University Of Louisville

On Saturday, October 23, 2004, TERRANCE PATRICK CAHILL died peacefully in his sleep. He was preceded in death by his wife Marguerite "Rita" Marcella Cahill; devoted father of Maureen Cobo and Patricia Ware; beloved grandfather of Christopher Cobo, Jayne Cobo, Glenn Ware and wife Sharon, Steven Ware and wife Kelly and Kathy Ware. Also survived by great-grandchildren, Matthew, Christie, Haley and Jake Ware. Memorial Service Thursday, November 4, 10 A.M. Immaculate Conception Church, Ware Ave. Drescher, Ph D., 61, of Cambridge, passed away suddenly on October 21, 2004 at his residence.

Emily Wymond Rush, a mother of four who loved people, died of end-stage dementia and metastatic breast cancer Jan. 3 at College Manor nursing home in Lutherville. The Phoenix resident was 83. A native of Louisville, Ky., she married William Bland Rush in 1946 after graduating from the University of Louisville. The Rushes moved to Maryland in 1950 and built a home in Phoenix in Baltimore County. "If she had a passion for anything, it was for people," Mr. Rush said. "Wherever she went, she just loved to make new friends."

A new transplant technique has enabled five kidney recipients to survive for several years without taking drugs that suppress their immune systems, scientists reported today. Doctors produced the result by injecting transplant recipients with blood stem cells taken from their donors' bone marrow. The stem cells multiplied and protected the transplanted organ from an immune system attack. Normally, recipients must follow a lifelong regimen of immunosuppressant drugs for their transplanted organs to survive.

A Mass of Christian burial for retired Army Lt. Col. James F. Parkins, who was manager of the Wheaton office of the State Department of Economic and Employment Development, will be offered at 1 p.m. today at St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Silver Spring.Graveside services with full military honors will be held at 3 p.m. at Arlington National Cemetery.Colonel Parkins, who was 69 and lived in Wheaton, died Saturday at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring after a brief illness.

Morton Levinstein, a retired advertising executive, died Oct. 24 at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center at the age of 86. He was hospitalized with several severe ailments, including paralysis.Services for the resident of Long Meadow Road in Pikesville were held Oct. 27 at the Sol Levinson & Bros. funeral home.Before his retirement about five years ago, he had been a partner in R&L Advertising, a firm started in 1983. He had been associated earlier with the AWL Advertising Agency for many years and had been its president.

Anne N. Scott, a former Baltimore County public schools teacher, died of complications from surgery Tuesday at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Catonsville resident was 71. Anne Gardner Nuttall was born in Baltimore and raised on Cedarwood Road in Catonsville. A 1951 Catonsville High School graduate, she attended what was then Western Maryland College and earned an English degree at the University of Louisville. While in Louisville, she met fellow student Johnny Unitas, who would later become the Colts' star quarterback.

Dorothy Jean Unitas, the former wife of Baltimore Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas and a volunteer who helped children at a group home in Timonium, died Saturday after collapsing at her home in the Mays Chapel section of Baltimore County. She was 67. Family members said the cause of death was undetermined. She suffered from diabetes. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Dorothy Jean Hoelle met her future husband when they were students at St. Justin's High School there. In his 1964 memoir, Pro Quarterback: My Own Story, written with Ed Fitzgerald and dedicated to his wife, Mr. Unitas recalled their first meeting: They were on a bus bound for a high school basketball game in Johnstown, Pa. She was standing in the aisle, and he offered her his seat - then asked that she save him a seat on the return trip.

The Maryland Board of Physicians, which has faced scrutiny in recent months because of its backlog of cases and other problems, is getting a new leader, state health officials said Wednesday. Carole J. Catalfo will begin work as the executive director Feb. 21, according to Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein, secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. "Carole Catalfo is the right person at the right time for the Board of Physicians," Sharfstein said. "She brings both deep experience in regulatory compliance and professional oversight and a fresh perspective on the challenges facing the board.

Washington Bullets forward Harvey Grant, labeled "the instigator" in Wednesday night's scuffle in San Antonio with Spurs center David Robinson, was fined $7,500 and suspended for one game.Grant, who is averaging 18.5 points and 6.5 rebounds, sat out last night's game against the Mavericks in Dallas. The suspension also will cost Grant a game's salary, or roughly $5,700.Robinson was fined $5,000, but not suspended by Rod Thorn, the NBA's vice president of operations, who reviews films and officials' reports and assesses fines whenever a fight is involved.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Usually when Carlos Turner is in the news, it's as a gliding, breaking, quick-shooting basketball star who has helped his high school win two state titles and himself a college scholarship.But this time, the story is about an obsessed boyfriend, who police said smashed through windows, knocked down a bedroom door and stabbed his ex-girlfriend before turning the 12-inch blade on his own heart."I've never really known the guy before," said Sherryn Page, a family friend who witnessed the attack.