Taliaferro

On August 15, 2008 MICHAEL BERNARD, beloved husband of Carla Taliaferro and devoted father of Chase Theodore and Owen Michael Taliaferro. He is also survived by his mother, Ardalia J. Taliaferro, a sister Lori Taliaferro of New York, mother and father in law, Loraine and Dr. Ernest Brown, sister in law, Wanda Brown, other relatives and friends. Friends may visit JAMES A. MORTON & SONS FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1701 Laurens Street, Friday 4-8:00 P.M. Funeral Services Saturday at Columbia Community Church, 8516 Thomas William Way, Columbia, MD. The family will receive friends 10:00 to 11:00 A.M. Funeral Services will follow immediately.

Emily T. Taliaferro, an artist and former Friends School tennis coach, died of stroke complications April 2 at Roland Park Place. She was 82. Born in Baltimore, she was the daughter of Raymond S. Tompkins, a Sun reporter and later an official of Baltimore's streetcar utility, United Railways, and Marie Lanning, whom he met in Alabama while awaiting a departure to France to cover World War I. She lived as a child at the Lombardy Apartments and...

On December 26, 2006, VERNON THADDEUS TALIAFERRO. On Tuesday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (WEST), 5151 Baltimore National Pike, from 4 to 8 P.M. On Wednesday, Mr. Taliaferro will lie instate at the Rehoboth International Covenant Church, 9016 Liberty Road, where the family will receive friends from 12 to 12:30 P.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

Frank Taliaferro, a founder and former chairman of the RTKL architects recalled as the "soul" of that firm, died of lung cancer Saturday at his Santa Monica, Calif., home. The former resident of Harwood in Anne Arundel County was 89. Remembered as a mentor to numerous designers at RTKL, Mr. Taliaferro led architects who refined old retail strip centers and finessed them into shopping malls, including Harundale in Glen Burnie and Paramus Park in New Jersey, known for its early food court.

John C. Taliaferro III, a retired vice president of sales and international operations at an upstate New York pump manufacturer, died Nov. 7 of pneumonia at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 91. Mr. Taliaferro was born in Baltimore and raised in Bolton Hill. He was a 1935 graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., and earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Harvard College in 1939.

Jean M. Taliaferro, a homemaker and antiques collector, died of heart failure Tuesday at Brightwood Center in Lutherville. She was a month from celebrating her 100th birthday. Jean McLanahan was born in Baltimore and raised at her family's estate, Ruscombe Mansion, which dated to 1866 and stood near what is today's Cylburn Arboretum. She was a 1925 graduate of Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Va. She was married in 1930 to Francis C. Taliaferro, and for 50 years lived at historic Stemmer House in Owings Mills.

COLLEGE PARK -- Sophomore Tricia Taliaferro scored on a penalty kick with 3:11 remaining in overtime to draw No. 18 Maryland to a 2-2 tie with Princeton in a women's soccer game yesterday at Denton Field. The Terps are 13-3-2.Jen Naylor scored at 28:12 of the first half to give Princeton (2-10-1) a 1-0 lead. Taliaferro tied it at 81:50.Princeton's Dauphine Barnes scored at 99:59 for a 2-1 overtime lead, but Taliaferro tied it on a penalty kick after a hand ball by Princeton.

Eighth-grader Janay Castle has taken the practice Maryland Functional Math Test at least four times on this day from her seat in the computer lab at Baltimore's Lombard Middle School. Twice, she passed. Twice, she didn't. Now, she has decided to take the exam once more -- this time, for real. "You sure?" asks Michael Smith, one of two eighth-grade math teachers at Lombard who have been spearheading an end-of-year push to raise the pass rate on the mandatory state exam. "I'm not trying to make you nervous."

