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Romaine Stec Somerville, an art historian and leader in historic preservation circles who later directed the former Maryland Historical Society, died of complications of a hip fracture Tuesday. She was a patient at the Gilchrist Center in Towson.

Romaine Stec Somerville, an art historian and leader in historic preservation circles who later directed the former Maryland Historical Society, died of complications of a hip fracture Tuesday. She was a patient at the Gilchrist Center in Towson.

Sona Karakashian Johnston, a retired Baltimore Museum of Art senior curator of painting and sculpture, died of dementia March 20 at Roland Park Place. She was 83.

Barbara P. Katz, a local philanthropist and the first woman to serve as president of what was then the Maryland Historical Society, died of congestive heart failure Feb. 1 at her Pikesville home. She was 88.

Mary Wanamaker “Minnie” Watriss, a painter, gardener and equestrian, died of a stroke Dec. 18 at Sinai Hospital. She was 89 and lived in Butler in Baltimore County and in coastal Maine.