Born in Baltimore and raised in Glenelg and Ellicott City, he was the son of Hazel Martin and Robert H. Helsley. A graduate at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School and Howard High School, Bob received a scholarship to the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he later taught.

After leaving MICA he went into on-air television design, initially at Pittsburgh’s WQED, where “Mister Rogers Neighborhood” was being produced. He then worked at MPT in Owings Mills and subsequently became art director at Baltimore’s WMAR-TV, where he worked with afternoon host Sylvia Scott and others. Mr. Helsley later joined WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. He won three Emmy Awards — for TV graphics, set design and animation.

“Bob was very well liked. He was kind but had high standards because of his years of work in television visuals,” said Norberto Gomez Jr., visual and performing arts chair at Montgomery College. “He was a fantastic illustrator and typographer. He had the perspective of someone trained in visual design before it was computer based. He was a master of [Adobe] PhotoShop and Illustrator and helped and encouraged students from very diverse backgrounds to continue their education at four- year schools.

“Bob was patient with his students and was a consistent donor to the college for scholarships,” Mr. Gomez said.

The college’s board awarded Mr. Helsley its bronze medallion for his “enthusiasm and dedication” at his retirement.

A poster designer, he created a 1982 poster for the opening of the Joseph Meyerhoff Hall that was exhibited in the prints and maps department of the Library of Congress. He also created posters for the 1983 Inner Harbor U.S. Pro Cycling event and for numerous productions of the Baltimore Opera Co.

Mr. Helsley was a collector of antique posters.

“Bob had impeccable taste,” said James R. Pierce, a friend and gallery owner. “He could come up with original ideas for the framing and he knew how to find things. He could also do paper restoration well.”

A member of the Golden Glow of Christmas Past, he collected early games, decorations, and miniature Santas associated with the holiday.

Mr. Helsley also was among those who restored dollar houses in the early 1980s. He refurbished a Victorian rowhouse in Southwest Baltimore that he used as a backdrop for his many collections.

Friends said he spent weekends combing antique shops. He participated in the old Columbia Flea Market and other venues. He was a regular shopper along Baltimore’s Howard Street Antique Row.

Survivors include a sister, Jewell Novak, of Monson, Massachusetts, and a brother, Michael Helsley, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; and cousins, nieces and nephews.

Graveside services were held Oct. 20 at Loudon Park Cemetery.

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“This is transformative for us,” said Kris Hoellen, the museum’s director.  “And it’s transformative for Southwest Baltimore.”

This is no ordinary collection. The museum claims to own the most comprehensive collection of 19th-century rail rolling stock in the Western Hemisphere.

Yet, because of current space constraints, it does not have room to display and engage its visitors about new railroad technological innovations.

The most visible evidence of change is a considerable excavation, a big, deep crater on the Pigtown flank of the museum. It’s near South Arlington Avenue, a block or so off Washington Boulevard. This is a side of the museum campus that visitors rarely see. Still, museum officials and their architects feel this hidden backyard offers a promising opportunity and a dramatic new portal.

The museum found itself in a favorable position when it relocated its hands-on restoration operation to a nearby building near the Carroll Mansion in Carroll Park. This gave them what every museum craves — more space.

When finished, the museum will have a huge Innovation Hall, a sprawling space which will exhibit the present and future of railroading technology using child-friendly interactive exhibits.

In the process, the museum will restore a structure known as the South Car Works building. It is defined as “the oldest, continuously operating railroad repair facility in the United States, if not the world.” It operated from 1869 to 1990.

The restoration of this roomy 33,000-square-foot building (you could play a game of football under the roof) will transform it into a new entrance to the museum.

The museum will reconfigure its campus to face Southwest Baltimore, a change from the current entry point on Pratt and Poppleton streets.

To reach the hall, a new entrance will be created through an amphitheater and landscaped area, christened the CSX Bicentennial Garden.

To achieve this, a foreboding retaining wall had to be removed. Behind that were tons of fill dirt that once supported trains operating, exiting and entering the repair shop.

