Relatives of slain 91-year-old woman recall family matriarch
Irene Logan’s murder leaves nearly thirty people without their matriarch. For three children, eight grandchildren and more than a dozen great-grandchildren, Logan was the family’s bedrock.
“She loved taking care of people,” Irene Ushry, Logan’s daughter, told The Sun's Steve Kilar on Thursday. Ushry found her 91-year-old mother, stabbed to death, on the floor of their small kitchen upon returning from work about 4:30 Wednesday afternoon.
Family members gathered outside the house as police investigated into the evening. Thursday afternoon, buckets of chicken and donuts waited on the table for family and friends who stopped by the home to grieve and share condolences.
Ushry said that she did not notice any signs of forced entry at the home in the 4700 block of Moravia Road. The first floor bedroom, though, had been rummaged through, she said.
The kitchen, where the woman’s body was found, is at the back of the house. An exterior door, off the driveway, opens into the white-tiled room.
A police spokesman said on Thursday that only “costume jewelry” had been taken from the home, and he confirmed there were no signs of forced entry.
Logan was born in Virginia but moved to Baltimore while she was a child, Ushry said. She was married for more than 50 years, until 1999 when her husband died.
Almost all of Logan’s family lives in Baltimore, Ushry said. Before moving to Baltimore’s eastside, Ushry said, her mother lived in West Baltimore and continued to regularly attend St. Ambrose Catholic Church Park Heights until her death.
“She was a very active, active woman,” Ushry said. “She loved to go to church, she loved dancing. She was very friendly.”
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I made a contrast and compare display of the homicide increase along Moravia Road between 2007 and now, using the Sun's Baltimore homicide map. It would be nice to get this area under control and safer. Click on my name to see the 5 maps that annotate all the homicide events.
Posted by: Cham | August 5, 2011 7:52 AM
This is despicable beyond words. I can't imagine that poor woman's last few minutes on Earth. Let's get this guy and put him down.
Posted by: anonymous | August 7, 2011 12:25 PM
Pete,
I cannot believe that you wrote about buckets of chicken and donuts being on the table. Your compatriot at the sun, Julie Scharper wrote almost the same sentence back in December. I would expect that from a reporter who does not work the crime beat. From a seasoned vet, I am surprised. I have never read where friends bought burritos or matzo balls or any other so called ethnic foods when someone dies. Please explain what purpose the sentence serves.
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First, Pete didn't write the article. Second, it's all about setting the scene. Indeed, if we visited a home and there were deli trays or pizzas, we would write that too. That's what they're doing, isn't it? -JF
Posted by: steve in seoul | August 8, 2011 11:36 AM
@steve in seoul,
They could have simply wrote: "Thursday afternoon, [food / a delectable spread / refreshments / any-synonym-for-food-without-being-explicit-as-to-what-was-being-served], waited on the table for family and friends who stopped by the home to grieve and share condolences."
There was no need to explicitly mention buckets of chicken and donuts. Nice try and defending their decision though.
Posted by: Give me a break! | August 10, 2011 5:09 PM
Who ever killed this 91 year old lady is not a human being, but beast. He/she deserves to be killed by the state or anyone who catchs him
Posted by: Mikal Muhammad | September 7, 2011 1:29 PM