Obituaries

Her marriage to Chris Peratino ended in divorce.

Survivors include five daughters, Eva Tuck of Riva, Despi Mahaney of Germantown, Christine Rector of Weston, Fla., Elaine Peratino of Silver Spring and Irene Black of Laurel; a sister, Christine Loomis of Ocean Pines; two brothers, Zaphy Stephanos of Bowie and John Stephanos of Ocean Pines; and 10 grandchildren.

Jean Calvert HildrethMuseum Curator

Jean Calvert Hildreth, 80, a Washington native who was a curator at the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, died Feb. 17 of cancer at her home in Phoenix.

Miss Hildreth, who grew up in the District's Spring Valley neighborhood, attended National Cathedral School for Girls, Ashley Hall in Charleston and Mount Vernon Seminary. She graduated from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.

In the 1930s in Spring Valley, she lived near Love Stables and developed an interest in horseback riding. Early on, she also became attracted to art as a field she wanted to pursue.

She was a founder of the Junior Guild of Goodwill Industries.

Miss Hildreth was active in Washington politics, assisting her father, Melvin D. Hildreth, who was Democratic national committeeman for the District and chairman of the Truman Inaugural Committee. She also worked with him on other projects, including reconstruction of Ford's Theatre and completion of construction of Carter Barron Amphitheatre.

She began her career with the National Academy of Sciences and later was an assistant curator in American period costume and design at the Smithsonian Institution's National Gallery of Art. She also worked with Catholic University on an art encyclopedia.

In 1963, she was appointed a registrar of art at what was then the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum of Early American Art in Williamsburg, where she presented more than 28 exhibitions on Colonial American art.

She joined the Phoenix Art Museum in 1971, becoming curator of the Arizona Costume Institute. She lectured, presented 95 exhibitions and prepared several catalogues and brochures. She was responsible for expanding the Arizona Costume Institute's collection and its reputation in the country. She also worked with the museum's Collections Study Club to produce yearly exhibitions in the Helen Wells Gallery of Decorative Arts. She retired in 1993.

Miss Hildreth was curator emeritus of the Arizona Costume Institute and a national board member of the Costume Society of America. She also belonged to the Fan Association of North America.

Survivors include three brothers, Richard Hildreth of Bethesda, David Hildreth of Atlanta and Robert Hildreth of Denver.

Emily Mason ShawnBallet Dancer, Instructor

Emily Mason Shawn, 81, a volunteer, church member and former ballet dancer and teacher, died of respiratory failure March 9 at her home in Herndon.

A native of Wigan, England, Mrs. Shawn performed with the Manchester Ballet Company in her home country in the mid-1940s. She married an American military man and moved to the United States in 1947. While they were posted overseas in the 1950s, she taught ballet in France and Italy.

The family returned to the United States and in 1983 and settled in Herndon, where Mrs. Shawn volunteered for the Democratic Club and attended St. Timothy's Episcopal Church.

Survivors include her husband, retired Air Force Col. Robert A. Shawn of Herndon; three children, William Shawn of Washington, Tracy Shawn of Voorhees, N.J., and Victoria Walker of Culpeper, Va.; and seven grandchildren.