Webster S. Lewis
Nurse
Webster S. Lewis, a retired nurse, died Jan. 20 of cancer at his home in West Baltimore. He was 72.
He retired about seven years ago after working at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center for many years. Earlier, he briefly was a Baltimore police officer and worked in the city Department of Recreation and Parks.
After retiring as a nurse, he was a crossing guard for Harriet Tubman Elementary School at Harlem Avenue and Monroe Street. He received a mayoral citation for his work.
A native of Baltimore, he was a member of the first graduating class at Dunbar High School in 1940 and attended Morgan State University. He was a member of the football, basketball and track teams at both schools and was named to the Dunbar Athletic Hall of Fame as an all-around athlete. The M Club at Morgan plans to induct him into its Hall of Fame.
He was a member of the Cloverdale Baltimore Basketball Association, which sponsors youth basketball teams.
A memorial service was to be held at 6:30 p.m. today at Pennsylvania Avenue AME Zion Church, Dolphin Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.
Survivors include a daughter, Sheila T. Grimes of Baltimore; a son, Webster S. Lewis Jr. of New York City; five grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. A Mass of Christian burial for Lottie Kaszubinski, who was 103, and her son, Dominic Kaszubinski, who was 79, was to be offered at 9 a.m. today at St. Athanasius Roman Catholic Church, Church and Prudence streets, Curtis Bay.
Mr. Kaszubinski, who lived in Ocean City, died Monday of heart failure while visiting the home of a sister in Millersville.
His mother, who lived at the Millersville home, died the next day at North Arundel Hospital of complications of a circulatory illness.
The former Lottie Pawlowski had worked in the 1930s cleaning office buildings in downtown Baltimore.
A native of Baltimore, she told family members of walking with friends from her Wolfe Street neighborhood to downtown to see the Baltimore fire of 1904. She said they were turned back before they got close to the fire that destroyed much of downtown.
Her husband, Dominick Kaszubinski, died 47 years ago.
Her son, who served in the 29th Division during World War II, retired about 15 years ago after working for many years in the Point Breeze Plant of Western Electric Co.
His wife, the former Naomi Hommerbocker, died 27 years ago.
Mrs. Kaszubinski is survived by two sons, James Polaski of Pasadena and Andrew Kaszubinski of Glen Burnie; seven daughters; Mary Streets of Millersville, Gertrude Polack of Severna Park, Helen Bilenki and Lucy Whittemore, both of Baltimore, and Katie Stinchcomb, Florence Christopolus and Bertha Hardy, all of Glen Burnie; and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Mr. Kaszubinski also is survived by a friend, Dorothy Strigle of Ocean City.
Robert B. M. Barton
Popularized Monopoly
Robert B. M. Barton, a former Baltimorean who acquired the rights to Monopoly in 1935 and popularized the game, died Tuesday after a long illness at his home in Marblehead, Mass. He was 91.
He was president of Parker Brothers, the toy maker, from 1932 until 1968 when the company was sold. The firm was founded by his father-in-law, George S. Parker, in 1887 in Salem, Mass.
It was Mr. Parker who persuaded Mr. Barton to abandon a legal career in Baltimore to take over the company.
Born and reared in Baltimore, Mr. Barton attended the Calvert School, the Marston School, and the Gilman School before graduating in 1922 from Phillips Exeter Academy. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1926 and a law degree in 1929, both from Harvard.
He returned to Baltimore to practice law in his father's firm, Wilmer Barton -- today Niles, Barton and Wilmer -- until he left to work for the toy company.
Services were to be held today at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Marblehead.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, the former Sally Parker; two sons, Randolph P. Barton of Manchester, Mass., and Richard M. Barton of Bristol, Maine; a daughter, Sally Mann of Seattle; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
I= Memorial donations may be made to Salem (Mass.) Hospital.