Legal Aide N. Elizabeth Ollennu, 80

Nannie Elizabeth Roane Ollennu, 80, a legal assistant and paralegal who worked for the landlord-tenant division of the D.C. Legal Aid Society from 1983 to 1987, died April 12 at the Washington Hospital Center after a stroke.

Ms. Ollennu, who lived in Oxon Hill, was a native of Richmond and a graduate of Virginia State College. She received a law degree from Howard University in 1947.

In the 1960s, she lived in Germany with her three children and her then-husband, Nii Amaa Ollennu, a doctor whom she met at Howard.

While primarily a homemaker in Germany, she did some work as a special administrative assistant in the contracts division of General Electric and Mainz-Kastel.

She then spent about three years in Ghana, where she worked for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, a community-based job skills training center, before returning to the Richmond area in 1975.

She continued her affiliation with the center, teaching business courses at the nonprofit organization's Richmond office.

In 1981, Ms. Ollennu moved to Washington, where for the next three years she held temporary administrative positions for D.C. government agencies, including the Office of Property Taxes.

After working for the D.C. Legal Aid Society for five years, she worked about three years as a part-time paralegal, legal assistant and legal secretary for Bruckner & Bruckner and other Washington area law firms.

She also was active in the prison ministry at what is now Integrity Church International, a nondenominational full-gospel church in Mount Rainier.

Her marriage to Nii Amaa Ollennu ended in divorce.

Survivors include three children, Nii "Koi" Ollennu of Mitchellville, Amerley Ollennu of Washington and Amokor OllennuKing of Lee's Summit, Mo.; a brother; and two grandchildren.