Friday, January 20, 2006
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.
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 LadyLacey 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 OfficialLouisan 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.