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Monday, June 19, 2017Lafayette Park is now, bounded by Gratiot Avenue to the north, Congress to the south, the Grand Trunk Railroad (the present day Dequindre Cut) to the east and Brush Street to the west.Exactly where the neighborhoods started and ended is up for debate, Coleman said."It's not like these communities were codified in boundaries at City Hall. They were loose in general."Still, what's clear is that the two areas were vibrant, bustling with activity.Joe Louis co-owned a restaurant, the Brown Bomber's Chicken Shack, with Sunnie Wilson on East Vernor (it reportedly lost the legendary boxer $40,000, according to LIFE magazine).Charles Diggs, later the state's first black state senator, was a leading funeral home owner there, as was James Cole, whose funeral home business survives to this day. (Two months ago, the funeral home provided services for Orsel McGhee, who along with his wife, Minnie, were part of a landmark court case in 1948 that helped ban restrictive covenant deeds nationwide following an attempt to remove them from their house on Seebaldt Street near Grand River and Tireman.)A pair of small black-owned hotels, the Norwood and the Biltmore, each with about 30-40 rooms, were in Paradise Valley. Ed Davis, who in 1963 became the first African American to get a Big Three auto dealership from Chrysler-Plymouth, had a Studebaker Corp. dealership at Vernor and Brush.There were also doctors, lawyers, real estate brokers, drug ...
Robert Wayne Brush, 29, Of Cockeysville - Patch.com
Monday, April 03, 2017Robert Wayne Brush, 29, of Cockeysville, passed away on March 26, 2017. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Cyndi Anne Tarleton of Cockeysville and the late Christopher James Brush. He enjoyed traveling and playing video games.In addition to his mother, he is survived by his brother, James (Rachel) W. Brush of Bel Air; and sisters, Rhonda (Garry) L. Simons of Macon, Georgia, Cheyenne Dawn Brush of Aberdeen and Megan Lee Clark of Gwynn Oak.Visitation will be from 2-3 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, at McComas Funeral Home, 50 W. Broadway, Bel Air, MD 21014.There will be a memorial service for Robert Wayne Brush at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, at McComas Funeral Home, 50 W. Broadway, Bel Air, MD 21014.—Obituary and service information from McComas Funeral Home. Get free real-time news alerts from the Hunt Valley-Cockeysville Patch.
Monday, April 03, 2017Lopez brothers played often with neighborhood kids.The spot was off a trail about 20 yards into a thicket of trees and brush just beyond a ballfield at the park. It was marked off with caution tape Friday, but many who attended the memorial stepped through the barrier to pay their respects.They set up a small wooden cross and tied to it a bundle of shiny balloons. They scattered rose petals and prayed and cried.One little girl, Abby, left a hand-written note, complete with crosses drawn in crayon.“I hope you guys are in heaven now!” her note said. “I will see you guys later up there. Just be waiting for me don’t go anywhere. Go find my dog Lulu. Make her happy too.”The Lopez brothers lived near the park with their grandmother, their family said, and they attended an International Leadership of Texas charter school in North Richlands Hills.Parents at the school on Friday organized a GoFundMe page for the boys’ funeral expenses. By Friday night, the page had raised more than $14,000.“Alex (Jose) and Isaiah were bright lights,” the page said. Donations for expenses can also be made directly to Greenwood funeral home, Jenkins said. The family’s account there is No. 251806. A public viewing at the funeral home is scheduled for noon-5 p.m. Sunday, and a graveside service is scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday.
Monday, March 27, 2017A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 10 am in St. Edward the Confessor Church, 21 Brush Hill Road, New Fairfield, CT.Entombment will follow in the Shrine of Memories Mausoleum of Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, NY at 12:15 pm.The family will receive friends in the Jowdy-Kane Funeral Home, 9-11 Granville Ave., Danbury on Friday, March 24, 2017 from 5 pm to 8 pm.
Monday, February 06, 2017Joseph “Joe D” DiLeonardi looked like a TV detective with his brushed velvet fedora cocked on his head, his tailored suits and the cigar in his mouth.In the summer of 1979, when then-Mayor Jane Byrne promoted him to acting police superintendent, one newspaper dubbed him “Chicago’s version of Kojak.” Mr. DiLeonardi already was known for being the flamboyant head of the city’s homicide unit.But he and Byrne clashed after he publicly accused two mayoral aides of urging him to oust his chief of the organized-crime unit. Some believe the aides were trying to protect the Outfit.After only five months as the city’s top cop, Mr. DiLeonardi was ousted and found himself running the police detail at O’Hare Airport. In 1991, after a career of nearly 36 years, he retired from the police department.He worked briefly as a supervisor in the Cook County sheriff’s office. Then in early 1994, he was appointed by then-President Bill Clinton as the U.S. marshal in Chicago — a position he held until 1999.Mr. DiLeonardi died on Sunday. He was 84.His wife, Carol DiLeona...
