Wayne A. Lansey
Retired truck driver
Wayne A. Lansey, 44, a retired truck driver for Baltimore's public schools, died Friday at the University of Maryland Cancer Center.
Mr. Lansey, who lived in Northeast Baltimore, retired in 1990 because of illness after 18 years in the division that maintains grounds for the school system.
A native of Baltimore, he entered the Air Force after his 1969 graduation from Douglass High. He served for a year in Vietnam. He was a member of the Disabled American Veterans and the Federal Post of the American Legion.
Mr. Lansey, who had non-Hodgkins lymphoma, was a pioneer in a bone marrow transplant program at the hospital, and one of several cancer patients in the cover story of Baltimore magazine's October issue.
Services were to be held at 7 p.m. today at St. Phillip's Baptist Church, 1014 N. Carrollton Ave.
He is survived by his wife, the former Agatha Forte; a daughter, La Niece Lansey of Baltimore; two sons, Damon and Anthony Lansey, both of Baltimore; two stepdaughters, Tonya Forte of San Diego, and Yvette Forte of Baltimore; five stepsons, Larry, Donald, Carl and Eric Forte, all of Baltimore, and John Forte of Escondido, Calif.; three sisters, Lorraine and Lillian Lansey and Lauren Andrews, all of Baltimore; a brother, Wallis Lansey of Severn; a grandson; and 18 stepgrandchildren.
Nellie Marcella Baumgartner, 94, who was active in church work and became known as the Cookie Lady in her former Mount Washington neighborhood, died Monday of heart failure at her home in the Village of Cross Keys.
A native of Carroll County, the former Nellie Marcella Null attended what is now Towson State University and worked as a dental hygienist before her marriage in 1922 to J. Erle Baumgartner. He died in 1953.
In Mount Washington, she became active at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart. She also became friendly with Cardinal Lawrence Shehan through members of her husband's family and traveled with them to his installation as a cardinal in Rome in 1965.
She became known as the Cookie Lady to children on Ken Oak Road because of the treats she gave them.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 10 a.m. today at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, 5800 Smith Ave.
She is survived by three daughters, Frances B. Levy and Mary B. Veloso, both of Baltimore, and Anne B. Cegelski of Rochester, N.Y.; two sons, Joseph E. Baumgartner Jr. of Baltimore and Thomas H. Baumgartner of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; 24 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Frank J. Marsden Jr.
Owned car dealership
Frank J. Marsden Jr., retired owner of a Towson car dealership, died of emphysema Tuesday at his Baltimore County home.
Mr. Marsden, who was 72 and lived in Phoenix, retired in 1991 as owner of Marsden Automotive, which had been known until 1988 as Marsden Chevrolet. He had joined his father in the business in 1951.
Reared in his native Richmond, Va., and in Washington, Mr. Marsden was a 1947 graduate of the Naval Academy and received a master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Services were to be held at 1 p.m. today at the Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road.
He is survived by his wife, the former Suzanne C. Strange; three daughters, Betsy Hamer of Pylesville, Peggy Bealefields of the Oregon Ridge area and Grace S. Harms of Fallston; three sons, Frank J. Marsden III of Pylesville, Thomas E. Marsden of Phoenix and Michael W. Marsden of Lutherville; and seven grandchildren.