Thursday, April 19, 2012
Whether it's Bandstand or the "Corny Collins Show," dance shows marked an era of change. Where were you when poodle skirts gave way to bell bottom jeans?
Hearing of the death of Dick Clark probably brought up different memories for different people, depending on their generation. Clark may have been best known as the host of New Years Eve festivities from Times Square but for Baby Boomers, Clark's name was synonymous with rock 'n roll music and the iconic television show American Bandstand. Clark was instrumental in the careers of hundreds of musicians, singers, rock groups and celebrities, and his death sparked an outpouring of sentiment from the Hollywood community. Bandstand also had personal meaning for the generations who watched as America's musical backdrop turned from the Big Band era to a rich mix of genres -- from blues and soul to gospel and Motown, with Clark's cleancut image …
Thursday, April 5, 2012
The artist and Columbia resident had ties to Ellicott City and Oella.
Carolyn Elizabeth Cates, an artist who once worked out of the Oella Mill, died March 24, according to an obituary in the Baltimore Sun. Cates was 75. Cates lived in Columbia, according to her obituary, but was born in Baltimore and raised in Dundalk. As an artist she worked in mixed media and had a studio at the Howard County Center for the Arts. “You and my mom (Dotty) will be together in heaven and you can show her how to make something, change something or build something. [Y]ou were always good with that and I will always remember that,” Yasmin Gibson posted on Cates’s obituary page on the Wylie Funeral Home website. A funeral is scheduled for Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the Wylie Funeral Home P.A. of Baltimore County, 9200 Liberty Road …
Friday, March 9, 2012
She was considered an icon in the Columbia community.
The news of the death of Patricia "Patty" Rouse, co-founder of Enterprise Community Partners and the widow of Columbia visionary James Rouse, brought an outpouring of accolades from those who knew and worked with her. She died on Monday at the age of 85. Rouse's memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Christ Episcopal Church on Oakland Mills Road in Columbia. Rouse’s official obituary listed her cause of death as Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She had also struggled with Alzheimer’s disease for the past 10 years. Raised in Norfolk Va., Rouse graduated Magna Cum Laude from Sweet Briar College in 1948. When she met Jim Rouse, she was working on a graduate degree in urban studies at Old Dominion University, but discontinued her studies …
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Monday, March 5, 2012
The Columbia woman will be remembered as a leader in the affordable housing industry.
Patty Rouse, wife of the late James Rouse, co-founder of Enterprise Community Partners Inc. and a leading voice in the Columbia community, died Monday at age 85. The news was confirmed by a spokesperson at Enterprise in Columbia, which has offices throughout the country, and through an email sent to Enterprise employees notifying them of Rouse's death. Rouse and her husband James, the developer credited with bringing the planned community of Columbia to fruition in 1967, founded Enterprise in 1982 with the goal of helping every American live in affordable homes. Since then, the company has invested more than $11 billion in equity, grants and loans to help build or preserve nearly 300,000 affordable homes, according to Enterprise's website…
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Hunter, 39, of Reisterstown was buried at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium on Friday afternoon.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The former governor, Baltimore mayor and state comptroller who died on Monday will lie in state at the State House in Annapolis and in the rotunda of Baltimore City Hall.
William Donald Schaefer—Baltimore's legendary former mayor, Maryland governor and state comptroller—died Monday at around 6:30 p.m. in his bed at the Charlestown retirement community in Catonsville, according to his longtime friend Lainy M. LeBow-Sachs. "I was with him holding his hand," LeBow-Sachs told Patch. "He couldn't speak." Schaefer, 89, was released from the hospital earlier this month after a five-day stay for pneumonia and returned to Charlestown, where Maryland's 58th governor has lived for three years. LeBow-Sachs said she did not know the official cause but said it was likely multiple "organ shutdown." "There will never be another William Donald Schaefer," LeBow-Sachs said. "I think everyone will be so incredibly sad. He was …
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Martha Elizabeth Wise (Jones) had dropped out of a segregated school at age 12. She received her diploma equivalency just two days before she died.
Martha Elizabeth Wise Jones dropped out of school at age 12, leaving a segregated school in western Howard County at a time when black children were not allowed to progress much farther with their learning. Her family needed her help. Her father had just died, and she had eight brothers and sisters to help raise. So, when Martha died last week at 85, she did so after a life of working hard for her family. Two days before she passed away, she received a "certificate of attendance" to Highland School, a diploma equivalent bestowed to her by Mamie Perkins, deputy superintendent of the Howard County Public School System. "My mother could hear everything and would nod her head and whisper 'Thank you' at the end of the short ceremony," Mary …
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Fletcher Harland-Dencklau died Sunday, Feb. 6 of complications from a brain aneurysm.
A ninth-grader at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia died earlier this week following complications from a brain aneurysm, according to the school's principal, Restia Whitaker, who informed students' parents in a statement Tuesday afternoon. Fletcher Harland-Dencklau passed away Sunday evening at Children's National Medical Hospital in Washington, D.C. His family had brought him to the hospital on Thursday, Feb. 3, Whitaker said. "We shared this sad news with our students today," Whitaker said. "Our student services staff members were available throughout the day to support any students or staff who needed to talk about this upsetting news." "Fletcher’s family has told us that his funeral will be held in Nebraska, where he lived before …
Monday, January 24, 2011
Mark Falkenhan of the Lutherville Volunteer Fire Co. died while battling a blaze in Hillendale. He was a former Baltimore County Fire Department member and was recently employed by the U.S. Secret Service.
Thousands of mourners from across the state and the nation arrived at Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in north Baltimore to pay respects for fallen firefighter Mark Falkenhan. The 11 a.m. funeral was expected to attract some 3,000 people and hundreds of fire trucks and other apparatus. The 43-year-old Lutherville volunteer firefighter from Middle River died Jan. 19 from injuries sustained while fighting a four-alarm apartment fire in Hillendale. Diverse arrays of fire companies were represented at the funeral. Trucks from such companies as Norrisville Volunteer Fire Company in Harford County and Bay District Volunteer Fire Department in California, Md., were parked along the northbound lanes of Charles Street. The street was closed south of …
Saturday, January 22, 2011
The tragic death of a volunteer firefighter is a loss for the entire community.
Mark Falkenhan, a Middle River man who served as a volunteer firefighter in Lutherville, died Wednesday while on the scene of a four-alarm blaze in Hillendale. The following is a tribute from Bruce Goldfarb, editor of Arbutus Patch and a former EMT/firefighter with the West Memphis, Arkansas, Fire Department. I never met Mark Falkenhan. But I know a lot of people like him – people who invest their time and energy in service to their community. When something terrible happens – a fire or accident – the natural reaction is to run away, to stay out of harm’s way. It takes a particular mindset to overcome the panic reflex and run toward a catastrophe. It takes confidence and presence of mind. Few things in life are certain. Marriages come and …
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