Obituaries

Mr. Mauvais was a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Bethesda.

Survivors include his wife, Maureen Mauvais, whom he married in 1949, of Bethesda; two children, Jeffry Mauvais of Wilmington, Del., and Mary Jo Sollway of North Bethesda; and two grandchildren.

Richard Michael GalloProperty Manager

Richard Michael Gallo, 48, a property manager and former real estate agent, died May 8 of heart disease at his home in Falls Church.

Mr. Gallo was born in Takoma Park, grew up in Silver Spring and graduated from Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Wheaton. He attended Montgomery College and graduated from the University of Maryland. While studying at Maryland, he volunteered at a day-care center. He received a master's degree in public administration from the University of Houston in 1982.

Mr. Gallo began his career as a real estate agent with the Flaherty Group Inc. in Kensington in 1983 and worked with Long and Foster in Kensington from the mid-1980s to 1996. He was site office manager with Spring Lake condominium in Bethesda from 1996 to 2002.

He was assistant property manager for TRC Cos. Inc., managing tenant relations, budgets and other matters for commercial buildings at Tysons Corner, from 2002 to 2004. He was property manager for a commercial building owned by Prentiss Properties in Falls Church from 2004 to 2005.

Survivors include his wife of seven years, Katherine R. Gallo of Falls Church; two children, Michael Gallo and Lina Gallo, both of Falls Church; his mother, Anna Gallo of Silver Spring; a brother, John M. Gallo of Silver Spring; and a sister, Rita A. Gallo of Pembroke Pines, Fla.

Elsa WadsworthResearcher

Elsa Wadsworth, 82, a researcher in the department of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown University for 16 years, died of cancer May 16 at Capital Hospice in Arlington. She lived in Washington.

Dr. Wadsworth was born in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia, and finished her schooling in Prague during the Nazi occupation. She was later forced to work in a munitions factory. She completed her PhD at Charles University in Prague, when it was under the Soviet domination of Czechoslovakia. She was allowed to work in her field, but because she refused to comply with Communist Party doctrine, she was not granted her PhD until 1972.

She was a research fellow at the University of Goteborg, Sweden, before becoming a visiting scientist at George Washington University in 1974. She was a supervising microbiologist in Borstel, West Germany, and from 1977 to 1979, she was a research associate at Goteborg.

In 1980, Dr. Wadsworth became a postdoctoral fellow in the department of microbiology a Georgetown University, and in 1984 she became a research associate. She published papers over the years in various professional scientific journals. She retired in 1997.

Outside of her work, Dr. Wadsworth spent time helping others. She cooked dinner for an invalid friend nearly every Friday evening for years. She also volunteered to deliver Meals on Wheels and contributed to countless charities.