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20 THE BALTIMORE OBITUARIES Barbara S. Dannettel, a former Comcast public relations director who later was on the board of Stevenson University, died Dec. 13 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The Sparks resident was 69. Barbara Smith, the daughter of an engineer and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised in Guilford.

She was a 1959 graduate of the old Mount St. Agnes High School in Mount Washington. She earned an degree from what was then Villa Julie College in Stevenson, and a degree in business administration in 1984 from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Mrs. Dannettel returned to the College of Notre Dame, where she earned a degree in adulthood and aging.

In 2005, she earned a certificate in theological education from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. During her 40-year career, Mrs. Dannettel worked both in the business and academic worlds. After graduating from Villa Julie, she worked as a medical secretary for Dr. Leo Brady in the Medical Arts Building.

After his retirement in 1965, she became a homemaker and raised her family. Returning to work a decade later, Mrs. Dannettel became a medical secretary in the department of nuclear medicine at St. Joseph Medical Center, and later became the personal secretary for the head. Mrs.

Dannettel was hired in the early 1980s by Caltec Cable as executive assistant to the president, and remained in that position until the company was purchased by Comcast in 1984. She worked in public relations and community affairs for Comcast until retiring in 2009. At Comcast, her career focused on many community-oriented and government affairs. She also oversaw the Comcast Student Achievement Program, which awarded scholarships for higher education to one student at each public high school that Comcast serves. was a very special person and the first employee at Caltec.

She was the glue that held things together. The company was her said Dr. Leonard Berger, former Comcast president. was very bright, and I often leaned on her for information. She got along with everyone and was able to bring them he said.

was very accommodating and could make any situation better. She was loyal, honest and Mrs. Dannettel served on the board of the Believe in Tomorrow Foundation, formerly the Grant-A-Wish Foundation, and the executive board of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. She had also served as chairman of the education committee of the Baltimore County Chamber of Commerce and president of the Mount St. Agnes High School Alumni Association.

Alongtime member of the board of Stevenson University, she later served as president from 2008 to 2010 of the Stevenson University Alumni Board. In addition to her work with the board, she was a strong supporter of academics and athletics at the Green Spring Valley university, and was thrilled that her youngest son, Benjamin Brett Berquist, who lives in Sparks, had joined the lacrosse coaching staff at Stevenson. was a great supporter of Stevenson said Kevin Manning, the was also a supporter of all the changes that had taken place at Villa Julie in recent years, such as the process and the name change. She was a very positive he said. When the university dedicated its new athletic center at its Owings Mills campus in October, Mrs.

Dannettel attended. meant a lot that she was there and we were happy that she could Mr. Manning said. She had been a communicant of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, where she had been president of the Women of Emmanuel Episcopal Church. At her death, she was a parishioner of St.

James Episcopal Church in Parkton, which she had attended up until two weeks ago. Before moving to Sparks, she enjoyed entertaining at her home, Century House in White Hall, where she lived with her husband of 32 years, Charles Dannettel, who died in 2008. Mrs. Dannettel was a fan of opera and classical music. She enjoyed collecting art and Early American antiques and visiting beaches in Ocean City and Rehoboth, Del.

Services were Mondayat the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation. Also surviving are two other sons, Timothy C. Berquist of Arnold and Stephen B. Berquist of Bishopville; her mother, Marcia O. Smith of De Bary, three stepdaughters, Elizabeth A.

Dannettel and Mary Margaret Dannettel, both of Westminster, and Nancy K. Delahanty of Avondale, a brother, C. Henry Smith III of North Carolina; two sisters, Lynn Wickenden of Bel Air and Sue Ellen Tharp of De Bary, and 15 grandchildren. A stepson, R.C. Dannettel III, died in 1996.

An earlier marriage to Alfred Berquist ended in divorce. fred.rasmussen@baltsun.com Former Comcast PR chief, medical secretary served on boards of Stevenson University, College of Notre Dame A Comcast executive called Mrs. Dannettel glue that held things Barbara S. Dannettel By Frederick N. Rasmussen THE BALTIMORE SUN HarrietteE.

Stresewski, a retired senior credit analyst and former Essex resident, died Dec. 12 from complications of a broken hip at Devlin Manor Health Care Center in Cumberland. The Springfield, W.Va., resident was 74. Harriette Eva Taylor, the daughter of a musician and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised in Hampden. She attended Eastern High School and later earned her General Educational Development diploma.

Mrs. Stresewski worked for 33 years as a senior credit analyst at Black Decker in both Hampstead and Towson, before retiring in 2000. Mrs. Stresewski, who had also lived in Hanover, was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and an avid genealogist. Her philanthropic interests included the Girl Scouts and the March of Dimes.

Her first husband, Joseph Michael, died years ago; a second marriage to James Stresewski ended in divorce. Services were Dec. 18 in Hanover, Pa. Surviving are her daughter, Catherine Wood of California, St. County; a brother, Hamilton Taylor of Sallisaw, asister, Margaret Neidhardtof Pylesville; and many nieces and nephews.

N. Rasmussen Harriette Stresewski, credit analyst Fred Hargesheimer, 94 World War II pilot gave back to rescuers Fred Hargesheimer, a World War II Army pilot whose rescue by Pacific islanders led to a life of giving back as a builder of schools and a teacher, died Thursday. Richard Hargesheimer said his father had been in poor health and died in Lincoln, Neb. On June 5, 1943, Mr. Hargesheimer, a P-38 pilot with the 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, was shot down by a Japanese fighter while on a mission over the Japanese-held island of New Britain in the southwest Pacific.

He parachuted into the trackless jungle, where he barely survived for 31days until found by local hunters. They took him to their coastal village and for seven months hid him from Japanese patrols, fed him and nursed him back to health from two illnesses. In February 1944, with the help of Australian commandos working behind Japanese lines, he was picked up by a U.S. submarine off a New Britain beach. After returning to the U.S.

following the war, Mr. Hargesheimer got married and began a sales career with a Minnesota forerunner of computer maker Sperry Rand, his lifelong employer. But he said he forget the Nakanai people, whom he considered his saviors. After revisiting the village of Ea Ea in 1960, he went home, raised $15,000 over three years, of it $5 and $10 and then returned with 17-year-old son Richard in 1963 to contract for the building of the first school. In the decades to come, Mr.

U.S. fundraising and determination built a clinic, another school and libraries in Ea Ea, renamed Nantabu, and surrounding villages. In 1970, their three children grown, Mr. Hargesheimer and his wife, Dorothy, moved to New Britain, today an out-island of the nation of Papua New Guinea, and taught the village children themselves for four years. The Nantabu experimental plot of oil palm even helped create a local economy, a large plantation with jobs for impoverished villagers.

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