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grandchildren and 10 great-grandcbildren.The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at Hardesty Funeral Home, 905 Galesville Road, Gales-ville.A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, 515 Loch Haven Road. Edgewater.interment will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Suitland.Kenneth Holum Sr.Kenneth Gale Holum Sr., 82, who served in a cabinet position in the administrations of presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, died Feb. 19 at the Spa Creek Center, Genesis EiderCare Network.Bom in Groton, S.D., Mr. Holum was a graduate of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, He taught high school and began farming near his hometown.In -1961 he came to-Washington^ B.C., and served as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Power under Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall.Among his accomplishments was serving as chairman of the task force on the Potomac River, which in 1967 produced a report proposing remedies to the river’s pollution.He came to the area after serving in the South Dakota legislature from 1948 through 1952 and running unsuccessfully for the U. S. Senate in 1954 and 1956. -He was a leader of the cooperative movement and in water resources development He served* on - the Missouri Basin Survey Commission created by President Harry Truman in 1952.During the 1950s, he was execu--- tive secretary of the multistate Mid- -west Electric Consumers Association. He also was executive director of the South Dakota Association of Cooperatives.He left the federal government in 1969 and became a consultant in coal, and rail contracts^In. the-late -1970s, he became general manager in the Washington offices of the Western Fuels Association,He is survived by five sons, John Holum and Robert Holum of Annapolis, Kenneth Holum Jr. of Silver Spring, Charles Holum of Denver, Col., and Knute Holum of Boulder, Col.; one daughter, Margaret Whitson of Laramie, Wyo; nine grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren.His first wife, Solveig Holum, died in 1970, and his second wife, Katherine Holum, in 1996.Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 9- to 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at Emmanuel Lutheran“CiniTch7730 Bra dl'ey ' BlvdrrBethesda, where the funeral service will be at 11 a.m. He will be buried in-Groton.Local funeral. arrangements are by John M. Taylor Funeral Home.Lovie JacobsLovie Luvenia Jacobs, an Annapolis native and community civil rights activist, died Feb. 18 of natural causes at Anne Arundel Medical Center. She was 77.Mrs. Jacobs grew up one of ten children at 108 Calvert St., in a home built by her grandfather.She- was educated-at Stanton Elementary and Wiley H. Bates High School.She was the widow of Thomas Jacobs.During the 1340s and 1950s, she managed The Harlem restaurant in Parole, which was owned by her sister and brother-in-law. She also worked as a supervisor at the Wiley H. Bates High School cafeteria during the mid-1950s and 1960s.An Annapolis civil rights advocate and community block captain in Parole, she once prepared an oral history of the fourth ward in Anna-polis, which before urban renewal was the center of the black community.She was a lifetime member of Asbury United Methodist Church in Annapolis, where she served as a church unit leader and on its board of trustees. A former member of the United Methodist Women, her other memberships included the Boosters Club, Wiley H. Bates Alumni Class of 1937 and the Willing Workers of Parole.She and her husband received a plaque, in recognition as the last -patients treatedbythelate-Dr.Aris « T. Allen prior to his retirement in 1982.Her interests included playing piano, traveling, community service work, writing, dramatic arts and preparing culinary foods.Survivors include two sisters, Teresa A. Calvin of Annapolis and Delores B. Cole of Rockville; two brothers, Godfrey Blackstone and Alfred Blackstone, both of Anna-polis; two stepsons, Joseph Jacobs and Douglas Jacobs, both of Annapolis; and 28 nieces and nephewsThe family will receive friends from 3 to 8 pan. tomorrow at House of Hicks Funeral Home, 1922 Forest Drive in Annapolis.A wake service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, followed by funeral services at noon at Asbury United Methodist Church, 87 West St., Annapolis.Interment will be in Brewer Hill Cemetery in Annapolis.Rosetta KuhnsRosetta Mae Kuhns, a resident of Sevema Park-since 1978, died Febr 20 of congestive heart failure at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis after a long illness. She was 78.A retired practical nurse, Mrs. Kuhns was born March 21, 1919, in Cincinnati.Her husband of 42 years, Earl V. Kuhns, died in 1991.She was past president of the Licensed Practical Nursing Association of Ambridge, Pa.-, and chaplain of the Beaver County Practical Nurses Association in Beaver County, Pa.A member of the Senior Citizens Bowling League of Sevema Park,__crafts and sewing.Survivors include her children, Doris Jean Jenkins of Sevema Park, Charles David Jenkins of AJtiquippa, Pa., and Sandra A. Tibbs of Rockville; three grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a brother, Norman West of Greer, S.C.The family will receive friends from 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at Barranco and Sons Sevema Park Funeral Home in Sevema Park.Services and interment will be private.In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be 'made to the American Heart Association, Anne Arundel County Unit of Central
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Annapolis Sunday Capital
Annapolis, Maryland, US
Sun, Feb 22, 1998
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