Mary B. Goldberg, 83, former grocery store owner
Mary B. Goldberg, a homemaker who with her husband owned and operated a Sandtown-Winchester grocery store for several decades, died Monday of heart failure at the Jewish Home for the Aged in New Haven, Conn. She was 83.
A former resident of the Walker-Mews Apartments in Cedarcroft, she had lived in New Haven since 1997.
Mrs. Goldberg and her husband, Max Goldberg, whom she married in 1935, operated Sandtown Food Market in the 1400 block of Presstman St. from 1936 until they closed the business in 1959.
The former Mary Burwasser was born and raised in Atlantic City, N.J., the daughter of a tailor. She attended Atlantic City schools until the ninth grade, when she left school to help support her family. She moved to Baltimore in the early 1930s.
She had formerly been a longtime member of Baltimore's Bnai Jacob Synagogue.
Services were held in New Haven on Monday.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Goldberg is survived by a son, Louis Goldberg of New Haven; a daughter, Barbara Goldberg Malkin of Cockeysville; a brother, Al Bury of Surfside, Fla.; a sister, Ann Uram of Sykesville; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Joseph Donner, 101, Annapolis liquor store owner
Joseph Donner, longtime owner of Mills Wines and Spirits Mart in Annapolis, died Monday in his sleep at his home there. He was 101.
Since 1946, Mr. Donner's store has been supplying liquor, beer and wine not only to Maryland governors, who regularly shopped there for decades, but also local residents and thirsty mariners who tied up at City Dock across from the Compromise Street store.
The former New Yorker, who came to Baltimore in the 1940s and worked as a door-to-door salesman, purchased the business in 1946 from Billy Mills, its founder.
"With a handshake and a promise to pay the previous proprietor $500, Joseph's word was as good as gold," said his son, Hillard Donner, who lives in Annapolis and is co-owner of the business. "He paid back the full amount in less than two months."
Mr. Donner, who described his father as a "workaholic" and a "no-nonsense businessman," said it wasn't uncommon for him to work seven days a week.
Mr. Donner was born in Dynow, Poland, one of 11 children, and after arriving at Ellis Island with his family in 1914, settled in New York City.
He was married during the 1920s to the former Rose Lebauer, who died in 1978.
A self-educated man, he sold newspapers on street corners and worked as a cigarette boy in Manhattan speakeasys during the Roaring '20s to help support his family.
He was a member of Congregation Kneseth Israel, in Annapolis, where services were held Friday. In addition to his son, Mr. Donner is survived by a brother, Alex Donner of Annapolis; four grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
Bernice Clark, 71, managed restaurant
Bernice Clark, the retired manager of a popular Glen Burnie restaurant, died of emphysema Tuesday at Howard County General Hospital. She was 71 and lived in Ellicott City.
Known as Miss Bea, she was a fixture at the Sunset Restaurant and Lounge for 37 years, before retiring two years ago. She began as a barmaid, but was soon running an operation that grew to 100 employees.
"There wasn't anything that Miss Bea couldn't do," said Arthur "Otts" Fratt, co-owner of the Sunset. "She was like a top sergeant -- very fair with everyone here."
Born in Cambridge, the former Bernice Hubbard attended schools there before coming to Baltimore nearly 50 years ago. She worked in the office of developer James W. Rouse on Saratoga Street before becoming office manager for Western Union at its old Baltimore Street downtown headquarters.
In 1961, she took the barmaid's job at the Sunset -- then a tavern on Greenway that served food as a sideline. The place expanded over the years while the owners added oil paintings and Tiffany-style lights to the decor and cream of crab soup and strawberry shortcake to the menu.
She married Francis Clark in 1964. He died a year later.
Funeral services will be held at 2: 30 p.m. July 12 at Baltimore National Cemetery, Frederick Road, Catonsville.
She is survived by three sons, Evan Brierley of Millersville, Neil Brierley of Ellicott City and Frank Clark of Columbia; a daughter, Allison Purcell of Bel Air; and 13 grandchildren.
