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John R. North, a retired civil engineer and church organist, died.

Margaret H. Downes, a homemaker and volunteer, died of respiratory failure. She was 95.

Advanced Alzheimer's disease has robbed Joy Glass of her feisty personality and sharp wit.

Genevieve M. DiCamillo, a homemaker and accomplished Italian cook who was known for her family dinners, died Saturdayat her Hamilton home of breast cancer. She was 105.

Carroll Seniors columnist seeks to boost memory in 2015

Richard C. Fox, former publisher of the Baltimore Business Journal who later worked in radio and TV ratings for Arbitron Inc., died Nov. 4 at Gilchrist Hospice Center in Columbia of multiple myeloma. He was 67.

Phyllis C. Bathurst, a board certified microbiologist who worked at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, died there Oct. 26 of a heart attack. She was 65.

Former governor adds nothing to the political discourse but canned right-wing rants

Samuel E. Jackson Jr., a retired research psychologist who was a longtime active member of Kappa Alpha Psi, an historically black fraternity, died Sept. 1 at Howard County General Hospital of heart failure. He was 80.

Frances M. "Peg" Spath, a homemaker who enjoyed vacationing in Ocean City, died July 22 of a stroke at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. She was 98.

Deborah Bias began taking adult literacy classes in August and since then the Annapolis resident has vaulted from a kindergarten reading level to third grade, picking up about a thousand words along the way.

Phyllis Evelyn Ally, a retired medical office manager and hospital dietitian, died of heart failure May 11 at Saint Agnes Medical Center. The Catonsville resident was 74.

Money spent on newspapers might have been spent on upgrading The Baltimore Sun

A full slate of arts activities are available to seniors in retirement communities, from in-house concerts to a woodworking shop

Denise Charrier McQuighan, a database engineer and Johns Hopkins University graduate, died of cancer March 5 at her Gaithersburg home. She was 55.

John Weber, a tenor who sang in opera productions and was the music director of a Rodgers Forge church, died of an apparent heart attack Jan. 17. The Catonsville resident was 50.

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.

Rose G. Vassallo, a retired construction firm bookkeeper, died of complications of renal failure Thursday at the Ellicott City Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was 84 and lived in Ellicott City.

Betty B. Scher, a nurse who was known to family and friends as indefatigable and with a lifelong thirst for knowledge, died Nov. 13 at her home. The Baltimore resident was 87.

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Longtime Guilford neighborhood columnist Beverly Quinones dies