Obituaries

Mrs. Parsons was born in Athens, Greece, and came to the United States as a war bride in 1947.

She and her husband lived for 15 years on Long Island, N.Y., and moved to the Shenandoah Valley in 1970. She worked for 20 years as a stenographer at Western State Hospital in Staunton, Va. She also worked on the help desk at Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave, Va., for five years.

Her husband of more than 50 years, Duncan B. Parsons, died in 1999.

Survivors include three children, Nancy MacDonald of Ashland, Mass., Robert D. Parsons of Alexandria and Diana Dickerson of Centreville; and five grandchildren.

Clarence Andrew RichterDulles Air Traffic Controller

Clarence Andrew Richter, 84, one of the first air traffic controllers at Washington Dulles International Airport, died Dec. 20 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at a hospice in Bonita Springs, Fla. He was a resident of Fairfax City before moving to Estero, Fla., in retirement.

Mr. Richter, known as Ric as well as Bud, was born in Lancaster, Wash. During World War II, he hoped to become a pilot, but his colorblindness prevented that. He became a civilian air traffic controller instead and was stationed in the Azores for the duration of the war.

After the war, he was an air traffic controller in Des Moines and Kansas City, Mo., before moving to Richmond in 1948 to become a controller at Richard E. Byrd Airport.

He was in Richmond until 1962, when he was hired at Dulles. He helped prepare for its opening celebration with President John F. Kennedy. Mr. Richter was promoted to director of training before his retirement in 1973.

He continued working at airports in Florida before retiring again in 1999.

Mr. Richter's first wife, Marjorie Fredlund Richter, died in 1967. His marriage to Marilyn Prather Richter ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 23 years, Vera Jane Richter of Fort Myers, Fla.; two daughters from his first marriage, Nancy Ann Carneau of Marathon, Fla., and Andrea Jeanette Casey of Fairfax City; three stepchildren from his second marriage, William Prather, Dianne Reynaert and Patricia Prather, all of Lehigh Acres, Fla.; a stepdaughter from his third marriage, Gail Palmer of Estero; a brother; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Samuel E. StetsonTechnical Writer

Samuel Eugene Stetson, 81, a retired technical writer with the Office of Naval Research, died of a brain tumor Dec. 27 at his home in Arlington.

Mr. Stetson worked about 22 years for the Office Naval Research until 1977, mostly writing operating manuals for the use and maintenance of armaments.

He was born in Richmond and raised in the Washington area, where he graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.

As a student there, he sang with the school's state champion a cappella choir.

He served in the Army Air Forces during World War II and was an armorer -- a person who maintains and repairs a plane's weapons -- for P-39 Air Cobra fighter planes. At the end of the war, he sang and played the drums in an orchestra of enlisted soldiers who performed at an officers' club at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson.

After the war, he studied engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles. He also sailed across the Atlantic Ocean as a member of an amateur crew on an 83-foot former Coast Guard cutter converted into a private yacht.

He later joined the Air National Guard and served in Korea during the war there as an armorer for F-86 Sabre jets.

Mr. Stetson's interests included jazz and swing music.

He leaves no immediate survivors.

William Joseph CareyAir Force Colonel

William Joseph Carey, 85, a retired Air Force colonel who worked in the early 1970s as personnel director at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 28 at his home in Clinton.

Col. Carey, who had lived in the Washington area since 1965, was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y.

He joined the Army National Guard in 1939 and was at Pearl Harbor at the start of World War II.

After receiving a commission in 1943, he was assigned to the Army Air Forces and sent to England as a member of a bomb squadron. The squadron was part of the newly formed 492nd Bomb Group, known as the "Carpetbaggers," which flew unescorted night missions to supply resistance groups behind German lines in Western Europe.

After the war, he attended St. John's University in New York and worked in civil transportation. He was recalled to active military duty during the Korean War and decided to make the Air Force his career.

His final active-duty assignment, in 1967, was as a personnel administrator at Andrews Air Force Base.

He was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Clinton and the Military Officers Association of America.

Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Margaret T. "Peg" Carey of Clinton; two children, Stephen Carey of Ironwood, Mich., and Nancy D'Agostino of Fort Washington; four brothers; a sister; and seven grandchildren.

Evelyn Troell WilliamsonEconomic Consultant

Evelyn Troell Williamson, 93, a retired economic consultant for the Montgomery and Prince George's county governments and other suburban planning organizations, died Dec. 21 of respiratory failure and pneumonia at the Wilson Health Care Center at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg.

From 1966 until she retired in 1977, Mrs. Williamson researched and wrote publications about the history of Montgomery and Prince George's from a land development perspective.

She also served as executive director of a radio and TV monitoring services business in Washington, which was founded by her husband, Robert E Williamson. He died in 1990.

Mrs. Williamson was born in Uvalde, Tex., and married in 1938. She moved to Washington in 1940 and had lived in Montgomery County since 1955.

She lived in Rockville and Darnestown before moving to Gaithersburg in 1999.

Mrs. Williamson received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maryland.

During her retirement, she wrote a book, "The Riches of Montgomery County," and volunteered for the Friends of Montgomery County Animals Inc.

Survivors include her daughter, Karen Williamson of Washington.

Rolland E. 'Bud' Anderson Jr.Agricultural Administrator

Rolland E. "Bud" Anderson Jr., 70, a career officer in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service who was its administrator from 1989 to 1991, died of melanoma Dec. 29 at his home in Annandale.

Mr. Anderson was born in Iona, Minn. He graduated from South Dakota State University in Brookings, where he also received a master's degree in agricultural economics in 1962. He served as an Army medic from 1955 to 1957.

Mr. Anderson joined the Foreign Agricultural Service in 1962. He was a major contributor to the U.S. position paper submitted to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations in 1964 outlining the U.S. claim for compensation for the loss of the U.S. poultry market in Europe -- better known as the "chicken war."

After that successful outcome, Mr. Anderson was sent to Bonn as assistant agricultural attache in 1967. He served there until 1970 and then held a number of senior positions in Washington and abroad, including in New Zealand, the Netherlands and England.

In early 1983, when he was appointed assistant administrator for international trade policy at the USDA, Mr. Anderson dealt with major issues such as the trade-distorting effects of huge European Union agricultural export subsidies and access to the Japanese market for U.S. agricultural products.

After his work as Foreign Agricultural Service administrator, he spent a year completing the senior seminar, an executive program attended by high-level career government officials. He retired in 1995.

Mr. Anderson's honors included the USDA's Superior Service Award (1977) and Distinguished Service Award (1978); and the Department of State's Foreign Service Meritorious Presidential Rank Award (1986) and Foreign Service Distinguished Presidential Rank Award (1988).

Since his retirement, Mr. Anderson had been active in raising money for tuberous sclerosis, a rare genetic disorder of which his daughter Maria Anderson died in 1997.

Survivors include his wife of 46 years, Lorraine Lens Anderson of Annandale; five children, Lisa Anderson of Ottawa, Suzanne Stanton of Omaha and Ron Anderson, Curt Anderson and Gabrielle Anderson, all of Arlington; one sister; and two grandchildren.