Obituaries

She also was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars ladies auxiliary, the American Legion ladies auxiliary and the Order of the Eastern Star.

Her husband, Eugene R. Heffron, died in 1983.

Survivors include four daughters, Eileen Knauss of Forestville, Kathleen Mehrer of Carlisle, Ind., and Rebecca Boe and Jean Chesley, both of Summerville; two brothers; a sister; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.

Bob E. MorganComputer Specialist

Bob E. Morgan, 75, a computer specialist for federal agencies, died Dec. 22 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He had a fall early last month at his home in Great Falls and also had a form of leukemia known as myelodysplastic syndrome.

Starting in the late 1940s, Mr. Morgan spent more than 30 years as a Navy Department civilian. Early on, he assisted in the conversion from punch-card equipment to a computer system.

He then began to work on more sophisticated technology within what became the Naval Sea Systems Command, where he applied his computer expertise to data-processing policies as well as financial and technical matters.

He also played a major role in creating an integrated management information system throughout the nation's naval shipyards.

At the Agriculture Department from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, he created a searchable database that helped employees get current technical information.

Since the early 1990s, he had been working at the U.S. Agency for International Development on crucial computer system applications.

Mr. Morgan was born Robert Edward Findlay Jr. in Aurora, Ill., and later changed his name at his mother's request after she remarried. He was a graduate of Southeastern University in Washington.

During World War II, when he was serving in the Army, he settled in the Washington area.

His marriage to Dorothy Burns Morgan ended in divorce.