Mary Teresa Lau, 68, an office manager who was also a professionalhula dancer, died of lung cancer Oct. 11 at Montgomery GeneralHospital in Olney.
Born in Hawaii, she moved to New Jersey as a child and attendedColumbia University teacher's college in New York. In 1958, she movedto Arlington and opened a laundry business, Terry's Laundry, whichshe operated for eight years.
She moved to Rockville in 1966 and became office manager for ArborLandscapers Inc. for 34 years until her retirement.
Under the name 'Kalena,' she performed professionally throughouther life as a hula and Tahitian dancer. She entertained audiences atFort Myer and Andrews Air Force Base and the Aloha Inn inGaithersburg. With musical accompaniment from the Sons of Hawaii, shealso danced at area country clubs.
She taught the hula from her home during the 1970s.
She was a former treasurer of the Hawaii State Society ofWashington and a volunteer with the society's luaus, hukilaus (afishing tradition) and other events associated with the Hawaiiandelegation on Capitol Hill from the late 1960s until recent years.
In the 1960s, she was active with the Chinese American YouthOrganization in Washington's Chinatown. She was a majorette with theChinese-American Drum and Fife Corps in the late 1950s and a runner-up in a Miss Chinatown pageant.
She was an accomplished seamstress and costume designer ofHawaiian production attire. She enjoyed gourmet cooking and tai chi.
Her marriage to Grant Lau ended in divorce.
Survivors include a son, Bob Lau of Las Vegas; four brothers,Edward Lee of Maui, Hawaii, Tom Lee of Ossining, N.Y., James Lee ofSan Lorenzo, Calif., and Richard Lee of Leonia, N.J.; and fivesisters, Christina Lee of Sunny Isles, Fla., Tricia Sonneman of NewYork, Eileen Vaughan of Springfield, Linda Kress of San Francisco andElizabeth Rosenblatt of Tampa.
Frank Douglass Morrisson, 70, a retired electrical engineer whoplayed on the 1954 George Washington University basketball team thatwas ranked No. 3 in the nation, died of lung cancer Oct. 11 at hishome in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.
Mr. Morrisson, a former Vienna, Alexandria and Herndon resident,worked for about a half-dozen defense contractors during a 30-yearcareer as an electrical engineer. He spent the past 10 years with theMelpar division of E Systems in Falls Church before retiring in 1991.
He also was a local sports hero during his years at GeorgeWashington. A native of Reading, Pa., he was a standout at highschool baseball and basketball who received a basketball scholarshipto George Washington.
At 6 feet 5 inches tall and rangy, he was known for his free-throw accuracy and hustle. He played alongside brothers Joe and JohnHolup on the Colonial team that won the 1953-54 Southern ConferenceChampionship.
After serving in the Army and graduating with a degree in businessadministration, Mr. Morrisson attended the Capital Radio EngineeringInstitute in Washington.
He was a member of the International Town & Country Club inChantilly, the Eastern Shore Yacht and Country Club and the OceanRidge (N.C.) Plantation, where he was the men's golf champion in 1998and 1999.
He lived in North Carolina for the past six years.
Survivors include his wife of 45 years, Fay Callaway Morrisson ofOcean Isle Beach; two daughters, Colleen Morrisson Sharpe of WakeForest, N.C., and Patricia Morrisson Pillotte of Grafton, Mass.; andthree grandchildren.
Raymond T. McDonald, 73, a Navy captain who in retirement wasfacilities manager for General Electric in the construction of theCentral Intelligence Agency's headquarters building at Langley, diedof lung cancer Oct. 14 at his home in Virginia Beach.
Capt. McDonald served in the Navy from 1952 to 1979. He wasemployed by GE for about 10 years after his Navy retirement. A formerresident of Fairfax, he moved to Virginia Beach in the early 1990s.
He was born in Chicago and graduated from Northern IllinoisUniversity.
His Navy career included service as senior Navy liaison to theSouth Vietnamese Naval Academy during the Vietnam War.
His military decorations include the Legion of Merit, theMeritorious Service Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal.
He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and St. Mary's CatholicChurch in Fairfax.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Oliger McDonald of VirginiaBeach; four children, Thomas, of Colorado Springs, Tad, ofAlexandria, Malia Meng of Chesapeake, Va., and Michaela Iiames ofRaleigh, N.C.; a sister; and nine grandchildren.
Louise Hamel Reichley, 88, a former clerk at a public library inChevy Chase, died Oct. 2 at Powhatan Nursing Home in Falls Church.She had dementia.
Mrs. Reichley worked at the Little Falls Public Library for about10 years until 1976. In Chevy Chase, where she lived from the 1940sto the early 1970s, she volunteered with the Girl Scouts and servedas a member of parent-teacher associations.
