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Mary Ellen Reno, a well-known Walters Art Museum docent and world traveler who relished sharing her enthusiasm and appreciation for Asian art with gallery visitors, died of lung cancer Saturday at her Towson home. She was 69. She was born Mary Ellen Klock in Rochester, N.Y., and raised in Verona, N.J., and Chambersburg, Pa., where she graduated from high school in 1952. After earning a degree in French from Bryn Mawr College in 1956, she taught school for a year in Devon, Pa. In 1957, she married Russell R. Reno Jr., a lawyer and partner in the Baltimore law firm of Venable LLP. While raising her four children, Mrs. Reno worked during the 1980s as a part-time tour guide for the now-defunct Baltimore Rent-A-Tour, which provided tours of the area for visiting conventions and guests attending meetings.

On Wednesday February 25, 2004, DR. JEROME "JERRY" MAHONEY; passed away at his residence in Reno, NV. He was 68. He was born on November 6, 1935 in Illinois to Jeremiah and Blanche Mc Kenna Mahoney. He moved to this area in 1974 from Vanderberg Air Force Base in California. Jerry was an OBGYN Medical Doctor practicing for 30 years in the Reno area. He graduated in 1953 from Loyola Blakefield College, in 1957 from Loyola College and in 1961 graduated from University of Maryland Medical School.

VISITORS MAY be dazzled by the animated light displays at Symphony of Lights in the woods surrounding Merriweather Post Pavilion. But a tour through the displays Dec. 18 was truly magical for Stacey Palmer and Reno Lynch of Parkville. After seeing Santa on his sleigh and reindeer frolicking in the grass, a sign caught Stacey Palmer's eye. It read: "Stacey, will you marry me?" Lynch, an Air Force staff sergeant, planned the proposal in Korea, where he is stationed for a year. "We went to the Symphony of Lights on our first date, six years ago," he said.

There are times when Janet Reno has to be told to speak up, when her left hand shakes uncontrollably and when she tires too soon. But the former U.S. attorney general says Parkinson's disease has not kept her from kayaking, hiking and running for governor of Florida. And that was the point of her appearance in Baltimore yesterday -- to emphasize that a disease known for its debilitating effects isn't that way for everyone. Reno recounted her experiences with Parkinson's for about 300 fellow Parkinson's patients, doctors and nurses yesterday at a forum sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Katherine N. Reno died at Fairhaven, on Monday, August, 4, 2003. Mrs. Reno donated her body to the MD Anatomy Board. A Memorial Service will be held at Fairhaven on Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 2:30 PM and on Saturday, November 29, 2003, Church of Redeemer. In lieu of flowers please send memorials, The Chimes, Inc., 4815 Seton Dr, Balto, MD 21215, or Fairhaven Resident Assistance Fund Co, Fairhaven, 7200 3rd Ave Sykesville, MD 21784.

Katherine N. Reno, a special education teacher who became director of The Chimes Inc., a nonprofit corporation providing services to mentally challenged children and adults, died of pneumonia Monday at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville. The former Towson resident was 98. Born and raised Katherine Narcissus White in Urbana, Ill., she earned her bachelor's degree in music education in 1927 from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She was married that year to Russell R. Reno Sr. Her husband, who taught for 36 years at the University of Maryland School of Law, died in 1991.

Those who like their humor tart and topical will have reason to laugh when two nationally known comedy acts take the stage at the Columbia Festival of the Arts this week and next. Subjects from divorce to the war in Iraq are fodder for The Second City, a comedy troupe that will perform improvisational scenes and comedy skits today and tomorrow. Current events also provide material for Reno, who will perform her show Rebel Without a Pause: Unrestrained Reflections on September 11 on June 26. "We want international and national high-quality artists," said Ronald Schimel, president of the festival's board of trustees.

Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno did not set out to be a female pioneer in the male-dominated world of law and politics. But there are a few female firsts on her resume that are worth highlighting. She was in one of the first coed classes at Harvard Law School, was the first woman to serve as Florida's state attorney in Dade County, and remains the only woman ever appointed U.S. attorney general. She held the position for eight years, the longest tenure for any attorney general since the Eisenhower administration.

RENO, Nev. - Early in the 20th century, when Las Vegas was just a wide spot on a road in the desert, Reno was Nevada's Sin City, known for its saloons, gambling houses and a new gadget - the slot machine. Slots were so plentiful in Reno about 100 years ago that the city had a licensing requirement for them. But the slots went underground in 1910, when Nevada outlawed gambling, only to re-emerge in 1931, during the Depression, when the cash-starved state legalized wagering. By 1940, a legion of the one-armed pickpockets worked Reno's casinos generating big profits for casino owners.