Name: Visitation for MICHAEL JOSEPH ABROMAITIS
Start: 2023-07-17T18:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-17T20:00:00.000Z
Location: Mitchell - Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc.

On July 11, 2023 Michael Joseph Abromaitis beloved husband of Carol Nevin "SUE" Abromaitis; dear brother of Joseph C. Abromaitis (Margaret L. "Peggy", nee Lucas) and the late Joann M. Abromaitis; devoted brother-in-law of Leander S. "Bunny" Nevin and Richard Donald Nevin (Anne, nee Long). Also survived by loving niece Anne Abromaitis Bailey, nephew Mark Kasin Abromaitis and loving nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews and great-great nieces and nephews.

Friends may call at MITCHELL-WIEDEFELD FUNERAL HOME INC. 6500 York Rd. Balto., MD 21212 on Monday, July 17th from 2-4 and 7-9 PM. A Funeral Mass will be offered at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen 5200 N. Charles St. Balto., MD 21210 on Tuesday, July 18th at 11:00 AM. Livestream available at https://www.utube.com/cathedralofmary. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. Please omit flowers. Memorials in his name may be made to Loyola High School or Loyola University. www.mwfuneralhome.com

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Published by Baltimore Sun on Jul. 13, 2023.

Memories and Condolences
for MICHAEL ABROMAITIS

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Lori Del Genis

July 23, 2023

Sending my deepest condolences to Sue Abromaitis and her family. 'Dr. Abro' was by far my favourite professor at Loyola, as evidenced by the number of her classes I took! When she would talk about Mike, her face would become radiant and her smile would light the room. We all knew that Mike had to be a very special person to make Dr. Abromaitis so happy. May his memory forever be a Blessing.

Karyn Cook Gill

July 18, 2023

Dr. & Mrs. George Gill (Karyn Cook) send their condolences to Sue & family.

Kimberly Osiecki Aller

July 17, 2023

I worked with "Abro" for several years. I was "just" a paralegal, but he answered any question I had, explained the reason for any work we did, and perhaps best of all, always had a story or joke to brighten the day (usually about sports). He was a wonderful person. My sincere condolences to his family and loved ones.

John A. Lombardi

July 16, 2023

My late wife, Betsy Caulfield Lombardi ( died 2012) did a great deal of work at the Pregnancy Center North in the 1990s and early 2000s. Two of her favorites were Dr. Sue Abromaitis and Sharon Booth, whom she held in very high regard.
My late father needed to revise his will, and at Betsy's suggestion, I contacted Mike at Wright, Constable, and Skeen, who happily set a meeting. Because the estate had some rather complex issues, Counselor Mike patiently explained each detail to my father and me. His quick smile and his professionalism were the best my Dad and I ever experienced.
Mike was glad to learn I was a graduate of both Loyola Blakefield High School ( 1973), and Loyola College ( 1978), and I called him for assistance on two different business matters.

Maryland has lost a wonderful Catholic man, who not only was a brilliant attorney, but an outstanding human being. Dr. Abromaitis and family, I extend my deepest sympathies.
Eternal Rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let Perpetual Light shine upon him.

