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Donald Fritz, a former Baltimore businessman who quit his trade to become a local tour guide and a historian for the Lacrosse Foundation and Hall of Fame at the Johns Hopkins University, died Wednesday of lung failure at Franklin Square Hospital.Mr. Fritz, who was 69 and lived in Lutherville, had been a volunteer tour guide with Baltimore Rent-A-Tour since 1980, leading bus excursions through Baltimore and Annapolis neighborhoods."It was one of his retirement activities. It was a real shot in the arm for him," said his wife, the former Patience Linker, whom he married in 1958.

William M. Shuley, 46, owned repair businessWilliam M. Shuley, a lifelong Baltimore resident and owner of a motor repair business, died of cancer Wednesday at his Southeast Baltimore home. He was 46.Early last year, Mr. Shuley founded Engine Rebuilders in South Baltimore. Since childhood he had worked for the family-run Federal Auto Parts, and was its vice president when he left to start his business.He graduated from Northern High School in 1968 and Lincoln Technical Institute in 1969. He enjoyed boating, fishing and flying private airplanes.

The Rev. Cleo Y. Boyd, 89, Baptist ministerThe Rev. Cleo Y. Boyd, a retired Baptist minister, died Dec. 12 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center of pneumonia. He was 89.Mr. Boyd, a member of the American Baptist Convention, founded several churches, took interim assignments to help struggling churches and was pastor of congregations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Jersey.Born in Toledo, Ohio, he received a bachelor of arts from Eastern Michigan University in 1931 and a bachelor of divinity degree in 1934 from the Colgate Rochester Divinity School in New York.

Olin O. Ellis Jr.Securities analystOlin O. Ellis Jr., a retired securities analyst and former Baltimore native, died Monday of complications from diabetes at his home in New York City. He was 69.He was reared in Guilford, the son of Col. O. O. Ellis Sr., who was a professor of military tactics at the Johns Hopkins University and later a Baltimore businessman.Mr. Ellis was a 1942 graduate of Boys' Latin School. He entered Princeton University but left to join the Army Air Corps in 1943. He served as a navigator aboard B-17 Flying Fortresses with the 490th Bomber Group of the Eighth Air Force on bombing missions over Germany.

Lygia Moore Wilson, who taught music at McDonogh School, died Nov. 5 after a stroke at Keswick, where she had lived for more than two years.She was 88 and had lived in Roland Park for many years.She retired in 1970 after teaching piano and music appreciation at McDonogh's Lower School for 25 years.John Sieverts, a 1963 graduate and the school's director of development, said yesterday that he got to know Mrs. Wilson while he was a saxophone player in the school band. "She was a very kind, sincere and sensitive person," he said.

Adeline M. Roche, retired teacher, active in churchAdeline M. Roche, a former elementary school teacher who was active in church and women's groups, died of heart failure Wednesday at Good Samaritan Hospital.Services for Mrs. Roche, who was 92 and lived on East Northern Parkway, will be held at 10 a.m. today at the University Baptist Church, North Charles and 34th streets.The former Adeline Melis was a native of Baltimore and a 1918 graduate of what now is Towson State University.She taught at the Clifton School until her marriage in 1927.

Billy Lessley, UM professor, dies at 56A memorial service for Billy V. Lessley, professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of Maryland at College Park, will be held at 2 p.m. today at the University Baptist Church next to the campus.Dr. Lessley, who was 56 and lived in University Park, died Sunday of cancer at Leland Memorial Hospital in Riverdale.At Maryland, he was also a farm management specialist for the Cooperative Extension Service and an economic policy researcher for the Agricultural Experiment Station.

Services for Rosalind R. Levering, who was the first headmistress of the St. Paul's School for Girls in Brooklandville, will be held at 11 a.m. today at University Baptist Church, North Charles Street and Greenway.Mrs. Levering, who was 84, died Friday of a heart attack in Camden, Maine, after being injured in an automobile accident a week earlier. She lived in the Ambassador Apartments in the winter and in Thomaston, Maine, in the summer.In 1966 when Mrs. Levering retired as headmistress, William Reed, then chairman of the board, said the school would always be grateful because she established "the unique quality of the school and one we hope it will never lose."