Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Kathryn D. Halpern of Alexandria; and two children, Anne L. Halpern of Welcome, Md., and Michael W. Halpern of Frederick, Colo.
Phyllis T. Kaylor Aviation Official
Phyllis Toombs Kaylor, 88, a former secretary of the old Civil Aeronautics Board and chief of the Transportation Department's documentary services division, died March 7 at Washington Adventist Hospital after a fall. She lived in College Park.
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Mrs. Kaylor was the Civil Aeronautics Board secretary -- one of the top positions -- from 1976 to 1984. Her father, Fred A. Toombs, had retired as assistant secretary decades earlier.
After Congress enacted the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, the board gradually lost power, and its functions were subsumed by the Transportation Department in 1984. Mrs. Kaylor then worked for the department until her retirement in 1995.
She was born in New York and raised in Dunellen, N.J. She attended George Washington University.
She joined the old Civil Aeronautics Administration in 1941 and the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1947. While working on the board early on, she helped edit commercial-aviation accident reports.
She was a recipient of the board's Meritorious Service Award.
Her avocations included bridge.
Mrs. Kaylor's marriage to Lewis B. Kaylor ended in divorce.
Survivors include two sons, Richard Kaylor of Seabrook and Philip Kaylor of Burtonsville; and three grandchildren.
Gerard B. McCann Secret Service Official
Gerard B. McCann, 92, retired deputy assistant director of the U.S. Secret Service, died of complications from pneumonia Feb. 15 at his home in Kensington.
Mr. McCann worked 33 years for the Secret Service, beginning in 1936 as a clerk in his native Scranton, Pa. He later became a special agent and served on the White House detail during the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations.
In the late 1950s, he was the agent in charge of the Cincinnati field office. At the end of his career, he was responsible for inspecting field offices across the country.
In retirement, Mr. McCann worked for about six years in Washington as an inspector for American Express, investigating credit card fraud.
Mr. McCann was a graduate of the Scranton branch of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. He also attended the University of Scranton and a law school in St. Louis.
