Andres G. Grandea
Systems analyst
Services will be held at noon tomorrow for Andres Gallenero Grandea, a retired systems analyst at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, at the Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road.
Mr. Grandea died unexpectedly in his Lutherville home Sunday. He was 61.
A native of the Philippine Islands, Mr. Grandea was educated in the Philippine public school system. In 1941, during World War II, the Japanese invaded the Philippines, interrupting Mr. Grandea's education for a short time. He finished high school at 16.
In 1952, Mr. Grandea joined the United States Army and was stationed in Austria for his two-year tour. He returned from Europe to attend Kings College in New York, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1958.
He began working as a systems analyst at the Aberdeen Proving Ground after college. After 30 years of federal service, he retired in 1987.
Mr. Grandea married the former Antonia A. de la Fuente of the Philippine Islands in 1962.
He enjoyed reading military histories and spending time with his family. Mr. Grandea is survived by his wife, Antonia Grandea of Lutherville; three sons, Glen Grandea III of Seattle and Steve and Jerry Grandea, both of Lutherville; a daughter, Sharon Grandea of Alexandria, Va.; his mother, Primitiva Salazar Grandea, and two brothers, David and Ezekiel Grandea, all of Baltimore; and two sisters, Estella Ocampo of Baltimore and Elizabeth Mayonado of Leonardtown.
Esther Jane Shriver
Active in Garden Clubs
A memorial service for Esther Jane Shriver, a past treasurer of the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland Inc., will be held 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Johns Episcopal Church, Butler Road in Glyndon.
Mrs. Shriver died Monday after a long illness at College Manor in Lutherville. She was 87.
The former Jane Parks of Timonium was educated in Baltimore County public schools. She graduated from Towson High School in 1921. After taking classes at Goucher College for a year, she attended Fairfax Hall, a finishing school in Virginia.
In 1930, she married John S. Van Bibber Shriver, a former director of the State Bureau of Fiscal Research. They were active members of the Company of Military Collectors and Historians from the early 1950s until Mr. Shriver's death in 1964.
Mrs. Shriver was a member of the Roslyn Garden Club, a Baltimore County organization in the Sudbrook Park area, and served as treasurer of the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland Inc.
An avid reader, Mrs. Shriver had been in charge of the rental library in Pikesville for the benefit of the Humane Society of Baltimore County in the 1940s.
Mrs. Shriver is survived by two daughters, Harriet FauntLeRoy of Westminster and Jane S. Sewell of Reisterstown; and four grandchildren.
Mary Gwyn Atwater
Roland Park resident
Mary Gwyn Atwater, a former Roland Park resident, died Saturday at Putnam County Hospital in Greencastle, Ind. She was 73.
A native of Flushing, N.Y., the former Mary Gwyn Branham lived most of her life in Baltimore. After graduating from New York public schools in 1936, she attended Washington College in Chestertown. In 1938, she married Charles C. Atwater, a prominent Baltimore lawyer, who died in 1988.
Mrs. Atwater, a housewife and mother, lived in the Roland Park and Guilford areas in Baltimore.
She participated in the Thursday Bridge Club, a weekly community activity.
She moved to Indiana in February 1991 to be near one of her daughters.
Mrs. Atwater enjoyed portrait painting, working mostly with charcoal and pastels.
She is survived by three daughters, Marthe Atwater Chandler of Greencastle, Ind., Gwyn Atwater Williams of Rock Hall, and Susan Atwater-Rhodes of Concord, Mass.; three sisters, Virginia Snare of Clifton Park, N.Y.; Margaret Van der Vort of Huntington, N.Y.; and Nancy Silcox of Kennedyville; six grandchildren; and seven step-grandchildren.
Willie Moore
Steel worker
Services for Willie King David Moore, a retired Bethlehem Steel worker, will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friday at Mount Calvary Free Will Baptist Church, 1600 E. Oliver St.
Mr. Moore died Saturday of a massive stroke at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 71.
Born in Petersburg, Va., Mr. Moore attended public schools there before coming to Baltimore in 1939. Three years later, he enlisted in the United States Army and married the former Mabel Jones of Lawrenceville, Va.
He served in the Army during World War II and afterward until he was discharged in 1948.
Mr. Moore then became a Bethlehem Steel foreman and worked for the company until he retired in 1988. After his retirement, Mr. Moore helped many senior citizens who were ill. He ran errands for them, bought them groceries and took them to medical appointments. He continued this service until the time of his death.
He is survived by his wife, Mabel Moore, and a daughter, Beatrice Brown, both of Baltimore; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Deaths elsewhere
Walter Hudson, 46, who made headlines by slimming down from 1,200 pounds to 520 pounds and leaving his Hempstead, N.Y., home for the first time in 18 years, died of a heart attack yesterday. He weighed 600 pounds. Mr. Hudson had suffered from the flu for three days, said Lottie Whitehead, a niece who lived with him. He hadn't left his home in more than a year, she said. His body remained in his home last night because it wouldn't fit through the front door, Ms. Whitehead said. Mr. Hudson, once recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the heaviest man alive, attracted national attention when he emerged from his home in September 1988 after dropping more than 600 pounds. He lost the weight with the help of nutrition guru Dick Gregory, who contacted Mr. Hudson after hearing that he got wedged in a doorway in 1987. About two years ago, Mr. Hudson started a catalog clothing company called Walter Hudson Ventures, which featured large-size fashions for women, Ms. Whitehead said.
Ernst Krenek, 91, an Austrian-born composer who worked on the 12-note scale and created some of the significant compositions of the 20th century, died Sunday in Palm Springs, Calif. Mr. Krenek, who came to the United States in 1937, composed more than 240 works and wrote 16 books and received numerous gold medals and other honors throughout Europe. His compositions include the operas "Orpheus and Eurydike" and "Jonny Spielt Auf." Mr. Krenek was a guest lecturer at the College of the Desert in Palm Desert and was honored with a festival in his name in 1975.
James J. Dwyer, 85, a former New York state parole administrator and a jail, police and fire official in Westchester County, died on Dec. 17 in Stuart, Fla., of complications from lung cancer. Working in the State Division of Parole from 1942 to 1960, he was variously director of the Syracuse, Buffalo and New York City regions. He left that agency to become warden of the Westchester County Penitentiary in Valhalla from 1960 to 1963. Then he was the public safety commissioner for the city of White Plains from 1963 to 1975, in charge of its police and fire departments.
William Pflugradt, 48, a conductor, composer and director of the Stonewall Chorale, died Sunday at the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center in Manhattan of AIDS. For the last 4 1/2 years, Mr. Pflugradt was the conductor of the Stonewall Chorale, the nation's oldest gay and lesbian choral group. It was founded in 1979, and during Mr. Pflugradt's tenure it performed throughout the New York City area to critical acclaim.
Hsin-Nung Yao, 86, a Chinese scholar and playwright, died Dec. 18 of influenza in San Francisco. At age 31, Yao was deputy chairman of the film-script department of Shanghai's Star Motion Pictures, China's largest film company. He left China in 1938 to represent China at a theater festival in the Soviet Union and was prevented from returning because of the Japanese invasion. Mr. Yao went to England, where he joined the effort to gain support from Western allies to repel the attack and lectured on Chinese poetry on the BBC. In 1940, he returned to China, where he held the chair of drama at Futan University. His 1941 play, "Sorrows of the Forbidden City," depicted the power struggle between the Manchu dowager empress and the Emperor Kuang-hsu over his willingness to accept republican ideas. Mao Tse-tung in 1967 condemned a 1950 movie version of the play and those associated with it as treasonous.