Morris Weinstein
Liquor store owner
Morris Weinstein, who owned Orye's Liquors at 25th Street and Kirk Avenue for 10 years before retiring about eight years ago, died Wednesday of cancer at Sinai Hospital.
The Pikesville resident, 68, had earlier been the owner of Shoppers Liquors on Liberty Road in Rockdale and the Suburban Bar at Walbrook Junction.
Born in Baltimore, the City College graduate served in the Navy aboard ships in the Atlantic during World War II.
As a young man, he had played on the Monitor Club basketball team of the Jewish Educational Alliance. He was a member of the Centre Lodge of the Masons.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at the Sol Levinson & Bros. home, 6010 Reisterstown Road.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, the former Bessie Green; two sons, Stuart and Leonard Weinstein, both of Pikesville; a daughter, Inez Shapiro of Owings Mills; a sister, Edith Frank of Baltimore; and six grandchildren.
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Helen M. Diggs
Painter and poet
Helen M. Diggs, a painter and poet, died Tuesday of complications after surgery at the St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 79 and lived in Towson.
She studied painting at the Maryland Institute, College of Art and with private teachers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She painted landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and biblical figures, and had exhibited locally.
She was a member of the Society of American Poets and the World Po- etry Society, which honored her as a Golden Poet in 1987, 1988 and 1991. Her work was included in two anthologies, "American Poets and their Poems" and the "Great American Poetry Anthology."
Her poem, "Salute to the Flag," honored the World War II Army service of her husband, Charles C. Diggs, whom she married in 1945.
The former Dorothy Romoser was born in Baltimore and attended Western High School.
Services were to be held at 1 p.m. today at the Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road.
In addition to her husband, survivors include a daughter, Elaine M. Diggs of Hagerstown; a son, Charles C. Diggs Jr. of Columbia; a brother, A. Frederick Romoser of Baltimore; and three grandchildren.
The family suggested memorial donations to the National Parkinson Foundation, 1501 N.W. Ninth Ave., Miami 33136.