Registered Nurse

Services for Dorothy Adair, a registered nurse who worked for many years in her husband's dental office, will be held at noon today at the Mitchell-Wiedefeld Home, 6500 York Road.Mrs. Adair, who had lived at Roland Park Place for five years, died there Tuesday after a series of strokes. She was 87.For 27 years before the 1982 retirement and death of her husband, Dr. William V. Adair, she worked in his Towson office. Earlier, she had worked in Dr. Adair's Forest Park office.The former Dorothy Peddicord was born in Baltimore.

Around town Blood pressure screenings Stop in from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays at the Ellicott City Senior Center, 9401 Frederick Road, for free blood pressure readings by a registered nurse. Information: 410-313-1425. English conversation The Miller branch of the Howard County Public Library, 9421 Frederick Road, offers "Let's Get Together: English Conversation Club," a chance for those for whom English is a second language to practice speaking and understanding English in a group setting.

Richard Craig Slaysman, who worked as a registered nurse for more than a decade, died Tuesday at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air after an extended illness caused by complications from diabetes. He was 56 and lived in Abingdon. He grew up in Hebbville and graduated from Woodlawn High School in 1967. He went on to Baltimore City Community College, where he earned an associate's degree in nursing, and the University of Baltimore, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration.

Dale and Deborah Tobin of Havre de Grace announce the engagement of their daughter, Diana "Shelly" Tobin to Michael W. Shenk, son of Dee Hewitt of Havre de Grace and Woodrow Shenk of Conowingo. Tobin is a 2006 graduate of Havre de Grace High School and a 2012 graduate of Harford Community College with a degree in nursing. She is a registered nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital in Towson. Shenk is a 2000 graduate of Havre de Grace High School and is an electronic technician with Intelect Corporation in Baltimore.

Mary Ann Metcalfe, a registered nurse whose career at St. Agnes Hospital spanned nearly 40 years, died Nov. 19 of complications from a stroke at Joseph Richey Hospice. The Violetville resident was 82. Mary Ann Hearn was born and raised in Asheville, N.C. After graduating from Lee H. Edwards High School, she enlisted in the Army Cadet Nurse Corps. She received her training at the St. Agnes Hospital School of Nursing, from which she graduated in 1946. Mrs. Metcalfe began working at the hospital and as a private-duty nurse.

Linda L. Cosby, a retired registered nurse who owned and operated a Baltimore County case management company, died June 9 of pneumonia at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Arnold resident was 66. Linda Lee Cosby was born in Southhampton on Long Island, N.Y., and raised in Towson. After graduating from Towson Catholic High School in 1960, she earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from Catholic University of America in 1964. She also did graduate studies in community nursing at the University of California at Los Angeles in the mid-1970s.

Frances Virginia Dentry, a retired registered nurse and family historian, died of cancer Nov. 20 at her Towson home. She was 88. Born Frances Virginia Bortner in Baltimore and raised on a family farm in White Hall, she was a 1937 Sparks High School graduate. She then earned a nursing degree from the St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing. She raised her family - six sons and two daughters - in a large Victorian home in Corbett in northern Baltimore County. In the mid-1960s, she resumed nursing and initially worked at the Masonic Home of Maryland.

Grace W. Mitchell, whose nursing career spanned nearly 50 years, died July 3 after a long illness at the Keswick Home. She was 79.Born in Chestertown, the former Grace Wright was educated in public schools. She graduated from Easton's Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1930.She worked as a registered nurse until 1931, when she married James W. Mitchell. After her husband's death in 1942, Mrs. Mitchell worked as a nurse for McCormick & Co. In 1943, she moved to the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, where she was a nurse for 15 years.

Chuck Beck and Ashley Williams are engaged. Both are graduates of Harford Tech, where they met. Beck is a member of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 486 while Williams is a registered nurse at Franklin Square Hospital. Beck is the sone of Charles and Darlene Beck and Williams is the daughter of Daniel and Debbie Williams. An April wedding is planned with a reception at the Del Capri in Dundalk. The couple will honeymoon in Jamaica.

Anne G. Karlsen, a registered nurse who had worked for the Baltimore County Health Department, died Jan. 25 of heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 86. Anne Bradford Grafflin was born in Baltimore and spent her early years on Wilson Street in Bolton Hill, before moving in 1934 to the Dixon Hill neighborhood in Mount Washington. After graduating from Western High School in 1945, she attended Baltimore Business College and later that year went to work as a mail sorter in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's downtown freight office.

Rosalie A. "Rosie" Fonner, a registered nurse who had worked for several decades in the mother-baby unit at University of Maryland Medical Center, where she relished her role as an advocate, died Feb. 3 of cancer at her Halethorpe home. She was 62. "Rosie was an incredible advocate for moms who were disadvantaged by addiction or their social situation. She would encourage them that they could be good moms," said the Rev. David Harness, a Church of God pastor who is one of the medical center's chaplains.