Sarah

On July 4, 2003, SARAH. Visitation Monday 2 to 8 P.M. 2140 N. Fulton Avenue. Family will receive friends on Tuesday 10:30 with funeral to follow.

On March 3, 2004, EUGENE A. and SARAH (nee Nealon) HOPKINS, of Bel Air; beloved parents of Eugene T. Hopkins, Maureen A. Ames, John A. Hopkins and Kathleen A. Anderson; loving sister of Thomas Nealon; dear grandparents of eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Family will receive friends at the family owned Evans Funeral Chapel-Bel Air, 3 Newport Drive (routes 23 and 24 - Forest Hill), on Friday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M., with a Christian Wake Service at 2 P.M. A Funeral Liturgy will be held on Saturday, 10:30 A.M., at St. Margaret Catholic Church.

When I was first asked to be Sarah's godfather, I was completely baffled."It's supposed to be an honor," Sarah's mother, Karen, told me on the phone. "It's a great privilege."It was a privilege, however, that I knew nothing about.Is it like in the movie? I asked."What movie?" Karen said."The Godfather," I said. Where Marlon Brando plays Vito Corleone and Sonny gets shot at the toll booth and Michael becomes The Godfather and Luca Brazzi sleeps with the fishes."Maybe we'll ask our second choice," Karen said.

Sarah Magladery Lamont, a Baltimore-born owner of an office interior landscape business in Canada, died of cancer Friday at Uxbridge Cottage Hospital in Ontario. She was 55 and had formerly lived in Northeast Baltimore. Sarah Magladery was the daughter of Dr. John W. Magladery, a Johns Hopkins neurologist, and Virginia Lane Magladery, a social worker. She was raised in Towson, attended the Friends School and was a 1970 Bryn Mawr School graduate. She earned a bachelor's degree at Douglass College at Rutgers University.

Sarah Cockey Houck, a homemaker who enjoyed entertaining family and friends, died of heart failure Thursday at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center. She was 91. She was born Sarah Cockey and raised in Monkton. Her maternal grandfather, Samuel Miller, was the owner of several Monkton businesses, including an old hotel that still stands near the former Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, now the Northern Central hiking-biking trail. Mrs. Houck also was a member of another old Baltimore County family - the Cockeys, founders of Cockeysville.

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?"

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

SARAH, PLAIN and Tall" paints a simple, rich portrait of love and family, using a series of vignettes as an artist would delicate strokes of the brush to fill its canvas with touching, realistic warmth.Based on the Newbery Medal-winning novella by Patricia MacLachlan, who co-authored the screenplay, this CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation tells of a Kansas farmer, a widower named Jacob, who advertises for a wife to help him raise his young daughter and son. Sarah, a proud woman from a fishing family in Maine, answers.

SARAH BLAIR has probably seen too much for a 16-year-old girl.Her mother has gone through two divorces. She has seen her family's disputes covered by the newspapers. She, along with her mother, was evicted from her home. She has sat through more court proceedings in the past two years than many lawyers who practice in Carroll County.Despite these burdens, the junior at Westminster High seems to wear a smile all the time. When Sarah was a baby, she was given the nickname "Sunshine." It still fits because her smile is as bright as the noonday sun.We have all seen the made-for-television movies about the children of divorced parents who misbehave, get into drugs and alcohol, drop out of school and end up with miserable lives.

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.