Francis Barretto Stewart Jr., 48

LAUREL - Francis Barretto Stewart Jr., passed away on Monday, Dec. 8, 2008, in Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. He was 48. He was born in Washington, D.C., a son of the late Francis B. Stewart Sr. and Susan Smith Stewart Friend. Mr. Stewart was the owner/operator of Barretto Financial Services in Laurel. He was a man of many talents and will be fondly remembered by his family as a loving uncle and brother. In addition to his parents, he is also preceded in death by his sister, Dr. Sarah S. Dykstra, whom passed in 2006. He is survived by his sister, Geraldine Wilson Stewart and Marvin Offutt, of Bowie; a step-brother, Thomas Friend and his wife Christina, of North Carolina; a step-sister, Patricia Alice Douglass and her husband Jamie, of Port Chester, N.Y.; a brother-in-law, Dr. John Dykstra, of Seaford; his step father, A. Thomas Friend, of Florida; his aunts and uncles, Edmund and Carolina Stewart, of Cambridge, Md., and Patrick and Elizabeth Smith, of New York City; and his nieces and nephews, Matthew Jonathan Dykstra, Nicholas Edward Dykstra, Sophia Anne Beth Dykstra, Sarah Grace Douglass, and Parker Elizabeth Douglass. A Memorial service will be 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008 at the Hannigan, Short, Disharoon Funeral Home, 700 West St., Laurel. The Pastor Thomas Gross will officiate. Burial will be held privately.