Robert C. Lister
AT&T; executive
Robert C. Lister, an AT&T; executive who was a former captain of the Loyola College basketball and lacrosse teams, died Sunday after suffering a heart attack while playing in a Men's Basketball League game in Orlando, Fla. He was 50.
In 1984, he moved from the Union Mills area to Florida, where he was labor relations, human resources, environmental health, safety operations and engineering manager at the AT&T; Microelectronics Plant in Orlando. He began working at the Point Breeze plant of the former Western Electric Co. in Baltimore in 1970.
The Baltimore native was a 1962 graduate of St. John's High School in Westminster, where he was a member of the basketball team.
In the 1962 Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament in Cumberland, he was named to the All-Star Team. He was the high scorer in the tournament.
He attended Loyola College on a basketball scholarship. He was named to All Conference, All State and All South lacrosse teams, playing as a senior in the annual North South game.
At graduation, he received Alumni Block L Club awards for basketball and lacrosse, and was honored for excellence in athletics, character and scholarship.
From 1966 to 1970, he served in the Marine Corps. He won a Bronze Star in combat in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968 and was discharged with the rank of captain. In the service, he played for basketball teams that won the Marine Corps Championship in 1967 and the East Coast championship of the corps in 1969.
He started what is now called the Carroll County Recreational League in 1970 and coached boys' basketball teams for St. John's and the Carroll County YMCA League. He coached baseball teams in the Hampstead Little League. More recently, he was active in sports, civic and business groups in the Orlando area.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. today at St. John's Roman Catholic Church in Westminster.
Mr. Lister is survived by his wife, the former Carolyn Burke; a son, Kevin C. Lister of Orlando; two daughters, Stephanie L. Lister and Lindsay K. Lister, both of Orlando; his mother, Anna E. Lister of Westminster; a brother, Edward W. Lister Jr. of Finksburg; and two sisters, Phyllis A. Kreimer of New Windsor and Carol E. Holbrook of Jersey Shore, Pa.
Jennie Johnston
Retired teacher
Jennie Ennis Johnston, a retired Baltimore County schoolteacher, died June 18 of cancer at her Towson residence. She was 86.
She retired in 1975 after a 35-year career as a first-grade teacher at Stoneleigh Elementary School.
A native of Wallace, N.C., she attended schools there and was a 1929 graduate of Flora MacDonald Presbyterian College for Women. She married Avery B. Johnston, a salesman, in 1934. They moved to Baltimore during the Depression.
She enjoyed playing bridge and traveling, and had visited the Far East and Israel in the early 1970s.
Patricia J. Brill Warner, her daughter who lives in San Francisco, said, "Perhaps the greatest thrill of her life was seeing her namesake great-grandchild, Jennie Lee Robinson."
She was a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames of the 17th Century, Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the Confederacy and Eastern Star Concordia Chapter No. 5. She was also active in the affairs of Towson Presbyterian Church and Bykota, a senior citizens' organization.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Towson Presbyterian Church, 400 W. Chesapeake Ave.
In addition to her husband, daughter and great-granddaughter, she is survived by two granddaughters, Suzanne W. Brill and Lisa Brill Robinson, both of San Francisco.
The family suggested memorial contributions to the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Foundation, Hospice of Baltimore, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson 21204.
Sister M. P. Hilles
Retired nurse
Sister Mary Pauline Hilles, a former nurse at Bon Secours Hospital and other hospitals operated by the Congregation of Bon Secours, died of heart disease in her sleep Monday at the order's Provincial House in Marriottsville, where she had lived in retirement since 1986.
She was 83.
She began her nursing career in 1934 at West Baltimore's Bon Secours Hospital, graduating from the nursing school there in 1936 and remaining on the staff for 10 years. She retired at St. Francis Hospital in Darby, Pa., having also been a nurse in Wildwood, N.J.; Miami; Methuen, Mass.; and France.
From 1954 to 1958 and again from 1961 to 1964, she was assistant mistress of novices at the Provincial House, then near Bon Secours Hospital.
In 1966, she was superior of her order's convent in Washington.
