Col. Inskeep lived in Rockville from 1986 to 2003. At the time of his death, he was director of pathology at Merck Research Laboratories in West Point, Pa.
Survivors include his wife of 32 years, Betty Sites Inskeep of Ambler; and a sister, Susan Inskeep Gray of Burke.
Golden L. WilliamsAir Force Officer, NSA Analyst
Golden L. Williams, 88, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and a former analyst with the National Security Agency, died of pneumonia July 18 at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. He was a Bowie resident.
Col. Williams -- known to friends as "Bill" or "Goldie" -- was born in Marysvale, Utah, and grew up on a small farm. Graduating from high school in nearby Ridgefield in the midst of the Depression, he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and then held a variety of jobs throughout the 1930s, including working as a salad chef at Grand Canyon National Park and on various railroads throughout the West. He was working as a "powder monkey," tamping dynamite charges into holes at a copper mine in Utah, when he decided to enlist in the Army Air Forces in 1942.
He trained as an aircraft engine mechanic, became an instructor and worked in England refurbishing battle-damaged aircraft. He helped prepare and modify many of the aircraft used on D-Day. He also assisted Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, the man who invented high-speed stroboscopic photography. Col. Williams helped with installing the first photo strobe lights on reconnaissance aircraft.
He graduated from Officer Candidate School and was assigned to the occupation forces in Germany. After the war, he was transferred to military intelligence. He was posted to bases in Japan and the United States, including Fort Meade in 1959, where he was assigned to the National Security Agency. He retired from the Air Force in 1962 but continued working at NSA as a civilian Defense Department research analyst until his second retirement in 1972.
In retirement, he worked for a few years at the University of Maryland Research Farm and, true to his rural roots, learned plant propagation and pruning techniques. His jams and jellies won numerous ribbons for the farm, and his family got to enjoy some of his concoctions, including strawberry-rhubarb jam.
Col. Williams was an outdoorsman who particularly enjoyed fishing and deer hunting. He served as an assistant scoutmaster of the original Boy Scout Troop 370 in Bowie and was a member of the Order of the Arrow.
He enjoyed watching baseball and basketball and was a faithful Redskins fan. He also played guitar and banjo with local bands that played old-time music, and he enjoyed mystery writers Dick Francis and Tony Hillerman, as well as western writer Zane Grey. His great uncle had been a friend of Grey's.
Col. Williams's wife, Guiomar Nunes Williams, died in 1997.
Survivors include a daughter, Gaye Williams of Bowie, and two sons, Craig Williams of Silver Spring and Alan Williams of Bowie.
Thomas Edward DoranProject Engineer
Thomas Edward Doran, 85, a retired project engineer for the Austin Co., died of congestive heart failure July 24 at Capital Hospice in Arlington. He was a resident of Falls Church.
Mr. Doran was born in Chicago and graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He enlisted in the Navy during World War II and served as a training officer aboard a destroyer escort in the Pacific, taking part in the Solomon Islands, Tarawa, Peleliu and Saipan campaigns. He later served in Detroit, overseeing the disposal of surplus war materiel.
He returned to Chicago and then moved to the suburb of LaGrange, where he served on the school board. He worked for several firms before joining the Austin Co., an international architectural, engineering and construction firm. As a project manager, he worked all over the country and opened the firm's office in Japan in 1972.
In 1978, he moved to Northern Virginia. He retired from the Austin Co. in 1987. Mr. Doran helped organize a homeowners association and was a member of the Falls Church Housing Corp.'s Winter Hill board, its recycling committee and senior commission as well as the League of Women Voters and the Falls Church Military History Forum.
Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Doris Doran of Falls Church; three children, Pam Doran and Kathy Doran, both of Falls Church, and Ed "Bud" Doran of Bethesda; and six grandchildren.
