Obituaries

Adrienne T. FarrellJournalist, Painter

Adrienne T. Farrell, 82, a retired journalist and painter, died of a heart ailment Feb. 28 at the Georgetown Retirement Home in Washington, where she lived.

Mrs. Farrell was born in New York City and graduated from George Washington University. She began writing for the Alexandria Gazette while a college student, and after graduation joined The Washington Post.

After World War II, she worked for the Marshall Plan in the Far East and Europe. She lived in Paris from the mid-1950s until the early 1970s and studied painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. She began to exhibit her work, done in the abstract expressionist style, in French galleries and at the Paris Museum of Modern Art.

After her return to Washington, she freelanced articles on cultural affairs to the New York Times and Smithsonian magazine, among others. She was a member of the National Press Club and of the Washington Post E-Streeters, a social club of former staff members.

Her husband, Robert E. Farrell, died in 1999. A daughter, Katrina Luba Farrell, died in 1995.

Survivors include a daughter, Amy Pia Farrell of Paris; a brother; and a granddaughter.

Brian Edward FiffickNTSB Manager

Brian Edward Fiffick, 33, who was disaster assistance manager with the National Transportation Safety Board, died Feb. 25 at the Washington Hospital Center from injuries resulting from a traffic accident in Woodbridge. He lived in Alexandria.

He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and was a biology graduate of Arizona State University. He worked as an embalmer at a funeral home and then as a senior forensic technician for Maricopa County medical examiner's office in Phoenix. He joined the National Transportation Safety Board in 1999 and worked in the office of transportation disaster assistance.

Mr. Fiffick was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Alexandria.

His marriage to Dawne Hardesty ended in divorce.

Survivors include his father, D. Edward J. Fiffick of Osprey, Fla., and his mother, Barbara Fiffick of Youngstown, Ohio; two brothers; and three sisters.

Elizabeth Clagett ClarkJournalist

Elizabeth Clagett Clark, 101, a journalist, died of pneumonia March 1 at her home in Mitchellville.