Secretary

SYKESVILLE--The Town Council voted Monday to approve the hiring of a new secretary for the Town Hall office.The council approved the hiring of Verna-Leigh Krauf, of Finksburg. She began work on Oct. 16.Krauf takes over for former town secretary Sue Augerinos.

SALISBURY -- The young student secretary said she knew it would take more than white-out to correct her typing and spelling errors when she worked for lawyer George J. Goldsborough Jr.When she made mistakes -- and there were many, she acknowledged -- Mr. Goldsborough would put her over his knees and spank her, sometimes bare bottomed."

Harriett M. Little, who had been assistant secretary to four chairmen of the old United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co, died Dec. 18 of cancer at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. Mrs. Little died one day after her 88th birthday. Harriett Michelmann, the daughter of a Baltimore architect and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised on Pinehurst Road. She was a 1940 graduate of Towson High School and attended the old Maryland College for Women in Lutherville.

Roma L. Klar, a former secretary who worked in the White House during the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman and ended her career with the Peace Corps, died Friday of heart failure at Brightview Assisted-Living in Catonsville. She was 98. Roma Lee Simmers, the daughter of farmers, was born and raised in Nowata, Okla., where she graduated in 1928 from Copan High School. After graduating in 1930 from Chillicothe Business College in Chillicothe, Mo., Mrs. Klar moved to Washington and went to work as a secretary for the federal government.

Services for Kimberly Michele Heath, a secretary for the Department of Defense in Crystal City, Va., will be held at noon today at the March Funeral Home West, 4300 Wabash Ave.Miss Heath, who was 26 and lived on Carmine Avenue, was killed Tuesday in an automobile accident at Security Boulevard and InglesideAvenue.She had worked in Virginia for the Defense Department for about four years and was a former member of the Army Reserve.Born in Baltimore, she was a graduate of Woodlawn High School.

Margaret M. "Marge" Cannington, a retired secretary and avid boater and dancer, died of Alzheimer's disease May 15 at an assisted-living facility in Jennersville, Pa. The former longtime Gardenville resident was 88. Margaret Mary Tenley was born in Baltimore and raised on Washington Street. After graduating from Eastern High School in 1939, she went to work as a secretary at the old Glenn L. Martin Co. plant in Middle River. Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, she was married to Gordon Eugene "Ken" Cannington, a Marine.

A Mass of Christian burial for Geraldine Jorgensen Neale, a retired secretary and volunteer, will be offered at 9 a.m. today at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, Mount Royal and Lafayette avenues.Mrs. Neale, who was 75, died of cancer Wednesday at her home in the Versailles Apartments.She moved to Towson in 1989 with her husband of 51 years, James Francis Neale Jr. Mr. Neale, who retired as head of the Buffalo, N.Y., office of the Fidelity and Deposit Co. of Maryland, is descended from 17th-century settlers in Charles County.

Patricia K. Sauers, an executive secretary and Linthicum resident, died of leukemia Thursday at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. She was 35. Patricia Kelly Stitz was born in Baltimore and raised in Glen Burnie. She was a 1988 graduate of Andover High School and worked in property management for Allfirst Bank from 1987 to 2003. For the past two years, she had been an executive secretary at Rome Technologies in Millersville. She was an active member of the North Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses.