“What an incredible woman,” said Dr. Susan J. Dulkerian, chair of Mercy Medical Center’s Department of Pediatrics.

“Her forte was her calm, kind empathy and demeanor toward her families and students. She was an extremely kind person,” Dr. Dulkerian said.

Celeste Woodward, daughter of Dr. Theodore E. Woodward, a noted University of Maryland medical educator and a Nobel Prize-nominated researcher in infectious diseases, and Dr. Celeste Woodard, a physician, was born in Baltimore and raised in Roland Park.

Dr. Woodward, who always used her maiden name professionally, was a 1964 graduate of Roland Park Country School.

She attended Wellesley College, the University of Pennsylvania Nursing School and the University of Maryland, College Park, but did not earn a bachelor’s degree.

“At Maryland, in her fourth year, they required her to take a course in public speaking, but she didn’t want to do that,” said her daughter, Grace Cleveland of Charlottesville.

Not having a bachelor’s degree did not deter Dr. Woodward from enrolling in medical school at the University of Maryland, from which she graduated in 1972.

While in medical school, she became the first female member of the Rush Medical Club, the oldest student medical club in the country.

She completed both an internship and residency in pediatrics at what was then D.C. Children’s Hospital, now Children’s National Hospital.

From 1974 to 1975, she completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Maryland.

She was on the pediatric faculty at Maryland from 1975 to 1984 when she joined Mercy Medical Center as a pediatrician and was also an attending physician in the medical center’s outpatient clinic.

While at Mercy, she had a joint appointment at the University of Maryland Medical School, where, as a clinical professor of pediatrics, she continued to train and teach medical students.

“She was the consummate educator. She led by example, and while a woman of few words, they learned plenty from her and that her words meant a lot,” said Dr. Dulkerian.

“It wasn’t uncommon to see trainees or residents having confidential meetings in her office, and I know those confidential conversations meant a great deal to them,” she said.

Dr. Woodward, who was known as “Sis,” retired in 2004.

Roland Park Country School continued to be a thread throughout her lifetime, and in 1998, she became the second woman and first alumna to chair the RPCS board, while becoming the school’s longest-serving trustee.

“She was full of integrity, empathy and had a willingness to work hard. We knew her as a compassionate physician,” said former head of school Jean Waller Brune, RPCS Class of 1960, who headed the school from 1992 to 2016.

“She was a person who lived her ideals. She was an alum of the school and a parent. Her daughter was a graduate of the school,” Ms. Brune said. “Sis was an inspiring person to work with and learn from. She definitely helped me as head of school. She gave sound advice, wisdom and was always willing to listen.”

Prior to moving to Charlottesville some years ago, she and her husband of 52 years, Dr. Mark Applefeld, a retired physician, lived in Poplar Hill, where they graciously hosted RPCS Class of 1964 reunion dinners.

Dr. Woodward was an avid tennis player, reader and baker. She was also an accomplished needlepointer and enjoyed making Christmas ornaments for her grandchildren.

She was a former longtime communicant of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in Mount Washington.

A celebration of life gathering for Dr. Woodward will be held on the RPCS campus, 5204 Roland Avenue, at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 14 in the Sinex Theater.

In addition to her husband and daughter, Dr. Woodward is survived by her son, Lewis Applefeld of Rye, New York; and five grandchildren.

“Glyn was a great guy. Hardworking and reliable,” said E. Ray Lichty, a retired CSX executive, longtime colleague and friend. “Tough but fair.”

Glyndon Leslie Bailey, son of Leslie Bailey, an A&P grocery store manager, and Catherine Bailey, a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville.

He began his lengthy railroad career with the B&O Railroad in 1940 in the freight office at Camden Station after graduating from Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington.

During World War II, he served in an Army ordnance unit from 1943 to 1945 and obtained the rank of sergeant.

Mr. Bailey, who was known as Glyn, was promoted to traveling auditor in 1951, and from 1954 to 1956, he was assigned to Columbus, Ohio, before returning to Baltimore and settling in Catonsville.

He was a traveling auditor responsible for covering the B&O’s eastern territory, and in 1962, he was named chief traveling auditor.

After all freight accounting offices were consolidated into zone accounting offices, Mr. Bailey was put in charge as auditor of all the bureaus.

“As a traveling auditor back in the 1940s and 1950s, he would ride steam-powered trains all over his territory to check the records and ensure all was well and the cash was properly handled,” Mr. Lichty explained in an email. “One day it might be a train to Oakland for a few days and then off to Aberdeen for another review.”

At the time, Mr. Bailey didn’t own a car and commuted to work at the B&O’s headquarters in downtown Baltimore by streetcar.

“When they did audits for a large station, such as the ticket office in the B&O Building, a team would arrive after the office closed for the day and work all night checking the paperwork and the handling of cash and tickets, finishing up in time to open the next morning,” Mr. Lichty wrote.

“When I came to the B&O in 1954, I met him on my first day. Glyn was my assistant director,” said Diane Homburg.

“He was a true gentleman who never spoke a harsh word,” she said. “He was a great boss and fair, and he never played favorites, but fair bosses can’t always be popular,” said Ms. Homburg, who retired in 2009 from CSX where she was a computer programmer. “We became great friends and I was so glad to have known him.”

In 1975, Mr. Bailey was promoted again to auditor-accounts receivable, and finally to director of customer accounting, a position he held until retiring in 1980.

After undergoing bypass surgery in 1990, Mr. Bailey joined The Mended Hearts Inc., a support group for those who had undergone heart surgery.

In retirement, he and his wife, Mary Jeanne Bailey, whom he married in 1943, moved to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and then returned to Maryland in 1999.

He later became assistant regional director of Mended Hearts and established chapters in hospitals in Baltimore; Wilmington, Delaware; Myrtle Beach and Orangeburg, South Carolina. He also volunteered at LifeBridge Health Sinai Hospital.

He was a member and past president of RABO, a CSX retirees organization.

He was an avid model railroader.

His wife of 72 years died in 2015.

Mr. Bailey was a communicant of the Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Towson, where a Mass of Christian Burial was offered Aug. 28.

He is survived by a son, Thomas M. Bailey of Louisville; a daughter, Mary Jo Rodney of Towson; four grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

The longtime Cockeysville resident was 92.

“She was a wonderful teacher, so calm and even-keeled,” said Glen Davis, a former biology and chemistry student who is now an electrical engineer.

“She loved the material and was almost a geek about it. She always was very excited about the lessons and she passed that joy and enthusiasm on for the material,” he said.

Barbara Lois Miles, daughter of Walter Miles, an upholsterer and bartender, and Sally Miles, who sold women’s apparel, was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she graduated from Central Catholic High School in 1950.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in 1954 from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids.

She also obtained a master’s degree in science in 1971 from Morgan State University and a second master’s degree in education from Towson State University in 1977.

Widowed at 35, after her husband of 14 years, Cornelius Lems, a science professor at Goucher College, was killed in a 1968 automobile accident — leaving her to raise their six daughters.

She began teaching that year at Maryvale Preparatory School in Brooklandville, and the next year joined the faculty of Cockeysville Junior High School.

In 1977, she began teaching science, biology and chemistry at Dulaney.

Ms. Lems also taught technical crew — lighting and sound for the school’s theater productions and band concerts — with many of her students going on to successful professional careers in TV production, movies and film.

She also led the school’s chess team to several championships.

“She let us do our own experiments,” Mr. Davis recalled.

One day, Mr. Davis and several fellow students were to measure the pressure of a glass beaker, and when they got it too low, it imploded.

“She thought that it was fun that we blew something up,” he said with a laugh.

He said Ms. Lems knew how to control a class.

“She told me, ‘I expect the kids to do what I tell them,’ and it went 100 percent her way,” he said.

She retired from Dulaney in 1997.

Mr. Davis went to visit Ms. Lems several weeks before her death.

