Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Roberta Marie OgdenHomemaker, Volunteer
Roberta Marie Ogden, 84, an Arlington homemaker and volunteer, died May 20 of brain cancer at Greenspring Village Retirement Community in Springfield, where she had lived since 2001.
Mrs. Ogden was born in Stratford, Iowa. She worked as a secretary in Des Moines before World War II and as a secretary at various military posts where her husband was stationed during the war. She lived in Iowa and Michigan before moving to Arlington in 1962.
She was a homemaker until her children were grown and then worked for 10 years as a kindergarten teacher's aide in Arlington public schools and as an aide at Marymount University.
A member of Little Falls Presbyterian Church in Arlington since 1962, she was a volunteer for Meals on Wheels, FISH (For Immediate Sympathetic Help) and the church's committee to resettle refugees from Southeast Asia. She also enjoyed music and performed with an Arlington singing group called the Choral Belles. In Mesa, Ariz., where she and her husband spent winters for 17 years, she played the violin in a concert orchestra. She and her husband traveled widely after his retirement.
Survivors include her husband of 63 years, Gene G. Ogden of Springfield; three children, Alan R. Ogden of Purcellville, Sylvia O. West of Herndon, Ky., and Eric R. Ogden of Seattle; a sister and stepsister; and four grandchildren.
William Marion Addington IIICoast Guard Officer, EngineerWilliam Marion "Trey" Adding-
ton III, 50, a former Coast Guard lieutenant who for the past eight years ran his own systems engineering firm, died of a cerebral hemorrhage May 15 at Providence Hospital.
Mr. Addington lived in Washington, where he founded and headed Alternate Source Production Products Inc. The firm worked on government contracts to design ships, including hydrofoil vessels that glide on water. He also worked on the development of a marine exploration robot called Platypus.
He was born in Orange County, Calif., and raised in San Diego. He bicycled across the country to start his studies at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., from which he graduated in 1977 with a degree in physical sciences.
He also obtained a master's degree in naval architecture and marine engineering from the University of California at Berkeley; a master's degree in systems engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; and a doctorate in computer science from Johns Hopkins University.
His Coast Guard assignments included service in San Diego aboard the medium endurance cutter USCG Reliant, engineering officer at the Coast Guard base in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and chief engineer on the medium endurance cutter USCG Venturous.
He then served three years on the staff of the Replacement Polar Icebreaker Project at the Coast Guard headquarters at Buzzards Point in Washington before resigning from the Coast Guard in 1987.
He was a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.
His hobbies included bicycling and playing darts. He was past president of the Washington Area Darts Association
Survivors include his mother, Nancy Addington of San Diego.
Morris LobelGovernment ClerkMorris Lobel, 84, a benefits claims clerk who worked 25 years for the Veterans Administration before retiring in 1976, died of pneumonia May 19 at Suburban Hospital. He lived in Adelphi.
Mr. Lobel, a Washington area resident for 56 years, was a native of New York.
He worked in the Civil Conservation Corps before entering the Navy during World War II and serving aboard a destroyer in the Pacific.
He later attended what is now Strayer University and volunteered at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville.
In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked evenings and weekends as a cashier at Drug Fair stores in Langley Park and Silver Spring.
Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Shirley B. Lobel, and two children, Leslie and Eileen R. Lobel, all of Adelphi; a sister, Helen Tobin of Arlington; and a brother, Joseph Lobel of New York.
Elva Noble ChaseHospital WorkerElva Noble Chase, 83, a native Washingtonian who retired from food procurement work at Glenn Dale Hospital when the facility closed in the early 1980s, died May 14 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., after a single-car accident that day.
A spokeswoman for the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said Mrs. Chase was a passenger in a car heading north on Interstate 85 near the Virginia state line. The driver lost control of the vehicle.
Mrs. Chase was a graduate of Cardozo High School and early in her career did secretarial work for the federal government. In the 1960s, she was transportation coordinator for D.C. General Hospital.
She was a member of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Washington, where she was involved in the prison ministry and missionary society.
