Abe Schlossberg
Finance executive
Abe Schlossberg, a retired finance company executive, died Monday of pneumonia at Levindale Geriatric Center. He was 91 and lived in the Belvedere Towers Apartments in Baltimore.
He retired about 20 years ago as a vice president of the Commercial Credit Corp., which had absorbed the Ayares Finance Corp., with which he had been associated for many years. He had been executive vice president of Ayares and president of a subsidiary, the Universal Finance Co.
The Baltimore native was a graduate of City College and. in 1924, of the University of Maryland law school.
After his retirement, he worked part time as a lawyer, making collections, until he retired again about three years ago.
He and his wife, the former Minnie Sober, who survives him, were charter members of Beth Jacob Congregation.
Graveside services were to be held at 2 p.m. today at the Beth Jacob Congregation cemetery in Finksburg.
Other survivors include two daughters, Myrna Goldberger of Baltimore and Boca Raton, Fla., and Helen Mae Schlossberg Cohen of Baltimore; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Conrad "Jack" Carver, a well-known area square dance caller, died Sunday of pneumonia at Carroll County General Hospital. The Finksburg resident was 79.
Mr. Carver, who was calling dances at Carroll County senior centers as recently as two months ago, began his career as a caller in 1952.
That same year, he and his wife, the former Virginia Lee "Ginny" Heubeck, founded the Baltimore Promenaders, said to be the first square dance club in Baltimore County. The couple also traveled the Eastern seaboard, calling and dancing at square dancing conventions.
He retired in 1974 from Harry T. Campbell Sons' Co., then a division of Flintkote Co., where he had been a highway construction foreman for 28 years.
Born in Cockeysville and reared on Chestnut Ridge in Baltimore County, where his parents were farmers, he attended county schools.
During World War II, he served in the Army Signal Corps as a member of Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army and participated in the French campaign and the Battle of the Bulge. He was discharged in 1945 with the rank of sergeant.
He was a member of American Legion Post No. 191 in Mount Airy and the Towson Order of Odd Fellows. He was also a member of St. John's United Methodist Church in Lutherville.
Services were to be held at 10 a.m. today at the Eckhardt Funeral Chapel, 11605 Reisterstown Road, Owings Mills.
In addition to his wife of 50 years, other survivors include two sons, John McKinney Carver of Manchester and John Roland Carver of Andrews, N.C.; a daughter, Margaret Mae Law of Prescott, Ariz.; a sister, Mary Bolyard of Towson; two grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Wanda McCruden
Gas station operator
Wanda M. McCruden, who with her husband operated a gasoline station, died Monday of heart failure at Anne Arundel Medical Center. She was 67 and lived in Arnold.
She and her husband, Jack McCruden, owned Jack's Texaco on U.S. 50 in St. Margarets in the 1960s and 1970s. Mr. McCruden died Dec. 11.
Before she retired about 10 years ago, she was a bookkeeper for several companies and organizations, including the Chartwell Country Club and Ace Manufacturing Co. in Glen Burnie.
A native of Tulsa, Okla., who was reared in Baltimore, the former Wanda M. Wells was a graduate of Seton High School.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 10 a.m. today at St. Andrew by the Bay Roman Catholic Church, 712 College Parkway, Cape St. Claire.
She is survived by two daughters, Anne C. Napier of Pasadena and Sally L. Kirchoff of Arnold; three sons, John M. McCruden of Parkville, James A. McCruden of Pasadena and Stephen R. McCruden of Severna Park; and 16 grandchildren.
Sister Myra Westlein
On hospice staff
Sister Myra Westlein, R.S.M., who managed the clerical operations of a unit at Stella Maris Hospice, died there Sunday of cardiac arrest. She was 73.
Until joining the staff of the long-term care facility 12 years ago, she taught first and second grades for 34 years at Mount St. Agnes Lower School for Girls, Immaculate Heart of Mary School and Mount Washington Country School, all in Baltimore.
Born and reared in Washington, D.C., she joined the Sisters of Mercy in 1943 and later earned bachelor's and master's degrees in French from Case Western Reserve University.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 10 a.m. today in the Stella Maris Chapel, 2300 Dulaney Valley Road.
She is survived by two brothers, Paul Westlein and Louis Westlein, and two sisters, Mary Westlein and Patricia Westlein, all of Washington, D.C.; 13 nieces and nephews, 23 great-nieces and great-nephews; and a great-great nephew.
Memorial donations may be made to the Cardinal Sheehan Center, 2300 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson 21204; or to the Sisters of Mercy Retirement Fund, P.O. Box 11448, Baltimore 21239.