Julia D. Scheppske, a homemaker and lifelong resident of Baltimore's Remington neighborhood, died of heart failure Friday at Northwest Hospital Center. She was 86.

Julia D. Cotter was raised on West 27th Street and attended city public schools until leaving to help care for her father and 10 siblings.

In 1941, she married Leo Scheppske. A manager for a Baltimore recycling center, he died in 1994.

Mrs. Scheppske looked forward to the Christmas season, and enjoyed decorating her home and baking her favorite coconut and black walnut cakes. "She was famous for those cakes, and family and neighbors were always stopping for a piece of her cakes," said Raymond Burns, a son-in-law from Pikesville.

Mrs. Scheppske liked playing bingo and taking day trips to Atlantic City casinos, where she played quarter slot machines, family members said.

She was a communicant of SS. Philip and James Roman Catholic Church.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. today at Burgee-Heness-Seitz Funeral Home, 3631 Falls Road.

She is survived by two daughters, Elaine Podgurski of Parkville and Deborah Ann Burns of Pikesville; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.