“She asked me if I knew the difference between fruits and vegetables. She said fruit has seeds and vegetables do not, therefore ‘a tomato is a fruit,'” he said. “A teacher to the end.”

Ms. Lems was a movie fan and a member of Cinema Sundays at the Charles Theater. She was also a fan of classic rock and tennis, especially enjoying matches featuring Rafael Nadal. She was also a die-hard Orioles and Ravens fan.

Ms. Lems was a member of Maryland Mensa and the Chesapeake Audubon Society.

A devout Roman Catholic who embraced Christian values of forgiveness, she donated much of her income to numerous different charities, family members said.

She was a communicant of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, 101 Church Lane, Cockeysville, where a Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Sept.12.

Ms. Lems is survived by six daughters, Roberta Levine of Jessup, Susan Jones of Lutherville, Mary Jenkins of Phoenix, Baltimore County, Andrea Davison of Baltimore, Patricia Brumbach of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and Casandra Lem of New York City; a brother, John Michael Miles of Grand Rapids; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

He was 87 and lived in Baltimore.

“Fritz did remarkable watercolors and was an excellent teacher,” said Mary Ruth Buchness, a landscape artist and former student.

“He was extremely intelligent, very well-educated, kind and had a wonderfully warm personality. He was a lot of fun to be around,” she said. “He shared his knowledge with his students and took them on painting tours to England and Europe.”

Frederic Schuler Briggs, was the son of Howard Briggs, a professor of history at what is now Frostburg State University, and Charlotte Schuler Briggs, a homemaker.

His maternal grandfather was Hans Schuler Sr., a sculptor and Maryland Institute College of Art teacher who lived at 7 East Lafayette Ave., where Mr. Briggs was born.

He was raised in Frostburg and was a graduate of the old Beall High School, now Mountain Ridge High School.

Mr. Briggs attended what was then Frostburg State College and earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 1960 from MICA.

He then served for two years in the Army’s Department of Special Services at West Point as an illustrator, and after being discharged in 1963, began teaching at The Schuler School of Fine Arts.

The school, established by his grandfather and located in his grandparent’s Lafayette Avenue home, is where Mr. Briggs lived his entire life inside an apartment above the studio.

“Fritz Briggs influenced so many people because he had taught for so many years and his classes were very popular,” Mrs. Buchness said.

“He worked in watercolors and taught principles of landscape painting and composition to so many people,” said Francesca Schular Guerin, Mr. Briggs’ cousin, who now heads the school.

Mr. Briggs’ work can be found in many private collections, and he also executed commissions for Christmas cards, including those for several Maryland governors, as well as placemats, books, and prints.

He developed a felt-tip pen technique which allowed him to do quick sketches during his trips abroad, which he later finished when he returned to Baltimore, Ms. Guerin said.

In 1968, he was elected to the prestigious American Watercolor Society, and in 1973, to the Salmagundi Society of New York city, which honored him in 1980 with a first place prize in their annual watercolor exhibition.

Mr. Briggs was also a member of the Baltimore’s Charcoal Club, where he was president for a decade, and the Baltimore Watercolor Society.

Mr. Briggs was still painting and teaching until last year.

He spent weekends, until several years ago, at his boyhood home in Frostburg.

“Fritz conducted summer workshops in Frostburg and we’d go to southern Pennsylvania to paint Amish farms,” Mrs. Buchness said.

Mr. Briggs was a member of the Mayflower Society and a founding member of the National Society of Sons of Colonial New England.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sept. 28 at the Schuler School at 7 E. Lafayette Ave., with a subsequent gathering from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 29, also at the school.

Mr. Briggs is survived by his brother, Charles Briggs, of Georgia, a niece; a nephew; and many cousins and friends.

Elizabeth Rosenfeld, daughter of Moses Wiesenfeld Rosenfeld, a lawyer, and Helen Rosenbaum Rosenfeld, a singer and artist, was born in Baltimore and raised in Druid Hill.

She was a direct descendant of the Jewish families who established the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and Chizuk Amuno Congregation.

