Marie Victoria Janocha Anderson, a longtime employee of the Lord Baltimore Hotel who once owned an East Baltimore restaurant, died Wednesday of natural causes at St. Agnes Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Ellicott City, where she had lived for about three years. The former Fort Howard resident was 94.

Marie Janocha was born on Bank Street in 1908 and attended the Holy Rosary School through the eighth grade.

She was married for 22 years to John C. Anderson, a railroad engineer, who died in 1960.

More than a half-century ago, Mrs. Anderson fulfilled a dream and opened Anderson's Restaurant at Baltimore Street and East Avenue, which she operated for four years -- until it became too demanding and took up most of her time, said a son, Richard C. Anderson of Boca Raton, Fla.

Before and after that venture, Mrs. Anderson worked for about 35 years at the Lord Baltimore Hotel as a banquet waitress and bartender, into her 60s.

"She was a great woman. She worked hard all her life," her son said.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Holy Rosary Church, 400 S. Chester St., near her birthplace.

She is also survived by another son, Robert G. Anderson of Baltimore; a sister, Clementine J. Paskiewicz of New Port Richey, Fla.; a brother, Walter B. Janocha of Wilmington, Del.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.