Conrad I. Gottlieb
Salesman, singer
Conrad I. Gottlieb, a former salesman and singer who counseled other patients and doctors while surviving lung cancer two decades, died Saturday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital of complications related to congestive heart failure. He was 77.
Around his 1975 retirement after 20 years as a cemetery-plot salesman, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and given several months to live. But on advice from the Cancer Research Institute in New York City, for which he later became a spokesman, he took radical chemotherapy treatments every three weeks for five years in Philadelphia.
The Mount Washington resident and city native, a baritone, studied voice at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and sang at weddings, with the B&O; Glee Club, in Baltimore and Washington opera productions, and on radio and television.
He raised and showed Dachshunds, and wrote two humorous books about dogs and their owners.
Graveside services were held Sunday at the Hebrew Young Men's Cemetery.
Mr. Gottlieb is survived by his wife, the former Anne Witten; a daughter, Gilda G. Hoffman, of New York City; a son, Victor Gottlieb, of Richmond, Va.; three sisters, Bettye Springer, of Fort Myers, Fla., Hilda Thorpe, of Alexandria, Va., and Lee Feldman, of Baltimore; a brother, Leonard Gottlieb, of Baltimore, and three grandchildren. James Murray Hines, a retired chemical engineer, died yesterday morning of cancer at the Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville where he had moved about five years ago from Drexel Hill, Pa. He was 83.
Mr. Hines designed water purification systems for heavy industry.
The native of Providence, R.I., graduated from Classical High School there. He received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Brown University in 1933.
After graduation, he worked for two engineering firms, including one co-owned by his father that designed furnaces for various clients, including the federal government's Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb.
During World War II, he served in the Navy Seabees.
Before moving to Drexel Hill in 1955, he worked for five years as an industrial engineer in West Virginia.
He was a Boy Scout leader in Drexel Hill.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Charlestown Retirement Community Chapel, 707 Maiden Choice Lane.
Survivors include his wife of 54 years, the former Mary Junia Irish; two daughters, Mary Pat Clarke, president of the Baltimore City Council, and Susan Palombi of Columbia, S.C.; a son, Jim Hines of Holt, Mich.; and eight grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Jentry E. McDonald Foundation, 1304 McCulloh St., Baltimore 21217.
Ina M. S. Warehime
Homemaker, volunteer
Ina M. Shipley Warehime, a homemaker and volunteer, died Monday of respiratory failure at the Long View Nursing Home in Manchester. She was 94.
She was a volunteer at Springfield Hospital Center for many years and at the Child Evangelism Fellowship of Baltimore.
Born and reared in Westminster, she was educated in Carroll County public schools. In 1923, she married Lester Warehime, a farmer, who died in 1987.
She was a lifelong member of Deer Park United Methodist Church where she was a member of the Women's Society and was active in the Children's Bible Ministry of Maryland.
Services were to be held at 1 p.m. today at Pritts Funeral Home and Chapel, 412 Washington Road, Westminster, with interment Deer Park Church Cemetery.
She is survived by three daughters, Loretta Florrow of Baltimore and Dorothy "Dot" Warehime and Shirley Stull, both of Westminster; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to Children's Bible Ministry of Maryland, P.O. Box 2111, Westminster 21158.
Eleanore Kuchler
Officer in family firm
Eleanore Kuchler, who had been an executive of a manufacturing firm and later a volunteer, died Tuesday of kidney failure at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 82.
Mrs. Kuchler had lived in Ruxton for many years before moving to the Glen Meadows retirement community in Glen Arm eight years ago.
She was secretary-treasurer of the Kuchler-Kuhn Co., owned by her husband, before the Philadelphia-based jet engine seal manufacturing company was sold to Koppers Co. in Baltimore.
She and her husband, Theodore C. Kuchler, moved to the Baltimore area in 1955 after the sale. He died in 1972.
Mrs. Kuchler volunteered at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, the Red Cross blood collection program, Meals on Wheels and the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital.
She was born Eleanore A. Thompson in Philadelphia and graduated from Girls' High School there. She was a member of Towson Presbyterian Church.
Services were to be held at 1 p.m. today at Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road.
She is survived by a son, Theodore Kuchler Jr. of West Chester, Pa.; four grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
Edward J. Rose Jr.
Social Security official
Edward J. Rose Jr., 44, a public affairs specialist for the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn, died Sunday at a hospital in Lancaster, Pa., of a stroke.
The resident of Landisville, Pa., also had a consulting firm, The Editor's Touch Editorial Consultants.
Services for the New Orleans native were to be held at noon today at Ames Memorial United Methodist Church, Carey and Baker streets, Baltimore.
He is survived by his wife, the former Antonia R. Sharp, a son, Nicholas E. Rose, and a daughter, Karen A. Rose, all of Landisville; and his father, Edward J. Rose Sr., and stepmother, Gloria Rose, both of New Orleans.
Narvis Cephas-Robinson, 41, a dialysis technician at several Baltimore hospitals in the 1980s, died Feb. 16 of cancer at her Forest Park home.
Services for the former Narvis Cephas, a native Baltimorean, were held yesterday.
She is survived by her husband, Donald Robinson; three sons, Garett, Dana and Tyree Robinson; her father, John H. Cephas; her mother and stepfather, Delores and James Cofield; four brothers, John and Jeffrey Cephas and Jamie and James Cofield Jr.; four sisters, Renee Powell, Terry Howard and Carolyn and Lorraine Cephas; and two grandsons. All are of Baltimore.
Mary Catherine Rock O'Neill, 70, who grew up in Baltimore and graduated from the old Mount St. Agnes High School, died Wednesday of cancer at her home in Rome, Ga., where she had been a golfer.
The former Mary Catherine Rock, a St. Mary-of-the-Woods College graduate, was a former president of the Georgia state women's golf association who also belonged to state and local garden clubs and the Daughters of the American Revolution, and did volunteer work with several organizations.
Mrs. O'Neill, for whom a Mass of Christian burial was to be offered today in Rome, is survived by her husband, James J. O'Neill Jr.; a daughter, Catherine Dollar of Rome; two sons, Shane O'Neill of Rome and James J. O'Neill III of Austin, Texas; four brothers, Glen Rock of Timonium, John L. Rock of Towson, Robert Rock of Richmond, Va., and Leo P. Rock Jr. of Altamonte Springs, Fla.; and two grandsons.