A graduate of Forest Park High School, she worked as a sales associate selling women’s suits at Hutzler’s department store in downtown Baltimore during World War II, while spending evenings dancing at the USO with servicemen, family members said.

After marrying Philip Kahn Jr. in 1947, she left her job at Hutzler’s to raise their two daughters.

Mrs. Kahn, who earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, began teaching at the old Pimlico Junior High School before joining the faculties of several parochial schools, including the School of the Cathedral, Grace & St. Peter’s and Immaculate Conception School in Towson. She stopped teaching in 1982.

After retiring, she turned to volunteering and assisting her husband, who was vice president of J. Schoeneman Co., one of the largest men’s clothing manufacturers in the city’s old Garment District, in writing two books, “A Stitch in Time: The Four Seasons of Baltimore’s Needle Trades” and “Uncommon Threads: Threads that Wove the Fabric of Baltimore’s Jewish Life.”

While working with her husband, she was also a member of WISH — Women in Self Help — a telephone crisis-referral service.

“Betsey found her true passion later in life volunteering at the Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore — first as a docent and later as a front desk greeter,” according to a biographical profile of Mrs. Kahn.

“Betsey brought a warm smile, enthusiasm, knowledge of Baltimore Jewish history, and love of the Jewish Museum of Maryland to her volunteering,” wrote Wendy Davis, volunteer coordinator for the Jewish Museum of Maryland, in an email. “Fellow JMM volunteers who interacted with Betsey when she was a front desk greeter shared that Betsey was very friendly, welcoming and interesting.”

A resident for nearly 50 years of Winthrop House in Guilford, Mrs. Kahn was known for her Japanese flower arranging, sewing, knitting and needlepoint.

She and her husband, who died in 1998, had a significant collection of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) monochrome porcelains.

She was a member of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Sisterhood and a co-founder of the Baltimore City-County Garden Club.

A memorial gathering will be held at noon Nov. 10, and the family asks those planning to attend to notify them at betsey1926@gmail.com

She is survived by her two daughters, Beth Kahn Leamna and Lina Lee Kahn Liebold, both of Columbia; a granddaughter; a great-grandson; and several nieces and nephews.

“She was brilliant, discerning and always thinking about how to create equity and access for people and those with mental and psychiatric health needs. She was attuned to people’s needs and struggles in that area,” said a stepdaughter, Dr. Jeannie Blaustein, of New York City, the current president of the foundation.

“She had a deep interest in under-resourced people like Native Americans and Indigenous people,” Ms. Blaustein said. “Jane lit up the room. She was funny, honest, a straight-shooter and a deeply loving person.”

Mary Jane Helms, daughter of Dr. Samuel T. Helms, medical director of the old Emerson Drug Co., and Selina Clair Walker Helms, a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised on Wendover Road in Guilford.

A 1951 graduate of Roland Park Country School, she studied nursing at the old MedStar Union Memorial School of Nursing and the Johns Hopkins University.

She was also an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
“Jane was a very smart gal who went well beyond her education,” said Elaine Smith, a retired Hopkins nursing colleague and friend of 50 years.

“She was good at organizing things like what we called the Acute Treatment Clinic at the time. She helped start the Sexual Behavior Consultation Unit which came along at the time of Masters and Johnson,” she said referring to the American sexologists.

“This was at the forefront of developing programs for couples who suffered from sexual dysfunction and the psychiatric elements of transexual surgery,” Ms. Smith said.

Mrs. Blaustein spent 29 years at Hopkins before retiring in the 1990s.

She was a trustee of the Maryland Zoo, Union Memorial Hospital and Boys’ Latin School.

“She was deeply involved with her work at Hopkins working with doctors,” said Rhea Feiken, a Baltimore actress. “Her family and friends always came to Jane for her sage advice and support.”

Her 1954 marriage to Frederick “Sandy” Lucas ended in divorce.

In 1986, she married Morton Katz Blaustein, a Baltimore businessman and civic leader, who was chairman and CEO of American Trading and Production Corp., a real estate development firm.

