Obituaries

Survivors include a brother, Jerry Morse of McLean.

Evelyn Victoria KatsVolunteer, Homemaker

Evelyn Victoria Kats, 87, a homemaker and volunteer, died Dec. 29 at an assisted living facility in Pleasant Hill, Calif. She had Alzheimer's disease.

Mrs. Kats lived in Washington for 50 years. She was a volunteer with the American Heart Association, the March of Dimes and PTAs at schools in Hillcrest Heights, where she lived. She was also a member of Lutheran Church of Reformation on Capitol Hill.

She was born in Athol, Kan., and attended the University of Kansas. She worked as a bookkeeper until her marriage to William Kats, who was former administrative assistant to Rep. Wint Smith (R-Kan.) and Sen. Bob Dole. She lived in the District between 1949 and 1999.

Her husband died in 1984.

Survivors include a son, William Kats Jr. of San Francisco; a brother; and two grandsons.

Anita J. JoyceMathematics Professor

Anita J. Joyce, 59, a professor of mathematics at Montgomery College, died of cancer Jan. 2 at Casey House hospice in Rockville. She lived in Gaithersburg.

Mrs. Joyce taught mathematics at the Rockville and Germantown campuses of Montgomery College for 22 years. She had been a junior high school math teacher in Lynchburg, Va., and Windsor, Conn., for five years before moving to Gaithersburg 32 years ago.

She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduated from the University of Connecticut. She earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1973 from Central Connecticut State University.

She was a vestry member and parish treasurer at St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Damascus, where she also served as a church lay reader and a member of the Jubilate Ringers hand-bell choir. She enjoyed spending time with family, reading at the beach, completing logic and word puzzles and watching science fiction movies.

Survivors include her husband, William E. Joyce of Gaithersburg; two children, David W. Joyce of Annapolis and Beth E.J. Jorgensen of Gaithersburg; her mother, Josephine Jackson of Bloomfield, Conn.; and two brothers.