Monday, January 30, 2017Good boss, tooJudy Hedden worked for Dewey for several years from the late 70s to the early 80s at The Paint Brush, his screen printing business in Chanute, which later changed its name to Silk Screen Graphics before Dewey started painting full time.Hedden was also a year behind Dewey in school. The company did a lot of metal printing including amplifier chassis and work for G.O. Churchill.Hedden said Dewey was very family-oriented.“His family was always in the shop,” she said. “Some of them worked there, some of were just hanging out after school.”Hedden said it didn’t matter how busy he was, he was there for his children if they needed something.He was also a good boss.“He was like a big brother,” Hedden said. “If he had stories, he told me, and if I had problems, I told him.”Hedden said she was treated as an equal and she learned a lot, which has allowed her to find her own success screen-printing T-Shirts.Dewey started painting more frequently around the time that Hedden started working for him. She said she loved to watch him paint.“I always wondered how he could make his hands move like that,” she said. “He could make that brush do anything.”Hedden said that Dewey will be missed by many people.“Anyone who has anything he’s ever painted should treasure it,” she said. “They’re so valuable to me.”Bruce Taggart works for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and was working in Humboldt in the late 70s when he heard about Dewey’s wildlife art.He remembers Dewey loving the outdoors, hunting and fishing.“It was just incredible what he did,” Taggart said.Taggart bought some pieces from Dewey and they struck up a friendship where they would spend a lot of time talking about the wildlife that Dewey painted. Dewey’s love for the outdoors spurred him to get the animals right in his paintings.“A lot of people get the proportions wrong,” Taggart said. By contrast, Dewey’s animals almost looked alive.“The best thing he did were Canada Geese, but he did some fantastic turkey paintings,” Taggart said.Taggart moved back to Hays in 1989 and lost touch with Dewey except for the occasional phone call, and was sad to hear about Dewey’s death.“He was a real great art talent and a super guy.”Some of Dewey’s pieces can be seen at the Works of Art Gallery, 103 S. 9th in Humboldt. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 5 pm and Saturday from 12 to 3 pm. A visitation will be held at Countryside Funeral Home – Gibson Chapel in Chanute on Monday from 6-8 pm. A graveside service will be held at Askren Cemetery in rural Woodson County on Tuesday at 2 pm. ...
Monday, January 16, 2017McSweeny said.Iglewski appeared in a dozen productions of “A Christmas Carol” at the Guthrie, and had numerous Shakespeare credits as well: “The Merchant of Venice,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Othello” and Twelfth Night.” He applied his talent to dramas and comedies alike, classic and contemporary.He began his Guthrie tenure under Garland Wright in 1985.“He was very funny and known for his mastery in his later years, but he could be very moving as a straight actor,” said Isabell Monk O’Connor, who acted with Iglewski in about two dozen shows.Iglewski performed in “The Miser” and “Tartuffe” at Theatre de la Jeune Lune, “Entertaining Mr. Sloane” at the Jungle and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Chicago Shakespeare. He acted at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and toured the country as part of John Houseman’s The Acting Company. In 1999, Dowling gave him the Artistic Director’s Award.Dowling’s memories of Iglewski, whom he directed extensively, included the actor’s portrayals of Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Chasuble in “The Importance of Being Earnest,” and Leonato, the governor, in “Much Ado About Nothing.” Dowling said that last performance was astonishing.“He found all the comic notes in the earlier scenes with ease but when it came to the scene where he condemns his daughter in the chapel, Julio dropped the comedy and delivered the speech with a kind of ferocity that was chilling,” said Dowling.Iglewski’s spiral began when his longtime partner, Tim Lee, who was managing editor of Lavender Magazine and co-founder of Outward Spiral theater company, died of an apparent suicide. Lee disappeared near the Mississippi River on Oct. 28, 2002, and his body was recovered on March 17, 2003.Iglewski “was very fragile at that point and hadn’t healed from his loss,” said Monk O’Connor. “He was probably seen by tens and tens of thousands of people, but he was very private. I hope there’s a service that we are privy to. We loved that brilliant man.”Toward the end of his career, the Guthrie cast Iglewski in “Peer Gynt,” which starred Mark Rylance, and McSweeny’s production of “A View from the Bridge.” He had to be replaced in both.“While he had left the stage some years ago, he has left an amazing legacy in the memories of his colleagues and of Guthrie audiences,” said Dowling.Services or survivors have not been announced. ...