John A. Lombardi

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Michael Craig Hillmann

July 13, 2023

The last time I saw Mike Abromaitis was nine or ten years ago at a carefree dinner at a Towson restaurant. He and Sue, George and Cathie Meredith, Dick Moore, Don and Mary D´Ambrogi, George Shehan and soulmate Lynda Meade, and Sorayya and I seemed at points during the evening to all be talking and smiling at the same time. Don, George S., Dick, and now Mike are no longer with us.
As a fellow member of the Class of 1958 at Loyola Blakefield High School and the Class of 1962 at Loyola College (now Loyola University Maryland), Mike Abromaitis struck me as an ideal student athlete, bright, serious, personable, and mature. Leaving Baltimore for good after college graduation, from a distance I followed Mike´s success at the University of Maryland and Georgetown University´s Law Schools, his service in the U.S. Army Rangers, and his successful career in the law, and active participation in Baltimore cultural affairs. Especially interesting for me was his later return to school for a Master of Liberal Arts degree at Johns Hopkins University (1991).
Over the years, I´ve returned to Baltimore to see family and to attend elementary, high school and college reunions. On one visit, Mike and Sue arranged for me to give a talk on Persian art at The College. On another, he and I played tennis doubles at Cross Keys. Mike and I also had a chance to chat at Loyola Blakefield´s 50th in 2008. In 2010, my brother Jim hosted a dinner party at his condo at Bolton Place, the guest list: Mike, the two Georges, and Hammie Dugan, briefly back from China. Mike and I talked religion an hour or more that night. Our Loyola Evergreen´s 50th Reunion in 1962 was especially joyful for Mike because it took place right after Loyola´s NCAA championship in lacrosse, Mike a star for the Greyhounds in earlier lean years. In the fifteen or so years, Mike and I exchanged a score of e-messages on a many subjects, from 19th-century English poetry to the concept of art appreciation, from the history and current state of Islam to Teilhard de Chardin, from Edward Said´s Orientalism to the Iranian theocracy, and from Shakespeare to Jacques Derrida.
On almost all issues, including American politics, one of us two Mikes a conservative and the other a liberal, we agreed to disagree. But the telling aspect of our disagreements was that Mike was better read in his take on subjects than I on mine. Mike Abromaitis was a Renaissance man who could talk knowledgeably about the Ardabil Shrine Carpet (1539/1540) in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Houghton Manuscript of Ferdowsi´s Shahnameh (1010), the Taj Mahal (1643-1653), traveling in Europe, the law, politics, and Tom Clancey.
I last heard from Mike in early January of this year in an e-reply to a page of college reminiscences I had sent him. In it he reminisced about his father´s attendance at Loyola High and College and about a Bolton Hill family of mutual acquaintances. He concluded with this anecdote: "...sometime in the not-so-distant past, Sue and I were in New York at a dinner club, The Oak Room, in the Algonquin Hotel (not The Plaza, but the old home of the Round Table featuring Dorothy Parker: "If all the girls who attended the Yale dance promenade were laid end to end no one would be surprised," "Men never make passes at girls who wear glasses.") The Oak Room is a long narrow room with seating on banquettes along the long wall and the performers in the center of the other long wall. The main attraction was a jazz pianist, Barbara Carroll, remarkable for her dexterity as a septuagenarian. Her only accompanist was our old child prodigy classmate Jay Leonhart. Sue and I were seated along the wall across from the small central stage. Midway in the performance, as is the custom, Barbara paused to thank those of her friends from Broadway and TV who had come to support her. Among the names was that of Barbara Walters who was sitting right next to me for the first hour. I did not recognize her since I only glanced at the right side of her face. After the show Jay, Sue and I had a nice chat in the Algonquin bar. Over the years Sue and I have seen Jay perform in various venues: Birdland, Bemelmans Bar in the Carlyle Hotel with his own Trio, and several other jazz clubs whose names I cannot remember. Jay has always been the gracious host as we have recalled old Loyola High friends." The anecdote reminds me that I forgot to mention that Mike can write up a storm!
Others will memorialize Mike´s attachment to family, probity, generosity, life of faith, professional achievements, and Mike as a quintessential nice guy. These paragraphs of mine a limited glance at his personality by someone who did not have the good fortune to spend much time in Mike´s company during the past 60 years.
Sorayya and I offer our condolences to Sue and other members of the Abromaitis family.

Jim Browne

July 13, 2023

Sue, I would like to express my deepest sympathies to you and your entire family on the passing of Mike. He and I were in the class of '58 at Loyola High School and class of '62 at Loyola College. Although our paths crossed slightly after school days, we had a lot of contact from '58 through '62. Although he fancied himself as an athlete, he was far better as a student. A genuine friend.

Carl Yannuzzi

July 13, 2023

We are sorry to hear of the death of Michael, he helped my wife and I as he created our will many years ago.We have had brief but very pleasant contact with him over the years. Mike was always been most kind with us and we pray that he now enjoys rest with our eternal Savior Jesus Christ in Heaven.

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