A Hyattsville resident, she was visiting family in North Carolina at the time of her death.
Her marriage to Louis Queen ended in divorce. A daughter from that marriage, Beatrice Queen, died in 1955.
Her second husband, the Rev. Oliver M. Chase, a Christian Methodist Episcopal pastor, died in 1985.
Survivors include three children from her first marriage, Lionel Queen of Oxon Hill, Granville Queen of Richmond, Calif., and Francena Hodge of Pinole, Calif.; two children from her second marriage, Olivia A. Chase of Hyattsville and Maurice O. Chase of Washington; a grandson she raised, Anthony A. Leonard of Baltimore; 15 other grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
Caroline HodginCivic, Political ActivistCaroline Hodgin, 85, a longtime civic and political activist in Alexandria, died of pneumonia May 19 at Inova Alexandria Hospital. She was a resident of Goodwin House Alexandria, a retirement home.
Mrs. Hodgin was born in Schenectady, N.Y. She graduated cum laude from St. Lawrence University in 1940, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and she received her master's degree in English from the University of Rochester in 1941.
From 1941 until her marriage in 1948, she worked in New York City for the publication Progressive Grocer and for the Cooperative League of the United States, an educational organization for consumer cooperatives. She moved to the Washington area in 1948.
After working on educational films for AAA and the AFL-CIO, she devoted herself to child-rearing and volunteer work. She served as president of the Alexandria League of Women Voters in the early 1960s and as president of Senior Citizens Employment and Services in the early 1970s. She was a founding board member of the Alexandria Council on Human Relations and served on the state board.
Mrs. Hodgin was active in Democratic Party politics on local, state and national levels.
She also was a member of the board of the Alexandria Health and Welfare Council, the Alexandria Community Health Center, Northern Virginia Family Service, the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra and the Alexandria Housing and Hygiene Board.
In 1972, Mrs. Hodgin accompanied her husband to Jakarta, Indonesia. On her departure from Indonesia in 1974, she was presented with a certificate of appreciation from the Agency for International Development, which cited her "significant support and dedicated effort in working with the Indonesian community."
In recent years, she served as an election official, a volunteer driver for Goodwin House and a volunteer with Meals on Wheels.
Survivors include her husband of 56 years, Wilson Hodgin of Alexandria; and a son, Stephen Hodgin of Tyringham, Mass.
Caroline HodginCivic, Political ActivistCaroline Hodgin, 85, a longtime civic and political activist in Alexandria, died of pneumonia May 19 at Inova Alexandria Hospital. She was a resident of Goodwin House Alexandria, a retirement home.
Mrs. Hodgin was born in Schenectady, N.Y. She graduated cum laude from St. Lawrence University in 1940, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and she received her master's degree in English from the University of Rochester in 1941.
From 1941 until her marriage in 1948, she worked in New York City for the publication Progressive Grocer and for the Cooperative League of the United States, an educational organization for consumer cooperatives. She moved to the Washington area in 1948.
After working on educational films for AAA and the AFL-CIO, she devoted herself to child-rearing and volunteer work. She served as president of the Alexandria League of Women Voters in the early 1960s and as president of Senior Citizens Employment and Services in the early 1970s. She was a founding board member of the Alexandria Council on Human Relations and served on the state board.
Mrs. Hodgin was active in Democratic Party politics on local, state and national levels.
She also was a member of the board of the Alexandria Health and Welfare Council, the Alexandria Community Health Center, Northern Virginia Family Service, the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra and the Alexandria Housing and Hygiene Board.
In 1972, Mrs. Hodgin accompanied her husband to Jakarta, Indonesia. On her departure from Indonesia in 1974, she was presented with a certificate of appreciation from the Agency for International Development, which cited her "significant support and dedicated effort in working with the Indonesian community."
In recent years, she served as an election official, a volunteer driver for Goodwin House and a volunteer with Meals on Wheels.
Survivors include her husband of 56 years, Wilson Hodgin of Alexandria; and a son, Stephen Hodgin of Tyringham, Mass.