Obituaries

Eileen R. TorcasoMusic Store Employee

Eileen R. Torcaso, 83, a former director of sheet music at Dale Music store in Silver Spring, died Feb. 13 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring of an infection after surgery for a broken hip. A longtime resident of Wheaton, she had been living in Rockville for the past year.

Mrs. Torcaso was born in Norwich, England, and moved to the District in 1946 as a "war bride." She was a homemaker until she went to work at the music store in 1965. She retired in 1993.

An accomplished pianist and organist, she was the accompanist for the C&P Singers, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. glee club. She also was the organist at First Presbyterian Church of Wheaton.

She was active as a Girl Scout troop leader and neighborhood chairwoman and was a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville.

Her daughter, Susan Elizabeth Mims, died in 2002.

Survivors include her husband of 60 years, Roy R. Torcaso of Rockville; two children, Linda Bernstein of Philadelphia and Bill Torcaso of Cambridge, Mass.; a brother; three grandsons; and a great-grandson.

John Anthony EverettC&P Telephone Employee

John Anthony Everett, 81, who spent 35 years with Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., mostly doing sales work before retiring in 1978, died Feb. 13 at a nursing facility in Clearwater, Fla. He had dementia.

While with C&P, Mr. Everett also was a partner in Able Realty, which handled residential properties. In retirement, he spent eight years doing telecommunications work for the Agriculture Department's Rural Electrification Administration.

He was a native Washingtonian and a 1942 graduate of St. John's College High School. He served in the Army in the Pacific during World War II.

He was a former grand knight in the Knights of Columbus and a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Silver Spring, where he was an usher and chaired fundraising projects.

He moved from Silver Spring to Florida in the late 1980s.

His first wife, Catherine Betts "Kitty" Everett, died in 1984.