Obituaries

His marriage to Caroline Branca Gilbert ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 28 years, Susan Gilbert of Vienna; three children from his first marriage, Catherine Aldrich of Lakewood, Ohio, John Gilbert of Ashburn and Andrew Gilbert of Kent, Ohio; a stepdaughter from his second marriage, Amy Ellickson of Huntingtown; a brother; and six grandchildren.

Millicent Vogel GoughEditor

Millicent Vogel Gough, 81, a retired editor with the National Science Foundation, died of pneumonia April 25 at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville, Md. She was a former Chevy Chase resident.

Mrs. Gough was born in Washington and graduated from Wilson High School in 1943. She received a bachelor's degree in 1947 from Indiana University, where she was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

She joined the Army Map Service as an editor in 1947 and stayed until the mid-1960s, when she became a homemaker. She went back to work in 1982 as the chief editor for the Science Resource Study Division of the National Science Foundation. She retired in 1993.

Mrs. Gough was a former member of Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church and more recently Christ Episcopal Church in Kensington. She was a cancer survivor for 24 years and enjoyed playing the piano, cooking, reading, writing and listening to music. She also enjoyed her two dogs.

Her husband, Gaines Homer Gough, died in 1986.

Survivors include her daughter, Melanie Anne Cooley of Keymar, Md.; and four grandchildren.

Bessie L. JonesPiano Teacher, Organist

Bessie L. Jones, 89, a piano teacher and church organist, died of cancer April 27 at the Laurel Gardens nursing home in Glastonbury, Conn., where she had lived since June.

Mrs. Jones, an accomplished pianist, gave lessons at her home in Arlington for many years. She also played the organ at Garfield Memorial Christian Church in McLean, where she was a member.

She was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and she was 4 when her family came to the United States. She grew up in Greenfield, Mass., and became an American citizen. She married in 1935 and in 1944, moved to Arlington when her husband got a job at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Mrs. Jones was known as a fabulous cook, and she enjoyed entertaining friends and relatives.