Edward G. Crawford, 65, trucking firm owner
Edward Grafton Crawford, the retired owner of local trucking and delivery firms, died Thursday of pancreatic cancer at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson. Mr. Crawford, who lived in Parkton, was 65.
Mr. Crawford owned and operated the Crawford Carting Co., a trucking company that picked up containers from the Dundalk Marine Terminal and moved products for local manufacturers including Lever Brothers. He also owned Spangler Transportation, which delivered multiple listings, contracts and other documents for real estate companies throughout the Baltimore area.
He owned the companies for three decades, dissolving them a few years ago so he could retire. The firms operated out of the same office in downtown Baltimore.
He was born in Baltimore, moving as an adult to Timonium and later to Parkton. He was a graduate of Forest Park High School, where he was a star lacrosse and football player. He later played semi-pro hockey. He attended Western Maryland College and the University of Maryland.
"He loved animals, always looking to take in stray puppies and kitties, both at his work site and home," said his daughter Kim Crawford of Parkton.
He owned two condominiums in Ocean City, where he liked to spend his free moments. "He was a lifeguard at 18, and never lost his love of the ocean," said his wife, Sharon Crawford of Parkton.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Lemmon Funeral Home of Dulaney Valley, 10 W. Padonia Road in Timonium.
Mr. Crawford is also survived by his daughter Elise Griffey, also of Parkton.
John M. Congleton Sr., 74, elevator repairman
John Moses Congleton Sr., a retired elevator repairman, died Friday of Alzheimer's disease at his home in Pasadena. He was 74.
Mr. Congleton was born and raised in Brooklyn and graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in 1943.
During World War II, he served in India in the Army's Air Transport Command. He received several commendations, including the Good Conduct Medal and the Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon.
After returning to Baltimore, he worked for General Elevator Co. for 40 years. For more than 30 years, he was a member of St. Jane Frances Dechantal Roman Catholic Church in Riviera Beach.
Services will be held at 1: 30 p.m. tomorrow at the church, 8499 Virginia Ave.
His son, John Moses Congleton Jr. of New York City, died in 1990.
Mr. Congleton is survived by his wife, the former Virginia Steger, whom he married in 1943; a daughter, Veronica Congleton of Salisbury; two sisters, Eula Armiger of Brooklyn Park and Evelyn Arnold of Ferndale; and two grandchildren.
J. Daniel Leilich Sr., 60, investment broker
] J. Daniel Leilich Sr., a Bel Air stockbroker who was an active church member and Lions Club member, died Wednesday of heart failure at Fallston General Hospital. He was 60.
For the past 10 years, Mr. Leilich had been a stockbroker with A. G. Edwards & Sons Inc. in the firm's Bel Air office. Earlier, he had worked as a broker for Baker-Watts and Johnston-Lemmon and for several years headed his own investment firm.
Born and raised in Hamilton, he was a graduate of Mergenthaler Vocational Technical Senior High School in Baltimore. He served with the Army at Fort Gordon, Ga., in 1957.
He was a member and past president of the Lions Club of Bel Air and Darlington. He also was elected a Lions Club district governor and served as chairman of the Council of Governors for the Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia region.
As president of the Lions Association for Sight and Hearing, he helped develop a program between the Lions Club and Johns Hopkins Hospital that provided ear examinations and rebuilt hearing aids for the economically disadvantaged.
He was an active communicant of St. Mark Roman Catholic Church in Fallston, where he was also a Eucharistic minister and lector. He was co-chair of St. Mark's Home Host Ministry program, Heritage of Hope Committee and the Economic Development Committee.
He had recently become a fourth-degree member of the Knights of Columbus.
A Mass of Christian burial was scheduled yesterday.
He is survived by his wife of 40 years, the former Jeanne E. Grue; a son, Joseph D. "Butch" Leilich of Bel Air; three daughters, Ann M. Blocher of Abingdon, Barbara J. Allen of Kingsville and Darlene J. Flaxman of Bel Air; a brother, John Leilich III of Baltimore; two sisters, Carolyn Nocello of Wheaton and Regina Forster of Parkville; and six grandchildren.