Paul W. Angelos
Trucking executive
Paul W. Angelos, a retired trucking company owner, died Sunday of Alzheimer's disease at the Veterans Administration hospital in Perryville. He was 74 and lived in Perry Hall.
He retired about 10 years ago as president of Spartan International, a trucking company he and his wife had owned for about 10 years. Earlier, he had been president of Panda Transport Inc., which they had owned since 1963.
Before then, he had been an independent trucker, hauling steel for the Bethlehem Steel Corp.
A native of Boston who was reared in New York City, he came to the Baltimore area after serving in the Army during World War II.
Mr. Angelos, who had belonged at various times to St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and to St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, was a member of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, Preston Street and Maryland Avenue, where services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow.
He is survived by his wife, the former Helen Love; a son, Michael P. Angelos of Towson; a daughter, Connie V. Angelos of Perry Hall; a brother, Peter W. Angelos of Rossville, a retired restaurant owner; a sister, Maria Angelos of Towson; and a granddaughter.
Charles Thompson
School psychologist
Dr. Charles W. Thompson, a psychologist for the Baltimore County school system who also taught at Towson State University, died Saturday of cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 59 and lived in Cockeysville.
He had worked in the county schools since 1968. His worincluded serving as leader of a crisis intervention team.
Dr. Thompson also taught psychology, mainly a course on educational psychology, for many years at Towson State.
A native of Kenosha, Wis., he was a 1958 graduate of the University of Illinois and then earned a master's degree in 1961 and a doctorate in 1968 at the University of North Carolina.
While a student at North Carolina, he was also a psychologist for the Guilford County Health Department in Greensboro, N.C.
A memorial service was to be held at 7 p.m. today at Towson Presbyterian Church, 400 W. Chesapeake Ave.
He is survived by his wife of 30 years, the former Patti Sieglitz; three sons, David S. Thompson of Forest, Va., Jeffrey M. Thompson of Charlottesville, Va., and Stephen C. Thompson of Houston; and two sisters, Eugenia Thompson of Fond du Lac, Wis., and Dorothy Becker of De Bary, Fla. Humphrey A. Jones, a retired welder, died Saturday after a heart attack at his Towson home. He was 84.
He retired in the late 1960s after 30 years at the former Bendix Radio Division plant in Towson.
A native of Jasper, Minn., who was reared there and in Atlanta, he was a truck driver in Georgia before joining Bendix.
He built and flew radio-controlled model gliders and was a member of the Baltimore Soaring Society. He was also an amateur radio operator, who used the call letters W3MZA, and he had talked to other hams on each continent.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road.
He is survived by his wife, the former Marion Brooks; a daughter, Glena J. Wirtanen of Phoenix; a son, Robert A. Jones of Timonium; two brothers, Harold E. Jones of Elizabethtown, N.C., and William M. Jones of Towson; and two grandchildren.
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James T. Binko
Bank administrator
James T. Binko, who retired in 1982 as an administrator in the trust department of what was then Equitable Bank, died Saturday at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center of injuries from a fall two weeks earlier at his Eastwood home. He was 74.
He began working for the old Equitable Trust Co. in 1968 after 29 years at Glenn L. Martin Co., where he was a planner.
He also cared for many elderly and sick relatives, sometimes at his home. Although he never drove a car, he was a regular visitor to those in hospitals and the bereaved at funeral homes, according to his daughter, Carolyn C. DiNatale of Baltimore.
The Highlandtown native was a member of the Holy Name Society and the Leisure Club at Our Lady of Fatima Roman Catholic Church, 6400 E. Pratt St., where a Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 11 a.m. today.
Other survivors include his wife, the former Rosalyn Backof; two sons, Gerard M. Binko of Middle River and James W. Binko of York, Pa.; a brother, Bernard Binko of Baltimore; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Edith Brener
Homemaker
Edith Brener, a homemaker and longtime Pikesville resident, died of pneumonia Sunday at Laureldale Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Reading, Pa. She was 83 and had moved to Reading in 1989.
The former Edith Weinstein was a 1929 graduate of Western High School. She studied briefly at the Maryland Institute, College of Art and was a volunteer for many years at the Jewish Convalescent Home.
Graveside services were held yesterday at Beth El Memorial Park.
Her husband, Herbert Brener, a furniture retailer, died in 1986. She is survived by a son, Dr. Gary Lattin of Reading; a sister, Syd Cutler of Baltimore and North Miami Beach, Fla.; a brother, David Weinstein of Baltimore; and three grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to Beth El Synagogue, 8101 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore 21208.
Dawn Michelle Schwartztrauber, 29, a Baltimore resident, died Feb. 20 of cancer at Stella Maris Hospice.
A private ceremony for the former Pennsylvania resident was held Wednesday. A memorial service is being planned.
She is survived by a son, Michael Gregory Schwartztrauber; a daughter, Vanessa Rae Collins; her mother, M. Alice Gillan; two sisters, Kimberly Gillan and Tammy Schwartztrauber; two brothers, Charles Gillan IV and David Shaw, all of Baltimore; and her grandmother, Irene M. Frederick of York, Pa.
Memorial donations may be made to Stella Maris Hospice, 2300 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson 21204; or to the American Cancer Society.