Museum officials hope that this effort will catalyze the revitalization of the surrounding neighborhood. Over the next year, landscapers will add a tiered, tree-lined terrace available for public concerts or movie nights.

“Or it will be just a place to eat lunch,” said Hoellen, the director. “We look for it to become a vibrant event space and provide a fresh, new location to welcome our visitors. It will also be free for community use.”

The project also includes a space for the museum’s now cramped archives, the business history of one of Baltimore’s largest employers.

The ground floor of the innovation center will house approximately 30 million documents and 200,000 photos. Watch for some of the gems of the collection, which will be on view for the first time, such as President Abraham Lincoln’s letters to B&O officials during the Civil War.

The archive will also provide researchers with access to study the Museum’s invaluable historical collections and enable students to learn about railroading careers and history.

Donors include CSX Transportation, State of Maryland, Watkins Family Foundation, the Marvin Weiner Foundation, Harbor Bank, Bank of America, the Bunting Family Foundation, Sherman Family Foundation, France-Merrick Foundation, Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh, Truist Charitable Fund, Allegis Foundation, South Baltimore Gateway Partnership, Fancy Hill Foundation and members of the Museum’s board of directors.

The museum has raised $28 million of the $38 million total.

“I’m confident we will reach our goal,” Hoellen said.

All this work comes at a busy time for the museum. Some of its heaviest volume of visitor traffic comes at Thanksgiving, when the Polar Express arrives. Families arrive for the holiday experience, filling all available parking.

The newly configured museum will hold back, a least for a few minutes, the experience of stepping into its majestic and soaring circular car repair shop, or roundhouse. Now, visitors walk in off Pratt Street and encounter this amazing space with the oldest preserved B&O locomotives on view. In the future, this will become the final spot visited and preserve the big bang, or finale, for the end.

“The crown jewel will be saved for last,” said Hoellen of her rail empire.

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Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, Mr. Johnson went from a back street in West Baltimore to top theatrical venues. Smokey Robinson recruited him as a Motown Records arranger.

Born Isaiah Samuel Johnson in Baltimore, he was the son of Isaiah Samuel Johnson Sr. and his wife, Rebecca. He lived in a small home in the 1300 block of Whatcoat Street and immersed himself in the self-taught musical culture of his neighborhood. When his sister could not pronounce Isaiah, he got the nickname Buzzy.

In a 2019 history of The Flamingos, by author Todd R. Baptista, Mr. Johnson recalled listening to his parents’ radio and hearing Andy Williams and the McGuire Sisters. But the close harmony singer, Earlington Tilghman, known as Sonny Til, lived across the street. Til’s musical group, the Orioles, cut a hit record, “It’s Too Soon to Know.”

Mr. Johnson begged his mother for the money to go to the nearby Royal Theater on Pennsylvania Avenue, where he saw the top acts of the day. By his mid-teens, he was an accomplished guitarist (he listened to Les Paul and Mary Ford) and sax player, and read music. He possessed a polished baritone voice and could deliver the falsetto tenor popular at the time.

As a teen, he performed at West Baltimore talent shows, at Rich’s Carousel Lounge on Poplar Grove Street, at Carr’s and Sparrow’s beaches in Anne Arundel County and the Diamond Club on The Block. A classmate from Frederick Douglass High School suggested he join their singing group, the Whispers, whose members recorded on the Gotham label.

His ticket out of Baltimore came when there was a vacancy in The Flamingos, a Chicago-based vocal group. He auditioned at the Royal and, after just turning 18, was summoned to New York City, beginning a life as a professional musician. Within months, he was recording with the Flamingos on the Decca label.

Mr. Johnson recorded albums with his group — Flamingo Serenade, Requestfully Yours and Flamingo Favorites. The group toured widely and appeared five times on the TV show American Bandstand.

“They took the pop music songs of the 30s and 40s and translated them for a rhythm and blues vocal group,” said Milton A. Dugger, a friend from Baltimore. “Terry told me he got the idea for the ‘Only Have Eyes’ arrangement in a dream. The other Flamingos thought it would be a dud, but it turned out as their greatest hit.”

