John A. Kozelski
Homebuilder
John A. Kozelski, president of a real estate development and construction company, died Monday of cancer at his home in Towson. He was 39.
He had been president since 1984 of Village Builders, which specialized in custom homes. Earlier, he had been a project manager for Shelley Construction Inc. and OAK/ADEC Inc., and a construction manager for Kidde Systems Inc.
From 1977 to 1980, he was a construction manager for Henry A. Knott Co.
He had been president of the Home Owners Warranty Council of Maryland, a board member of the Home Builders Association of Maryland, and vice president and board member of the association's Baltimore County chapter. He was also active in the National Association of Home Builders.
A native of Port Arthur, Texas, he came to the Baltimore area as a child and was a graduate of Boys' Latin School. He played lacrosse there and on a team he helped organize at Lynchburg College in Virginia.
He was a member of the Baltimore Country Club and of Ducks Unlimited.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 11:30 a.m. today at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, 5200 N. Charles St., Baltimore.
He is survived by his wife, the former Maureen Flynn; a son, John A. Kozelski Jr. of Towson; two daughters, Lauren and Katherine Kozelski, both of Towson; and his parents, C. Allen and Betty Kozelski of Conroe, Texas.
C. Francis Furst, president of J.H. Furst Co., a printing company his grandfather helped to start shortly after the turn of the century, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Homeland. He was 71.
In 1981, he became president of the company, which had become famous for books and professional journals in many languages and alphabets but increasingly has concentrated on commercial offset printing in recent years.
Mr. Furst, who had been a salesman for the Univac Division of the Sperry Rand Corp. and for Baltimore Business Machines Inc., had worked part-time for the family business before rejoining it on a full-time basis in the 1970s.
The Baltimore native was a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and served in the Pacific with the Army's Americal Division during World War II.
He was a member of the Delta Sigma Pi business honorary fraternity and the Johns Hopkins Club.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be held at 10 a.m. today at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, 5200 N. Charles St., Baltimore.
He is survived by his wife of 40 years, the former Constance Ryan; two sons, James F. Hurst of Baltimore and John P. Hurst of Rodgers Forge; and two sisters, Virginia Simmons of Baltimore and Anne McCloskey of Hampton.
Memorial donations may be made to the Maryland Coalition Against Crime, P.O. Box 9894, Towson 21284, which the family started after Mr. Furst's brother, Victor, was killed in an attempted robbery in 1981; or to the Greater Baltimore Medical Center hospice program.
Marie Antoinette Brown, a retired assistant producer for ABC Sports, died Friday of heart failure at her home in North Baltimore. She was 66.
Known as Tony, she retired in 1985 as assistant producer of "The American Sportsman." She had worked for 20 years for ABC Sports and for eight years before that for several television production companies in Europe.
She began her television career as a secretary in NBC's New York offices.
Born in Lancaster, Pa., she was a 1945 graduate of Lancaster Catholic High School and a 1949 graduate of Notre Dame College.
She moved to Baltimore in 1989 and was a member of the Perennial Garden Club and St. David's Bowling League. She was a volunteer at the Hospice of Union Memorial Hospital.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 1 p.m. today at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Lancaster.
She is survived by a sister, Sister Margaret M. Brown, R.S.C.J., of Redwood City, Calif.; a brother, J. Hay Brown III of Cordova, Tenn.; two nieces; and two nephews.
Memorial donations may be made to the hospice program.