Bella Flowers

Betty Sandler Feldman passed away in November1991. Mrs. Feldman, who was 83 and had lived on Clarks Lane, died of pneumonia at Sinai Hospital. The former Betty Sandler, a native of Baltimore, was a graduate of George Washington University and the Dale Carnegie Institute of Human Relations. She also had received an honorary degree from Life Bible College. Long active in the Bahai faith, she had been a member of the Spiritual Assembly of Baltimore. In her younger days, she performed at nursing homes and other institutions as a clown under the name Bella Flowers, and she took part in productions of Ages on Stages and the Northwest Senior Center Prime Time Players. She worked with talented speakers, singers and actors among prisoners and former prisoners, helping them through her promotion company, Hope Enterprises. Her husband, Samuel Feldman, died in 1945 while serving as an officer in the Army. In 1969, she had been nominated for a national award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for her work with the Wayward Sons. Her other honors included a 1981 Baltimore mayor's citation, the James Swartz Medallion and the WBAL Radio Brotherhood Award.