Elise L. Baron, a retired university secretary who was active in several charitable organizations, died Thursday from complications of a stroke at Sinai Hospital. She was 90.
The daughter of Henry D. Levy, superintendent of the Pikesville Post Office, and Mary Kirsh Levy, a homemaker, the former Elise Levy was born in Baltimore and raised on Quantico Avenue.
She was a 1944 graduate of Western High School.
The following year, she married Harold Baron, an Army veteran and printer.
Mrs. Baron and her husband lived on Fieldcrest Road in Northwest Baltimore, where they raised their two sons.
When their sons reached school age, Mrs. Baron went to work as a secretary for the American Oil Co. and later for Baltimore Hebrew University in Towson, where was employed as the graduate school's a secretary for 21 years. She retired in the late 1990s.
Her husband died in 1996.
Mrs. Baron's charitable interests included both the Covenant Guild and Freda Rosen organizations.
She enjoyed knitting and needlepoint and also playing mah-jongg and bingo.
She was a Baltimore Orioles fan, and vacations centered on the team's out-of-town games, family members said. She was also a Ravens fan.
Funeral services were held May 16 at Sol Levinson & Bros. in Pikesville.
Mrs. Baron is survived by her two sons, Eugene Baron of Mount Washington and Mark Baron of Vermilion, S.D.; a sister, Frances Ackman of Pikesville; two grandsons; and two great-grandchildren.
— Frederick N. Rasmussen