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9, 2006 BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE B5 OTHER OBITUARIES Page B8-9 DOUGLAS 2005 Barbara Albright wrote about 25 books about food and knitting, including "1,001 Reasons to Love Chocolate." She often appeared as a guest on television programs. and was a former editor-in-chief of The Chocolatier magazine. Barbara Albright, 51; wrote books on food, knitting ASSOCIATED PRESS STAMFORD, Conn. Barbara Albright, a prolific writer of food and knitting books, died Wednesday of a brain tumor, her husband said. She was 51.

Ms. Albright wrote about 25 books, including "1,001 Reasons to Love Chocolate," which she cowrote with Mary Tiegreen. She often appeared as a guest on television programs. She was a former editor-inchief of The Chocolatier magazine and she also was a freelance food writer for the Associated Press. "She's my sweetheart," said her husband, Ted Westray.

"She had lots of friends. She was supremely talented. She was really full of life. I don't think I ever saw her cry. She's going to be dearly missed." Ms.

Albright was diagnosed with a brain tumor in May, he said. Ms. Albright, who grew up in Nebraska and lived in Wilton for 11 years, had taken up knitting and wanted to get a sheep farm, Westray said. "I never ever saw a bad day out of that woman," said Amy Barr, a longtime friend. "Her life was brownies and margaritas." In addition to her husband, Ms.

Albright leaves two children. Edward Hamilton, 89, won medals for WWII exploits By Matt Schudel WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON Edward Smith Hamilton, a highly decorated combat veteran of World War II who later embarked on clandestine buccaneering adventures along the coast of China during the Korean War, died of pneumonia June 30 at his home in Annandale, Va. He was 89. Mr. Hamilton, a 1939 graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, was commander of an Army infantry battalion that went ashore at Normandy Beach on June 8, 1944, two days after D-day.

His unit of the 90th Infantry Division saw considerable action throughout the summer on its march through France. For his coordination of the defense of a key bridge in France on Aug. 5, 1944, Mr. Hamilton was awarded the Silver Star. A month later, on Sept.

8, he led a surprise raid on German positions at Avril, France, that disabled four tanks and led to the capture of 17 enemy soldiers. For his daring assault and his heroism during the battle, Mr. Hamilton received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army's second-highest commendation for valor. Two days later, he was wounded in battle and lost his left eye. He was given a battlefield promotion to lieutenant colonel and received, among other decorations, the Bronze Star and three awards of the Purple Heart.

After recuperating, Mr. Hamilton returned to his hometown of Dallas, in 1946 and opened an insurance agency. In 1950, as the Korean War was heating up, he was lured back Obituaries Mother Jerome, By Bryan Marquard GLOBE STAFF At a literary coffeehouse a couple of miles from her home at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Mother Jerome drew from the wisdom of nearly a century of living. "I'd like to share with you tonight something I found consoling: a connection between history and poetry," she told a gathering two years ago at the public library in Bethlehem, Conn. "History generally divides: times, places, people, opinions.

Poetry, the lyrical, especially the smaller poems, like intimate sighs can unite across time and space in a sense of shared humanity." Mother Jerome von Nagel Mussayassul, who lived for nearly 50 years in a contemplative community of Benedictine nuns, died June 27. She was 98 and had spent the first half of her life as much a citizen of the world as she was a citizen of a few square miles for her last half century. "In my long life I've found it necessary, especially in times, like ours now, of restlessness and anxieties, to become aware of beauty in things that surround us; in remembering places once loved, in flashes of fantasy beyond our immediate horizons," she told the audience on April 19, 2004. Before attending the coffeehouse, she had written out these comments on lined paper, precisely printing the words and adding a subdued, looping flourish at the end. That night, Mother Jerome read three of her poems.

One recalled a moment when she stood on a shore at sundown as the tides "keep gliding out to sea beneath your feet" and racing sandpipers drew "their tic-tac-toe, crisscrossing sand and water." But suddenly the sky unfolds in arches to embrace an early star. A gust of wind sweeps through as if announcing solemn guests arising up behind the hushed In brief Robert Horning, Korean War vet Robert L. Horning of Salem, N.H., formerly of Haverhill, a Korean War veteran and former automobile reconditioner, died Wednesday at Kindred Boston Hospital in Peabody. He was 75. The Haverhill native was educated in Newton, N.H.

After serving in the Navy during the Korean War, Mr. Horning worked for Best Buick, DeLuca Auto Sales, and White Street Auto Sales, all of Haverhill, as a reconditioner. Later, he worked as a truck driver for the former Star Paper Co. in Haverhill until his retirement in 1993. He was a member of Haverhill Amvets Post 147, the American Legion Carl G.

Davis Post in Plaistow, N.H., and Trinity Episcopal Church in Haverhill. He leaves his wife, Kiyoko (Niikura) of Salem, N.H.; a daughter, Karen A. Axford of Plaistow; a sister, Gail P. Ainsworth of Melbourne, three brothers, Leonard F. of Deerfield, N.H., David T.

of Melbourne, and Richard of Danville, N.H.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. A funeral will be held Tuesday in the C. Frank Linnehan and Son Funeral Home in Haverhill. Burial will be in Linwood Mausoleum in Haverhill. Derek Valerius, chef, food manager Derek R.

