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Five men were shot - two of them fatally - in two separate incidents in the city last night, police said. About 10:30 p.m., three men were standing in the 4100 block of Old York Road, near Rose Hill Terrace, when they were shot, reportedly by a man who sped off in a green Ford Expedition, police said. One man died at the scene, a second was taken to Sinai Hospital and the third, who was shot in a hand, drove himself to Union Memorial Hospital, police said. Twenty minutes later, two men were standing near Durham and Federal streets in East Baltimore when they were shot by an unknown assailant.

Elizabeth Marie Bridygham, a companion to the elderly and a former hospital employee, died of a heart attack Thursday at Howard County General Hospital. She was 62 and lived in Ellicott City. Elizabeth Stevens was born in Smithsburg, Washington County, where she graduated from Smithsburg High School in 1960 and married Jack Mongan shortly afterward. After he was killed in an car accident in 1966, she and her parents moved to Southwest Baltimore, said her son, Kirk Bridygham of Columbia.

On December 30, 2003, in Towson, Md. LENNA B. KALTREIDER, wife of the late Dr. D. Frank Kaltreider, and sister of Dorothy Moeller of Cockeysville, Md. Also survived by two sons, Kurt Kaltreider and D. Frank Kaltreider II and one daughter, Leigh K. McClure, eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Lenna was born in Cambridge, MD on May 24, 1913. She graduated in 1935 from the School of Nursing at Union Memorial Hospital. A Memorial Reception will be held at Edenwald in Towson, MD on Sat, Jan 24 3-5 pm. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to WBJC, 2901 Liberty Hgts.

Lila Boyce Emory, a community volunteer who was a former board president of Union Memorial Hospital, died Tuesday of Alzheimer's disease at the Blakehurst Retirement Community. The former North Baltimore resident was 81. Born Lila Halliday Jones in St. Louis, she studied English and history at Vassar College, where a friend from Baltimore introduced her to her future husband, Charles Meredith Boyce, whom she married in 1942. Mr. Boyce, an investment banker, served on Baltimore's City Council and as city treasurer, and was president of Robert Garrett and Sons at his death in 1969.

The Anne Arundel County Police Department released yesterday the name of the officer who they said accidentally shot a pregnant woman in the right hand during a weapons search at a home early Wednesday. Officer James Phillips, a 14-year veteran, will be on administrative leave during a departmental review of the shooting, said Lt. Joseph Jordan. That action follows departmental procedures for all shootings involving officers, Jordan said. Phillips, a member of the special operations unit, accidentally fired his weapon while officers searched a home in Pioneer City about 4 a.m. Wednesday, police said.

William H.M. Finney, a retired neurosurgeon who was known not only for his technical expertise, but for his commitment to public health, died Thursday after an apparent heart attack while driving near his home in Towson. He was 79. Dr. Finney was an expert on back injuries and performed hundreds of disc operations during his career. He also helped start Shepherd's Clinic, a low-cost treatment center for Baltimore's working poor. "He was one of the last of the old breed of doctors, who gave their lives completely to the field," said his longtime friend and colleague, Union Memorial Hospital surgeon Dr. William Howard.

John E. Weidemuller, founder and president of Weidemuller Construction Co., a Baltimore-based heavy construction company, died Saturday at Union Memorial Hospital of complications from a fall. He was 86 and lived in the city's Guilford section. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, he earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from University of Pittsburgh in 1937. Mr. Weidemuller began his career with the Army Corps of Engineers and, during World War II, worked for Koppers Co., revamping closed steel mills that were needed for the war effort.

Lorenz E. Jefferson: A memorial service for Lorenz E. Jefferson, who co-owned a canvas awning business, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Loyola College Chapel, 4501 N. Charles St. Mr. Jefferson, who was 91 and lived in Towson, died Aug. 18 at Union Memorial Hospital.

Evelyn Sharp McLanahan, a former teacher and homemaker who had been active on several boards, died of pneumonia Thursday at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. She was 97. A resident of Broadmead since 1979, Mrs. McLanahan formerly lived in Guilford for many years. Born in Baltimore and raised in Walbrook, she was the daughter of the Rev. Henry Talbot Sharp, a Confederate Army Civil War veteran and rector of the old Prince of Peace Episcopal Church in Walbrook. She was a 1922 graduate of Bryn Mawr School and earned a bachelor's degree in Romance languages from Goucher College in 1926.

A Baltimore Circuit Court jury has awarded $1.1 million to the estate and family of a 45-year-old Johns Hopkins University employee who died of a cerebral aneurysm two years ago after being wrongly diagnosed as having a sinus headache. The six-person jury found Dr. Gunta Alberts Wheeler liable late Monday afternoon for the damages, but not Union Memorial Hospital, where the doctor worked. Lawyers for Jane Tierney, the mother of Nancy J. Tierney, argued that the doctor should have recognized signs of an aneurysm and given her daughter a brain scan, which would have revealed the bleeding, according to attorney Philip C. Federico.