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Janet Rose Nebel
Advertising artist
Janet Rose Nebel, a retired advertising artist and former dancer, died Tuesday of cancer at her Catonsville residence. She was 62.
She retired from The Baltimore Sun, which publishes The Sun and The Evening Sun, in 1992. She began working for the publishing company in 1980 as an advertising department layout artist assigned to the newspapers' Howard County edition. She worked in a similar capacity for the Columbia Flyer from 1976 to 1980.
Born and reared in Chicago, she graduated from Hyde Park High School there in 1948 and began dancing professionally in summer stock theaters. In 1950, she joined the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York where she performed for four years before leaving to dance in several Broadway musical productions.
She returned to college and earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Towson State University and also studied at Catonsville Community College.
"She was an artist through and through," said her husband Bernard Nebel, a professor at Catonsville Community College whom she married in 1990.
"Janet was an artist and she made an art of living. Her life of spirit, love, generosity and joy was not an accident -- it was her greatest creative work," Mr. Nebel said.
After a mastectomy 10 years ago, she was a volunteer at Reached Recovery, an organization that helps women recover from the trauma of breast surgery.
In 1957, she married Donald LaMon, an actor and singer who later worked at the Social Security Administration until his death in 1968. A second marriage ended in divorce.
Services were to be held at 5 p.m. today at LeRoy M. and Russell C. Witzke Funeral Home, 1630 Edmondson Ave., Catonsville.
Survivors include a son, Robert LaMon of Chicago; two daughters, Laurie LaMon of Washington and Holly LaMon of Minneapolis; and a sister, Idelle L. Blum of Buenos Aires.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Vincent F. Kelly
Sheet metal worker
Vincent F. Kelly, a retired sheet metal worker and model railroader, died April 17 of heart failure at Sun Coast Hospital in Largo, Fla. He was 73 and had moved to Clearwater, Fla., from Joppa in 1983.
He retired in 1982 from Weisman Inc. where he was a sheet metal worker and air quality technician for 17 years. He was one of the first certified technicians in the country to perform indoor air testing and balancing, which ensured air quality and temperature.
Earlier, he owned and operated Maryland Metal Craft, a machine shop in Carroll Park that made parts for slot machines.
During World War II, he was a sheet metal worker for the Lloyd E. Mitchell Co. on Reisterstown Road, leaving in 1946 to work for the state income tax division.
He later worked in the investigative branch of the state agency until 1953 when he returned to machine shop work at Die Craft in Rosedale.
Born and reared on Poultney Street in South Baltimore, he attended Holy Cross School and Southern High School.
As a youngster, he enjoyed riding
the electric trains of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad and as an adult he built scale HO-gauge models from the original blueprints.
Other survivors include his wife of 53 years, the former Annette Egan of Baltimore; a daughter, Margaret Kelly Taylor of Ellicott City; a son, Patrick H. Kelly of Ellicott City; a brother, Joseph B. Kelly of Baltimore; a sister, Mary Agnes Evelius; and four grandchildren.
A Mass of Christian burial was offered April 23.
Stanley Mitchell
Catering firm partner
Stanley Mitchell, a consultant and partner in a catering business, died Sunday of cancer and pneumonia at Joseph Richey Hospice. The Silver Spring resident was 36.
He had been a consultant for Norell Professional Services and Consultants in Washington for eight years.
In the late 1980s, he was an announcer for WKTK-FM, WTOP-FM, WBAL-TV and WLIF-FM, where in 1988 he had an all-night show and was known as Stan the Man.
He had staged fashion shows since 1989 and had been a partner since 1991 in a catering firm, Mitchell-Robert Gant.
Born in Baltimore, he was a 1975 graduate of City College and class president, and graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1980.
Services were to be held at 7 p.m. today at St. John's Christian Community Church, 1208 E. Lanvale St., Baltimore.
He is survived by his parents, Delores and Franklin Mitchell of Woodlawn; two brothers, Michael Mitchell of Baltimore and Andre Mitchell of Woodlawn; a sister, Terri Mitchell of Baltimore; and his grandparents, Corine Mitchell of Baltimore, Fairlee and Cream Montgomery of Baltimore and James Roberts of Pittsburgh.
Norman E. Roy Jr.
Construction executive
Norman E. Roy Jr., president of the C. W. Jackson Construction and Development Co., died Wednesday of cancer at his home in Laurel. He was 44.
He went to work for Jackson in 1987, and two years later, he and a partner bought the company, which they moved from Towson to Jessup in 1991.
A native of Rhode Island, he was educated at the University of Rhode Island, Roger Williams College and the Johns Hopkins University.
He served in the Navy in the early 1970s and began working in 1974 as an estimator for the Gilbane Building Co. of Providence.
