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On Friday, May 21, 2004, CATHERINE(nee Penkala), born in Crystalbridge, PA. She worked in knitting. She resided in West Hazletown, PA for nearly 50 years. She moved to Morrisville, PA and worked in pottery for 30 years. In 1982, she moved to Randallstown, MD and lived with her daughter until her death. Beloved wife of the late Andrew Gido; devoted mother of Geraldine Clements and Jack Gido; sister of Joseph and Msgr. Edmund Penkala. She is also survived by six grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Edward B. Rush, a retired State Highway Administration worker, died of heart and lung illness Thursday at his home in Westminster. He was 74. Born in Baltimore, Mr. Rush attended public schools and served in the Army during the Korean War. He held several jobs in Baltimore before starting work as an administrator with the highway agency. He was a member of the Westminster United Methodist Church, the Hanover Republican Club and the American Legion Carroll Post 31. He was married to Agnes Meixner Rush for 47 years.

Sister Barbara Tucker, who taught kindergarten in an Arbutus parochial school, died of a stroke Jan. 30 at Holy Redeemer Hospital in Huntingdon Valley, Pa. She was 66. Born in Philadelphia, she entered her Roman Catholic religious order, Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, in 1958 in Elkins Park, Pa. She earned a bachelor's degree in education from D'Youville College in Buffalo, N.Y., and a master's degree in early childhood education from the University of...

On Friday, November 12, 2004 JOHN BROOKE GUNNING, JR., age 75, died at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin. Born in Baltimore City, he was the son of the late John Brooke Gunning, Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Fick Gunning. He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Margaret Elizabeth Gunning of Ocean Pines; three sons, Patrick Michael Gunning and his wife Carol of Ocean Pines, William Ryan, III of Rosewood, MD and David Ryan and his wife Linda of Abingdon, MD; three grandchildren, John Brooke Gunning, III, James Ryan and Michael Ryan; a brother, Edward Gunning of Yardley, PA and several nieces and nephews.

The sad honor of bringing nearly a century of distinguished and distinctive political cartooning at The Sun to an end fell to Kevin Kallaugher last week. Better known to readers as KAL, he has regularly amused and ticked them off since joining the newspaper's staff in 1988. For his final cartoon published last Sunday, he drew the presidents, Maryland governors and Baltimore mayors who were in office during his tenure at The Sun. They are Presidents Clinton, Bushes 41 and 43; Maryland Governors Schaefer, Glendening and Ehrlich; and Baltimore Mayors Schmoke and O'Malley.

TOM FLANNERY used to say emphatically that mankind could "be divided into the conformists and the critics." He decisively placed himself among the latter -- and leveled his criticisms of political and social inequities with cartoons of remarkable grace and style.Mr. Flannery, a longtime editorial cartoonist for The Sun and The Evening Sun, who died last week in his sleep at his North Baltimore home, was a short, soft-spoken man with such a gentle sense of personal humor that the vehemence of his political opinions sometimes came as a surprise.

TWENTY-eight years ago I stumbled into The Evening Sun and into the patient arms of Tommy Flannery. It was the bright idea of the editor-in-chief Price Day, to hire an untested, unpublished cartoonist from a business background, to replace Tommy who replaced Richard "Moco" Q. Yardley. My general demeanor can be described as unadulterated panic. Tommy treated my condition with generous doses of good humor and calm.Tommy knew that editorial cartooning couldn't be taught. Editorial cartooning is a bad habit carried over from childhood, which a few adults find themselves miraculously being paid to do instead of being sent to the principal's office.

Three years ago, the Park ministerial group was seeking a better way to serve local families in need. The solution was the Severna Park Assistance Network.County Executive Robert R. Neall will be the guest speaker at the network's rededication service Sunday at 2 p.m. at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church.The network, which provides food and emergency money for prescriptions and utilities, has a staff of 60 volunteers."During the last two months," says director Barbara Birkenheuer, "we have helped more than 200 families each month," from Glen Burnie to Annapolis.

IT USED to be that certain things just weren't for sale. These would include, say, Grant's Tomb, the stuff in Jackie Onassis' closets, the New England Journal of Medicine, Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation and, surely, the New York Stock Exchange. Well, scratch at least four of those. It would seem capitalism has entered its ultimate stage when anything that cannot be listed, licensed, priced or divided into common shares will be regarded as superfluous social baggage.

DEC. 13 Tracy Leonard Richardson, 11 S. Eutaw St., Baltimore, an individual, t/a Reality Productions, filed for an adjustment of debts under Chapter 13. Assets: under $50,000; Liabilities: over $100,001 David Charles Riggs Jr., 240 Farm House Lane, Lothian, operating a grading and hauling business, filed under Chapter 7. Assets: $950; Liabilities: $261,645.30 Robert J. & Cristina Castro Palmisano, 6226 The Alameda, Baltimore, operating a travel agency, jointly filed Chapter 7. Assets: $165,855.