Obituaries

She was a member of Fairfax United Methodist Church.

Survivors include her husband, Dan Sharkey, and three children, Luke Sharkey, Reid Sharkey and Sam Sharkey, all of Fairfax; her parents, Stephen E. and Bertha O. Bush of Winchester, Va.; a brother, Stephen F. Bush of Williamsburg, Va.; and a sister, Laura Beth Smith of Herndon.

Eliza C.G. BacasArtist

Eliza Cunningham Goddard Bacas, 88, a Washington native who in the 1960s helped run the Artists Mart shop on Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown, died Dec. 21 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington after a heart attack. She lived in Arlington.

Mrs. Bacas teamed up with other female artists to sell their creations at the market, including her specialty hand-glazed ceramics and watercolor paintings.

She had previously sold perfume as a "Yardley girl" at the Woodward & Lothrop department store in Washington.

Mrs. Bacas was a graduate of Sidwell Friends School and American University.

She lived in California for about six years before returning to the Washington area in the early 1950s.

Her marriage to Donald Weeks ended in divorce.

Survivors include her husband of 53 years, Harry Bacas of Arlington; two daughters from her first marriage, Eliza Wingate of Upper Lake, Calif., and Bridget McCoy of Cotati, Calif.; two children from her second marriage, Alexander Bacas of Santa Rosa, Calif., and Hilary Bacas Vos of Pasadena, Calif.; and four grandchildren.