Obituaries

William C. AndrusFormer Takoma Park Resident

William Charles Andrus, 71, a former Takoma Park resident, died Dec. 30 at United Hospital Center in Clarksburg, W.Va. He had myelodysplastic syndrome/acute leukemia.

Mr. Andrus, a resident of Buckhannon, W.Va., was born in Takoma Park and finished high school in Ithaca, Mich. He served in the Army for two years and was stationed in West Germany. He graduated from Central Michigan University.

He taught industrial arts at Weston State Hospital and worked at Corhart Refractories Corp., both in West Virginia. He retired as a custodian from the Upshur County school system in 1996.

A son, Patrick Andrus, died in 1977.

Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Patty Tenney Andrus of Buckhannon; two children, Jeffrey Andrus of York, S.C., and Wendy Andrus of Buckhannon; a sister, Mary Ellen May of Laurel; and two grandchildren.

Elisabeth M. ZeutschelMeetings Manager

Elisabeth Maria Zeutschel, 74, a meetings manager with the American Association for the Advancement of Science until she retired in 1991, died of cancer Dec. 31 at Powhatan Nursing Home in Falls Church. She was a former resident of Arlington.

Ms. Zeutschel was born and grew up in Bonn. She moved to Montreal in 1957, where she was a medical secretary at the Pathology Institute of McGill University.

She came to Washington in 1960 and worked for several medical institutions. She spent the last 15 years of her career with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She became an American citizen in 1965.

She leaves no survivors.

Evelyn Kathleen FindleyNurse, Homemaker

Evelyn Kathleen Findley, 80, a retired nurse and homemaker, died of cancer Dec. 30 at Powhatan Nursing Home in Falls Church.

She worked at the old Columbia Hospital for Women Medical Center in Washington until 1979 and more recently taught crafts for Arlington County Senior Services.