Obituaries

He was a member of the National Press Club and the U.S. Information Agency Alumni Association and was an amateur photographer. He and his wife, Vivian Logan, also traveled widely in Europe and Africa. She died in 2003.

He leaves no immediate survivors.

George Robert MohrmannComputer Programmer

George Robert Mohrmann, 44, a McLean business owner and computer programmer analyst, died July 24 of a head trauma after a boating accident on the Potomac River near Fredericksburg. He was a McLean resident.

Mr. Mohrmann dived off a boat in shallow water near Fairview Beach and did not resurface, an official with the King George County sheriff's office said. When friends pulled him out of the water, he was unconscious. He was declared dead at the scene.

Mr. Mohrmann ran his own company, GrabMor Technologies. He previously had worked for a number of technology companies.

Born in Frankfurt, Germany, he grew up in the Washington area, graduating from Mount Vernon High School in Alexandria and George Mason University. He served in the Army from 1981 to 1982, then returned to northern Virginia.

He enjoyed coaching soccer, baseball and basketball.

Survivors include his wife of 16 years, Terrie L. Mohrmann, and their two children, Taylor and Trent, all of McLean; his father, George F. Mohrmann of Fairfax County; his mother, Carole Ann Waters of Palm Harbor, Fla.; and two brothers, James W. Mohrmann of Winchester, Va., and Robert C. Mohrmann of St. Petersburg, Fla.

John F. "Jay" MullenWashington Post Copy Editor

John Francis "Jay" Mullen, 37, a copy editor in The Washington Post's sports department who also wrote a weekly column called "The Outside Line," died July 24 in a kayaking accident on the Tygart River in Marion County, W.Va.

Mr. Mullen, an Arlington resident, joined The Post in 1993 as an editor of the sports section's statistics page. Later, as a copy editor, he specialized in Olympic sports and was the lead copy editor on the newspaper's guide to the 2004 Games in Athens.

In his column last year, he wrote about his developing interest in kayaking: "I'd come out of a love-lost breakup and the clearest thing at the time was to get in my boat and thrash on the Potomac [River]. I was 34, had stopped drinking some years before, but still things did not feel right. The kayak did. John Updike once wrote that 'cars have become our contemplation cells, the place we can think without distraction.' The kayak, soon a series of them, became mine."

Mr. Mullen was born in Malden, Mass., and raised in Burlington, Mass., and Boxford, Mass. He rowed crew and played football in high school.