Thomas W. Smith, 89, designed Hopkins buildings

Thomas W. Smith, a retired Baltimore architect who designed the president's residence and Shaffer Hall on the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University, died of heart failure Wednesday at Keswick Multi-Care Center. The lifelong Stevenson resident was 89.

In 1940, Mr. Smith and architect Graham Veale established the firm of Smith & Veale, whose work included schools, churches, libraries and banks. It merged with the architectural firm of Myers and D'Aleo Inc. Mr. Smith retired in 1984.

Mr. Smith was a 1928 graduate of Gilman School and earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia. During World War II, he served with the Navy and attained the rank of lieutenant.

He was a communicant and senior warden of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 232 St. Thomas Lane, Garrison, where services will be held at 11 a.m. today.

He is survived by his wife of 51 years, the former Elizabeth MacLeod Culver; a son, Francis W. Smith of Bel Air; two daughters, Margaret S. Green of Parkton and Virginia W. Smith of Stevenson; and five grandchildren.

John Dudley Sparks Jr., 64, educator, restaurateur

John Dudley Sparks Jr., a retired Queen Anne's County educator and former restaurant owner, died of cancer Aug. 29 at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Chester resident was 64.

Mr. Sparks, a driver education and history teacher, began his career in 1956. He taught at Stevensville and Queen Anne's County high schools, retiring in 1987. From 1958 to 1968, he owned and operated a Tastee Freeze restaurant in Chester.

A Chester native, Mr. Sparks, who was known as Buddy, graduated in 1952 from Stevensville High and earned his bachelor's degree from Washington College in 1956.

He was a member of various civic groups and served two terms on the Queen Anne's County election board.

For more than 25 years, he organized an annual recognition dinner for the graduating class of Queen Anne's County High at Kent Island United Methodist Church in Chester, where he was an active member.

A memorial service will be held at the church at 1 p.m. today.

He is survived by his wife of 43 years, the former Jane Golt; a son, Dudley Golt Sparks of Queenstown; a daughter, Lauren Sparks Ball of Fredericksburg, Va.; a brother, Mervyn C. "Tink" Sparks of Annapolis; and three grandchildren.

Gladys Mitchell, 92, Baltimore school principal

Gladys Mitchell, a retired Baltimore principal whose career in education spanned more than 40 years, died of a stroke Aug. 27 at Church Home. She was 92.

Miss Mitchell, who began her teaching career in the late 1920s, taught the commercial course at Forest Park High School from 1935 to 1937. In the 1950s and 1960s, she was principal of Ben Franklin Elementary and Herring Run Junior High before being ++ named Northern High's first principal in 1965. She retired in 1970.

Born in Manchester, England, Miss Mitchell settled in Northeast Baltimore in 1914. She was an Eastern High School graduate and earned her teaching certificate in 1925 from what is now Towson University. In 1931, she earned a bachelor's degree and in 1943 her master's degree in education from the Johns Hopkins University.

Services were Aug. 29.

She is survived by a brother, Alfred Gleave Mitchell of Baltimore.

Diane S. Adams, a former Howard County public schools guidance counselor and partner in a Dewey Beach, Del., nightclub, died of cancer Aug. 29 at Howard County General Hospital. She was 39 and lived in Columbia.

Because of failing health, Mrs. Adams retired last year from Glenwood Middle School, where she had been a guidance counselor since 1991. Earlier, she had taught English at Harper's Choice Middle School for 10 years.

Since 1991, she and her husband, Joe Adams, whom she married in 1987, were partners in the Bottle and Cork in Dewey Beach.

The former Diane Shaner was born and raised in New Jersey and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Delaware.

Services were held Tuesday at Linden-Linthicum United Methodist Church in Clarksville, where she was a member.

In addition to her husband, survivors include her mother, Mary Ann Noble of Mount Laurel, N.J.; her father and stepmother, Arthur H. Shaner Jr. and Maria K. Shaner of Fort Myers, Fla.; and three sisters, Carol Palm, Karen Mumbower and Nancy Noble, all of Mount Laurel.

Dr. Marius P. Johnson Sr., 95, gynecologist

Dr. Marius Pitkin Johnson Sr., a noted Baltimore obstetrician and gynecologist, died of congestive heart failure Aug. 27 at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Towson resident was 95.

Dr. Johnson retired in 1975 from the staff of Greater Baltimore Medical Center, where he had been director of the department of utilization and quality assurance since its founding in 1965.

Born and raised in Hartford, Conn., he was a descendant of Colonial Gov. William Pitkin. He earned his bachelor's and medical degrees from the University of Maryland and completed his residency at the old Hospital for the Women of Maryland in Bolton Hill. He taught anatomy and physiology in the nursing school there for 20 years.

Dr. Johnson was an avid rose gardener and an accomplished cabinetmaker and enjoyed sailing the Chesapeake Bay in his cabin cruiser.

Services were private.

Survivors include his wife, the former Rosalie Jefferson, whom he married in 1965; a son, M. Pitkin Johnson Jr. of Severna Park; two daughters, Ann Matthews of Cherry Hill, N.J., and Susan Bull of Eugene, Ore.; nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

William Garrett Lumpkin Sr., former advertising sales manager for The Baltimore Sun, died Thursday at St. Joseph Medical Center from complications of a fall. He was 88 and lived at the Edenwald Retirement Community in Towson.

A longtime Woodbrook resident, he retired in 1975 after a 30-year career with the newspaper.

He was born and raised in Virginia, and attended Emory & Henry College in Emory, Va. He moved to Baltimore at the beginning of World War II, and worked for the old Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River.

An avid golfer, he was a member of the Boumi Temple and the Towson Shrine.

He was a communicant of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, where a Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 11 a.m. today.

He was married in 1931 to the former Emma L. Goodwin, who died in 1955.

He is survived by his wife of 37 years, the former Gertrude Hoffman; a son, William Garrett Lumpkin Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla.; two brothers, Charles Lumpkin of Tappahannock, Va., and Pierce Lumpkin of Richmond; two sisters, Inez Haynes of Charlottesville and Elizabeth Stansall of Richmond; and two grandchildren.

Pamela Emery Barczak, 48, Hopkins office coordinator

Pamela Emery Barczak, a medical office coordinator at Johns Hopkins Hospital and volunteer, died of cancer Wednesday at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Roland Park resident was 48.

Mrs. Barczak had been medical office coordinator in the Hopkins cardiac surgery unit since 1988. Earlier, she had held similar positions at Harvard Medical Center in Boston and at a medical clinic in Berkeley, Calif.

The former Pamela Emery was born in Montclair, N.J., and moved to Roland Park as a child. She was a 1968 graduate of Bryn Mawr School and attended Sarah Lawrence University.

She was an active member of St. John's United Methodist Church, and had been a volunteer at its Heart's Place Shelter and the Towson YMCA's Discovery Program.

Services will be at 9 a.m. tomorrow at St. John's United Methodist Church at St. Paul and 27th streets.

Survivors include her husband of six years, Joseph S. Barczak; her mother, Jule T. Emery of Roland Park; and a sister, Sally Emery of New York City.

Pub Date: 9/05/98