Heart Failure

Frances M. Finney, educator

2013-05-24 11:03:02

Frances M. Finney, who overcame poverty, earned a college degree and became a city school teacher, died April 19 from heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Guilford resident was 82. Frances Mae Hopkins was born in Baltimore and was...

Genevieve B. 'Gen' Miller, sales associate

2013-05-13 13:13:41

Genevieve B. "Gen" Miller, a retired sales associate and homemaker, died Wednesday of heart failure at St. Joseph's Nursing Home in Catonsville. She was 95. Genevieve Beatrice Scriba was born in Baltimore and raised on Hollins Street. She was a parochial...

Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, Hopkins professor

2013-05-11 11:53:01

Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University mathematics department whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a children's book, died April 24 of heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83....

Mick Kipp, Pickles bartender and spice-maker, dies

2013-04-30 15:52:00

The mood Tuesday inside Pickles Pub, across from Camden Yards, matched the gray rainy weather. As noontime regulars ate their lunch and quietly caressed glasses of beer amid the low-key chatter and music playing in the background, something clearly...

Mavis S. 'Sherry' Sheedy, art teacher

2013-04-16 00:00:00

Mavis S. "Sherry" Sheedy, a retired Baltimore public schools art teacher and longtime museum docent, died April 4 of congestive heart failure at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster. The Reisterstown resident was 74. The daughter of a civil engineer...

Pauline H. "June" Brannan, artist

2013-04-12 13:17:18

Pauline H. "June" Brannan, an artist and former owner of a Mount Washington frame shop, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure and kidney disease at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The longtime Ruxton resident was 85. The daughter of farmers, Pauline...

James F. "Frank" Welch, businessman

2013-04-29 13:30:00

James F. "Frank" Welch, the retired president and owner of an Anne Arundel County home building company, died Friday of heart failure at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 87. James Franklin Welch was born in Baltimore and raised in Glen Burnie, where...

Cartoonist KAL comes to Pikesville Library for book signing [Reisterstown]

2013-04-08 08:20:00

Kevin Kallaugher (aka KAL) is the man behind the insightful and often acerbic political cartoons that have appeared in more than 100 publications worldwide, among which is our own Baltimore Sun. His work epitomizes the age-old adage that the "pen is...

Oakland Mills barber remembered for his kindness, community work

2013-04-03 10:25:00

As Nancy Rosema sifted through her Uncle Ferdinand "Fred" Leunissen's Oakland Mills home on a recent afternoon, she was overwhelmed by the seemingly endless number of "Thank You" cards stuffed into desk drawers and closets. "He was so loving and so...

Dr. Lorenz E. and Anastasia U. Zimmerman

2013-03-30 11:38:00

Dr. Lorenz E. Zimmerman, the founder of modern ophthalmic pathology, who spent his nearly 60-year career studying diseases of the eye, died March 16 of complications from an infection at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 92. His wife...

Substitute soccer player saves teammate's life

2013-03-31 13:28:51

Annapolis resident Mike Greenhill is one of those rare guys who, even after he turned 50, could effortlessly sprint up and down a soccer field like he did as a much younger man. Until one evening last year, the 53-year-old took this ability for granted....

Gus Triandos, beloved ex-Orioles catcher, dies at 82

2013-03-29 04:47:00

Gus Triandos, a brawny slugger who won the hearts of Orioles fans starved for someone to cheer for in the 1950s, died Thursday at his home in San Jose, Calif. He was 82. "My father died in his sleep," his daughter, Lori Luna, said. "He'd been dealing...

ARCHIVE PHOTO: John Krikorian, publisher of Business Life and Senior Living magazines. Krikorian died early Saturday, April 6, 2013 from heart failure. He was 80 years old.

2013-04-06 16:10:00

The FDA has proposed new rules aimed at improving the safety and reliability of automated external defibrillators, like this one on a commuter train near Boston. AEDs treat patients suffering from sudden cardiac arrest by shocking the heart back into a normal rhythm.

2013-03-22 12:07:04

A coffin with remains of the Cambodia's late former King Norodom Sihanouk is taken from the Royal Palace towards the crematorium in Phnom Penh as his funeral procession begins February 1, 2013.

2013-01-31 00:00:00