She then lived in Arlington for more than 25 years until 1999,when she moved to the nursing home.
Mrs. Reichley was a native of Worcester, Mass., and a graduate ofwhat is now Framingham State College. In her youth, she was active inthe Girl Scouts and received its Golden Eaglet award.
Her husband, Dr. Marlin S. Reichley, died in 1999 after 57 yearsof marriage.
Survivors include four children, Susanne Rohrer of Dunkirk, JoanScott of Golden, Colo., Nancy St. Pierre of Burke and Marlin ReichleyJr. of Deale; two brothers; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Badrig M. 'Jeff' Kurkjian, 84, a former Army Departmentmathematician, died of cancer Oct. 13 at Shady Grove AdventistHospital.
For 14 years after retiring from the Department of the Army in1976, Dr. Kurkjian was a mathematics professor at the University ofAlabama.
He retired from the university in 1990 and returned to theWashington area. At the time of his death, he was living inDarnestown.
He was born in Watertown, Mass., and graduated from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology. He served in the Army duringWorld War II.
After the war, he came to Washington as an Army Departmentmathematician. He received a master's degree in mathematics fromGeorge Washington University and a doctorate in mathematics fromAmerican University. His career included duty as chief mathematicianfor the Army Materiel Command.
He was a fellow with the American Statistical Association and co-author and contributor to several books on mathematics.
While working for the Department of the Army, he taught at GeorgeWashington University and the University of Maryland.
Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Joyce Kurkjian ofDarnestown; three children, Andy, of Sugarland, Tex., and Matt andTim, both of Darnestown; a sister; and six grandchildren.
William Jacob Jackson Jr., 92, a World War II and Korean Warveteran who retired in 1974 after nearly 20 years as a cryptologistand communications analyst for the National Security Agency, diedOct. 9 at his home in Laurel. He had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Mr. Jackson, who had lived in the Washington area since 1955, wasa native of Hoboken, N.J., and a 1931 graduate of what was thenMontclair (N.J.) Teachers College.
He taught at a high school in Mount Holly, N.J. before enteringthe Army during World War II. He later was recalled to active dutyand served in Korea during the war there.
He retired from the Army Reserve in 1971 as a lieutenant colonel.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Ann Lee Jackson of Laurel;and a daughter, Elizabeth J. Berman of Durham, N.C.
A son, William J. Jackson III, died in 1972.
Paul J. Creamer, 73, a retired deputy chief inspector with theDrug Enforcement Agency, died Oct. 13 at Washington AdventistHospital of complications following heart bypass surgery.
After retiring from the DEA in 1980, Mr. Creamer was a volunteerfor 20 years with a therapeutic horseback-riding program to help thementally and physically disabled.
Mr. Creamer was born in Washington and later lived in Rockville.For the past 16 years, he had lived in Urbana.
He attended Gonzaga and McKinley high schools and graduated fromGeorge Washington University. He joined the FBI in 1953 and servedwith the bureau for six years, including duty as a special agent inthe San Francisco and Baltimore offices.
For 21 years, he was employed at the DEA and its predecessororganizations.
A horseback-riding enthusiast, Mr. Creamer was active with theFrederick County 4-H's riding program for the disabled and was amember of its board of directors.
He also was a member of the St. Ignatius Council of the Knights ofColumbus in Ijamsville and the Society of Former Agents of the FBI.
His avocations included genealogy. He spent considerable time inIreland researching family history.
Survivors include his wife, Kathryn, of Urbana; three children,Katie Dunn and Paul Creamer Jr. of Rockville, and Tom Creamer ofGaithersburg; two brothers, John J. and Joseph P. Creamer, and asister, Helene Flanagan, all of Rockville; and five grandchildren.
George Gilbert Cornwell Jr., 90, who spent 27 years in the Navybuilding bases and later worked for a home builder, died Oct. 13 athis home in Alexandria of heart disease.
Mr. Cornwell was born in Washington and attended Western HighSchool and Sidwell Friends School. He earned a civil engineeringdegree from New York's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1936. Hethen worked as an insurance verifier for Aetna Casualty Insurance.
Mr. Cornwell entered the Navy in 1942 and was assigned to a navalconstruction battalion, which built bases in the continental UnitedStates, Hawaii, London and Morocco. He retired in 1969 in Washingtonas a commander. He then worked as a project manager for River ParkMutual Homes in Washington for 10 years.
After his second retirement, he volunteered at St. Paul'sEpiscopal Church in Alexandria, the church's homeless shelter, theCarpenter's Shelter, the Historic Alexandria Association and theTaylor Run Citizens Association.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Edith Strider Cornwell ofAlexandria; three children, Janet Cornwell Gale of McLean, GeorgeGilbert Cornwell III of Newport News and Alice Cornwell Straus ofGambier, Ohio; a brother; and two grandchildren.
