Obituaries

Mr. Redfield had a 25-year career with the FBI, including earlier assignments in the Philadelphia and Washington field offices.

He was a native New Yorker and a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., where as a Marine he served in the World War II V-12 program.

He was a law school student in New York after the war when he was recruited by the FBI. A short time later, though, he was recalled to active military duty during the Korean War.

After his honorable discharge as a Marine Corps first lieutenant in 1952, he rejoined the FBI.

He was a member of the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Franklin & Marshall College Alumni Association and St. John's Catholic Church in McLean.

His wife of 52 years, Elizabeth C. Redfield, died in 2000.

Survivors include two sons, James W. Redfield Jr. of Arlington and Ronald Redfield of Lutz, Fla.; three grandchildren and a great-grandson.

Natalie LamkenMusic, English Teacher

Natalie Lamken, 90, a music teacher who also taught English at several embassies in Washington, died Dec. 5 of a stroke at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass. She had moved to Northampton six years ago to be near her sister.

Ms. Lamken, who lived in the District for 60 years, taught piano, guitar and accordion from her apartment and at the homes of her students.

She developed a method and an apparatus for blind people to teach themselves how to play the guitar. The apparatus contained a series of instructions in Braille and was produced with the help of the local Prevention of Blindness Society, which also distributed it.

Ms. Lamken was born in Lynn, Mass., and graduated from Radcliffe College. She received her master's degree in English from the University of Michigan in 1938.

She was active in the civil rights movement and was a member of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. In 1940, she collected petitions to end the poll tax in Washington, among other activities.