Obituaries

So important was he to the organization that the division was renamed for him three months ago.

"NSCC is much like the real Navy on a junior scale," Mr. Mooberry told "The Waterline," a naval newsletter, in 2004. "We try to make it as real as possible. Our cadets go through boot camp, they drill, and they take regular Navy courses and exams, including the Basic Military Requirements course. They have to earn their stripes and crows. . . . [But] I haven't had anyone fail boot camp in the last six or eight years. They build confidence and come back here like World War II veterans telling war stories."

Dozens of graduates of the program have attended the Naval, Air Force and Coast Guard academies and Mr. Mooberry estimated that 300 to 400 enrolled in ROTC.

"We stress the importance of working hard at school," he added. "I've had parents call me six months or a year after their child has joined, and they say, 'I don't know what you guys do, but he is up in the top 10 percent of the class.' "

Mr. Mooberry was born in Rochester, N.Y., and served in the Navy in the Pacific theater during World War II. After the war, he worked for the Associated Press until the 1960s, when he went into public relations, working for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, President Richard M. Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.

He retired in 1975 and turned to full-time volunteer work at the Navy Yard. He was a Silver Spring resident.

His marriages to Martha King, Allyn Mooberry, Evelyn Farland and Shelagh Mooberry ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife, Jeannette Salom of Washington; a daughter from his third marriage, Michelle Hess of New Hope, Pa.; two children from his fourth marriage, Henry Mooberry of Lower Lake, Calif., and Tracy Lawson of Forestville, Calif.; a sister; and four grandchildren.

Marguerite M. HeffronTeacher's Aide

Marguerite M. Heffron, 82, a teacher's aide at Capitol Heights Elementary School in Prince George's County from 1968 to 1980, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 29 at Redmond Regional Medical Center in Rome, Ga. She had lived in Summerville, Ga., since 1988.

Mrs. Heffron also worked as a substitute teacher at the elementary school after she and her husband, who had been a sixth-grade teacher there, retired.

She was born in Johnstown, N.Y, and was a former resident of Oxon Hill.

She was a member of the chapel at Andrews Air Force Base and as a volunteer did hospital visitations.