Obituaries

Mrs. Westcott was a native of Columbia Cross Roads, Pa. She came to the Washington area in the late 1930s when her husband, Jay B. Westcott, began his civil service career.

They lived in Arlington until 1958, when they moved to Syracuse, N.Y. There, she became active with Literacy Volunteers of America.

They returned to Northern Virginia in 1982. Her husband died that year after 45 years of marriage.

Survivors include four children, Diane W. Parlette of Charlottesville, Susan W. Moon of Moraga, Calif., David J. Westcott of Alamo, Calif., and Paul C. Westcott of Fairfax; 10 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

John T. HansonCIA Employee

John Thomas Hanson, 87, a Central Intelligence Agency political analyst who also did clandestine work from the 1950s to 1970s, died Feb. 28 at Golden Empire nursing facility in Grass Valley, Calif. He had a blood infection.

Mr. Hanson was born in Perth Amboy, N.J., and raised in Mexico before finishing high school in Omaha. During World War II, he spent time in the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA. He was a 1951 political science graduate of Columbia University.

In 1975, he moved from Rockville to Westminster, in Carroll County, Md. He was involved in the county's library system, among other activities.

His wife, Elizabeth McCarthy Hanson, died in February. A son, James Hanson, died in 1996.

Survivors include four children, Mark Hanson of Jamaica Plain, Mass., Christian Hanson of Portland, Maine, John Hanson Jr. of Grass Valley and Charles Hanson of Seattle; a sister, Peggy Ann Hanson of Gibson Island; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

John R. Yates IIIConcert Promoter

John Russell Yates III, 52, a Washington area concert promoter from the 1970s to 1990s, died March 14 at Shady Grove Memorial Hospital in Gaithersburg. He had pneumonia and Reiter's syndrome, a rare form of arthritis.

He did promotional work for Bobby McFerrin, Boy George, Patti Labelle, Joan Baez, Emmy Lou Harris, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Take 6, Chick Corea, Paula Poundstone and Sandra Bernhard.

Mr. Yates was born in Washington and attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School and Montgomery College in Takoma Park. He received a general equivalency diploma.