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October 20, 1991 The Sunday Star Page 11A Obituaries I ri- A Pttoio by Roxon DoMf-wam Tuckahoetrip James Brown, a resident at Corsica Hills Meridian Nursing Center in Centerville, patiently awaits a nibble from a fish during a recent visit to Tuckahoe State Park. Several residents came to the park for a nature hike and to do some fishing at the ponds. Hundreds mourn victims of massacre at restaurant Harold A. Bratcher Harold A. Bratcher, whose obituary appeared in the Wednesday, Oct.

16 issue of the Star-Democrat was the son of Daniel. W. Bratcher of Pondtown and the late Lottie E. Bratcher. G.

Ridgeway Fleming CAMBRIDGE G. Ridgeway Fleming Jr. died Thursday, Oct. 17, 1991. He was 77.

Born Aug. 11, 1914 in Dorchester County, he was the son of the late George Ridgeway and Eva Gray Fleming. Mr, Fleming was raised and attended schools in the Bucktown area. For most of his life he was engaged in farming, retiring in 1987. He had lived on Aireys Road for 46 years and was a member of Friendship United Methodist Church.

In addition to his the former Louise Elliott, whom he married Nov. 17, 1944, Mr. Fleming is survived by one daughter, Sharon F. James of Cambridge; one brother, Edward B. Fleming of Linkwood; four sisters, Georgia Nabb of Aireys Jean Hurley of Cooks Point, Charlotte Spedden of Todd Point and Betty Ann Han-dley of Cambridge; one granddaughter; and one great-granddaughter.

Services were held Saturday at Thomas Funeral Home, Cambridge. Burial was at Dorchester Memorial Park. Memorial donations may be made to Friendship United Methodist Church, co Thelma Bro-hawn, 214 Meteor Avenue, Cambridge, Md. 21613. Nettie Jones CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.

Nettie Marie Jones, widow of W. Altoft Jones, died at her home in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday, Oct. 19, 1991, She was 100 years Old. Mrs.

Jones is survived by her Elizabeth Marie Jones and Patricia Jones Edgerton; five grandchildren; and nine Services will be held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 22 at Saint Eustace Church, Lake Placid, N.Y. Burial will be at Lake Placid Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to Tandem School, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, or to the W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center.

Arrangements are by Hill and Wood Funeral Home, Charlottesville, Va. Association, Safety Management Council and Boy Scouts of America, In addition to his wife, Shirley McDonal, he is survived by four sons, Michael P. McDonal and Wayne T. McDonal, both of Catonsville, William T. McDonal and James S.

McDonal, both of Louisville, one daughter, Deborah McDonal of Louisville; one brother, James E. Cooper of Sparks, one sister, Harriett R. Ferguson of Easton; and six grandchildren. Services will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, Oct 21 at Singleton Funeral Home, Glen Burnie, Md. Burial will be at Lakeview Memorial Park.

Helen E. Morgan QUEEN ANNE Helen E. Morgan of Queen Anne died Friday, Oct. 18, 1991 at Wesleyan Health Care Center, Denton. She was 68.

Born in Queen Anne, she was the daughter of the late Roland Wheeler Morgan Sr. and Marjorie Neighbors Morgan. She was a homemaker. Miss Morgan is survived by two brothers, Marion E. Morgan of Queen Anne and Kenneth Morgan of Easton.

Services will be held at 2 p.m., Monday, Oct. 21 at Moore Funeral Home, Denton. Burial will be at Greenmount Cemetery, Hillsboro. Friends may call at the funeral home one hour before the service. MaryL Vincent CAMBRIDGE Mary Lee Vincent of Silver Spring, formerly of Cambridge, died Sunday, Oct.

6, 1991 at Sibley Hospital, Washington, D.C. She was 87. Born August 21, 1904 in Cambridge, she was the daughter of the late William James and Charlotte Fisher Vincent. She was a graduate of Cambridge High School and was employed by Judge Laird Henry for several years. She later moved to the Washington, D.C.

area where she worked in the Farm Credit Administration and later as a Congressional secretary. She was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Ms. Vincent is survived by one sister, Martha V.

Patterson of Hartsdale, N.Y., and two nephews, Richard Patterson of Harts-dale and James Patterson of Charlotte, N.C. Graveside services will be held Wednesday, Oct. 23. Arrangements are by Thomas Funeral Home, Cambridge. Mary E.

Wilson RIDGELY Mary Elizabeth Wilson of Ridgely died Friday, Oct. 18, 1991 at Meridian Center, The Pines, Easton. She was 83. Born in Ridgely, she was the daughter of the late Norman and Elma Davis Wilson. A graduate of the Goldey School in Wilmington, she worked in the personnel depatment at Braun-stein's Department Store in Wilmington for 50 years.

She retired in 1978 and returned to Ridgely. Ms. Wilson is survived by one sister. Louise Stoops, of Ridgely. Services will be held at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Oct.