The Flamingos later split into two groups and Mr. Johnson stayed with the ensemble known as the Modern Flamingos, the Fabulous Flamingos and Terry Johnson’s Flamingos.

His version of The Flamingos appeared on two PBS specials: Rock and Roll at Fifty and Do Wop Cavalcade: The Definitive Anthology.

In 1964, Smokey Robinson recruited Johnson onto the staff of Motown Records, where he and Robinson became regular collaborators. Their most notable credited work was the 1969 Billboard Top 10 hit for The Miracles, “Baby, Baby Don’t Cry.”

Mr. Johnson also wrote and produced for the Four Tops, the Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas and the Supremes. In 1969, Johnson released the solo 45’s “My Springtime”

Among his many industry achievements, he was musical conductor for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.

He never retired and appeared in Baltimore last year at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Govans.

Survivors include his wife and longtime musical partner, Theresa Trigg. She said survivors include grandchildren, nieces and nephews and cousins.

A funeral will be held Nov. 12 in Las Vegas on what would have been his 87th birthday.

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Born in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, he was the son of John Osborne Bisset, a Baltimore pastor who founded the Peter and John Radio Ministry with his brother, Peter. His mother was Barbara Orange Bisset, who worked alongside her husband in the ministry.

Mr. Bisset — who never used the title the Rev. — moved to a dairy farm in Manchester in Carroll County in 1952 as his extended family and church friends worked to turn River Valley Ranch into a Western-themed Christian youth camp and retreat center.

He was a graduate of Manchester High School, the Moody Bible Institute and Greenville College in Illinois. An ordained minister, he also had two master’s degrees from the Johns Hopkins University.

In 1963 he met his future wife, Mary Ruth Kennedy, a student at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles who had come to work as a summer camp counselor at River Valley Ranch. They married in 1964.

Mr. Bisset worked his entire career for Peter and John Ministries, beginning in 1964 when WRBS-FM (95.1) was purchased. The radio studio was originally located in Northeast Baltimore at Alameda and Coldspring Lane. He later assisted in moving the broadcast headquarters to Arbutus, where Brighter Media Group’s main studios remain.

“My father was among a handful of early pioneers who helped define the direction of Christian radio. He stood out for his integrity, intellect and quiet strength,” said his daughter Christina Blackman.

“He was a door opener for others and stood aside as they walked through,” his daughter said. “My father chose to be a quiet figure. He had an understated strength. He was the first person in his family to put women on his board of directors.”

Mr. Bisset became general manager of WRBS-FM and led the station to receive the National Religious Broadcasters Station of the Year Award twice. He later served as president of Peter and John Ministries. The radio station, now known as Bright-FM, operates additional stations in Grasonville/Annapolis and Hagerstown/Frederick.

He was the author of “Why Christian Kids Leave the Faith,” “Every Day With Jesus,” “Good News for Prodigals” and “A Risky Obedience.”

He also wrote letters and essays for The Baltimore Sun.

“My father was also known for his love of sports and competition — whether coaching his son’s undefeated Green Machine youth soccer team or claiming the Maryland State Doubles Handball Championship,” his daughter said. “People recall his gentleness, wit and deep care for people.”

Survivors include his wife of more than 60 years, Mary Ruth Kennedy Bisset, a Baltimore County Public Schools music teacher and church organist; a daughter, Christina Blackman, of Baltimore; a son, Jon Bisset, of Monkton; a sister, Sharon Bisset, of Avon, New York; two brothers, Chuck Bisset, of British Columbia, Canada, and Steve Bisset, of Naples, New York; and four grandchildren.

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“Louise was a magnificent human being,” said Stephen A. DiBiagio, John Carroll’s president. “She had a steel resolve to forge ahead and teach our students moral courage and compassion. She was transformative.”