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Monday, June 19, 2017Lafayette Park is now, bounded by Gratiot Avenue to the north, Congress to the south, the Grand Trunk Railroad (the present day Dequindre Cut) to the east and Brush Street to the west.Exactly where the neighborhoods started and ended is up for debate, Coleman said."It's not like these communities were codified in boundaries at City Hall. They were loose in general."Still, what's clear is that the two areas were vibrant, bustling with activity.Joe Louis co-owned a restaurant, the Brown Bomber's Chicken Shack, with Sunnie Wilson on East Vernor (it reportedly lost the legendary boxer $40,000, according to LIFE magazine).Charles Diggs, later the state's first black state senator, was a leading funeral home owner there, as was James Cole, whose funeral home business survives to this day. (Two months ago, the funeral home provided services for Orsel McGhee, who along with his wife, Minnie, were part of a landmark court case in 1948 that helped ban restrictive covenant deeds nationwide following an attempt to remove them from their house on Seebaldt Street near Grand River and Tireman.)A pair of small black-owned hotels, the Norwood and the Biltmore, each with about 30-40 rooms, were in Paradise Valley. Ed Davis, who in 1963 became the first African American to get a Big Three auto dealership from Chrysler-Plymouth, had a Studebaker Corp. dealership at Vernor and Brush.There were also doctors, lawyers, real estate brokers, drug ...
Robert Wayne Brush, 29, Of Cockeysville - Patch.com
Monday, April 03, 2017Robert Wayne Brush, 29, of Cockeysville, passed away on March 26, 2017. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Cyndi Anne Tarleton of Cockeysville and the late Christopher James Brush. He enjoyed traveling and playing video games.In addition to his mother, he is survived by his brother, James (Rachel) W. Brush of Bel Air; and sisters, Rhonda (Garry) L. Simons of Macon, Georgia, Cheyenne Dawn Brush of Aberdeen and Megan Lee Clark of Gwynn Oak.Visitation will be from 2-3 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, at McComas Funeral Home, 50 W. Broadway, Bel Air, MD 21014.There will be a memorial service for Robert Wayne Brush at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, at McComas Funeral Home, 50 W. Broadway, Bel Air, MD 21014.—Obituary and service information from McComas Funeral Home. Get free real-time news alerts from the Hunt Valley-Cockeysville Patch.
Monday, April 03, 2017Lopez brothers played often with neighborhood kids.The spot was off a trail about 20 yards into a thicket of trees and brush just beyond a ballfield at the park. It was marked off with caution tape Friday, but many who attended the memorial stepped through the barrier to pay their respects.They set up a small wooden cross and tied to it a bundle of shiny balloons. They scattered rose petals and prayed and cried.One little girl, Abby, left a hand-written note, complete with crosses drawn in crayon.“I hope you guys are in heaven now!” her note said. “I will see you guys later up there. Just be waiting for me don’t go anywhere. Go find my dog Lulu. Make her happy too.”The Lopez brothers lived near the park with their grandmother, their family said, and they attended an International Leadership of Texas charter school in North Richlands Hills.Parents at the school on Friday organized a GoFundMe page for the boys’ funeral expenses. By Friday night, the page had raised more than $14,000.“Alex (Jose) and Isaiah were bright lights,” the page said. Donations for expenses can also be made directly to Greenwood funeral home, Jenkins said. The family’s account there is No. 251806. A public viewing at the funeral home is scheduled for noon-5 p.m. Sunday, and a graveside service is scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday.
Monday, March 27, 2017A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 10 am in St. Edward the Confessor Church, 21 Brush Hill Road, New Fairfield, CT.Entombment will follow in the Shrine of Memories Mausoleum of Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, NY at 12:15 pm.The family will receive friends in the Jowdy-Kane Funeral Home, 9-11 Granville Ave., Danbury on Friday, March 24, 2017 from 5 pm to 8 pm.
Monday, February 06, 2017Joseph “Joe D” DiLeonardi looked like a TV detective with his brushed velvet fedora cocked on his head, his tailored suits and the cigar in his mouth.In the summer of 1979, when then-Mayor Jane Byrne promoted him to acting police superintendent, one newspaper dubbed him “Chicago’s version of Kojak.” Mr. DiLeonardi already was known for being the flamboyant head of the city’s homicide unit.But he and Byrne clashed after he publicly accused two mayoral aides of urging him to oust his chief of the organized-crime unit. Some believe the aides were trying to protect the Outfit.After only five months as the city’s top cop, Mr. DiLeonardi was ousted and found himself running the police detail at O’Hare Airport. In 1991, after a career of nearly 36 years, he retired from the police department.He worked briefly as a supervisor in the Cook County sheriff’s office. Then in early 1994, he was appointed by then-President Bill Clinton as the U.S. marshal in Chicago — a position he held until 1999.Mr. DiLeonardi died on Sunday. He was 84.His wife, Carol DiLeona...