In 1989, the couple established the Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation with Mrs. Blaustein serving as president until 2014, when her stepdaughter took over.

Mr. Blaustein died in 1990.

“She and my father were together for seven years and it was an extraordinary romance. They celebrated the joy they found later in life,” Ms. Blaustein said.

“She was fearless in her ability to face struggles,” Ms. Balustein said. “She had a zest for life but faced her decline with honesty and grace.”

Keeping up with current events, playing bridge and vacationing in Maine were her pastimes.

She was a lifelong communicant of St. David’s Episcopal Church, 4700 Roland Ave., where a memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday.

In addition to Ms. Blaustein, she is survived by a son, D. Taylor Lucas, of Towson; another stepdaughter, Dr. Susan M. Blaustein, of Chevy Chase; a brother, Samuel T. Helms, of Catonsville; two grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. A daughter, Sandra Lucas Carter, died in 2023.

“David was a civic leader who got the job done and he didn’t need any acclaim,” said Wally D. Pinkard Jr., former CEO of Colliers Pinkard. “He did great work and he did it with real class.”
He added: “He looked at problems, simplified them, and could see the needs of others. He was the definition of integrity.”

David Michael Gillece, son of James Patrick Gillece, a state government worker, and Erna Barling Gillece, a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised in Linthicum.

A 1967 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School, he earned a bachelor’s degree from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, and a master’s degree in the same discipline from the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana.

After leaving Notre Dame, he began his career in 1973 as a staff member at the Citizens Planning and Housing Association where he “led a groundbreaking study on redlining, exposing racial discrimination in lending policies by major financial institutions,” according to a biographical profile.

He was president of the City Fair and deputy director of the Citizens’ Planning and Greater Baltimore Committee from 1976 to 1988, when he was named president of the Baltimore Economic Development Corp.

From 1990 and most of 1991, he was president of Center City-Inner Harbor Development Corp.

After Mr. Gillece oversaw at Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke’s request the 1991 merger of BEDCO and CCIH which emerged as the Baltimore City Development Corp., he resigned to pursue private sector opportunities.

Mr. Gillece then joined what was then W.C. Pinkard, a Baltimore family-owned real estate firm as executive vice president, and in 2003 was appointed president of what became Colliers Pinkard.

Following mergers with several other commercial real estate firms, the company became Cushman & Wakefield, where Mr. Gillece was a managing director until his retirement several years ago.

“It was a fine career,” said M. Jay Brodie, former city housing commissioner who served as BDC president for 16 years before retiring.

“To use a phrase that I’m fond of, David was a first-rate professional who knew many things, did his research, and knew what he was doing. He was just excellent and was always a pleasure to deal with.”

“He was an efficient and firm mentor to young people and they flocked to his office,” Mr. Pinkard said. “He led by example and with humility and he had a great sense of humor and patience.”

Mr. Gillece sat on innumerable boards including the Greater Baltimore Committee, Downtown Partnership of Baltimore and St. Frances Academy.

“He left his mark on Baltimore,” said his wife of 41 years, Nancy Roberts, a lawyer.
“Baltimore was his hobby.”

The former Roland Park and Silo Point resident was an avid fan of the Orioles and Ravens.
A funeral Mass was offered Thursday at the Holy Cross Catholic Community of South Baltimore.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Patrick R. Gillece, of Bethesda; a daughter, Casey Gordon, of Winnetka, Illinois; two sisters, Joan Gillece, of Annapolis, and Nancy Gillece, of Frederick; and five grandchildren.

“It was his personality that made him successful and Goose was a lot of fun,” said Dave Naumann, who was co-owner with Mr. Kaiser of Bay Cafe in Canton.

“He loved sports, the Baltimore Colts, Orioles and after the Colts left, he was an Eagles fan for a time, and he liked organizing bus trips to games,” said Mr. Naumann.

Thomas Kaiser, son of Edward Kaiser, a musician, and Miriam Kaiser, a city government worker, was born and raised in Baltimore.