Local fight promoter Stuart Satosky will put on an ESPN boxing show at Teamsters Hall on July 21, featuring unbeaten heavyweight David Tua of New Zealand and No. 1 lightweight contender Ivan Robinson of Philadelphia in a pair of 10-round bouts.Tua, an Olympic bronze medalist in 1992, has won 19 of his 23 professional fights by knockouts. Most recently, the 220-pound native of Samoa stopped John Ruiz in the first round March 15.Trained by Lou Duva, Tua owns the WBC Intercontinental title. He is expected to fight Jimmy Haynes (11-2-1)

Anne W. Taliaferro, 81 occupational therapist Anne W. Taliaferro, a retired occupational therapist and avid gardener, died Sunday of respiratory failure at her daughter's home in Oxford, Pa. She was 81 and lived in Stoneleigh. Mrs. Taliaferro retired in the mid-1980s from Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, where she had worked in the occupational therapy department. Born Anne Weyrich in Baltimore, she was raised in Windsor Hills and South Amboy, N.J. She graduated in 1937 from the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and earned her bachelor's degree in occupational therapy from Columbia University.

John C. Taliaferro III, a retired vice president of sales and international operations at an upstate New York pump manufacturer, died Nov. 7 of pneumonia at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 91. Mr. Taliaferro was born in Baltimore and raised in Bolton Hill. He was a 1935 graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., and earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Harvard College in 1939.

On August 15, 2008 MICHAEL BERNARD, beloved husband of Carla Taliaferro and devoted father of Chase Theodore and Owen Michael Taliaferro. He is also survived by his mother, Ardalia J. Taliaferro, a sister Lori Taliaferro of New York, mother and father in law, Loraine and Dr. Ernest Brown, sister in law, Wanda Brown, other relatives and friends. Friends may visit JAMES A. MORTON & SONS FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1701 Laurens Street, Friday 4-8:00 P.M. Funeral Services Saturday at Columbia Community Church, 8516 Thomas William Way, Columbia, MD. The family will receive friends 10:00 to 11:00 A.M. Funeral Services will follow immediately.

Ninety-one-year-old Mary Taliaferro's last living friend lives in Hawaii. To stay in touch with her, Taliaferro has opened a Gmail account and is slowly but surely conquering the new-to-her world of electronic messaging. It's slow going: Until this fall, Taliaferro didn't know what "sign ons" or "screen names" were. "I really wasn't too interested," Taliaferro said of learning how to use e-mail at this late stage. "But I wanted to see what goes on today. My children are all on this stuff.

Jean M. Taliaferro, a homemaker and antiques collector, died of heart failure Tuesday at Brightwood Center in Lutherville. She was a month from celebrating her 100th birthday. Jean McLanahan was born in Baltimore and raised at her family's estate, Ruscombe Mansion, which dated to 1866 and stood near what is today's Cylburn Arboretum. She was a 1925 graduate of Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Va. She was married in 1930 to Francis C. Taliaferro, and for 50 years lived at historic Stemmer House in Owings Mills.

On December 26, 2006, VERNON THADDEUS TALIAFERRO. On Tuesday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (WEST), 5151 Baltimore National Pike, from 4 to 8 P.M. On Wednesday, Mr. Taliaferro will lie instate at the Rehoboth International Covenant Church, 9016 Liberty Road, where the family will receive friends from 12 to 12:30 P.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

A bay is expected to have boats, but the Chesapeake is attaining more and more distinction for its books. True, no Pulitzer Prizes since 1977 (William Warner's Beautiful Swimmers), but by now a private, comprehensive bay library would pile higher than many a mast. Your latest need is Window on the Chesapeake: The Bay, Its People and Places, by Wendy Mitman Clarke (Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va., 152 pages, $24.95). Window ties into the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network, a Clinton-era assemblage of 100-plus parks, wildlife refuges, museums, ancient settlements and water trails, under National Park Service aegis.

Ninety-one-year-old Mary Taliaferro's last living friend lives in Hawaii. To stay in touch with her, Taliaferro has opened a Gmail account and is slowly but surely conquering the new-to-her world of electronic messaging. It's slow going: Until this fall, Taliaferro didn't know what "sign ons" or "screen names" were. "I really wasn't too interested," Taliaferro said of learning how to use e-mail at this late stage. "But I wanted to see what goes on today. My children are all on this stuff.

Eighth-grader Janay Castle has taken the practice Maryland Functional Math Test at least four times on this day from her seat in the computer lab at Baltimore's Lombard Middle School. Twice, she passed. Twice, she didn't. Now, she has decided to take the exam once more -- this time, for real. "You sure?" asks Michael Smith, one of two eighth-grade math teachers at Lombard who have been spearheading an end-of-year push to raise the pass rate on the mandatory state exam. "I'm not trying to make you nervous."