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Edward E. "Bud" Itter Sr., a retired Baltimore Sun commercial artist who was also an acclaimed decoy carver and painter, died Monday from complications following surgery at his Pasadena home. He was 86.

R. Alonzo "Lonz" Childress, a civil engineer whose career with the Baltimore County Department of Public works spanned more than 40 years, died Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital of complications from an infection. He was 72.

Elmer A. "Peck" Jones, who had been chief clerk of the Baltimore City Council and earlier was a chauffeur, died Sunday of kidney failure at Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie. He was 101.

Frances G. "Gerry" Mayes, a dog trainer who also showed dogs, died Aug. 4 of cancer at her Essex home. She was 71.

David B. Dilworth, a highly decorated World War II veteran who fought at the Battle of the Bulge, died July 21 of renal failure at Oak Crest Village in Parkville. He was 90.

James J. Connolly, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. manager, died July 4 of liver cancer at his Towson home. He was 85.

Eugene Nickens, a retired longshoreman and inveterate outdoorsman, died Friday of kidney failure at the Joseph Richey House in Baltimore. He was 87.

Patricia S. Farber, a former private school art teacher and volunteer, died Mary 10 of lung cancer at her home in Brewster, Mass. The former longtime Towson resident was 87.

Demolition workers were using equipment that lifted them more than 40 feet in the air when a former Bethlehem Steel building collapsed at Sparrows Point this week, according to a police report released Tuesday afternoon.

Nine workers were hospitalized Monday after the roof gave way on a building at the former steel mill in Sparrows Point, disrupting work on the lengthy dismantling of the Baltimore County industrial complex.

E. Brent Snodgrass, Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s former regional director of public and political affairs who later established a public relations firm in Florida, died April 1 of complications from dementia at his Tampa home. He was 85.

Donald O. King, a former educator and founder of what is now the Valleybrook Country Club, died Saturday of pneumonia at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. He was 88.

Janet M. Hamlett, a retired National Security Agency analyst and active church member, died Tuesday of cancer at Northwest Hospital. She was 63.

Hans C. Kliemisch, a 10th degree black belt who founded three karate studios, died Feb. 25 of lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The longtime Essex resident was 84.

Arthur V. D'Orazio, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. worker and musician, died Sunday of a heart attack at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 93.

Franklin Walter Vanik, who became an advocate for those diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, died Friday at his parents' Rosedale home after suffering a head injury in an earlier fall. He was 46.

Norman J. Roppelt, a champion duckpin bowler and softball player who was a member of the Maryland Old Timers Softball Association's Hall of Fame, died Jan. 16 of pneumonia at Hilton Head Hospital in Hilton Head, S.C. The former longtime Rosedale resident was 97.

I. Morton "Buddy" Schindler, an electrical engineer who oversaw the pumping operation for Baltimore's water supply system, died Friday at Sinai Hospital of complications of a fall he suffered in December. He was 87 and lived in Pikesville.

Joseph C. Watkins Sr., a retired millwright who enjoyed riding the railroad, collecting model trains, and playing Santa Claus, died Jan. 6 from complications after surgery at York Hospital in York, Pa. He was 81.

Alvin L. Jordan, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. worker and sports fan, died Jan. 1 of a heart attack at Northwest Hospital. He was 76.

Eva A. Burton, a homemaker who was active in the United Methodist Church, died Monday of complications from a stroke at her daughter's Chestertown home. She was 100.

Grace S. Rand, a retired Baltimore County public school librarian and former Reisterstown resident, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at Carroll Lutheran Village in Westminster. She was 94.

Joel R. Bailey, a longtime Baltimore County public school educator who also coached basketball, died Friday from complications of a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 77.

John N. Proakis, a veteran TV repairman who was a co-founder of Lane TV and was known as "The TV Man," died Friday of congestive heart failure at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He was 90.

Paul Goodman, a retired construction company executive and artist, died July 18 from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Fox Hill, a Bethesda assisted-living facility. He was 96.

Gregory A. "Willie" Eads Sr., a retired Baltimore police officer who attained the rank of colonel in a career that spanned more than three decades, died June 30 from pancreatic cancer at his Catonsville home.

Eileen M. Derry, a homemaker and hospital volunteer, died Thursday from complications of diabetes at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 79.

William H. Hoffman, a retired Food and Drug Administration official, died Monday from septic shock following kidney transplant surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 81.

William J. Rosenthal, a noted labor and employment lawyer who as a naval deck officer during World War II participated at the D-Day Normandy invasion, died March 12 of a hemorrhage at Northwest Hospital Center. He was 92.

David A. Mack, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. floating drydock operator, was killed Thursday after being struck by two hit-and-run drivers in eastern Baltimore County. He was 77.

Percy Nicholson, a retired co-owner of two West Baltimore cleaning establishments where he cared for clothing of African-American performers who played at the fabled Royal Theater, died Tuesday of heart failure at Manor Care Falls Road. He was 92.

Virginia T. "Ginny" Dobry, a neighborhood activist who was also described as being "Patterson Park's One-Woman Welcome Wagon, died Sunday from a brain tumor at her North Kenwood Avenue home. She was 79.

Mary Lee Davis, a retired secretary who enjoyed performing in community theater, died Dec. 21 of heart failure at her Clearwater, Fla., home. She was 81.

John Wesley Jones Jr., a retired Harford County public schools teacher who headed its teachers' union, died of cancer Dec. 3 at his Bel Air home. He was 63.

John Wesley Jones Jr., a retired Harford County public schools teacher who headed its teachers' union, died of cancer Dec. 3 at his Bel Air home. He was 63.

Roland V. Danielson, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. naval architect, died Nov. 17 from renal failure at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He was 92.

John Ellis "Bo" Blackwell, one of the first African-Americans to be appointed to the Baltimore Police Department, died Oct. 30 of respiratory failure at Sinai Hospital. He was 83.

Carl R. "Randy" Boles Sr., a retired security expert who was a fan of classic Westerns, died Oct. 25 from complications of pneumonia and heart failure at Baltimore-Washington Medical Center.

The Rev. Ellis B. Dawson III, an electrician who later in life realized his dream of becoming a Baptist minister, died Saturday from complications of diabetes at Frederick Villa Nursing Center. He was 72.

Art Modell, an entrepreneurial owner with the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns who restored a National Football League franchise to Baltimore in 1996 and delivered a Super Bowl championship four years later, has died at 87 at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Court clears environmental appeal of Sparrows Point cleanup despite RG Steel's bankruptcy filing

Albert Richard Baines Jr., 92, tool designer

Joseph Lawrence "Larry" Bohlen Jr., former director of risk management for CSX, died Friday of multiple organ failure at his Rossville home. He was 76.

Dr. Evelyn P. Valentine, a veteran Baltimore public school educator and founder of the Pasteur Center for Strategic Management Ltd., died Thursday of heart disease at her Northeast Baltimore home. She was 77.

James Karas, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. welder who also owned and operated a Northeast Market lunch counter, died Friday of prostate cancer at his Baldwin home. He was 88.

Longtime director of nurses at Maryland Shock Trauma Center worked closely with founder Dr. R Adams Cowley