Born in Lorain, Ohio, she was the daughter of Cletus “Kayo” Brink and Mary Louise Stewart Brink. She earned a degree at the University of South Florida and began her career at Eau Gallie High School in Florida, where she met her future husband, Louis Géczy, a fellow teacher.

After moving to Maryland, she taught English, creative writing and public speaking in the Baltimore County public school system, including a period at Perry Hall High School, where she also advised the literary magazine.

She was a Fulbright Scholar in Hungary, her husband’s ancestral homeland, from 1993 to 1994.

After moving to Harford County, she joined the John Carroll School faculty and taught English and public speaking. She was later academics project manager and developed a senior project program.

“She helped establish Senior Unity Day and shaped the school’s Human Rights and Holocaust programming, including Holocaust Remembrance Day and the senior class trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,” said her daughter, Michelle Géczy.

She also led Lessons of the Shoah, an annual event held in conjunction with the Baltimore Jewish Council.

“Louise was an amazing woman,” said Jake Hollin, a John Carroll assistant principal. “She was a light in a dark world. Louise emphasized human rights and dignity regardless of faith, skin color or background. She was able to give a voice to the voiceless.”

She co-created the elective Exploration of Human Rights, Genocide and the Pursuit of Justice and organized the school’s annual Genocide Vigil.

Ms. Géczy was a recipient of the 2024 International Peace and Justice Award and the 2009 and 2023 Ponczak-Greenblatt Families Awards for Excellence in Holocaust Education.

Her daughter, Michelle, also said, “She was compassionate, humble, generous and kind. She inspired her students with wisdom, creativity, curiosity and faith in their potential. Her encouragement gave many the confidence to find their own voices.”

Ms. Géczy led by example, embodying the belief that “we rise by lifting others.”

She enjoyed gardening, browsing bookstores and libraries and playing Scrabble and cards.

“She liked a good crab cake, antiquing and a chocolate milkshake made with vanilla ice cream,” her daughter said.

A memorial will be held at 10 a.m. Nov. 29 at the John Carroll School in Bel Air.

Survivors include her daughters, Michelle Géczy, of Baltimore, Jessica Géczy-Shertzer, of Conowingo, and Allison Fordyce, of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania; two sisters, Susan Hewins, of Ashtabula, Ohio, and Patricia Brink; and five grandchildren. Her husband of 54 years, Louis Géczy, a Parkville High School teacher, died in 2023.

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Born in New York City and raised in Albany, he was the son of Dr. Frank Ferguson, a physician, and his wife, Joan Lonergan Ferguson. A 1964 graduate of Vincentian High School, he earned his bachelor’s and medical degrees at Cornell University, where he played football and baseball.

While attending Cornell, he met his future wife, Diane Marie Strickland, on a blind date. They often attended races at Saratoga Springs.

Dr. Ferguson later worked in rural clinics in Jamaica as part of a Cornell-sponsored program. He and his wife later settled in Hartford, Connecticut, where he served at Mount Sinai Hospital, first as chief resident and then as chief of medicine for nearly 15 years.

In 1992, the couple moved to Baltimore, where he became chief of medicine at Union Memorial Hospital. They initially lived on Hawthorn Road in Roland Park.

He led Union Memorial’s training program for two decades and mentored numerous young physicians. He also served as a clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and later taught at Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

Dr. Ferguson published scientific articles on internal medicine and founded a journal dedicated to community medicine. He was also a specialist in geriatric medicine.

“My father had a legacy of intellect, commitment and quiet leadership,” said his son, Michael Ferguson. “He was known for his dry wit, steady presence and unwavering integrity.”

A licensed pilot, Dr. Ferguson flew a single-engine Cessna around New England. He had a deep interest in the Civil War and visited battlefields at Antietam, Gettysburg and Fredericksburg.

“Friends and family also knew him for his quirks, such as his strange devotion to the obscure comedy program ‘The Uncle Floyd Show,’” his son said of the cult comedy program.

He remained an avid sports fan and followed the Orioles and the Ravens. He was an original season-ticket holder for the Ravens.