Valerius of Mason, N.H., a chef, died Wednesday of complications from an enlarged heart. He was 36. Mr. Valerius was born in Wheeling, W.Va. He was a graduate of Rockport High School and the New England School of Culinary Arts.

He also studied culinary arts at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. Mr. Valerius started cooking at The Yankee Clipper Inn in Rockport, and went on to work at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston, the Farm Neck Country Club on Martha's Vineyard, and most recently, as manager of prepared foods at Whole Foods Inc. in Cambridge. He leaves his wife, Kim (Pontremoli) of Mason; and his mother, Karen M.

Bogosian of Rockport. A memorial service will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. in St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Rockport. was inspiring as poet, Mother Jerome von Nagel Mussayassul was widowed before becoming a Benedictine nun in her late 40s.

horizon. "She was an enlightened mind and a modern mind," said Joseph Stafford, who lives in New York City and has a second home in Bethlehem, where he and his wife became friends with Mother Jerome 20 years ago. "Her education, her erudition, and her artistic poetry are really very, very special." A poet and a translator who was fluent in eight languages, Mother Jerome had lived in Germany, Egypt, Italy, and the United States. She worked with refugees during World War II, married a painter, lived in New York, and was widowed before becoming a Benedictine nun in her late 40s. "I'm being led," she said upon entering the abbey as a postulant on March 18, 1957.

"Who else can plan the ways that rise from roots to tips of meadow grass?" She began her life as a baroness, born Melanie von Nagel, and was known as Muska. Her father was Karl Freiherr von Nagel, a general-major who commanded a Bavarian regiment, according to biographical information compiled by the abbey. Her mother, Mabel Dillon Nesmith, was from a well-to-do family in New York. Her father was killed during a Marxist uprising in Germany after Benedictine nun; 98 World War and the family moved to Cairo. She lived in Florence before returning to Germany.

As a young Catholic, she flouted convention by marrying a Muslim artist, Halil-beg Mussayassul, a portrait painter in Munich. They helped Russian refugees and concentration camp survivors during and after World War II, and she used her facility with languages to lend assistance at displaced persons camps. The couple moved in the late 1940s to New York, and her husband died in 1949. Before the war she had begun writing, and continued to do so after his death, but she was drawn to the monastic life. The Benedictine nuns at the Abbey of Regina Laudis pray several times daily by singing Gregorian chants.

They re-center themselves in God through work on the farm that takes up part of the abbey's 400 acres, as well as through other activities. Mother Jerome was particularly adept at dying wool from the abbey's sheep and handspinning. The abbey hosts visitors, and with her worldly background, Mother Jerome "was a magnet to people," said Sister Arbib. "She had great wisdom, which she never flaunted, but was just part of her and great humor. You just wanted to hear what her thoughts were on so many subjects.

And also, as fascinating as she was, she was fascinated with everything." "She accepting, was very human, unassuming, and ver ry very ry interested in the other person," said Stafford, who hosted Mother Jerome when she traveled to New York City to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Though Mother Jerome lived at the abbey, she remained of the world, reading The New York Times and The Washington Post. "She was very concerned with world events and the politics that took place in the world, the politics that are taking place in this country," Stafford said. "She was very liberal." "She was an avid crossword puzzle-doer because she said it' kept her mind limber," said Mother Margaret Georgina Patton. "She was a pianist.

She loved to dance, loved to walk." And, always, she was a writer and translator. Mother Jerome, whose funeral and burial took place at the abbey on June 30, wrote the introduction to a forthcoming book by Ivan Illich, the late social critic. She published two volumes of her own poetry through a small press in Maine and had translated the work of the Romanian poet Paul Celan, whom she had met. She translated her own work, too. "She used to try to explain to me that translation is much more than just trying to get the meaning across," Patton said.

"She was, able to work with the idioms of the other cultures in an athletic way." "Having lived in far-flung reaches of the globe, when she did get here she felt at home," Arbib said. "She had a tremendously ful filling life intellectually and cul-, turally outside. There was just a deeper cut that she wanted to take, and this life allowed that." into action as a CIA agent in Taiwan, working with the Chinese nationalist forces of Chiang Kaishek. Nicknamed the "One-Eyed Dragon," Mr. Hamilton led combined American and Chinese guerrilla units in clandestine attacks against communist forces on the Chinese mainland.

His role in the covert actions conducted along the southeastern coastline of China is detailed in the book "Raiders of the China Coast," by Frank Holober. Mr. Hamilton was in Taiwan from 1950 to 1954 before he was transferred to Washington. In 1956, he was sent to Germany as an undercover agent working in counterintelligence in East Germany and Turkey. He left the CIA in 1959 and took a position as operations officer with the old Civil Defense Administration.

He retired in 1973. In his later years, Mr. Hamilton made many visits to France, where he was welcomed as a returning hero of the nation's liberation from Nazi control. Last year, he was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government. His wife of 63 years, Grace Cutler Hamilton, died in 2003.

A son, Edward Hamilton, died in 1948. A daughter, Mary Suzanne Hamilton, died in 1997. Mr. Hamilton leaves seven children, Diana Cowell of Huntington, W.Va., William Hamilton of Ocean City, Elizabeth Hamilton and Marie Hamilton-Perez, both of Santa Cruz, Richard Hamilton of Clifton, Patricia Collins of Berkeley Lake, and Frank Hamilton of Panama City, 15 grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren. Save time.

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