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Obituaries
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Esther Williams Wray of Bunker Hill; four children, Henry C. Wray III of Arlington, William D. Wray of Houston, and Roger O. Wray and Karilyn W. Pittman, both of Fairfax County; and six granddaughters.
Lacey Virginia Barkley HarrisonVirginia First Lady
Lacey Virginia Barkley Harrison, 97, widow of former Virginia governor Albertis S. Harrison Jr. (D), who served from 1962 to 1966, died Jan. 16 at a retirement home in Richmond. No cause of death was reported.
A native of Lawrenceville, Va., Mrs. Harrison later lived on Saddletree Farm, a 1,500-acre property near the community. She and her husband purchased the property before he became governor, and they retired there afterward.
Mrs. Harrison went to Huntington College in Montgomery, Ala., and Stuart Hall School. She first met her husband at Lawrenceville High School, and they saw each other again at a dance when she was on a break during her first year of college.
They married in 1930. A year later, he defeated a 16-year veteran to become commonwealth's attorney. He was elected to the state Senate in 1948 and was elected state attorney general in 1957. After serving as governor, he sat on the Virginia Supreme Court.
Lacey Harrison had been a member of the Brunswick Garden Club and was a former president of Women of the Church at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
Her husband died in 1995.
Survivors include a daughter, Antoinette Jamison of Richmond; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Louisan Mamer HagenREA Official
Louisan Mamer Hagen, 95, a Washington resident who worked for the old Rural Electrification Agency from 1935 to 1981 and retired as assistant chief of the training branch, died Dec. 24 at George Washington University Hospital. She had Clostridium difficile colitis, a bacterial infection.
Ms. Mamer joined the REA in its first year and toured the country on "farm show" exhibitions at which she lectured and demonstrated how to use and operate home lighting, wiring and equipment. She highlighted safety tips.
She was a native of Hardin, Ill., and a 1931 education graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
She founded and formerly chaired the national capital area chapter of the Electrical Women's Round Table, an organization for women in the electrical industry.
Her husband of 46 years, Arthur C. Hagen, died in 2000.
Survivors include a brother, Stuart Mamer of Champaign, Ill.
