James 'Jay' Faidley
Washington couturier
James Preston "Jay" Faidley, a former Washington couturier from Baltimore whose Georgetown boutique was well known from the mid-1970s into the 1980s, died May 10 at Stella Maris Hospice after what his family described as a long illness. He was 51.
Over the years, Mr. Faidley worked as an interior decorator and as a hair stylist.
In 1972, he opened a Washington, D.C., boutique, called Elan of Georgetown, which the Washington Star described as "an exciting new couturier and boutique which has created a new feeling about fashion in the Washington area."
"It seems Mr. Faidley is a man of many talents," the paper reported. "He does interesting [designs] in custom-silk floral arrangements, does custom tailoring for men and women and designs and makes original clothes for women."
"I believe Washington women are ready to wear made-to-order clothing again, if they are reasonable and not too outrageously priced," he said in an interview at the time.
After his Georgetown business closed in the mid-1980s, Mr. Faidley moved back to Baltimore's Bolton Hill neighborhood. He enjoyed gourmet cooking and traveling.
Born and reared in Catonsville, Mr. Faidley was a graduate of Catonsville High School. He attended Maryland Institute, College Art and the Corcoran School of Arts in Washington, D.C.
He also studied in England, Spain and France before returning to the United States.
He was a grandson of John W. Faidley, who founded in 1887 the famed Lexington Market seafood business still known by the same name.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 1:30 p.m. today at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, 110 W. Lafayette Ave., Bolton Hill.
He is survived by a brother, John W. Faidley Jr. of Pasadena; a sister, Nancy Faidley Devine of Ellicott City; his mother, Albinia F. Faidley of Catonsville; and three nieces.
The family suggested memorial donations to the Stella Maris Hospice Care Program to benefit the Monsignor Lyness Fund, 2300 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson 21204.
John V. Thornton
Retired teacher
John V. Thornton, a retired teacher, died Wednesday at Liberty Medical Center after being stricken with a heart attack while driving to his Northwest Baltimore home. He was 66.
Mr. Thornton retired in 1989 after a 21-year career in which he taught social studies at Joseph C. Briscoe Senior High School. Earlier, he operated a hardware store at 2702 W. North Ave. that was destroyed during the riots in 1968 after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King.
Born in the Waverly section of Baltimore, Mr. Thornton attended city schools, Coppin State College and Morgan State University.
He was a combat veteran of the Korean War and was discharged in 1952.
A member of the Hiram Grand Lodge of the Masons for more than 30 years, he held local and national Masonic offices.
"This Masonic order was his life," said Jewelle V. Thornton, a daughter, who lives in Los Angeles.
He was a member of the Ebenezer Baptist Church for many years.
Services are planned for 7 p.m. today at Gillis Memorial Christian Community Church, 4016 Park Heights Ave.
Besides his daughter, survivors include his wife of 41 years, the former Shirley Fowlkes; another daughter, Elaine Cousins of Baltimore; a sister, Hester Louise Thornton of Baltimore; and a grandchild.
Memorial donations may be made to Hiram Grand Lodge Building Fund, 1205 Eutaw Place, Baltimore 21207.
Dorothy S. Evans
Secretary, piano teacher
Dorothy S. Evans, a retired executive secretary for a stone products company, died May 9 at the Anne Arundel Medical Center after an aortic aneurysm. She was 79.
Mrs. Evans, who lived on Ridgefield Road in Lutherville, retired about 14 years ago after 35 years with Harry T. Campbell Sons' Co.
After retiring, she opened her home to student boarders from Villa Julie College, Towson State University and Goucher College.
She was active in the Friends of the Towson Library and the Parkville Little League Baseball Association.
She was born Dorothy Schoenlien, graduated from Mount St. Agnes High School and attended night classes at the Johns Hopkins University. While at Hopkins she helped Vincent Jeffrey Evans edit a paper for evening school students. They later married. Mr. Evans, a building contractor, died in 1950.
She also completed studies of the piano at the Peabody Institute and later tutored children in piano in Southwest Baltimore.
A ballroom dancer, Mrs. Evans won several awards at the Fred Astaire Dance Studios in the 1980s.
L A memorial service was planned for 1 p.m. today at her home.
She is survived by two sons, Vincent Jeffery Evans of Arnold and Lawrence Frederick Evans of Pittsburgh; a sister, Jane Kohlhepp of Lutherville; and a grandchild.
