Obituaries

Ellis Anne Sinclair, 90, a volunteer, died May 26 at Arden Courts in Fairfax County, where she lived. She had Alzheimer's disease.

She was born in Paeonian Springs, in Loudoun County, and moved closer to Washington as a child. She graduated from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington and from Strayer College. She also attended George Washington University.

During World War II, she worked as a legal secretary for the Department of Labor. She lived in Denver from 1967 to 1977, where she worked as a preschool teacher. She then returned to the Washington area.

She volunteered with a home demonstration project affiliated with 4-H in Arlington, where she was also a Girl Scout leader. She enjoyed playing the piano, reading, traveling and gardening.

Her husband, Maurice Sinclair, died in 1979.

Survivors include four children, Karen Vassar of Vienna, Marcia McCoy of Waynesboro, Va., Tom Sinclair of Earlysville, Va., and Jon Mark Sinclair of Fort Collins, Colo.; and eight grandchildren.

Joseph Alan MacInnisMarine Colonel

Col. Joseph Alan MacInnis, 76, a retired Marine who served at the U.S. embassies in Copenhagen and Beirut, died of cancer May 19 at his home in Pensacola, Fla. He was a former resident of Alexandria and Annandale.

Col. MacInnis was born in Baltimore. After graduating from high school in Newport, R.I., in 1946, he attended the U.S. Naval Academy for three years before graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1951.

His 30 years of service with the Marines included attendance at the Command and Staff College at Quantico in 1964-65 and duties as an assistant naval attache at the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen from 1965 to 1968 and as a battalion commander in Vietnam in 1969-70. He was with the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon from 1972 to 1978 and was a naval attache at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1979-80. He retired in 1982.

From 1983 to 1988, he worked for the American Red Cross in Washington as a legal advocate for veterans. He was a longtime member of the New York Yacht Club and a founding member of the Hexagon Club, a Washington organization that puts on performances for charity.

His marriage to Jacklyn Giles MacInnis ended in divorce. His second wife, Col. Peggy MacInnis, died in 2000.

Survivors include his wife of one year, Elizabeth Jones MacInnis of Pensacola; two children from his first marriage, Jackson Alan MacInnis and Mary Kendall Brady, both of Alexandria; and four grandchildren.