Obituaries

She worked in real estate, first for Dravillas & Co. in the District, then as founding broker of Walker & Co. in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. She was instrumental in the establishment of the Kentland Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by Otis Beall Kent, a Gaithersburg tax lawyer and conservationist.

In 1976, Ms. Walker moved to Gaithersburg, where she became a member of St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church and volunteered for parish activities, became parish council president, and supported Catholic education and the anti-abortion movement. She served on the board of the school, Shady Grove Pregnancy Center and the EPS Foundation. She was a member of the Cardinal's Appeal of the Washington Archdiocese. She also enjoyed world travel, including numerous pilgrimages to the Holy Land and Rome.

Her marriages to Thomas O'Neill and Leo J. Walker ended in divorce.

Survivors include a daughter from her first marriage, Sheila O'Neill Stedman of North Potomac; six children from her second marriage, Juliana MacDowell of Hamilton, Va., Jack Walker of Ashburn, Lexie Hoffman of Middleburg, Billy Walker of Potomac Falls, Helene McCarron of Leesburg and Celeste Walker of Washington; a brother, William Loren of Berryville; and 12 grandchildren.

Marie Mayo TravisFilm Studies Professor

Marie Mayo Travis, 65, a film studies professor who taught at George Washington University for 20 years until 1984, died of breast cancer May 19 at her home in Bowie.

Among the courses Mrs. Travis taught at George Washington were film history, political image in film, language in cinema and women in film. She also gave presentations in conferences held by the Oscar Micheaux Film Society and the Smithsonian Institution.

She was a member of the Washington area chapter of Women in Film & Television.

Born in Bath, N.C., Mrs. Travis grew up the daughter of a career military officer. She spent her formative years in Germany after World War II. She spoke German, Russian and Spanish.

Mrs. Travis, a Washington area resident since the 1960s, was a graduate of the University of Maryland, where she also received a master's degree in fine arts in 1983.

In the 1970s, she worked in Prince George's County schools as a special education teacher. From 1997 to 2001, she worked part time as a consultant in film studies and as a sixth-grade English teacher at Queen Anne School in Upper Marlboro.

Her hobbies included collecting Japanese art and training and riding show horses.

Her marriage to Richard Seidler ended in divorce.