Obituaries

Albert Wiley PattersonNaval Hospital Employee

Albert Wiley Patterson, 91, who worked at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda until the late 1970s, died Jan. 7 of pneumonia and kidney failure at Washington Hospital Center.

Mr. Patterson was born in Vassar, Kan., and worked on the family farm after he dropped out of school at 13. As a young adult, he lived and worked for about a year in Asheville, Ala., before returning to the farm.

He moved to Washington at 27. He worked for the National Institutes of Health and Arlington National Cemetery before joining the National Naval Medical Center, where he did custodian work.

"He was a good worker," said his sister, Anna Mae Hendrickson of Kansas City, and he never took sick or annual leave. Mr. Patterson, who always wore his farm overalls, used more than a year's worth of paid leave to return to his family farm and work for a year.

Mr. Patterson knew every capital of every U.S. state and of every country. He was a staunch advocate of osteopathic and homeopathic medicine.

His wife, Inez Patterson, died in 1996.

In addition to his sister, survivors include two stepchildren, Godfrey Smith of Silver Spring and Beverly Bailey of Washington; and a brother.

Shapur ZanganehCivil Engineer

Shapur Zanganeh, 77, a retired hydropower expert who worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, died Feb. 2 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, at his Falls Church home.

Mr. Zanganeh was born in Kermanshah, Iran, and came to the United States in the early 1940s to study, first at West Virginia University and then at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia, where he received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering in the late 1940s. He received a master's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in hydrology from the University of Oklahoma.

During the 1950s and 1960s, he served with several consulting engineering firms throughout the United States and overseas, designing and constructing major water resources projects. He joined the Corps of Engineers in the late 1970s as a hydropower expert, working on levee and dam projects throughout the nation. He retired in 1995.

He was a member of the Falls Church Lions Club and Falls Church Episcopal Church. Friends and family noted that he accepted the debilitations of his illness with peace and serenity.