22 at Moore Funeral Home, Denton. Burial will be at Greensboro Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home one hour before the service. Hopkins professor dies at 87 BALTIMORE (AP) Walter M. Elsasser, a former Johns Hopkins University professor of earth and planetary sciences and winner of the National Science Medal, has died of kidney failure.

He was 87. Elsasser was the author of a series of papers on the origins of the Earth's magnetic field. Along with Hopkins colleagues, he developed a new theory whole mantle convection to explain the forces involved in continental drift, earthquakes and volcanoes. Elsasser also is credited with being among the first to recognize that fluid motions within the earth's iron core might be responsible for the earth's magnetic field. He earned his doctorate in physics in 1927 at the University of Go-etingen in Germany and was one of the first students to earn a degree in the new field of quantum mechanics, the study of atomic processes that occur in spurts rather than continuously.

Elsasser, who knew many of the famous figures in modern physics, wrote an autobiographical book, "Memoirs of a Physicist in the Atomic Age," which was published in 1978. Born in Mannheim, Germany, he fled the Nazi regime, eventually settling in the United States in 1936. Elsasser held teaching and research posts at California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Scripps Institute of' Oceanography in California and Princeton University. He joined the University of Maryland fac-, ulty in 1967 as a research professor before joining the Hopkins faculty in 1975. In 1987, President Reagan presented him with the National Medal of Science for his "fundamental and lasting contri-.

butions" to science. Elsasser is survived by a son, William Stephen Elsasser of Rohnert Park, a daughter, Barbara Elsasser ov Ore; and a sister, Maria Lindberg of Laguna Hills, Calif A memorial service will be held Oct. 29 at Olin Hall on Hopkins' Homewood campus. Grand Ole Opry announcer dies NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Grant Turner, a Grand Ole Opry announcer for half a century, died Saturday of a heart aneurysm.

He was 79. As he had for 47 years, Turner worked the Friday night Opry show. He died six hours later at Saint Thomas Hospital. Hennard, 35, may have been influenced by the movie. But Killeen police denied the report Saturday, saying the ticket found on Hennard was for a movie other than "The Fisher King." Hundreds of people filed into the First Baptist Church of Killeen to mourn the death of Patricia Carney, 57, one of three administrators from the local school district who died in the massacre.

At a service for Ruth Pujol, another Killeen educator killed in the rampage, the Rev. Steve Schmidt of First United Methodist Church told mourners, "You and I will probably never understand why it had to happen, and why these people had to lose their lives in such a tragic manner." A funeral for Al Gratia, a retiree killed trying to stop Hennard, and his wife, Ursula, also was held Saturday. The Chamber of Commerce handed out white ribbons and "Killeen" stickpins, car washes were held to raise money for the victims' families and a large highway billboard read, "In KILLEEN, Texas (AP) Hundreds of mourners, some wearing white ribbons in memory of those slain in a gunman's rampage through a restaurant, gathered Saturday for the first funerals following the nation's worst mass shooting. "The tragedy of Wednesday is very personal; it is unbelievable, it is inexplicable, it was unpredictable," the Rev. Andy Davis, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Belton, told about 350 mourners at a service for 64-.

year-old Juanita Williams. Mrs." Williams was gunned down at Luby's Cafeteria by George Hennard, who crashed his pickup truck through a restaurant window. He shot 22 people dead, then killed himself, police said. Meanwhile, a newspaper quoted police sources Saturday as saying Hennard had with him a ticket to "The Fisher King," a movie that includes a scene in which a gunman massacres people in a New York club before killing himself. The Dallas Morning News said police' were" speculating- that Terry Anderson honored Freedom of Information Award by the Associated Press Managing Editors association.

Anderson, the AP's chief Middle East correspondent, was DETROIT (AP) Terry Anderson, an Associated Press correspondent and the longest-held Western hostage in Lebanon, was honored Saturday with a special WHY NOT EXTRA Cash for Christmas First Customers CONSIGNMENT SHOP Memoriam. October 16, 1991." In nearby Belton, Hennard's father, Dr. Georges Hennard, said funeral arrangements for his son were pending, but declined to discuss details. "We do care about our dead son, and we have made arrangements," he said. Hennard said he had no idea why his son was driven to kill.

He said he hadn't seen him for more than a year. In another development, the manager of a convenience store and grill that Hennard frequented said Hennard became enraged Tuesday when he saw law professor Anita Hill on television during the Senate vote on Clarence Thomas' confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Hill claimed Thomas sexually harassed her when she worked for him in the early 1980s.

"It was like (Hennard) was throwing a tantrum," Bill String- ei manager ui me uuuutu iiuir about outside Belton, told the Temple Daily Telegram. in absentia abducted March 16, 1985, in Beirut. Louis D. Boccardi, the AP's president and chief executive officer, accepted the award on Anderson's behalf at the APME convention. Must be CLEAN; ON HANGERS and in Good condition.

8200 William T. McDonal CATONSVILLE William T. McDonal, formerly of Royal Oak, died Friday, October 18, 1991 at his home in Catonsville. He was 54. Born in Royal Oak on March 1, 1937, he was the son of the late William -Rs-and -Edna Cooper Mr.

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