Survivors include his wife, Diane Marie Ferguson, a Catholic Charities mental-health school counselor; a son, Michael P. Ferguson, of Severna Park; two brothers, Brian Ferguson, of New York City, and Philip Ferguson, of Tucson, Arizona; two sisters, Kate Ferguson, of New York City, and Margaret Ferguson Kleinman, of Westchester, New York; and two grandchildren. A daughter, Kelly Ferguson, died in 2007.

A memorial service will be held Nov. 22 in Baltimore. For details, contact his son at mpfergus@hotmail.com.

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Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she was the daughter of Sigurd Valther Jansson, an executive with the Stockholm Tramways, and Irma Birgitta Andersson Jansson, who owned a restaurant called Fregatten.

She spent her teenage years working at her great-aunt’s general store on the island of Yxlan in Stockholm’s archipelago. She graduated from Bromma Kommunala Flickskola in 1959 and later attended the Karolinska Institute, a medical university, where she trained as a bacteriologist.

In October 1963, she moved to Baltimore’s Hamilton neighborhood to join a team at Johns Hopkins Hospital as a bacteriologist.

“She took a huge chance in coming to Baltimore. She picked Johns Hopkins and said, ‘I’ve heard of that.’ She loved her job and loved to work,” said her son, Stephan Moylan. “She was kind and warm and took care of people.”

She met her future husband, Martin Moylan, after an article and photo about Hopkins and her work appeared in the News American. A photographer gave her number to News American political reporter Frank DeFilippo, who in turn gave it to his friend, attorney Martin Moylan.

“On their blind date, Birgitta, whose English was still developing, mistakenly thought Martin was a truck driver because he talked about trucks — a reference to his job at the Interstate Commerce Commission,” said her son. “We believe their first date was to the Eichenkranz restaurant.”

“She told me she had her Swedish language book when they went on the date,” Stephan said. “Fortunately, her Swedish roommate later clarified that he was a lawyer, and their future was sealed.”

After raising three children, she returned to Hopkins at the Bayview Medical Center and joined the asthma and allergy research center. She worked alongside Dr. Robert Naclerio, an otolaryngologist.

Mrs. Moylan was a member of the Johns Hopkins Club and fostered her Swedish heritage through her involvement in the Sveaborg Society of Maryland, a local Swedish American club. She met with its members at various Lutheran churches throughout Baltimore.

“Her Swedish accent got stronger through time. She was always involved with food. She had hundreds of cookbooks. She could plan a meal, cook it and be the life of the party,” her son said. “She was a social butterfly. She was socially active until the day she died. She never stopped and was a person of action.”

Her husband, Martin Moylan, an attorney, died in 2019.

Survivors include two sons, Judge Stephan Moylan, of Oakland in Garrett County, and Christopher Moylan, of Stockholm, Sweden; a daughter, Martina Dilks, of Baltimore; a sister, Maja Berg, of Degeberga, Sweden; a brother, Christer Jansson of Stockholm; and seven grandchildren.

The family will announce service arrangements at a later date.

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But not all the news is grim. Extensive building renovation work is soon to start at a spot less than a block away from that fire. Soon, 42 affordable apartments will emerge from the triangular grouping of buildings at the intersection of Park Avenue, Fayette Street and Liberty Street. This rescue comes not a moment too soon.

The development, which involves a conjoining of these structures, takes the name Sojourner Place at Park. It’s the work of two Baltimore nonprofits, the Episcopal Housing Corp. and Health Care for the Homeless, operating in a joint ownership venture. Nearly two-thirds of the apartments will be reserved for people exiting homelessness, with rents capped at 30% of a renter’s income.

Sojourner Place at Park will be a 48,000-square-foot multifamily building in the historic Five and Dime preservation district. It’s the first Sojourner Place downtown; the original opened in East Baltimore’s Oliver neighborhood, and a third is planned for Oldtown near the Shot Tower.

The project incorporates 111 Park Ave. and five adjacent properties into a single residential community. The plan calls for interior walls to be removed, with new elevators, amenity rooms and a ground-floor retail space.

