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Obituaries The Sun Thursday, December 10, 1998 Page 15b Mary Louise Wolf, 75, engineer who founded local Herb Festival I fi rift- 1 IV' two sons, Anthony Subrizi of Bel Air and Robert Subrizi of Chevy Chase; a brother, Michael Subrizi, and a sister, Teresa Commisso, both of New York City; and two grandchildren. Theodore G.Hart, 78, founded real estate firm Theodore G. Hart, founder and president of a real estate and property management firm, died Dec. 3 of complications of Alzheimer's disease at his home in May-field in Northeast Baltimore. He was 78.

He founded T. G. Hart Co. in Baltimore and ran it for 55 years. He sold the firm last year.

Known as Ted, the lifelong Mayfield resident graduated from City College and attended Loyola College. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was a drummer in a dance band that he had organized. Mr. Hart was an avid golfer and waterfowl hunter. He was a member of the Wiltondale Gun Club and the Maryland Golf and Country Club.

He was a communicant of St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church, 3615 Harford Road, where a memorial Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Saturday. He is survived by his wife of 25 years, the former Terry Simmeth; two daughters, Patricia Patton and Kathleen Hart, both of Baltimore; a brother, Dr. Vernon T.

Hart of Bel Air; a stepson, Mark Ward of Bel Air; two stepdaughters, Carron McDonough of Forest Hill and Katherine Bull of Bel Air; 10 grandchildren; and a greatgrandchild. Elizabeth Smith, 84, bridge enthusiast Elizabeth Smith, a bridge enthusiast and longtime resident of Bolton Hill who fought to preserve her neighborhood's status as an historic district, died Dec. 2 of respiratory complications at Union Memorial Hospital. She was 84. Born Mary Elizabeth Cowan in Nashville, she moved to Baltimore at age 18, when she be gan working at the old Glenn L.

Martin Co. during World War II. In 1944, she married Robert Henry Smith and they moved to Bolton Hill, where she co-founded the Mount Royal Improvement Association. Mrs. Smith, known to friends as Ditty, was also active in bridge groups in Roland Park, Homeland and Ferndale.

She belonged to the Colonial Dames and the Three Arts Club, and assisted families in genealogical research at the Maryland Historical Society. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Memorial Episcopal Church, Lafayette Avenue and Bolton Street. Mrs. Smith's husband died In 1972.

She is survived by a son, R. Bruce Smith of Baltimore; and a grandson. Bernice Mae Ostrowski, 82, Severn homemaker Bernice Mae Ostrowski, a homemaker, died Friday of congestive heart failure at her Severn home. She was 82. Mrs.

Ostrowski had been a resident of Severn since 1982. She previously resided in Beltsville. The former Bernice M. Minter was born in Williamson, and graduated from Lanier High School in Macon, Ga. In 1938, she married Casimir J.

Ostrowski, a career Navy mechanical engineer. During World War II, Mrs. Ostrowski worked at the Electric Boat plant in New London, Conn. Services are private. In addition to her husband, she is survived by a son, Joseph Ostrowski of Dunkirk; and a granddaughter.

Correction John Henry Buengen An obituary in Tuesday's editions of The Sun correctly identified the widow of retired Baltimore police officer John Henry Buenger. Mr. Buen-ger, who was the city police officer of the year in 1965, is survived by his wife, Dolores Buenger. Afore obituaries next page iittN Ml mm- if ii hi nimin iiiimI rn i MiI'im i ft i i mi SUN FILE 1987 Preservation: Mary Louise Wolf worked to restore a Gothic-style and gingerbread chapel in historic Leakin Park. By Frederick N.

Rasmussen SUN STAFF Mary Louise Wolf, the Dickey-ville activist who helped block Interstate 70 from being constructed through a northwest Baltimore park and later founded the Baltimore Herb Festival, was found dead in her home Saturday. She was 75. Miss Wolf, a retired Westing-house Corp. statistical engineer who had been a West Baltimore resident for nearly 40 years, died of an apparent heart attack, according to the medical examiner. Miss Wolf was a strong-willed and determined dynamo who became invigorated in the early 1970s when then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer proposed an extension of Interstate 70 through Baltimore's historic Leakin Park.

