Sarah

On January 18, 2007, Rev. Sarah Johnson; devoted wife of James W.; loving mother of Eric D. Johnson (Kathy). She is also survived by three grandchildren, Deneen A., Donte J.W. and Danielle O. Johnson. She is also survived by nieces, nephews and a host other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Wednesday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends Thursday at Gillis Memorial C.C. Church, 4616 Park Heights Avenue at 10 A.M. with funeral service to follow at 11.

Twenty-one-month-old Sarah Lorentson made a speedy recovery after she nearly drowned when she fell into the family pool in Eldersburg, family members said yesterday. On June 22, her 14-year-old brother, Jacob Lorentson, pulled her out of the pool, and her mother and a neighbor performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation until emergency workers arrived. "You would have never known anything had happened two days before," said Jacob, describing how his sister had splashed in the bath and played with other children at her cousin's baptism just days after the accident.

Motherly -- and grandmotherly -- intuition mixed with a bit of divine intervention proved to be the formula for love for Sarah Wicklein and Russ Bowman.In fact, Russ had an early inkling about the outcome of their relationship. His grandmother, Addie Jewell, told Russ long ago that he would meet his wife in church.Church has always been a second home to Sarah, daughter of a minister -- and a "preacher's kid" if there ever was one, she admits with a mischievous giggle.In the spring of 1996, her father, the Rev. Jarrett T. Wicklein, became pastor of Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church in Baltimore.

There was more to Monica Lewinsky's relationship with President Clinton than furtive assignations and stupid cigar tricks. There was also talk of higher things, of poetry and music and how works of art can embody a person's brightest hopes and deepest feelings.Lewinsky in particular paid attention to the deeper significance of things. As she told the grand jury later, when the president gave her a special-edition printing of Walt Whitman's book "Leaves of Grass," she felt it was "the most sentimental gift he had given me it meant a lot to me."

It was a familiar story for many."Sarah" had been in kindergarten just a few months when teachers told her parents that she just wasn't interested in classroom activities. By first grade, she was telling her mother she didn't want to go to school anymore. By second grade, she felt like "a dummy," and frequently cried or complained of stomachaches in class.Halfway through third grade, Sarah's parents hired a tutor in an effort to turn around her falling grades.Although she had been screened before for learning disabilities with no definite results, the school tested her again -- this time finding that the problem was dyslexia and likely had been all along.

St. Agnes HealthCare has agreed to pay $2.1 million to a Manchester couple whose daughter has cerebral palsy and cannot talk, allegedly because of negligent care when she was born at the hospital in 1977.William and Kathleen Hartig will receive a lump sum payment of $1.3 million and periodic payments to help care for their 21-year-old daughter Sarah, as the result of a settlement agreement filed yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court.Officials at St. Agnes, in the 900 block of Caton Ave. in Southwest Baltimore, declined to comment yesterday.

WEST COLUMBIA residents Sarah Thompson and Mark Dubac will be soloists during the spring concert of the Columbia Orchestra on March 21.The musicians were finalists in the orchestra's 1997-1998 Young Artist Competition.Sarah, a cellist, will perform Boccherini's Concerto in B Flat Major, G. 482.Mark, a clarinetist, will be featured in Weber's Concertino for Clarinet, Op. 26.An eighth-grader at Harper's Choice Middle School, Sarah has studied with Evelyn Elsing for the past year through the Levine School of Music in Washington.

They understand us perfectly. They entertain us. They know when we're happy and when we're sad. They have a sense of humor, and they know what tickles us. They listen well. They obey (well, mostly). They are Very Good Dogs.And their Devoted People are the first to say so.Devoted People, even those with high-profile lives and frantic schedules, go to extraordinary efforts to make sure their dogs are happy. How far will they go? Think trans-Atlantic travel and cat companions. Think accessories from Paris and "cookies" on demand.

At first, Frosty showed no fear.A common, gray and white household cat, he was competing against some of the finest and most expensive breeds at the Mason-Dixon cat show in Pikesville yesterday -- Persians, Maine coons, Scottish folds, Cornish rexes -- cats costing thousands of dollars.But in the world of cat contests, all felines are created equal, even cats like Frosty, who was found in a trash bin behind a Baltimore pet hospital four years ago and worked his way up to become one of the tip-top cats in the Mid-Atlantic.

