Obituaries

Elizabeth 'Betty' DavisSecretary, Volunteer

Elizabeth "Betty" Doris Davis, 85, a former "government girl" and secretary, homemaker and volunteer, died July 11 of a heart attack at her home in Lusby.

Born in Hell's Kitchen in New York City, she was one of eight children of Irish immigrants. After her father died in an industrial accident in 1923, she grew up on Long Island. She was the first of her siblings to graduate from high school, after her older siblings dropped out of school to support the family.

During World War II, she worked for the War Department in New York. She met her future husband, Harold "Spike" Davis, at a roller rink when he was a member of the Army Air Forces stationed at La Guardia Field.

After marrying, they moved to Bridgeport, W.Va., and in 1962, the family moved to Suitland, where Mrs. Davis was active in her children's PTAs. She resumed her government career in 1965, working in data entry for the Census Bureau and later in the library at the Naval Oceanographic Office. She retired in 1978.

In 1979, Mrs. Davis and her husband moved to their home on Mill Creek in Lusby. She worked at the Chesapeake Ranch Water Co. as a secretary and bookkeeper in the early 1980s and served as the membership chairman of the Drum Point Property Owners association. She also volunteered at the new Calvert Marine Museum.

She was active in the Aqua Squares square dancing group, the Senior Bowling League of Prince Frederick and the Chesapeake Hills Golf League. She practiced yoga and water aerobics, and in her later years, she was an enthusiastic member of the Do Nothing Club, a group of ladies who lunch.

She delivered Meals on Wheels, did literacy tutoring and was a member of Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in Solomons.

Survivors include her husband of nearly 60 years, of Lusby; five children, Mary Kay Davis of Arlington, Pat Welsh of Bethesda, Joan Wisnieski of Waldorf, Anne Marie Davis of Alexandria and Rick Davis of Seattle; a brother; and seven grandchildren.

Nicholas Raphael Falco IIINetwork Engineer

Nicholas Raphael Falco III, 22, a network engineer working on contract with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, died July 24 at Prince George's Hospital Center from injuries received that day in a traffic accident on Bensville Road near Pomfret. He was a passenger in a car in which two other young men also were killed.

Mr. Falco was born in Clinton and grew up in La Plata. He was a 2001 graduate of La Plata High School. He was part of a carpentry team from his high school's vocational educational program that built a house.

He volunteered to clean up debris after a tornado hit Charles County in 2002. He also worked with Christmas in April, a national volunteer organization that preserves and repairs homes in poor neighborhoods.

Mr. Falco had worked off and on for several years with Ledo Pizza in La Plata. From 2003 to 2004, he was a network engineer with Morgan Franklin Corp. in Waldorf and assisted in preparations for the 2004 G-8 summit meeting in Georgia.