George Mikulski Jr.
Plant fire marshal
George J. Mikulski Jr., retired fire marshal at the General Motors Corp. plant in East Baltimore, died Monday of complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at the St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 70 and lived in Parkville.
He retired in 1987 after working for 40 years at the plant, part of the time as a foreman in the body shop. He also had owned George's Flying A Station in the early 1960s and had managed other service stations.
A native of Nanticoke, Pa., Mr. Mikulski moved to Baltimore with his family in the early 1940s. He served in the Army during World War II as a platoon leader and section chief in an automobile repair shop in the Panama Canal Zone.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 10 a.m. today at Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church, 400 S. Chester St., Baltimore.
He is survived by his wife of 41 years, the former Dolores E. Mrockowski; three sons, George J. Mikulski III of Parkville, Walter A. Mikulski of Perry Hall and Richard M. Mikulski of Pikesville; a daughter, Maria H. Mikulski of Baltimore; a sister, Dolores A. Moore of Catonsville; and three grandchildren.
Douglas H. Sands, a retired contractor and building official at Union Memorial Hospital, died Tuesday at Edenwald, a Towson retirement community, after a heart attack. He was 78.
For many years, he was a partner with his brothers in the general contracting company William H. Sands Inc., which was started by their father. In 1976, after the deaths of his brothers, he closed the company and went to work for Union Memorial, planning and supervising construction and maintenance until he retired in 1986.
A resident of Shetland Hills, near Lutherville, for many years, he had been president of the Shetland Hills Association and started its monthly newsletter, Pony Express.
He was a member of the Baltimore Lodge of the Masons, the Scottish Rite and Boumi Temple, and was on the board of Edenwald.
Mr. Sands, whose parents were born in Scotland, was a former president and honorary life member of the St. Andrews Society of Balti- more.
Born in Baltimore, he attended Roland Park School, Calvert Hall College, the University of Maryland and the old Maryland Institute on Market Place.
An early Army draftee during World War II, he was commissioned and reached the rank of lieutenant colonel while serving in an armored unit in Europe. He became a colonel while serving in the Army Reserve after the war.
He is survived by his wife of 36 years, the former Janice Lee Blake; two sons, Douglas P. Sands and Stuart M. Sands, both of the Baltimore area; and two sisters, Dorothy Childs of Stoneleigh and Margaret Wright of Vestal, N.Y.
Howard H. Hine Sr.
Civil engineer
Howard Hamilton Hine Sr., a retired civil engineer and Boy Scout leader, died Wednesday of cardiac arrest at his son's home in Catonsville. He was 86 and had lived in Arbutus since 1937.
He worked for Victor A. Pyle Co. and Earhardt & May, both Baltimore-area excavation contracting companies, for 43 years until retiring in 1973.
His lifelong interest in scouting began in 1920 when he joined Troop No. 63 at the Waverly United Methodist Church. An Eagle Scout and a member of the Order of the Silver Beaver, he established Troop No. 327 in 1945 at the Arbutus United Methodist Church.
Born and reared at Barclay and 28th streets, he was a 1926 graduate of the Polytechnic Institute and earned his engineering degree from the University of Maryland in 1930.
Services were to be held at 10 a.m. today at Arbutus United Methodist Church, Shelbourne and Maple avenues, where he was a member.
His wife, the former Margaret Rettenberg, died in 1987. He is survived by two sons, Dr. Howard Hine Jr. of Relay and Richard C. Hine of Catonsville; two sisters, Elizabeth Gross of Paducah, Ky., and Mae Dreiling of Baltimore; and five grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the church.
Sister Mary Elizabeth
Hospital administrator
Sister Mary Elizabeth McGlade, C.B.S., an administrator at Bon Secours Hospital from 1961 until 1965, died Monday at a hospital in Port Charlotte, Fla., of a respiratory illness. She was 63.
Stationed in Port Charlotte since 1991, she was vice president for the religious mission at St. Joseph's Hospital, operated by her order, the Congregation of Bon Secours.
While at Bon Secours in West Baltimore, she had been assistant hospital administrator for nursing and director of education. She had also been an administrator at other hospitals run by her order.
A native of Philadelphia, she was a graduate of the Bryn Mawr Hospital nursing school and later earned a bachelor's degree at Villanova University and a master's degree at the Catholic University.
4 Sister Mary Elizabeth entered the order in 1958.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 11 a.m. today in the chapel at the Provincial House of the Congregation of Bon Secours, 1525 Marriottsville Road, Marriottsville.
Survivors include a sister, Eileen Van Trieste of Ardmore, Pa., and a brother, John McGlade of Gladwyne, Pa.
C. Shelton Baker, who retired about 25 years ago as senior vice president of the Commercial Credit Corp., died Dec. 5 at a retirement home in Corbin, Ky. He was 90 and had lived for many years in the Broadview Apartments.
Graveside services were set for 2 p.m. today in Kentucky. His wife, the former Drucilla Tye, died in 1982, and a son, Shelton Tye Baker, died in 1980. He is survived by a sister, Louise Baker Parker of Chase City, Va.; and a nephew, C. Waverly Parker of Ruckersville, Va.