“We think this is all part of [the] transition of downtown Baltimore’s West Side,” said Dan McCarthy, executive director of Episcopal Housing Corp. “We are helping more the energy here and create a critical mass as you head up the hill toward Eutaw and Paca streets.”

McCarthy said his group is building on the success of its first Sojourner Place project in East Baltimore.

There’s always a story behind a building downtown. What appears to be a branch of the old Equitable Trust Co. was originally a railroad station — the first downtown terminal of the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis (WB&A) electric line, which opened in 1908 and declared bankruptcy in 1935. Some of the old WB&A right of way is now a Prince George’s County hiking trail, while Baltimore’s light rail operates on part of the former line.

The heavy WB&A electric cars once looped through what will become Sojourner Place’s interior. The line became so popular it outgrew Liberty Street and moved to West Lombard Street. That terminal, with its popular lunchroom, was later demolished to make way for the downtown Holiday Inn and its revolving rooftop restaurant.

Sojourner Place at Park had its own restaurant too. It was a takeout, but what a takeout, the downtown component of the Harley Restaurants chain. It was a spot beloved by Baltimoreans who grew dependent on the Harley Original and its secret sauce.

Harley’s gets little respect these days. The chain disappeared more than 40 years ago, but the Park and Fayette version became a spinoff named Shane’s and even retained some of the Harley signage.

The person behind Harley’s was a character, the Dorchester County-born Harley Brinsfield, who, according to tradition, began at Lexington Market and opened a home base at Linden and McMechen in the 1940s. There’s a story about how he got the idea for a “submarine” sandwich while in the Merchant Marine. He smoked Tiparillo cigars and kept his money in cash in his pockets.

Harley’s shops were pure blue-collar Baltimore, favored by shift workers, night owls, cops and those who closed bars at 2 a.m.

His submarine sandwiches were all custom-made — and if you craved lunch meats, cheeses, H&S Bakery rolls and tangy sauce, this was your go-to destination. People loved Harley’s (there was a Harley burger too, with a pungent red sauce), and they were once all over Baltimore.

I was always fascinated by the Edmondson Avenue Harley’s, which occupied a Pennsylvania Railroad commuter train station. Passengers could pick up dinner on their way home from Washington, D.C.

Harley had another Baltimore presence. He bought the night slot on WBAL radio and broadcast his own nightly jazz program. Harley had a deep, husky voice that he used to improve the recorded jazz classics of the 1930s and 1940s. Some of his favorites were Sidney Bichet, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong. His theme song was a jaunty version of “Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay.”

Harley’s or Shane’s, at Fayette and Park, was a natural fit. A block from the old Trailways bus terminal and a block from the business district, it bridged a niche between two worlds, the gritty West Side and the “respectable” Charles Center.

Watch for the scaffolds to go up around Fayette and Park in the next few weeks. A groundbreaking ceremony is planned for December.

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Born in Baltimore and raised in Hamilton and Towson, he was the son of Arthur Leonard Pineau Sr., an Ocean City business owner, and his wife, Wanda. He spent his early summers on Lake Winnisquam in New Hampshire.

In 1963, when his father bought Ocean City’s Funcade Casino, he worked alongside him at the business. He sold tickets, repaired pinball machines and helped with prizes.

He was a McDonogh School graduate and excelled at sports, rode horses and was in the military school’s cavalry. He was a McDonogh color sergeant and joined the school’s board in the 1990s.

He attended Texas A&M University for two years but decided to change schools. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

“He talked his way into the program at Penn without having an undergraduate degree,” said his daughter, Jennifer Pineau Wilson. “He was proud of that.”

One Christmas Day, while working a shift at Penn Vet’s Trauma and Emergency Center, a British-born vet intern, Dr. Patricia Bradley, offered to make the students dinner. They married in 1976 — on Preakness Day — in Dereham, England, and returned to Baltimore aboard the QE2.