Kathryn Monroe, 80, an announcer and hostess for the Voice ofAmerica's English division for about 20 years, died Oct. 12 atFairfax Nursing Center, where she lived since 2001. She hadAlzheimer's disease.
Mrs. Monroe was a native of Madison, Minn., and a communicationsgraduate of the University of Minnesota.
In the late 1940s, she worked at radio stations in Alabama. From1950 to 1952, using her maiden name, Kay Dale, she was a hostess forthe Armed Forces Radio Network's Far East division, broadcasting toKorea from Tokyo.
As Kathryn Gallant, she wrote three published children's books:'Mountains in the Sea: Japan's Crowded Islands' (1957), 'JonathanPlays With the Wind' (1958) and 'The Flute Player of Beppu' (1960),
In 1964, she was employed by the U.S. Information Agency's Voiceof America to broadcast news and information programs over shortwaveradio throughout the world. One of her long-term assignments wasteaching English to foreign listeners by reading slowly and usingelemental words and phrases. At her 1983 retirement, she was therecipient of a U.S.I.A. commendation of excellence in broadcasting.
Her marriage to Roy Gallant ended in divorce.
Survivors include her husband of 30 years, Harry W. Monroe ofFairfax; two sons from her first marriage, Jonathan Gallant ofCheshire, Conn., and James Gallant of Poulsbo, Wash.; a brother; twosisters; and four grandchildren.
The Rev. Richard Harold Humphrey, 65, a retired Episcopal priestwho from 1993 to 1997 was rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church inCroom, died of prostate cancer Oct. 13 at his home in Upper Marlboro.
The Rev. Humphrey was born in East Orange, N.J., and graduatedfrom Monmouth University. He received a master's degree in divinityfrom The Philadelphia Divinity School.
He began his ministry in two small mission churches in Sewaren andCarteret, N.J., then served as rector of churches in Pawtucket andProvidence, R.I., and in Oxford, N.Y., before he became rector at St.Thomas.
He was a Master Mason and a member of the York Rite. He was also arailroad enthusiast and a participant in Civil War battlereenactments.
Survivors include his wife, Carole, of Upper Marlboro; two sons,Michael, of Norwich, N.Y., and Peter, of Upper Marlboro; and agranddaughter.
M. Bradley Wigle, 47, a textile designer and craftsman who madecurtains, pillows, cushions and clothing, died of cancer Oct. 11 atJohns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Mr. Wigle, a resident of Middletown, was born in Olney and grew upin Gaithersburg. He was a 1974 graduate of Gaithersburg High School.As a teenager, he was active in 4-H and bred and showed dairy goats.He was an exhibitor at the Montgomery County Fair. He also bred andraised French bulldogs.
After high school, he became a weaver and started his ownbusiness, the Fiber Connection. He designed original clothing, usingcloth he had woven.
In the 1990s, Mr. Wigle began making curtains and other softfurnishings with Rhosymedre Design Group.
His marriage to Theresa Brown ended in divorce.
A daughter, Domini, died in 1998.
Survivors include a daughter, Tenni E. Wigle of Keymar, Md.; hisfather, Daryl. L. Wigle of Hagerstown; and two brothers, Jeffrey S.,of Gaithersburg, and Gregory C.A., of Frederick.
Ruth Ann Holzmueller Chancellor Mahood, 86, a former president ofa fundraising group for what is now Inova Alexandria Hospital, diedOct. 14 at the hospital. She had lung cancer.
Mrs. Mahood was president of the group, called Twig, in 1954 andremained a member for years. She also was a member of the EpiscopalImmanuel-Church-on-the-Hill in Alexandria.
She was a resident of Goodwin House in Alexandria, where sheserved on the hospitality committee, and had a second home inRehoboth Beach, Del.
She was a native of Milford, Del., and a 1940 psychology graduateof the College of William and Mary.
She was married to Lorman Opie Chancellor from 1942 until hisdeath in 1959. Her second husband, William Thomas Mahood, whom shemarried in 1965, died in 1997.
Survivors include a daughter from her first marriage, DonnanChancellor Wintermute of Alexandria; three stepchildren, RebeccaElizabeth Mahood of Alexandria, William Thomas Mahood Jr. of SanRafael, Calif., and Willard Mahood of Bronxville, N.Y.; a sister; andseven grandchildren.
John Lloyd Ford, 88, a retired program coordinator for the U.S.Weather Bureau who developed and repaired instruments on weatherballoons, died Oct. 1 at Goodwin House West in Falls Church. He hadan aneurysm.