Christine Cihlar
Public affairs director
Christine Carol Cihlar, director of public affairs at St. Mary's College of Maryland, died Thursday of cancer at her home in the St. Mary's County community of California. She was 46.
Ms. Cihlar joined the administration of the St. Mary's City school in 1980 as assistant to the president and became public affairs director four years later.
Besides handling public relations for the college, she was president of the United Way of St. Mary's County and treasurer and a board member of the Hospice of St. Mary's in Leonardtown.
Ms. Cihlar won the 1994 Community Human Relations Award from the county Human Relations Commission and a 1986 certificate of merit from the county's Commission for Women. In 1992, she received the President's Award for Outstanding Service of the Leonardtown Rotary Club.
A native of Milwaukee, she was a 1970 honors graduate of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
She worked two years as a weekly newspaper publisher in Glenwood Springs, Colo., before becoming public information director at Luther College for eight years.
A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. today on Townhouse Green at the college.
Survivors include her husband, Frederick L. Rippy Jr.; a stepson, Darren Rippy of Charlotte, N.C.; her parents, Peter Joseph and ++ Sylvia Cihlar of Jackson, Wis., a sister, Pamela Wiedmeyer of Larsen, Wis.; two grandchildren; two nieces; and a nephew.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice of St. Mary's in Leonardtown or the Arts Alliance of St. Mary's College.
Irwin Wolkstein
Health policy authority
Irwin Wolkstein, a retired health policy authority who championed the passage of Medicare in 1965, died May 9 of a heart attack at the North Oaks Retirement Community in Pikesville. He was 74.
Mr. Wolkstein played a pivotal role in the planning and enactment of Medicare and was the first deputy director in charge of administering it. In 1967, he received the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Distinguished Service Award, the agency's highest honor.
A native of Passaic, N.J., he began his career with the Social Security Administration in 1941, where he was adviser to the chief of the statistics branch. Later, he did legislative planning for the SSA.
After he retired in 1975, Mr. Wolkstein was associate director of the Washington office of the American Hospital Association before co-founding Health Policy Alternatives Inc., a private health policy consulting firm, in 1978. He retired a second time in 1989.
During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps and was stationed at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he developed a blind landing system for airplanes. He was discharged as a second lieutenant in 1945.
Mr. Wolkstein continued his education at the University of Michigan, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1945. After graduation, he moved to Baltimore.
He wrote numerous articles about health matters and for many years was a member of several health advisory commissions. He was an adviser on current health-care planning.
An advocate of physical conditioning, he swam laps daily at the Jewish Community Center.
He enjoyed traveling to Europe, the Caribbean and Mexico with his wife, the former Sylvia M. Tolchinsky, whom he married in 1945.
Other survivors include a daughter, Barbara Kagen of Baltimore; and two grandchildren.
Services were held May 11.
John A. Rappazzo
Retired bricklayer
John A. Rappazzo, a retired bricklayer, died May 12 at a nursing home in Palm City, Fla. He was 80.
Mr. Rappazzo, a former resident of Parkville, retired 18 years ago. He began spending winters in Florida in 1969 and had lived in Stuart, Fla., for 14 years.
A member of Local 1 of the Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen Union in Baltimore for 16 years, he had worked independently and for contractors.
He was a former member of St. Ursula's Roman Catholic Church in Parkville and a member of St. Joseph's Church in Stuart.
He is survived by his wife of nearly 54 years, the former LaFrane Lee; and five sisters, Minnie Maggio, Josephine Silvestra, Madeline Liberatore, Frances LoZito and Rose Reisinger, all of Baltimore.
Services were private.
Frank J. Maglov
Custodian
Frank J. Maglov, a retired custodian at the Raspeburg Post Office on Belair Road, died May 13 of lung cancer at a hospital in Richmond, Va. He was 68.
Mr. Maglov retired about six years ago from the Postal Service and moved from Highlandtown to Ruther Glen, Va., two years later.
He had been a mail carrier and earlier worked in the Environmental Science Division of Bendix Corp.
The Baltimore native served in the Army in the Philippines during World War II.
He is survived by his wife, the former Verna Smith; four sons, Ronald Maglov of Kingsville, Brian Maglov of Abingdon, John Maglov of Bel Air and Jeffrey Maglov of Carney; a stepson, Craig Gerhard of Baltimore; a stepdaughter, Karen Green of Peoria, Ill.; a sister, Marie Linderman of Ellicott City; and seven grandchildren.
Services for Mr. Maglov were private.