Michael Petro
Music store owner
Michael Petro, who had owned a music store in East Baltimore for many years, died Sunday after an apparent heart attack at the Lemko House, a residence for senior citizens in Fells Point. He was 83.
He retired in 1980 after operating Michael Petro Music -- first on Monument Street then on Eastern Avenue -- since the late 1940s. sold sheet music, musical instruments and records and rented out jukeboxes.
He was friendly with many singers -- Frankie Avalon, Connie Francis and Jim Reeves among them -- who visited the store to promote their records. He helped other singers who had fallen on hard times, sometimes by giving them rides to appearances in nearby towns.
Born and reared in Uniontown, Pa., he came to Baltimore in the late 1930s and worked at the Bethlehem Steel Corp. shipyard. In the early 1930s, he studied for two years in Uzhorod, Ukraine, for the Byzantine Catholic priesthood.
A memorial Mass was to be offered at 9:30 a.m. today in the chapel at Lemko House, 603 S. Ann St.
He is survived by two sons, Michael Petro Donnelly of Albuquerque, N.M., and Jerome Richard Donnelly of Hayward, Calif.; four brothers, Charles, George, John and Edward Petro, all of Uniontown; a sister, Irene Petro of Lehigh Acres, Fla.; and several grandchildren.
Dr. George Angov
Internist
Dr. George Angov, who practiced internal medicine in Southwest Baltimore, died Tuesday at his Ellicott City home of complications of a stroke. He was 73.
Dr. Angov, who retired in 1989 for health reasons, came to Baltimore from Cleveland in 1967 as a resident at St. Agnes Hospital. After completing his residency, he practiced at St. Agnes, maintained a private practice and was on the staff at Taylor Manor Hospital.
He was born in what was then Yugoslavia and graduated in 1949 from the University of Belgrade medical school. He studied cardiology in Paris and was an assistant professor at the University of Skopje medical school before leaving Yugoslavia in 1962 to be a physician for the Ethiopian Imperial Army. He came to the United States in 1965 to serve an internship in Cleveland.
A memorial service was to be held at 11:30 a.m. today at Sterling Ashton Funeral Home, 736 Edmondson Ave., Catonsville.
He is survived by his wife, the former Goluba Boskova; two daughters, Evelina Angov of Bethesda and Nadia Angov of Ellicott City; and a son, Anthony Angov of Chevy Chase.
Thelma H. Manger
Translator, volunteer
Thelma H. Manger, a translator and volunteer, died Monday of complications of Alzheimer's disease at the Vantage House retirement community in Columbia, where she had moved from Glenwood four years ago. She was 84.
She was born Thelma Hoffman in Baltimore and graduated from Western High School. Mrs. Manger was a translator of German for the War Department in Washington and at Edgewood Arsenal in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
She was a volunteer at the Springfield Hospital Center and a member of the Martha Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, the Woman's Club of Ten Hills and the Glenwood Garden Club.
Services were to be held at 9:30 a.m. today at St. John's Episcopal Church, 9120 Frederick Road, Ellicott City.
Her husband, Sylvan Manger, died in 1976. She is survived by a daughter, Louisa Pfister of Reisterstown; a son, Bruce A. Manger of Baltimore; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Madeline B. Ecks, 65, a homemaker and Towson resident for about 20 years, died Friday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center of a respiratory illness.
Graveside services for the former Madeline B. Goodhart, a native of West Reading, Pa., were to be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Charles Evans Cemetery in Reading.
She is survived by her husband, Forrest W. Ecks Sr.; a son, Forrest W. Ecks Jr. of Colorado Springs, Colo.; a daughter, Victoria E. Biolsi of South Huntington, N.Y.; her father, Luther P. Goodhart of Wyomissing, Pa.; a sister, Greta Lesher of Mohnton, Pa.; and four grandchildren.
Baily S. Haynie, 92, a merchant marine officer who survived a German U-boat attack during World War II, died Saturday of cancer at the Meridian Nursing Center in Randallstown.
Services were held yesterday. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, the former Margaret Frank; a son, Paul W. Haynie of Reisterstown; a daughter, Mildred E. Tamburo of Lansdowne; and a grandson.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 43025, Baltimore 21236-0025.
Joseph Lozinsky, 97, who operated grocery stores in Northwest Baltimore from the late 1920s until he retired 32 years ago, died Monday of cancer at a hospice in Boca Raton, Fla.
Services were held Tuesday. His wife of 62 years, the former Lilly Rubin, who helped him run the stores, died in 1986. He is survived by a daughter, Pauline Weinstein of Delray Beach, Fla.; a son, Seymour H. Lozinsky of Pikesville; a sister, Gertrude Levine of Springfield, N.J.; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Charlotte Riggs Sutphen, 89, a native of Catonsville, died Sunday of heart failure at her home in Old Lyme, Conn., where she had lived since 1970.
Services were planned for 11 a.m. today in Old Lyme. Her husband, Duncan D. Sutphen, died in 1985. She is survived by three sons, E. Cortland Parker of Sacramento, Calif., J. B. Riggs Parker of Chilmark, Mass., and Anthony B. Parker of Grand Rapids, Mich.; a stepson, Duncan D. Sutphen III of Summit, N.J.; XTC a stepdaughter, J. Melissa Sutphen of New York City; 18 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Geraldine A. Marchlinus, 58, a retired teacher, died Sunday at her Catonsville home of complications of multiple sclerosis.
She retired from the Catonsville Elementary School in 1988 for health reasons. She had been a teacher since 1959.
A Mass of Christian burial was offered yesterday. She had no close surviving relatives.