Obituaries

She settled in the Washington area in 1963 and started a program in D.C. public schools that offered work-based scholarships. It was modeled on a program she worked with in Ohio.

In retirement, she volunteered for Anne Arundel Medical Center and edited its quarterly newsletter. She moved to Mitchellville from Annapolis in the early 1990s.

A daughter, Catherine Welsh, died in 2002.

Survivors include her husband, the Rev. Clement W. Welsh of Mitchellville; three sons, David C. Welsh of Kansas City, Kan., Jeremy G. Welsh of Annapolis and Timothy W. Welsh of Washington; five grandchildren; and two great-granddaughters.

Larry HillWriter, Statistician

Walter Lawrence "Larry" Hill, 61, a statistician who had written for a variety of poker magazines since the mid-1980s and created computer programs to verify his studies of the game, died May 11 at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. He had cancer.

Mr. Hill was a native of Doylestown, Pa., and graduated in 1965 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with degrees in philosophy and mathematics.

He worked in the insurance and computing industries in Boston before settling in the Washington area in 1977 to do computing work for defense contractors. He was a Falls Church resident.

Survivors include his wife of 23 years, Barbara Yoon of Falls Church; his father, Walter Herbert Hill of Fairless Hills, Pa.; and two sisters, Cathie Morrison of Bel Air, Md., and Karen Mayer of Glenwood, N.J.