Virginia Hall, former president of Board of Realtors, dies at 0) 75
Services for Virginia Reeves Hall, who was the first woman to serve as president of the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors and was a member of the Real Estate Commission of Maryland, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Mountain Christian Church, 1824 Mountain Road, Joppa.
Mrs. Hall, who was 75 and lived in Bel Air, died Wednesday of cancer at Fallston General Hospital.
Last year, she headed the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors, which had named her "Realtor of the Year" in 1972. She had also served as president of the Harford County real estate board in 1978.
She had served on the boards of the Maryland Association of Realtors, the National Associations of Realtors and the Central Maryland Multiple Listing Service.
She was a member of the Real Estate Commission of Maryland from 1984 until 1988. She also served in 1979 as president of the All Points Relocation Service.
The former Virginia Zell Reeves was a native of Sparta, N.C., who was reared in Bel Air and worked as a legal secretary there after her graduation from Bel Air High School.
In 1936, she married J. Vernon Hall, then of Fork. They started their own real estate business, J. Vernon Hall Inc., 20 years later.
They sold the business in 1981, but she remained associated with successor firms, Magill Associates; Magill Yerman and Company Realtors/Better Homes and Gardens; Meredith Real Estate/Better Homes and Gardens; and finally Prudential Preferred properties.
She also taught in the Mountain Christian Church Sunday school and was a member of the Inner Wheel of the Bel Air Rotary Club, the Harford County Historical Society, the Harford County Democratic Women's Club and the auxiliaries of the Bush River Power Squadron and the Boumi Temple Yacht Club.
In addition to her husband, her survivors include two foster sons, Samuel Kirkendall of Churchville and Frank Kirkendall of Westminster; a sister, Rose E. Taylor of Bel Air; two brothers, Ellis V. Reeves and George C. Reeves Jr., both of Havre de Grace; a half-sister, Sue Underwood of Homestead, Fla.; two half-brothers, Oscar Reeves and John Van Reeves, both of Sparta; and nine nieces and nine nephews.
The family suggested that memorial contributions could be made to the Mountain Christian School.
Services for Dr. Lanson Y. Shum, an electrical engineer at the Westinghouse Manufacturing Systems and Technology Center in Columbia, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Leroy M. and Russell C. Witzke Funeral Home, 5555 Twin Knolls Road, Columbia.
Dr. Shum, who was 57 and lived in Highland, died Wednesday of cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He started working for Westinghouse in Pittsburgh when he came to the United States in 1970 and had been at the Columbia branch since 1983.
A native of Hong Kong, he was educated in England, earning a bachelor's degree at the University of Durham and his doctorate at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Since 1984, he had been a member of Volunteers for Medical Engineering. He was also a member of the Community Building Organization of the Howard County Office of Human Rights.
He had been active in the Chinese Language School in Columbia, serving at various times as teacher, principal and chairman of the board.
He had also chaired China Night projects at Howard County schools. The second of the programs of Chinese culture was held Saturday for the benefit of a computer room at Guilford Elementary School.
He is survived by his wife, the former Elsa Wong; a daughter, Eveline Shum of Highland; a son, John Shum of Highland; and five brothers, Edward Shum of Brookeville, Peter Shum of Wheaton, Paul Shum of Salem, Ore., and Donson and Leung-sang Shum, both of Hong Kong.
Elizabeth C. Kieffer
Author and librarian
Graveside services for Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer, an author, librarian and genealogist, will be held at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Hagerstown.
The former Baltimore resident died Monday at the Homewood Retirement Center of a liver infection. She was 91.
She was born in Frederick, where her father was a newspaper editor. He founded another paper before coming to Baltimore as an editor for The Baltimore Sun. Ms. Kieffer was reared in the city and graduated from Western High School and Goucher College.
Her library career began in 1921 at the Enoch Pratt Free Library. She moved to Lancaster, Pa., in 1928 to become reference librarian for Franklin and Marshall College. From 1956 until 1959, she served as librarian of the Lancaster Historical Society. In 1959 she became archivist for the Historical Society of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, a post she held until 1966.
She began working as a professional genealogist, specializing in families of German extraction, in 1964 and also published many historical, genealogical and biographical articles.
She is survived by several cousins.
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Herbert W. Fink
Public works employee
Services for Herbert W. Fink, a retired employee of the Baltimore Department of Public Works, will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Grace Bible Baptist Church, 1518 N. Rolling Road in Catonsville.
Mr. Fink, who was 73 and lived on Harman Avenue, died Tuesday at St. Agnes Hospital after a short illness.