Mr. Ford worked about 37 years for the Weather Bureau beforeretiring in the late 1970s as a program coordinator in the instrumentdivision. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for takingweather measurements at an airport in St. Louis and aboard CoastGuard ships.
He was born in Gatun in the Panama Canal Zone, where his fatherworked as a quartermaster. Mr. Ford graduated from what is nowNorthwest Missouri State University and received a master's degree inmathematics from Ohio State University.
He served in the Naval Reserve during World War II.
Mr. Ford, who lived at the retirement home for the past fouryears, previously resided in Fairfax and Alexandria.
He was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Alexandriaand past president of the Department of Commerce Federal CreditUnion.
Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth L. Ford of Falls Church;four children, Stanley R., of Phoenix, Robert W., of Covington, Va.,John W., of Richmond and James L., of Bellevue, Wash.; and threegrandchildren.
Henriene Topps Martin, 79, a science teacher in Washingtonelementary and middle schools from the mid-1950s to 1986, died Oct.10 at her home in Washington. She had breast cancer.
Mrs. Martin worked longest at LaSalle Elementary, where she taughtfrom the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. She also worked at Marie ReedElementary and Kramer Junior High before retiring from Deal JuniorHigh after about two years there.
In retirement, she did volunteer work at Shepherd ElementarySchool in Washington.
She was elected to the D.C. Teachers Union hall of fame.
She was born in Birmingham, Ala., and raised in Greenwood, Miss.She was a 1946 summa cum laude graduate of Tougaloo College inMississippi and received a master's degree in education from HowardUniversity.
She did secretarial work at the Naval Research Lab before startingher teaching career.
She was a Smithsonian Institution resident associate and a docentat the National Museum of American History.
She was a former vice president of the Tougaloo alumni chapter inWashington. During her college days, noted artist Hale Woodruff cameto visit and painted her portrait, which hangs at the school.
Her memberships included Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the UnitedNegro College Fund Council and Peoples Congregational United Churchof Christ, where she was a member of the chancel choir and severalcommittees.
She participated in protests for civil rights and against theapartheid-era government in South Africa.
Survivors include her husband of 52 years, Willis J. Martin II ofWashington; three children, Lynn Martin of New York City and WillisMartin III and Angela Joy Martin, both of Washington; a sister,Ethylene Lewis of Silver Spring; and two grandchildren.
Eustace Arthur Vanderpool, 68, an associate professor in theCollege of Medicine at Howard University, died of cancer Oct. 13 atHoward University Hospital.
Dr. Vanderpool, a resident of Silver Spring, was born in Nassau,Bahamas. He settled in the Washington area in 1957 and latergraduated from Howard University, where he received a doctorate inmicrobiology.
He was on the Howard faculty for his entire professional career,and his teaching specialties included electron microscopy,immunology, bacterial structure and virology. He led the revision ofthe microbiology curriculum for the College of Dentistry, and hetrained and mentored PhD graduate students in the department ofmicrobiology.
His marriage to Sylvia Vanderpool Fletcher ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife, Andrea T. Vanderpool of Silver Spring;their daughter, Susan Vanderpool of Washington; two children of hisfirst marriage, Shelly Vanderpool Jackson of Clinton and Scot-ErikVanderpool of Chicago; a stepson, Earl Jeffers of Dallas; fourbrothers; four sisters; and five grandchildren.
Barbara Frass Varon, 63, a longtime Democratic Party activist whofor the last three years served on the Fairfax County electoralboard, including terms as chairman and vice chairman, died of cancerOct. 12 at Inova Fairfax Hospital.
Mrs. Varon, who was fluent in German, worked as a freelance editorand translator in Fairfax, where she lived for more than 30 years.
She was a native of Germany who immigrated to the United States in1959. She attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned abachelor's degree in history and a master's in sociology.
Survivors include her husband of 41 years, Bension Varon ofFairfax; and two children, Elizabeth Varon of Ashland, Mass., andJeremy Varon of Jersey City.
Katharine Lease Spring, 80, a Kensington resident and member ofTrinity Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, died at Shady GroveAdventist Hospital in Rockville. She had congestive heart failure.
At Trinity, Mrs. Spring was a Sunday school teacher, chairwoman ofthe flower guild, president of the women's association, deacon and anelder.
She was a native Washingtonian and a graduate of Roosevelt HighSchool.
She was a board member of the Ingleside Presbyterian Home inWashington and a former member of the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase.
Her hobbies included baking pies, cakes and cookies.
Her husband, Charles B. Spring Jr., whom she married in 1943, diedin 1995.
Survivors include two children, Carolyn S. Gurtz and H. CharlesSpring, both of Gaithersburg; four grandsons; and five great-grandchildren.