She spent nine years fighting the road project to save what is the second-largest urban wilderness park in the nation. It was designed by Frederick Law Olms-tead, the famed landscape architect who designed Central Park in New York. "She was a hard-driving and outspoken individual, and people willingly followed her lead," said Pat Jones, a Dickeyville friend and neighbor for 40 years. "She was fearless in her pursuit of preserving the park." George Tyson, who worked with her during the highway battle, said from his Franklintown home yesterday, "She was tireless and worked hard in order to get the cooperation of people, volunteers and bureaucrats." The 68-acre park once was the estate of Thomas de Kay Winans, a railroad builder and son of Ross Winans, noted Railroad inventor. It was originally known as Crimea.

On the grounds of the estate stood a Qothic-style and gingerbread chapel with 17 pews that was 95 percent complete when Obituaries Because of limited space and the large number of requests for obituaries, The Sun regrets that it cannot publish all the obituaries it receives. Because The Sun regards obituaries as news, we give preference to those submitted within 48 hours of a person's death. It is also our intention to run obituaries no later than seven days after death. work was suddenly stopped during the 1860s. "It was being built for Mrs.

Winans, who later died in childbirth," said Mrs. Jones. The chapel had fallen into disrepair when Miss Wolf decided to motivate her neighbors and other interested volunteers to rescue the building. Her solution was to establish in 1986 the Baltimore Herb Festival to raise money for the chapel's restoration. The annual festival, which is held in May, has grown into one of the East Coast's largest herbal festivals.

"This never-worry, one-woman font of original ideas and energy decided that the chapel needed some intervention human, if not divine," said The Evening Sun of her efforts in a 1 987 story. Today, the festival, which celebrates herbs and Leakin Park, features cooking demonstrations, lectures, displays, food and music, and draws several thousand visitors. "She loved nearby Leakin Park with its natural beauty and historic buildings and the park has benefited both materially and its image from her creative energy," said Eunice Winters, formerly of Dickeyville and now a resident of Fairhaven, a retirement community in Sykesville. Mrs. Jones said the Friends of Leakin Park will dedicate the garden at the chapel next spring "in recognition of her work on behalf of both the chapel and park." Miss Wolf, who was born and reared in Lancaster, earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Purdue University.

She began her career at West-inghouse in the late 1940s as a statistical engineer assigned to the advanced development section at the company's Linthicum facility. She retired in 1984. Plans for a memorial service are incomplete. She is survived by a sister, Ann Wolf of New York; and three cousins. Ann F.

Moment, 83, homemaker, volunteer Ann F. Moment, a homemaker and volunteer, died Dec. 1 of heart failure at her daughter's home in Madison, Wis. She was 83. A former longtime Govans resident who moved to Wisconsin in 1996, Mrs.

Moment had been a volunteer with the American Field Service and Baltimore Head Start Program and in city school librar- THE Place for Learning How! Holiday Gift Certificates Available I 31 Allegheny Ave. Towson (410) 828-61 16 mimm NIL JUJI ULIII II-I lUMWIULIMLIWII-HIM M.I .1 IIUIMW MIIIUI I RirardoW Subrizi, 68, beer seller, firefighter Ricardo "Rick" Subrizi, a retired beer salesman and an auxiliary police officer and volunteer firefighter, died Dec. 3 of congestive heart failure at his Sykesville home. He was 68. He retired this year from Larkin Wholesale Co.

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He served in the Army during the Korean War and was discharged in 1952. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Sons of Italy and St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Sykesville, where a Mass of Christian burial was offered Monday. He is survived by his wife of 46 years, the former Anne Weidner; 2A ies. She also volunteered at Epiphany House, an assisted living community for senior citizens.

The former Ann Faben was born in Chicago and raised in Toledo, Ohio. In 1937, she earned a bachelor's degree from Goucher College and married Gairdner B. Moment. Early in their marriage, she assisted her husband, who was a professor of biology at Goucher, with his research. Both were active in the civil rights movement and participated in the 1963 March on Washington.

Mr. Moment died in 1990. Mrs. Moment was a longtime parishioner at Govans-Boundary United Methodist Church, where she was a Scripture reader. She was also a member of the League of Women Voters of Central Maryland, the Welsh Society of Baltimore and the Iris Society.

Plans for a memorial service in Baltimore are incomplete. She is survived by a son, Charles G. Moment of Ellicott City; three daughters, Sarah G. M. Atis and Ann R.

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