He retired more than 10 years ago as a laborer in the city's water supply section, where he had worked for many years. Earlier, he had worked for a meat packing company, Corkran Hill & Co.
A native of Frederick who came to Baltimore as a young man, he served as a cook in the Army Air Forces during World War II and was a member of the Morrell Park Post of the American Legion.
He is survived by his wife, the former Mary L. Dawkins; a daughter, Barbara D. Smith of Baltimore; a son, Michael Fink of Baltimore; two sisters, Ruby Carey and Agnes McClain, both of Frederick; four grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
Betty M. Berry
Retired from nursing
Services for Betty M. Berry, a retired licensed practical nurse, will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Duda-Ruck Funeral Home, 7922 Wise Ave., Dundalk.
Mrs. Berry, who was 64 and lived on Evergreen Drive in Dundalk, died Monday of cancer at University Hospital.
She retired about three years ago after working for the Chesapeake Physicians Professional Association for more than 10 years.
Earlier, she worked for more than 20 years at City Hospitals, now the Francis Scott Key Medical Center, where she went to nursing school.
The former Betty M. Albright was a native of Reading, Pa., who was educated there before coming to Baltimore as a nursing student.
She was an honorary life member of the Balco Pleasure Club and a member of the Rosedale Community Evangelical Congregational Church and of the Dundees, an auxiliary of the Dundalk Power Squadron.
She is survived by her husband, Harry S. Berry; two daughters, Donna Ward of Essex and Diane Clare of Dundalk; a sister, Lorraine Youse of Reading; and four grandchildren.
I. C. McCullough, sports executive, dies at 57
Services for I. Charles McCullough, a star basketball player and all-around athlete at the McDonogh School who later became a sports executive, will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Brooklyn United Methodist Church, 401 Pontiac Ave.
Mr. McCullough died Monday after a heart attack in Orlando, Fla., where he had lived for the past 12 years. He was 57.
He was a distributor for the Orlando Sentinel newspaper at the time of his death.
For six years before moving to Florida, he had been executive director of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, a high school sports group based in Harrisburg, Pa. He had also served as assistant director.
Earlier, he was general manager and coach of the Harrisburg Patriots, an Eastern League team. Before that, he was a player with a Baltimore team that was a member of that professional basketball league.
He officiated at sporting events at several levels and was named head of officials in 1964 for the Atlantic Coast Professional Football League.
In 1987, the Baltimore native was named to the Athletic Hall of Fame of the McDonogh School, where he graduated in 1951.
At McDonogh, he won honorable mention on local All-Star basketball teams in 1949 and 1950. In 1951, as McDonogh's team captain, he was named to two All-American high school teams. He also played in a North-South All-American basketball game.
As a 6-foot, 7-inch center, he was responsible for just over half the 900 points McDonogh scored in the 1951 season. The team won the Division II Maryland Scholastic Association championship.
He also played on the football team and was named to a News-Post All-Maryland team in 1950.
Mr. McCullough hit .421 in his senior year on McDonogh's baseball team. He was also a shot putter and discus thrower on the track team.
He attended Loyola College and served in the Army in the 1950s.
He is survived by his wife, the former Evelyn Brady; two daughters from an earlier marriage, Jennifer McKernan and Patricia McCullough, both of Baltimore; a son of that same
marriage, I. Charles McCullough III of Baltimore; a sister, Nancy Jane Smith of Wilmington, N.C.; and a grandson.
Bertram C. Dryden
Court security officer
A Mass of Christian burial for Bertram C. Dryden, chief security officer for the U.S. District Court in Baltimore, will be offered at 11 a.m. today at St. Christopher's Roman Catholic Church in Grasonville.
Mr. Dryden, who was 54, died Tuesday after a heart attack at his home.
He had been a court security officer since the mid 1980s, most of the time as chief of the detachment.
He was a member of the state police from 1962 until his retirement in 1982 as a corporal at the Centreville Barracks. He was assigned to the executive protection detail in Annapolis or to the Waterloo Barracks for much of his police career. Shortly after that retirement, he distributed the News American in the Stevensville area.
Before joining the state police, he had been a Baltimore policeman for about 14 months.
Born in Marion on the lower Eastern Shore, he was a 1953 graduate of the Marion High School and then served in the Army for three years.
He is survived by his wife of 12 years, the former Deborah Wade; a daughter, Erin Dryden of Stevensville; a sister, Jane Witte of Columbia; and two brothers, Marion Bozman of Greenbackville, Va., and Ovid Bozman of Los Angeles.