A graduate of Forest Park High School, he worked for the Maryland State Highway Administration until opening the Wishing Well in 1969 in Baltimore County.

“For a time in the 1970s, he also had a Wishing Well-by-the-Sea in Ocean City,” said his daughter, Judy Ruth of Towson.

“Bars like the Wishing Well and Turkey Joe Trabert’s in Fells Point, helped Baltimore heal after the 1968 riot,” former Baltimore Sun columnist Michael Olesker said in a telephone interview.

But after 30 years, Mr. Kaiser focused his attention on Bay Cafe, which he opened in 1989 on the Canton waterfront in Tindeco Wharf.

Bay Cafe, noted for its shrimp salad and palm tree island ambience, instantly became the place to go.

Sunday deck parties, according to Alfred W. Barry III, a Baltimore development consultant, were enlivened by reggae and calypso music and fueled by high octane island-themed potables.

“On ‘Big Hair Day,’ we drag in the girls and ladies from Pasadena, Timonium, Glen Burnie and there would be a line to get in around Boston Street,” Mr. Naumann said.”They came for fun from everywhere.”

As he had in Wishing Well days, Mr. Kaiser would charter buses to take fans to Orioles opening day. He’d charter planes to go to the Colts’ Super Bowl appearances and organize trips to places like Cooperstown, New York, for baseball Hall of Fame ceremonies.

“Goose was well-liked by customers most of the time,” Mr. Naumann said, laughing. “He could be a little stubborn at times, but was still a lot of fun. I’m 22 years younger than Goose, so sometimes we waited to do things when he was away.”

By 2013 the party was coming to an end and the decision was made not to renew the bar’s lease.

So, Bay Cafe mixed its last margarita and closed at the end of 2013.

Mr. Kaiser never lost his enthusiasm for Baltimore’s professional sports teams. He also enjoyed deep-sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.

Services were held Aug.19 at Ruck Towson Funeral Home.

In addition to his daughter, Mr. Kaiser is survived by his son, Andy Kaiser, of Selbyville, Delaware; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. A daughter, Tracey Kaiser, died in 2002; and another son, Tommy Kaiser, died in 2004. His marriage ended in divorce.

“Ellen worked tirelessly to give her students opportunities to perform,” wrote a daughter, Valerie Griffith, of Charles Village and Millsboro, in a biographical profile.

“In addition to producing 49 annual dance recitals, she created the Baltimore Concert Group out of her studio, which over 40 years performed in and around the Baltimore area for community organizations, festivals and many years at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor Summer Concert Series,” she wrote.

Ellen Ann Pimm, the daughter of Walter Britton Pimm, a U.S. Department of Labor official, and Rosemary Throne Pimm, a dancer, was born in Baltimore and raised in Mount Washington.

During the Great Depression and World War II years her mother established a school of theater and dance in the carriage house of her Mount Washington home.

Mrs. Gniazdowski developed a love for classic ballet early and traveled weekly to Philadelphia and Washington to study ballet with luminaries like Michael Nicholoff, a member of the famed dancer Anna Pavlova’s company.

An interest in costume design led her to be accepted by the Fashion Institute in New York, but just after graduating from Forest Park High School, she met and fell in love with William Leo Gniazdowski, a student at the University of Maryland.

“So I could see him every weekend,” Mrs. Gniazdowski told The Baltimore Sun in 1997, she enrolled at College Park instead.

She studied physical education before leaving because the university did not offer a degree in dance.

The two married in 1948.

She returned to Baltimore where she inherited her mother’s studio which she named The Gniazdowska Studio of Ballet.

“She feminized the name of her dance studio by adding an ‘a’ to its surname,” Ms. Grifith said.

In the 1960s, she and fellow dancer, Danny Diamond, founded the Baltimore City Ballet which eventually morphed into the Maryland State Ballet.

When potential students came to Mrs. Gniazdowski, she told the old Sunday Sun Magazine in 1966, she looked at the “arch in instep, length of leg, smoothness of muscle, set of shoulders — the body development able to take training demanded by ballet.”

