George W. Jones
Loan administrator
George W. Jones, a loan company administrator and former deputy state commissioner of consumer credit, died Sunday of cancer at his home in Yale Heights. He was 66.
He had been a loan administrator for a private loan company since leaving state office two years ago.
"George always looked out for the little people," said Alan T. Fell, the commissioner of consumer credit.
As an example, Mr. Fell pointed to the Financial Fraud Hotline that Mr. Jones started in 1988 as part of the Financial Audit Services Team, a joint state and federal program to combat fraud by or against lenders.
Mr. Jones had been a lobbyist for the state agency and earlier for financial companies for which he had worked. Before he left state employment in 1992, he had helped write regulations requiring credit reporting companies to give consumers a free annual report of their credit ratings.
Before joining the state agency in 1987, he had been a loan administrator for a private firm for 22 years.
He was born in Rockdale and graduated from Catonsville High School. He was a former president of the Beechfield Community Association and a member of Santa's Helpers, a charitable group.
Services were set for 9:30 a.m. today at Grace Episcopal Church, 6725 Montgomery Road, Elkridge.
He is survived by his wife, the former Marlene A. Glaeser; three sons, Walter E. Jones of Odenton, George E. Jones of Glen Burnie and Timothy G. Jones of Baltimore; two daughters, Beverly J. Farace and Barbara A. Thompson, both of North Linthicum; two stepsons, Michael L. Hamilton of Baltimore and Robert W. Hamilton of Cockeysville; a brother, Eugene C. Jones of Marriottsville; eight grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
William E. Blackmon
Chemist for state
William E. Blackmon, a retired chemist, died Saturday of heart failure at his residence on Sheffield Road in Northeast Baltimore. He was 80.
He retired in 1978 after 31 years as a chemist for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
For 47 years, he was a member of Mount Zion United Methodist Church where he taught Sunday school, sang in the male choir and was a trustee. Funeral services were set for 11 a.m. today at the church at Liberty Heights and Wabash avenues, Baltimore.
He is survived by his wife of 34 years, the former Catherine Caldwell; a daughter, Cassandra L. Costley; and a granddaughter. Thomas E. Wheeley, a retired utility company gas fitter, died Monday at his Parkville home after a PHOTOheart attack. He was 76.
The East Baltimore native retired in 1980 after 35 years with the Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. He was a member of the Notre Dame Council of the Knights of Columbus and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 10 a.m. today at Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church, 8501 Loch Raven Blvd., Baynesville.
He is survived by his wife, the former Katherine E. Vaeth; three daughters, Sister Barbara Wheeley, R.S.M., of Baltimore and Nancy Wheeley and Lisa Evans, both of Baldwin; a son, Thomas F. Wheeley of St. Michaels; two sisters, Dorothy Gwiazda and Grace Wheeley, both of Essex; and four grandchildren. Sister Mary Santa DiGiacomo, S.S.N.D., a former kindergarten and elementary school teacher, died Tuesday at the Healthcare Center at Villa Assumpta, the motherhouse of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She was 77.
The former Philomena DiGiacomo, a native of Batavia, N.Y., had been hospitalized with multiple sclerosis for more than 30 years. She entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1938 and was a graduate of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 10 a.m. today in LTC the chapel of the motherhouse, 6401 N. Charles St. in the Towson area.
She is survived by a sister, Joanne DeVaro of Rochester; two nephews; and two grandnieces.
Elizabeth Frisino
Ran a home for elderly
Elizabeth Shannahan Frisino, who ran a home for the elderly, died Sunday of a stroke at her Riviera Beach residence. She was 88.
She moved to Riviera Beach in 1942 when she purchased Locust Lodge, a 150-year-old farmhouse that she ran for years as a summer boarding house and hotel. She converted the house to a group home for the elderly in the early 1970s.
She retired three years ago when her health began to fail. The group home, which has 15 residents, is currently operated by a niece.
Known as the "Mayor of Riviera Beach," she was born in Baltimore and reared in Fullerton and was a graduate of Baltimore County schools.
Her husband, Anthony Frisino, died in 1974.
Services were set for 10 a.m. today at the Gonce Funeral Home, 169 Riviera Drive, Riviera Beach.
Survivors include a sister, Gladys Rudolph of Baltimore; and a nephew and a niece.
Walter C. Kaufman III, 58, a veterinarian at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky who cared for the great sire Bold Ruler and the 1973 Triple Crown winner, Secretariat, died Monday of cancer at a hospital in Lexington, Ky. He was a native of the Baltimore area.
Services were set for today in Paris, Ky., where he lived. He is survived by his wife, the former Dorothy Stroman; three daughters, Dorothy McCants Kaufman of Grand Rapids, Mich., Nancy Weeks Kaufman of Louisville, Ky., and Susan Benvenuti of of Lexington; his mother, Flavia Lewis Kaufman of Ellicott City; and a brother, Gary L. Kaufman of Elkridge.