Obituaries

Sima Ruth Blue, Former Owner of Trillium, Dies at 76

by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Feb 4, 2019 | Community, Obituaries

For almost 27 years, Sima Ruth Blue helped to outfit many of Baltimore’s most fashionable women. The owner of Trillium LTD, a high-end women’s boutique in Green Spring Station that closed last December, Blue, a Pikesville resident, died on Feb. 3. She would have...

Remembering the Late Elaine S. Mintzes

by Staff Report | Oct 26, 2018 | Community, Family, Milestones, Obituaries

Elaine Siegel Mintzes, a longtime philanthropist and Jewish communal activist who was a strong supporter of such organizations as the Baltimore chapter of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces and Pikesville’s Beth Tfiloh Congregation, passed away on Oct. 25. The...

Steve Mandell of ‘Dueling Banjos’ Fame Dies

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Mar 15, 2018 | Community, Obituaries

Owings Mills resident Steve Mandell, a celebrated and accomplished musician best known for his 1973 international smash hit “Dueling Banjos” with Eric Weissberg from the film “Deliverance,” died yesterday after a long battle with prostate...

‘Modern Loss’ Authors Want to Change the Way We Talk About Mourning

by Lori Silberman Brauner | Feb 5, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Milestones, Obituaries, Spirituality

(JTA) — When Gabrielle Birkner and Rebecca Soffer met in 2007, the two Jewish journalists found they had much more in common than their professions. Through a mutual friend, they joined what became known as Women With Dead Parents, a monthly dinner gathering in...

Sol Levinson & Bros. Marks 125 Years of ‘Helping People at a Difficult Time’

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Jul 21, 2017 | Community, Community Resources, Family, Milestones, Obituaries

Matt Levinson gets the question all the time: “Did you always want to work in your family’s funeral home business?” The fifth generation of his family to work at Sol Levinson & Bros., he says it wasn’t initially a slam-dunk. “I worked here in the summers during...

Liebe Sokol Diamond Remembered as a Pioneering Surgeon

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | May 17, 2017 | Community, Obituaries

Dr. Liebe Sokol Diamond, one of the nation’s leading pediatric orthopedic surgeons and an inductee into the Baltimore JCC and Maryland Women’s Halls of Fame, died on May 17. She was 86. A Baltimore native and Pikesville resident, Sokol Diamond was the only child...