FOR WEEKS before the Passover Seder, I drilled my daughter on the first of the Four Questions. Almost 2 years old and talking for only five months, Sarah was so confident with the few words she knew that I was sure she could wrestle with the gnarled Hebrew, giving it an unexpected softness, expansiveness and grace.I would get a pleasure from hearing her. My parents who, as usual, were hosting the Seder, would be relieved that the tradition of the youngest, the very youngest, reciting at least one of the questions was living on.Sarah repeated the ancient Hebrew words after me in her delicate voice just mustering its own color and character.

Sarah (nee Kitzes) Berkowitz, Funeral services Tuesday, June 16 in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Memorial contributions may be directed to the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, 4725 Dorsey Hall Drive, Ellicott City, Maryland 21042 www.ulmancancerfund.org

On February 10, 2009 SARAH . Loving wife of the late Eugene Billups, three sons Lee Moore, Jeffery and Charles Billups, six sister, one brother, a host of nieces and nephews other relatives and friends. Friends may visit at the Gary P. March Funeral Home, 270 Fred Hilton Pass on Monday 11 A.M. to 7 P.M. Family will receiv e friends at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, 2201 Garrison Blvd. on Tuesday from 10:30 to 11 A.M. with home Going Services immediately following. Interment Arbutus Memorial Park.

Sarah Price may have had her scrubs on, but she was not prepared to operate. The 6-year-old who won a contest to name the new surgical robot at Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie shook her head vigorously from side to side when the nurse asked her if she wanted to practice using "Poppy". The nurses soon coaxed Sarah to climb into the chair, peer through the viewfinder and thread her thumbs and index fingers through the loops on the fingertip controls. By pinching her fingers together and moving her wrists, she could manipulate the tiny clippers on the arms of the $1.7 million robot to grab rubber loops and place them on small rubber cones.

On September 14, 2008, SARAH RUSSELL BUTTNER; beloved wife of W. Douglas Buttner; devoted mother of Sarah Loring Buttner, Eleanor Hollingsworth Buttner and her partner Christian Anderson, Susan Buttner Gleason and her husband Peter and the late Douglas R. Buttner; dear sister of Eleanor Russell Wagner; loving grandmother of Douglas Alexander Brunner, Kyle Choi Buttner Gleason and Kaitlin Sarah Jee Gleason. Friends may call at the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook)

On September 9, 2008, SARAH S., wife of Bobby Taylor. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Monday after 8 A.M. The family will receive friends at Grace Baptist Church, 3201 The Alameda on Tuesday at 10:30 A.M. Funeral will follow at 11 A.M.

Sometimes, as we all know, it's better to be lucky than good. The most compelling, contemporary case in point: Sen. John McCain. He wanted his buddy, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, to be his running mate. Wasn't happening. The former Democrat from Connecticut is pro-abortion rights. A conservative, right-to-life GOP, already shaky, might have disintegrated. Enter Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska, who initially prompted a reaction reminiscent of the famous cry, four decades ago, of "Spiro who?"

On August 29, 2008, SARAH FAITH JENKINS. On Thursday, friends may call Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services (EAST), 4905 York Road, where the family will receive friends from 3 to 8 P.M. On Friday, services will be held at Ames Memorial United Methodist, 615 Baker Street, where the family will receive friend from 10:30 to 11 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to: (410) 433-7500.

On July 18, 2008, SARAH; wife of Juness. She also leaves to mourn two sons, Jerome and Junius, two daughters, Serrina Boone and Barbara Footman, and a host of other family members and friends. Friends may call First Abyssemia Baptist Church, 2500 Arunah Avenue on Friday from 6 to 8 P.M. Family will receive friends on Saturday 10 A.M. Wake, 10:30 A.M. funeral service at Perkins Square Baptist Church, 2500 Edmondson Avenue. Inquiries at www.wyliefuneralhome.com.

FORTY IS the last age a woman can be photographed in a wedding dress without the unintended Diane Arbus subtext," says somebody in the new movie version of Sex and the City. (This got almost as big a laugh as when Sarah Jessica Parke r is handed an iPhone to make an emergency call. She looks at it in disgust, hands it back and says, "I can't work this!") So one of the early summer's big hits, Sex and the City is fading a bit. The movie broke records in its first weekend, a whopping $57 million.

On February 12, 2008, SARAH S. McWAYNE. Friends may call at the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Tuesday after 8:30A.M. where the family will receive friends on Wednesday at 10:00A.M. Funeral services will follow at 10:30A.M.