In 1972, she married her next-door neighbor, Malcolm S. Jones. They moved to Oakton and then to Port Richey, Fla. After his death in 1987, she joined a dance studio and began winning ballroom dance competitions.
She became ill and returned to Reston. In 1994, she moved to central Florida to live with her son.
Burton Lee Doggett received two Navy awards.
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Survivors include two children from her first marriage, George Christopher Botts of Oveido and Carolyn Elizabeth Birch of Reston.
Vera Hickman Church and Club Member
Vera Armstrong Hickman, 89, a member of the Chevy Chase ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where she taught youngsters, participated in plays and conducted speech classes and contests, died April 6 at her home in Washington. She had cardiorespiratory arrest.
Mrs. Hickman was born in Salt Lake City and settled in the Washington area in 1934. She did secretarial work for the Agriculture Department until the early 1940s.
She acted in church and community theater groups and was a member of the Chevy Chase Women's Club chorus, the Chevy Chase club of Toastmasters International and the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.
She did volunteer work for the old Florence Crittenton Home, a facility in Washington for unwed mothers, and she was formerly a docent at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and at the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building.
Her husband, Dr. Thorval L. Hickman, whom she married in 1935, died in 1978.
Survivors include five children, Vera Rienna Lynn of Reno, Nev., Rodney A. Hickman of Las Vegas, Martha Annena Hampton of Washington and Thorval L. Hickman Jr. and Kyrm L. Hickman, both of Columbia; 24 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
Burton Lee Doggett Aerospace Executive
Burton Lee Doggett Jr., 76, a retired aerospace and defense industry executive and a retired Navy lieutenant commander, died of a heart attack April 6 at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. A former longtime resident of Alexandria, he had lived in Annapolis for the past four years.
Mr. Doggett was born in Charlotte and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1951. He served aboard surface ships and submarines until he left the Navy in 1963 and began a 35-year career in the aerospace and defense industry.
He worked in the mid-to-late 1960s at two Washington area engineering companies, Dynamics Research Corp. and Aries Corp. He held executive positions with the IBM Federal Systems Division from 1969 to 1976 and Rockwell International Corp.'s Autonetics Marine Systems Division from 1976 to 1985.
Mr. Doggett then joined RCA's Aerospace and Defense Division. After RCA was acquired by General Electric Corp. in 1986, Mr. Doggett was appointed manager for Strategic Programs for GE Aerospace Marketing. He retired in 1993.
He was active in the Navy League and received the Navy Meritorious Public Service Award in 1988 and the Navy Superior Public Service Award in 1966.
