Obituaries

He lived in Arlington until moving to Ocean Pines, Md., in 1996. At the Ocean Pines Country Club, Mr. Thorsen and his son, Michael Earle Thorsen of Arlington, won the club's member-guest golf championship three times, from 2002 to 2004.

Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Barbara A. Thorsen of Ocean Pines; three other children, Deborah Bosley of Chesapeake, Va., Linda Garcia of Richmond and Diane Parker of Newton Grove, N.C.; a brother; a sister; and six grandchildren.

Homer Angelos BacasReal Estate Broker

Homer Angelos Bacas, 82, a longtime Northern Virginia real estate broker, died of a stroke Sept. 9 at Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore. He lived in Burke.

Mr. Bacas was born in Washington and was a graduate of Roosevelt High School. As a boy, he helped operate the scoreboard during Washington Senators games at Griffith Stadium.

He attended Virginia Tech for two years before serving in the Navy during World War II.

After the war, he worked in family restaurants in Washington and had an exterminating business. In 1960, Mr. Bacas moved to Fairfax County and opened a real estate brokerage firm, Bacas Co. Real Estate. He was president of the company until his retirement in 2000.

He was a member of the Masons and a life member of the Arlington-Fairfax Elks Lodge. He was also a member of St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Washington and St. Katherine Greek Orthodox Church in Falls Church.

He moved to the Heatherwood retirement community in Burke in 2004.

His wife of 55 years, Estelle "Chickie" Mandris Bacas, died in 2004.

Survivors include four daughters, Diane Hoffman of Fredericksburg, Georgia Martin of Baltimore, and Christina Gibson and Eleni Woglom, both of Fairfax County; and eight grandchildren.

Enid Brossard ZukowskiHomemaker, Amateur Musician

Enid Cecil Brossard Zukowski, 96, a homemaker and amateur musician, died Sept. 16 of a heart ailment at Millennium Health and Rehabilitation at South River, an Edgewater nursing facility. She was a longtime resident of Forestville.

Mrs. Zukowski was born in Lewisville, Idaho, and attended Idaho State University. She taught third grade in Idaho before moving to Washington in the 1930s and working as a secretary with the federal government. In her leisure time, she played cello in an amateur orchestra, where she met her husband to be.