always on the south. But for anyone planning a warm-weather winter vacation, the important fact is that the seasons are also reversed near the bottom of the world.In what travel writer James Michener has called "probably the most beautiful place on earth," spring turns into summer by December. In New Zealand's top resort area, the South Island's Queenstown, typical January temperatures hover in the 70s, and leaf season doesn't begin until March.

Zourie H.W. Clark, a former Army nurse who turned her military health training into a lifelong calling, died of cancer at her home in Queenstown on Wednesday. The one-time resident of Baltimore and Severna Park was 79. Known to friends as "Dolly," Zourie Wentz was born and raised in East Baltimore before she moved with her family to the Ten Hills section of the city as a teen-ager and graduated from Friends School on Charles Street in 1941. She attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Va., but cut her education short at the outbreak of World War II to enlist in the Army, serving as a nurse at Camp Lee, Va. It was to be the beginning of a long affiliation with the craft of care-giving.

QUEENSTOWN -- Dave Quelland, the reigning Middle Atlantic PGA section champion, added a major title to his resume yesterday when he handed Glen Barrett his second final-round loss over three years in the annual match-play championship, 6 and 5, at Queenstown Harbor Golf Links.Aside from a four-hole stretch in the middle of the morning round, Quelland, head professional at Ocean City Yacht & Golf Club, played the other 14 in 1 under par in building a 3-up lead. Winds were blowing 35-40 mph during play, throwing both players off stride while setting up for shots, and as Quelland said at the break, "I feel like I played 36 already."

Norah Elizabeth Zimmerman, an Eastern Shore resident and former Red Cross volunteer in several countries, died of cancer Thursday at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. She was 69.A memorial service for Mrs. Zimmerman will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Luke's Episcopal Chapel in Queenstown.The former Norah Zund was born in London, England, and returned to her parents' home in Switzerland as an infant. Her parents moved to the New York City area when she was 3, and she grew up there.

Joseph William Zwobot, a retired construction engineer who had worked in Baltimore shipyards during World War II, died of emphysema Wednesday at his Queenstown home. He was 83. Mr. Zwobot was born and raised in Union City, N.J., and was a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., where he earned a bachelor's degree in engineering. During the war, Mr. Zwobot worked at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Fairfield shipyard, building Liberty ships. Because of his knowledge of structural steel beams, his co-workers gave him the nickname "Girder."

Glen Burnie man found fatally shot in Annapolis ANNAPOLIS -- A 33-year-old Glen Burnie man was shot to death early yesterday in the 1800 block of Bowman Court, police said. Officers responding to a report of gunfire shortly after 4 a.m. found Shaamgaudd Allah Bates, who had suffered a gunshot wound to the back of his head, police said. Bates, of the 800 block of Budding Branch Road, was taken to Anne Arundel Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The shooting is under investigation.

William John Giacofci, a Queen Anne's County lawyer and artist, died of a heart attack Thursday at his Centreville home. He was 64. Mr. Giacofci was born in Washington and raised in Silver Spring. He was a 1960 graduate of Gonzaga High School and earned a bachelor's degree in foreign languages from Boston College in 1963. After earning his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1966, he served in the Peace Corps for three years as a legal adviser to Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, according to his family.

The Chesapeake Bay manatee appeared cornered last night in a shallow cove along Little Queenstown Creek as a team of marine mammal rescuers tried to end a nearly weeklong game of hide-and-seek.But appearances proved as deceiving as the creature.As dozens of spectators -- many of them children -- watched from the shoreline at sundown and swimmers tried to close in with a net, the manatee got away again."He must have nosed his way underneath the lead line," said John Gill, an official with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

QUEENSTOWN - The serenity is all on the surface in this unspoiled Eastern Shore enclave tucked between two busy highways. Inside Potter's Pantry, where owner Nicole Potter serves lunch and breakfast, passions are running high. She worries that the 300-year-old town will be transformed into yet another sprawling suburb like Kent Island, which she calls "Kent Burnie." Across Main Street in Town Hall, the municipal government is weighing plans to annex more than 450 acres so a developer can build more than 900 houses and increase the town's population of 600 nearly fivefold.