Before being transferred in 1980 to the company's regional office in Landover, he worked on several projects, including the Winter Olympics facilities in Lake PLacid, N.Y. After moving to Maryland, he worked on projects that included the Air and Space Museum in Washington.
Services were to be held at 10 a.m. today at the Fleck Funeral Home in Laurel.
He is survived by his wife, the former Paula DeRaimo; two daughters, Heather and Alison Roy, both of Laurel; his parents, Jeannette and Norman E. Roy Sr. of Warwick, R.I.; four brothers, Richard Roy of New Kingston, R.I., Paul Roy of Providence, R.I., Ronald Roy of Burlington, Conn., and John Roy of Warwick; and two sisters, Jean M. McGarry of Warwick and Deborah Edwards of New Kingston.
Henry Tiemeyer Jr.
Insurance agent
Henry C. Tiemeyer Jr., a retired insurance agent, died March 27 of heart failure at a hospital in Gulfport, Miss. He was 87 and had moved to Long Beach, Miss., two years ago from Catonsville.
He retired in 1972 after working for about 40 years for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. in the Baltimore area.
The Baltimore native was a 1925 graduate of City College who served in the Naval Reserve and later, during World War II, in the Coast Guard.
His wife of 55 years, the former Bertha Kappler, died in 1991.
A memorial service was planned for 11 a.m. today at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 5700 Edmondson Ave., Catonsville.
He is survived by a daughter, Julianna Hudson of Long Beach; a son, H. Christian Tiemeyer III of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; a sister, Dorothy Nixon of Catonsville; and six grandchildren.
Howard C. Wolf Sr.
Purchasing director
Howard C. Wolf Sr., retired director of purchasing for McCormick & Co., died Tuesday of cancer at his home in Easton. He was 84.
Mr. Wolf, who had moved to Easton from the Baltimore area in 1968, retired in 1972 after working for McCormick since 1941. Earlier he worked in the insurance and real estate businesses.
A Baltimore native, he was a 1928 graduate of Friends School and attended the Johns Hopkins University. He was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Easton.
Graveside services were planned for 1 p.m. today at Druid Ridge Cemetery, Park Heights Avenue and Old Court Road, Pikesville.
He is survived by his wife, the former Elizabeth Hanson; a son, Howard Carl Wolf Jr. of Denver; a brother, J. Stuart Wolf of Sebastian, Fla.; and four grandchildren.
Pauline Cataline
Pharmacy consultant
Pauline Cataline, a consultant on the operation of pharmacies in nursing homes in Maryland, died Tuesday of cancer at her mother's home in Toms River, N.J. She was 43.
She had moved from Timonium to Toms River about a month ago. Earlier, she lived in Bel Air and Gaithersburg.
She had worked for the past 15 years for Hallmark Health Care, a consulting firm, and earlier at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda for two years.
Before coming to Maryland, she had been a pharmacist at Point Pleasant Hospital in New Jersey.
A native of Elizabeth, N.J., she graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and earned a master's degree at Towson State University.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. today at St. Maximilian Kolbe Roman Catholic Church in Toms River.
She is survived by her mother, Nettie Cataline; a sister, Mary Melchionne of Beachwood, N.J.; and two nephews, Anthony and Christopher Melchionne, both of Beachwood.
Edna L. Meyer
Southern High teacher
Edna L. Meyer, a physical education teacher at Southern High School in Baltimore for 39 years, died Tuesday of heart failure at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Towson resident was 98.
She began teaching at Southern in 1919 and retired in 1958.
Born in Baltimore, she was a 1913 graduate of Eastern High School. She took dance courses at the Peabody Institute, then studied physical education in Indianapolis.
Services were planned for 1 p.m. today at the Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road.
She is survived by several cousins.
Lucille E. Talbott
Homemaker
Lucille E. Talbott, a homemaker, died April 20 of peritonitis at Shady Grove Hospital in Rockville. The former Towson resident, who was 90, had been a resident of the Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg since 1980.
The former Lucille Evans was born in Clara in Wicomico County and grew up in White Haven, where she attended a one-room schoolhouse. She came to Baltimore in 1923. After attending secretarial school, she worked at the Maryland Glass Co.
She married Leon A. Talbott in 1927, and they made their home for many years in Dulaney Valley. A retired president of the Baker-Whitely Towing Co., Mr. Talbott died in 1984.
She was active in the affairs of the Towson United Methodist Church and during World War II was a civil defense volunteer.
She is survived by a daughter, Dottie Jones of Sparks, and a grandson.
Memorial donations may be made to Towson United Methodist Church, 501 Hampton Lane, Towson 21204.
A memorial service was held April 23.