She was the stage director, choreographer and costume-maker and teacher as she prepared her students for their recitals.

“A number of well-known students studied with my mother,” her daughter said.

Among them were the famed Block ecdysiast, Blaze Starr, and then WJZ-TV celebrity Oprah Winfrey.

“My mother also taught the football team at Poly [Baltimore Polytechnic Institute] how to move,” Ms. Griffith said.

In 1997, she announced her retirement and told The Sun that at 67 it was getting “a little wearying,” but she continued teaching for another decade.

Her husband, who taught math at Carver Vocational-Technical High School, died in 1992.

After moving to Millsboro in 2015, she joined Lighthouse Baptist Church where funeral services were held Aug. 17.

Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Woodlawn Cemetery at 2130 Woodlawn Drive in Woodlawn.

In addition to her daughter, she is survived by a son, Ryan Gniazdowski, of Greensboro, Caroline County; another daughter, Mary Antonia Schrock, of Millsboro; four grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.

The former Riderwood resident was 95.

“Jack was a fine lawyer and one of the best that you’ll ever find,” said former Chief Judge Robert M. Bell of state Court of Appeals, now the Supreme Court of Maryland, who was hired by Mr. Jones at what was then Piper and Marbury, now DLA Piper.

“He was a great mentor and believed in the power of mentoring in order to get to the right answer,” said George P. Stamas who worked with Mr. Jones at Piper.

John Martin Jones Jr. son of Dr. John M. Jones Sr. a chiropractor, and Nannalee Jones, a hotel manager, was born in Baltimore and raised on Greenmount Avenue.

After graduating from Friends School of Baltimore in 1947, he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1951 from the University of Maryland and his law degree in 1953.

He joined Piper and Marbury in 1954.

From 1959 to 1960, he was an assistant Maryland attorney general before returning to Piper in 1960.

“His basic legal practice was that of a real estate lawyer,” said Mark Pollack, who was hired at Piper by Mr. Jones. “He was my mentor and the most delightful lawyer to work with and he was a great negotiator.”

One of the capstones of his career was working with developer James W. Rouse in the early 1960s to acquire the Howard County farmland that became today’s Columbia.

Frustrated by three landowners — identified by Rouse aides as the “Three Bears” — who held 1,000, 900 and 890 acres that were key to the project, Mr. Rouse was worried if word leaked out to owners of smaller parcels, the $1500 per acre price he was offering might rise. He turned to a “lanky young lawyer to help solve the riddle and direct the buying campaign,” wrote Gurney Breckenfield in “Columbia And The New Cities.”

Mr. Jones made the decision to avoid the Three Bears initially while purchasing other parcels of land.

Isidore Gudelsky held the key parcel of 1000 acres, which would become Columbia’s town center, shopping district and lake site, and was asking $5 million for it.

Mr. Jones agreed to meet Mr. Gudelsky at what was then Friendship Airport before he boarded a flight.

With the clock ticking, Mr. Gudelsky agreed to accept Mr. Jones’ offer of $3 million. “This was a critical piece of the deal and Jack cornered him at the airport and wrote the terms of the sale on a napkin,” Mr. Pollack said.

In 1989, Mr. Jones purchased a controlling interest in Baltimore Contractors Inc. and became president, CEO and board chairman.

A world traveler, he was a voracious reader of British history, philosophy and theology — particularly Buddhism.

“He was a great storyteller who could make anything come to life,” said his stepdaughter, Martha Nesbitt Turner, of Baltimore.

Services are private.

Mr. Jones is survived by his wife of 55 years, Dayle F. Nesbitt,  president of the board of Baltimore Choral Arts; two sons, David M. Jones, of Warwick, Rhode Island, and Jeffrey W.A. Jones, of St. Augustine, Florida; a daughter, Kelly A. Jones, of Tallahassee, Florida; two stepsons, William F. “Bill” Nesbitt, of Riderwood, and H. Scott Nesbitt, of Cincinnati; 14 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and two nephews. His daughter, Cathleen Celeste Jones died in 2005.