The couple took over ownership of Aardmore Veterinary Hospital on Loch Raven Road in the Waverly-Homestead neighborhoods. They worked together until her retirement last year. Dr. Pineau worked at the hospital until the day he died.

“Animals were deeply important to Lenny — but not more than their owners. He was so proud of the veterinary practice that he and Pat had built and loved talking to his numerous clients every day,” said his daughter, Jennifer. “The hospital has become a true institution in Baltimore. He had more than 5,000 clients.”

Dr. Pineau and his wife moved to Worthington Valley in 1981 and established Three Pines Farm. They bred, trained and raised thoroughbred horses. Among his winners were Ten Out of Ten, Purely Hot, TV Wizard and Jaxon Traveler.

Thoroughbred horse trainer Mary Eppler said, “He was a great veterinarian and a great horseman too. He was an astute businessman who did a wonderful job of raising his own horses.”

In a 1982 Sun story, he said, “You don’t wake up one morning and decide to stake your life savings on a racehorse. Suitable investors are those who know what they are doing and can afford to risk their funds.”

He also spent summers at Deep Creek Lake and time in Colorado, and he repurchased the Funcade Arcade in Ocean City.

“My father did not run it, but he went down every week in the summer to check on it. To him, it was a family legacy,” his daughter said.

Survivors include his wife of more than 49 years, Dr. Patricia Bradley Pineau; two daughters, Jennifer Pineau Wilson, of Owings Mills, and Katherine Bradley Pineau, of London; a son, Paul Pineau, of New York City; a sister, Linda Marano, of Fenwick Island, Delaware; and three grandsons.

A life celebration will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Nov. 6 at Three Pines Farm.

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After an internship at the University of Florida in Gainesville, he came to Baltimore for a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he initially trained as a gynecologist before pursuing cardiology.

While at Camp Seagull on the North Carolina coast, he met his future wife, Bonny Lynn Morgan. They married in 1956.

He became a fellow in cardiology at Hopkins and, in 1965, became chief of cardiology at the old Baltimore City Hospitals, now Bayview Medical Center. He and a colleague, Dr. Robert Fischell of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, collaborated to develop an early rechargeable pacemaker that used a lithium battery.

Dr. Lewis also taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was chair of the Department of Medicine at Franklin Square Hospital. In 1971, he and a colleague founded what became Chesapeake Cardiovascular Associates.

He retired from medicine in 2000 and became an advocate and lobbyist for marine fisheries conservation. He promoted science-based, sustainable management of Maryland’s marine resources.

He joined the Coastal Conservation Association of Maryland and chaired its Government Relations Committee. He was also active in the Maryland Saltwater Sportfishing Association’s Perry Hall chapter and the Oyster Advisory Commission.

In 2017, he wrote to The Baltimore Sun saying the Maryland Board of Public Works “should decline to issue a wetlands license to the Department of Natural Resources to dredge buried oyster shell from Man-O-War Shoal in Baltimore County. This is the last large shoal or reef composed of very old buried oyster shell in the upper Chesapeake Bay.”

“He spent many hours on the road to and from Annapolis to be present at legislative hearings, and he worked hard to educate legislators and the public about sustainable fisheries,” said his daughter, Lynn Lauerman.

He, along with Sun outdoors columnist Lefty Kreh, received the 2020 Maryland Sport Fisheries Achievement Award.

“He was a happy man when fly-fishing in rivers with his buddies or on the flats of Belize, or surf fishing on a North Carolina beach,” said his daughter.

Dr. Lewis was a murder mystery reader and Center Stage subscriber. He enjoyed dinners at Tio Pepe and was a student of the Spanish language. He was also a birder.

Survivors include a son, Ken Lewis Jr., of Seattle; a daughter, Lynn Lewis Lauerman, of San Diego; a sister, Lynda Sharpe, of Aiken, South Carolina; and four grandchildren. His wife of 67 years, Bonny Lynn Morgan Lewis, a former Hopkins genetics laboratory worker, died in 2024.

A memorial service was held Oct. 25 at Broadmead.

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