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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter | March 17, 2011
Madeline A. "Susie" Loyal, a retired Social Security Administration worker, died March 7 of respiratory failure at Northwest Hospital. She was 71. Madeline Ametra McDuffie was born in Bennettsville, S.C. She attended the Laurinburg Institute in Laurinburg, N.C., before moving to Baltimore, where she graduated in 1958 from Dunbar High School. While at Dunbar, she played the clarinet and was a member of the school's marching band. She attended what is now Morgan State University.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter | January 12, 2011
Edward Jonas, a retired diesel mechanic and World War II Navy veteran, died Jan. 4 of respiratory failure at his Auburn, Calif., home. He was 87. Mr. Jonas was born and raised in Richwood, W.Va., where he attended high school. He enlisted in the Navy in January 1941 and during his wartime career served on three ships — and survived the sinking of two of them. Mr. Jonas was assigned to the powder magazine of the cruiser USS Quincy, which sank in August 1942 during the Battle of Savo Island in the Pacific.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | October 6, 2010
Laura L. Levering, a homemaker and traveler, died Sept. 27 of respiratory failure at her daughter's home in The Plains, Va. She was 87. Laura Louise La Montagne, the daughter of a wine importer and a homemaker, was born in New York City. She later moved to Guilford with her family. She attended Greenwood School and graduated in 1940 from the Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Greenwich, Conn. She later made her debut at the Bachelors Cotillon. In 1957, she married J.P. Wade Levering, who was president and chief executive of National Sash Weight Corp.
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November 1, 2004
Charles H. Stein, 76, Co-founder, chairman and chief executive of the Hardwicke Cos., which built Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., and operated well-known restaurants such as Tavern on the Green and Maxwell's Plum in Manhattan, died Oct. 10 of respiratory failure in Miami Beach, Fla.