Obituaries

John W. YoungArmy Colonel, Real Estate Agent

John W. Young, 77, a retired Army colonel who spent most of his career with logistics forces, died of respiratory arrest after a heart attack Jan. 3 at Sleepy Hollow Nursing Home in Falls Church.

Col. Young was born in Barrington, Ill., and enlisted in the Army in 1945. After military service at a Texas post, he enrolled at the University of Illinois as a member of ROTC and graduated with a bachelor's degree in geography in 1953. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant and in 1954 was assigned to Germany for the first of three tours there.

He also served in Korea and Thailand as a military adviser and commanded a transportation battalion in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970. He was on the staff of the Army deputy chief of staff for Logistics when he retired in 1978. He received a master's degree in business administration from American University in 1961.

Col. Young, who lived in Fairfax County, sold real estate in Northern Virginia for Long and Foster after leaving the Army. He loved gardening, reading military history and skiing with his wife.

Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Ruth Young of Fairfax County; and three brothers.

Henry Capehart 'Harry' Wray Jr.Dentist

Henry Capehart "Harry" Wray Jr., 84, a 1948 graduate of the Georgetown University dental school who taught at the institution until it closed in 1990, died Jan. 15 at Winchester Medical Center in Virginia after surgery the previous day for a broken hip.

Dr. Wray retired in 1987 from his private practice in Georgetown.

He was a native of Nesquehoning, Pa., and a graduate of Georgetown College in Kentucky.

About 1990, he moved from Arlington to Bunker Hill, W.Va., his last residence.

He was a former member of Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, where he had been a deacon.

He was a former trustee of the Baptist Home for Children in Bethesda and a board member of the Central Union Mission in Washington.