Monday, January 30, 2017Good boss, tooJudy Hedden worked for Dewey for several years from the late 70s to the early 80s at The Paint Brush, his screen printing business in Chanute, which later changed its name to Silk Screen Graphics before Dewey started painting full time.Hedden was also a year behind Dewey in school. The company did a lot of metal printing including amplifier chassis and work for G.O. Churchill.Hedden said Dewey was very family-oriented.“His family was always in the shop,” she said. “Some of them worked there, some of were just hanging out after school.”Hedden said it didn’t matter how busy he was, he was there for his children if they needed something.He was also a good boss.“He was like a big brother,” Hedden said. “If he had stories, he told me, and if I had problems, I told him.”Hedden said she was treated as an equal and she learned a lot, which has allowed her to find her own success screen-printing T-Shirts.Dewey started painting more frequently around the time that Hedden started working for him. She said she loved to watch him paint.“I always wondered how he could make his hands move like that,” she said. “He could make that brush do anything.”Hedden said that Dewey will be missed by many people.“Anyone who has anything he’s ever painted should treasure it,” she said. “They’re so valuable to me.”Bruce Taggart works for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and was working in Humboldt in the late 70s when he heard about Dewey’s wildlife art.He remembers Dewey loving the outdoors, hunting and fishing.“It was just incredible what he did,” Taggart said.Taggart bought some pieces from Dewey and they struck up a friendship where they would spend a lot of time talking about the wildlife that Dewey painted. Dewey’s love for the outdoors spurred him to get the animals right in his paintings.“A lot of people get the proportions wrong,” Taggart said. By contrast, Dewey’s animals almost looked alive.“The best thing he did were Canada Geese, but he did some fantastic turkey paintings,” Taggart said.Taggart moved back to Hays in 1989 and lost touch with Dewey except for the occasional phone call, and was sad to hear about Dewey’s death.“He was a real great art talent and a super guy.”Some of Dewey’s pieces can be seen at the Works of Art Gallery, 103 S. 9th in Humboldt. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 5 pm and Saturday from 12 to 3 pm. A visitation will be held at Countryside Funeral Home – Gibson Chapel in Chanute on Monday from 6-8 pm. A graveside service will be held at Askren Cemetery in rural Woodson County on Tuesday at 2 pm. ...
Monday, January 16, 2017McSweeny said.Iglewski appeared in a dozen productions of “A Christmas Carol” at the Guthrie, and had numerous Shakespeare credits as well: “The Merchant of Venice,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Othello” and Twelfth Night.” He applied his talent to dramas and comedies alike, classic and contemporary.He began his Guthrie tenure under Garland Wright in 1985.“He was very funny and known for his mastery in his later years, but he could be very moving as a straight actor,” said Isabell Monk O’Connor, who acted with Iglewski in about two dozen shows.Iglewski performed in “The Miser” and “Tartuffe” at Theatre de la Jeune Lune, “Entertaining Mr. Sloane” at the Jungle and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Chicago Shakespeare. He acted at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and toured the country as part of John Houseman’s The Acting Company. In 1999, Dowling gave him the Artistic Director’s Award.Dowling’s memories of Iglewski, whom he directed extensively, included the actor’s portrayals of Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Chasuble in “The Importance of Being Earnest,” and Leonato, the governor, in “Much Ado About Nothing.” Dowling said that last performance was astonishing.“He found all the comic notes in the earlier scenes with ease but when it came to the scene where he condemns his daughter in the chapel, Julio dropped the comedy and delivered the speech with a kind of ferocity that was chilling,” said Dowling.Iglewski’s spiral began when his longtime partner, Tim Lee, who was managing editor of Lavender Magazine and co-founder of Outward Spiral theater company, died of an apparent suicide. Lee disappeared near the Mississippi River on Oct. 28, 2002, and his body was recovered on March 17, 2003.Iglewski “was very fragile at that point and hadn’t healed from his loss,” said Monk O’Connor. “He was probably seen by tens and tens of thousands of people, but he was very private. I hope there’s a service that we are privy to. We loved that brilliant man.”Toward the end of his career, the Guthrie cast Iglewski in “Peer Gynt,” which starred Mark Rylance, and McSweeny’s production of “A View from the Bridge.” He had to be replaced in both.“While he had left the stage some years ago, he has left an amazing legacy in the memories of his colleagues and of Guthrie audiences,” said Dowling.Services or survivors have not been announced. ...
