Dorothy Fitzgerald
Real estate firm partner
A memorial service for Dorothy L. Fitzgerald, partner in a real estate firm, Chase Fitzgerald and Co. Inc., will be held at noon tomorrow at the Second Presbyterian Church, St. Paul Street and Stratford Road.
Mrs. Fitzgerald, who was 84, died Sunday of leukemia at her home in Homeland.
She started in the real estate business in 1936 and founded the Dorothy L. Fitzgerald Co. in the early 1940s.
The present firm, which has offices in the Roland Park Shopping Center, was formed in 1967 in a merger of her company with the Roland Park Realty Co. and Chase and Davis.
She was one of the first women to be licensed as a broker by the Real Estate Commission of Maryland and to serve as a director of the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors.
She was a member of the Woman's Club of Roland Park, the Baltimore Country Club, L'Hirondelle Club, the English Speaking Union and the Maryland Jockey Club.
The former Dorothy Lazenby was a native of Baltimore and a graduate of the Greenwood School.
Her husband, Delano Jackson Fitzgerald, a retired vice president of the Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., died in 1981.
A daughter, Dorothy Fitzgerald Ross of Baltimore, is a partner in the real estate firm and a granddaughter is an associate.
In addition to the daughter and granddaughter, her survivors include two sisters, Catherine L. Davis of Baltimore and Judge June L. Green of the federal District Court in Washington; two great-grandsons; and several nieces and nephews.
Linda Lee Lacher
Dundalk waitress
Services for Linda Lee Lacher, who had worked as a waitress in an Italian restaurant in Dundalk nearly 15 years, will be held at 8 p.m. today at the Duda Ruck Funeral Home, 7922 Wise Ave., Dundalk.
Mrs. Lacher, who was 43, died Saturday of cancer at her home on Garden Road in Riviera Beach.
At the Squires Restaurant on Holabird Avenue, she was known for her smile, and old customers sought her out.
The former Linda Lee Lowe was a native of Dundalk and attended the Patapsco High School.
She was fond of spending weekends at the family's Ocean City trailer and of listening to music of the 1960s and 1970s from her collection of 45 rpm records.
She is survived by her husband, Donald H. Lacher; a daughter, Kimberlee M. Keener of Dundalk; and her parents, Clarence E. and Mary Lou Lowe of Dundalk.
Thomas V. Miller
Clinton businessman
A Mass of Christian burial for Thomas V. Miller, a Clinton businessman, will be offered at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in Clinton.
Mr. Miller, who was 71, died Sunday after a heart attack at the Southern Maryland Hospital Center in Clinton, where he lived.
He had been president of the B. K. Miller Co. of Clinton since the death in 1965 of his father, who started the business in 1913. Originally a general store, it now includes a grocery and liquor store, a soft drink distributorship and a building supply business.
From 1966 to 1990, Mr. Miller was on the board of the Citizens Bank of Maryland.
A son, Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. of Clinton, is president of the state Senate.
The father was a native of Clinton and a graduate of the Surrattsville High School. He attended the University of Maryland.
He served in the Army in Europe during World War II and was a founder of the Clinton Post of the American Legion. He also was a member of the J. Paul Duke Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and of the Clinton Lions Club.
His survivors, in addition to Senator Miller, include his wife, the former Esther Clifton; three sons, Jonathan Miller of Arlington, Texas, and David and Mark Miller of Clinton; six daughters, Susan Miller of Bethesda, Melinda Miller of Richmond, Va., Judith Miller of Arlington, Va., Kimberly Miller of Columbia and Cynthia Levy and Nancy Miller, both of Clinton; a brother, B. K. Miller Jr. of Clinton; three sisters, Margaret Clifton, Mary Ann Miller and Catherine Bean, all of Clinton; and 22 grandchildren.
Earl K. Seybert
Technical director
A memorial service for Earl Kleckner Seybert, retired technical director of the Davison Chemical Division of W. R. Grace & Co., will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1609 Kurtz Ave., Lutherville.
