Obituaries

Mr. Cell came to Washington in 1956 as a financial officer with the cBooz Allen Hamilton consulting firm. In the early 1960s, he became a financial controller with the old American Security & Trust Co., where he worked until the early 1980s.

While working with American Security, he founded Cell and Associates, a banking and executive placement consulting firm.

Mr. Cell was born in Cicero, Ill., and grew up near Chicago and in New Jersey. He was a graduate of Boston University and received a master's of business administration degree from Harvard University in 1943. He served as a naval officer in the Pacific from 1943 to 1946.

He worked for Western Electric in New Jersey in the 1940s, then taught briefly at the California Institute of Technology. He worked for the Bendix Corp. and General Foods before moving to Washington.

Mr. Cell was president of the Harvard Business School Club of Washington and for many years led the "5:30 Club," a program in which he tutored business school graduates on finding employment.

He also volunteered with the Boy Scouts and served on the National Capital Area Council. He was a member of Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church in Washington. He also was a member of the Rotary Club of Friendship Heights and received its Paul Harris Award.

His wife of 57 years, Dorothy Porlier Cell, died in 2005.

Survivors include two sons, David P. Cell of Bethesda and Charles Cell of Long Grove, Iowa; two brothers; and three grandchildren.

Wayne A. FrankenfieldFBI Official

Wayne Arthur Frankenfield, 84, a former agent and official with the FBI, died Sept. 23 of pneumonia at the National Lutheran Home in Rockville.

Mr. Frankenfield was born in Tiffin, Ohio, and joined the FBI in 1941 in Washington. He was a graduate of Benjamin Franklin University in Washington.

In 1948, Mr. Frankenfield became a special agent in Memphis and later served in Philadelphia. He returned to Washington in 1961 and directed the accounting and fraud section of the bureau at the time of his retirement in 1975.

He later was a member of the presidential transitional team for Ronald Reagan and volunteered for the Red Cross.