World War II (1939-1945)

Franklin W. Littleton Jr., decorated World War II veteran

2013-05-01 13:27:05

Franklin W. Littleton Jr., a retired career Air Force officer and a businessman who was a big-band and Dixieland music aficionado, died April 20 of complications from dementia at Nichols Eldercare, an Edgewood assisted-living facility. The Bel Air...

Scrabble at the Bain Center

2013-04-04 06:36:00

Activity Pals For single seniors. Get together with others to attend events, shop, go sightseeing, dine out and more. 301-596-6385. The Bain Center 5470 Ruth Keeton Way, Columbia. 410-313-7213. •Acting Up! Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. A theater...

Improve your financial savvy at Money Matters Fair [Elkridge]

2013-04-04 04:05:00

Howard County Councilman Calvin Ball will host the seventh annual Money Matters Fair in partnership with Howard Community College, the Howard County Library, Howard County Public School System, Making Change and Friends of the Howard County Library. The...

The expat life: Going south of the border

2013-03-21 12:45:00

In June 2009, my husband Sam and I slammed down the hatchback of our Honda CRV, the interior bulging with containers of Legos and books, school supplies and board games, and a box of shoes, a tin of Old Bay in the glove compartment. On the roof was a...

Abe Bortz, historian, teacher, book reviewer

2013-03-25 12:16:00

Abe Bortz, the Social Security Administration's first historian and a voracious book collector and reviewer, died Tuesday of lymphoma at his home in Pikesville. He was 93. Dr. Bortz grew up in Cincinnati, graduating from high school there in 1937 and...

Daniel D. Holtzman, analyst

2013-03-23 12:02:50

Daniel David Holtzman, a retired Social Security analyst and World War II veteran, died of a heart attack March 8 at Sinai Hospital. The Owings Mills resident was 92. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Jacob Holtzman, a maker of straw and felt hats,...

William J. Rosenthal, lawyer

2013-03-23 12:08:20

William J. Rosenthal, a noted expert in labor and employment law who as a naval deck officer during World War II participated in the D-Day invasion, died March 12 of a hemorrhage at Northwest Hospital. He was 92. "He was a physically imposing person, and...

Reminders of sports successes among treasures at the Aberdeen Room [community]

2013-03-22 03:00:00

Maryland is certainly known for its sports figures. Many successes in the sports world are credited to the state, and Aberdeen. The Aberdeen Room museum has been fortunate in having donations of sports memorabilia over its 25 years of operation. Display...

William L. More, World War II veteran

2013-03-21 12:18:40

William L. More, a retired Exxon marketing representative who fought during World War II with the 4th Marine Division in some of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific, died Saturday of respiratory failure at Bonnie Blink, the Maryland Masonic Home. He...

Everyone's life is a story, so write it down for posterity [Senior Circles]

2013-03-21 03:15:00

The inspiration for this column came from a local newspaper article I read about a "girl" with whom I went to high school for two years at St. Cecilia's Academy in Washington, D.C.�� This woman, whom I haven't seen since then, has always kept a low...

Robert P. Slaff, charter boat captain

2013-03-20 13:10:57

Robert P. Slaff, a former marine-supply vendor and journalist who wrote widely on Chesapeake Bay maritime and environmental matters, died March 8 of congestive heart failure at Crofton Care and Rehabilitation Center. The Epping Forest resident was 89....

Frank S. Dudley, real estate broker

2013-03-19 14:49:30

Frank Simms Dudley Jr., an Eastern Shore real estate broker and property appraiser, died of complications after surgery March 3 at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The former Baltimore resident was 93. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Frank...

After WWII, a generation of Holocaust orphans — many still wearing the striped uniforms issued to them in concentration camps like Dachau — helped end a 1,900-year-long Jewish diaspora.

2013-05-01 19:59:03

President Barack Obama lays a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, which commemorates the 6 million Jewish Holocaust victims killed by the Nazis during World War II, on March 22, the final day of Obama's three-day trip to Israel and the Palestinian

2013-03-28 10:26:00

Penned by Evan Linder, this premiere is about a tight-knit group of gay American soldiers during World War II who put on a drag show - that form of entertainment being popular at the time with the mainstream GI population.

2013-03-26 12:58:00