She was born Elsie Lolina Hilles in Yokohama, Japan, and grew up in the Philadelphia area. She graduated from Upper Darby High School and Palmer Business School before entering the Bon Secours order in 1931.
She is survived by two sisters, Lois Welch of Wilmington, Del., and Celia Pierce of Ambler, Pa.; two brothers, Ladonace O. Hilles of Rio Rancho, N.M., and Dell L. Hilles of Media, Pa.; and many nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 11 a.m. today in the chapel of the Provincial House, 1525 Marriottsville Road, Marriottsville.
Elizabeth Spitznas
Sinai secretary
Elizabeth D. Spitznas, retired secretary and receptionist in the Pathology Department of Sinai Hospital, died Monday of cancer at the hospital. She was 83.
The Villa Nova resident retired in 1985 after 35 years at Sinai. Walter Weinstein, the Pathology Department administrator, remembered Mrs. Spitznas as a "helpful person, who made people feel at ease." He said she brought in fresh flowers every day, wrote poetry and loved nature.
At her retirement, members of the department presented her with a tree to be planted on the hospital grounds. She picked a Washington Hawthorne and explained that it would have berries for birds in the winter.
She was born Elizabeth Daughtrey in Los Angeles and grew up in Cumberland. She was a 1928 graduate of Allegany High School and a 1929 graduate of the Washington Secretarial School.
She worked for a bank and a manufacturing company in Cumberland and briefly for the Glyndon Laundry after moving to the Baltimore area.
Her husband, James E. Spitznas Sr., died in 1958.
She is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth Wise of Towson; a son, James E. Spitznas Jr. of Delran, N.J.; and four grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. today at the Loring Byers funeral chapel, 8728 Liberty Road, Randallstown.
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Martha P. Chrul
Owned candy business
Martha P. Chrul, who did volunteer work after retiring from the candy-making business that she and her husband owned for many years, died of heart failure at Stella Maris Hospice on
Wednesday, her 94th birthday.
Mrs. Chrul and her husband, Theophil John Chrul, operated Victoria Chocolates on Broadway and later in the 300 block of Park Ave. from 1924 until they retired in 1955. Mr. Chrul died in 1963.
In retirement, Mrs. Chrul volunteered in the gift shop at St. Joseph Hospital for many years and traveled.
She was born Martha Politowicz in Baltimore and lived for many years in White Marsh and Lutherville.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. today at the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, Baltimore and Ware avenues in Towson.
She is survived by two daughters, Victoria C. Chambers and Martha Theo Griesacker, both of Lutherville; five grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
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Alvaro Dardozzi
Musician, teacher
Alvaro Dardozzi, a retired musician, band leader and teacher who was known by his professional name, Rudy Darr, died Sunday of pneumonia in a nursing home in Lewes, Del. He was 83.
Mr. Dardozzi moved from Northeast Baltimore to Milford, Del., about 12 years ago. For nearly 10 years, he continued to play with small groups in Ocean City night clubs. His principal instruments were the saxophone, clarinet and drums.
The Baltimore native joined the Army in the 1930s when he was 19, playing in an Army band in India during World War II and with dance bands that played for USO shows and other entertainment for the troops.
He began his career as a band leader in Baltimore after World War II while working in a men's clothing factory.
His band, Rudy Darr and the Aristocrats, began as a four-piece group playing at night clubs on The Block and at an after-hours club, but eventually included two units, the small band and a 15-piece dance band, that played at many social events.
He discontinued the big band in the late 1970s, but operated the smaller unit until he moved to the Eastern Shore in the early 1980s.
In the 1950s, he and his father started Darr's Melody Mart on Hamilton Avenue, which included a music school. By the time they closed the school in the late 1970s, many of its graduates had become professional musicians, said Ronald P. King, a colleague and former student.
Many students received help with tuition or were given an instrument by Mr. Dardozzi, who often included charitable events on his bands' schedules.
A Mass of Christian burial was offered Thursday at St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in Baltimore.
His survivors include a brother, Anthony Dardozzi; and a sister, Settimia Constantine, both of Baltimore.