Mr. Seybert, 72, died of a respiratory illness March 25 at a hospital in York, Pa.
The former resident of Lutherville lived in Sarasota, Fla., for a short time after his retirement about 15 years ago. For the past 12 years, he had lived in Shrewsbury, Pa.
He worked for Davison for 35 years. Among positions he held were technical service manager and commercial development manager.
Some of his professional papers had been published and he held several patents. He was a life member of the American Chemical Society and the American Ceramic Society.
The native of Hazleton, Pa., was a 1936 graduate of the Hazleton High School. In 1940 he graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a degree in chemical engineering.
He was a teacher and worked briefly as a design engineer at Aberdeen Proving Ground before joining Davison.
Mr. Seybert is survived by his wife, the former Betty E. Riley; two daughters, Gail Stanton of Burtonsville and Linda Kyper of Clarksville; a sister, Doris Kelchner of Pasadena; and a grandson.
Marvin K. Morris
Automobile salesman
Marvin K. Morris, a retired automobile salesman and marina owner, died Friday at the Memorial Hospital in Easton after an illness of several months.
Services for Mr. Morris, who was 84 and lived in Queenstown, were held yesterday at the Barton Funeral Home in Queenstown.
He retired in 1972 from Hallowell Chevrolet in Easton after working there and at other dealers on the Eastern Shore for 40 years.
From 1953 until he sold it in 1977, he was also the owner of the Angler's Marina at the Kent Narrows bridge.
He was born in Denton and reared on Kent Island and in Centreville.
The former commodore of the Kent Island Yacht Club was a life member of the Easton Lodge of the Elks, a charter member of the Bay Country Lodge of the Moose in Queenstown, a social member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Grasonville and a member of Ducks Unlimited.
He is survived by his wife, the former Sara Boone; a sister, Mary M. Thomas of Catonsville; and many nieces and nephews.
The family suggested memorial contributions to the Chester Wye Center in Grasonville or the Queen Anne's Hospice Volunteers in Centreville.
Dr. Ronald Michels
Memorial service
A memorial service for Dr. Ronald G. Michels will be held at noon April 25 in the Turner Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, during the 50th anniversary meeting of the Wilmer Institute residents' association.
Dr. Michels, 47, an internationally known eye surgeon, died Jan. 15 of complications while awaiting a heart transplant.
Friends and colleagues are planning to present his wife and two children with a bound volume of tributes and anecdotes from those who knew him. They asked that contributions be submitted by fax or letter to Dr. Walter J. Stark at the Wilmer Institute by April 15.
Deaths elsewhere
Louis Joxe, 89, who had been the diplomatic right-hand man of Gen. Charles de Gaulle and negotiator of an end to France's colonial war in Algeria, died Saturday in Paris. His son, Pierre, the current defense minister, broke off a vacation in southern France to return to Paris. "In Louis Joxe, France loses one of her great servants," said Jean-Jack Queyranne, spokesman of the governing Socialist Party. "He was a humanist deeply enamored with justice." He had a long career as a professor, journalist, diplomat, minister, deputy and member of the Constitutional Council, France's highest government body.
Robert Andrews, 68, a self-taught engineer and chief designer of the sporty Studebaker Avanti car, died Friday in Monroe, Mich. His career began with a job at Monroe Auto Equipment in 1941, when he began his studies of aerodynamics and design. In the 1950s, he went to work for Raymond Loewy, the industrial designer credited with streamlining objects ranging from refrigerators to soda bottles. Over the years, he worked for Chrysler Corp. and also free-lanced, designing for Saab, other automakers and industries. The Avanti was introduced in 1962.
Nona Balakian, 72, a book critic and editor for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, died of a heart attack Saturday in New York. During her 43-year career, she encouraged such authors as Eudora Welty, Anais Nin, Carson McCullers and Kurt Vonnegut to work for the review. She was co-author with Charles Simmons of "The Creative Present," a collection of essays on contemporary American fiction. She also published "Critical Encounters," a collection of her essays. She was a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle.