Obituaries

In retirement, he worked about 20 years for EEI Communications in Alexandria.

Mr. McCormack was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and grew up in Braintree, Mass. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he moved to the Washington area to work for what is now the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He lived in Okinawa, Japan, and Madrid during part of his CIA career.

He was a Boy Scout volunteer, an amateur historian of the Civil War and U.S. naval history and a member of area bowling leagues.

His wife of 50 years, Mary E. Gilroy McCormack, died in 2002.

Survivors include seven children, MaryBeth Heatherley of Woodbridge, Patricia Gunn of Cincinnati, Susan McCormack of Pueblo, Colo., Nancy Lilly of Manassas, James McCormack III of Virginia Beach, Barbara Buonora of Silver Spring and Margaret Wood of Edgewater; three brothers, Richard McCormack of Alexandria, David McCormack of Bradenton Beach, Fla., and Edward McCormack of Sturbridge, Mass.; two sisters, Judy May of Ponte Vedra, Fla., and Kathy St. Onge of Cohasset, Mass.; 16 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Mabel Lyon JobeDay Camp Founder

Mabel Lyon Jobe, 99, who in 1943 founded an organization that established summer day camps for District children, died of emphysema April 4 at Goodwin House in Alexandria, where she lived.

Mrs. Jobe started D.C. Day Camps because she wanted children to have a place to learn cooking, nature study and drama, as well as the more common summertime interests such as sports and swimming. She wrote "The Handbook of Day Camping" (1949), a manual still cited by the YMCA and the American Camp Association.

An elementary school teacher in Washington's public schools for 30 years, Mrs. Jobe specialized in working with boys with developmental disabilities and special needs. She was selected as the District's Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1963, which came with a prize of a trip around the world.

Mrs. Jobe, a native of Palmyra, Mo., attended Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa, and graduated from the old Wilson Teachers College in Washington. In 1947, she earned a master's degree in education from the University of Southern California. She retired in 1971 and moved to Key Largo, Fla. She returned to Alexandria in 2000.

Her marriage to William T. Jobe ended in divorce.

A son, William T. Jobe Jr., died in 1983, and a daughter, Barbara D. Malmberg, died in 1984.