Saturday, September 30, 2006
DaManuel 'Dee' BarnesStudent, Security Guard
DaManuel "Dee" Anjuan Barnes, 18, a college student and a security guard, died of a gunshot wound Aug. 26 at Wilburn Drive and Addison Road in Seat Pleasant. He lived in Capitol Heights.
Mr. Barnes was shot as he walked home from the Addison Road Metro station. His body was found about 4:20 a.m., Prince George's County police said, and the death is under investigation.
He was born in Cheverly and grew up in Kettering. At age 5, he enrolled in dance school, where he learned tap dancing and later took acting classes. As a child, he performed in the play "Beauty and the Beast" at Landover Mall.
Mr. Barnes played football and basketball with the New Carrollton Boys and Girls Club while in grade school. Emergency brain surgery in 2001 ended his dream of becoming a professional athlete, so Mr. Barnes decided to study to become a lawyer. He attended Bladensburg High School from 2001 to 2003 and graduated in 2005 from Parkdale High School, where he was a member of the mock trial club.
He attended Prince George's Community College and worked for U.S. Security Associates at the UPS facility in Laurel. He was a member of Newborn Church of God-Christ in Fairmount Heights.
His father, Damanuel Garcia Quarles, died in 2000.
Survivors include his mother, Tawanna Owens of Capitol Heights; his stepfather, Mack Owens of Capitol Heights; five brothers and sisters, Bruce Curtis, Nakia Curtis, Dasha Graham, Christina Graham and Makaela Owens, all of Capitol Heights; eight step-siblings, Darcia Malachi, Donovan Malachi and Deja Lewis, all of Gaithersburg, and Garcia Quarles, Angela Porter, Antonio Porter and Alexis Porter, all of Washington.
Agnes 'Nancy' MuschampProofreaderAgnes "Nancy" W.H. Muschamp, 96, a proofreader and homemaker, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 21 at her home in Manassas.
Mrs. Muschamp worked for 20 years at the Hendricks-Miller Typographic Co. in Washington, becoming its top proofreader. She later worked at several other printing shops until she retired in 1985. She was a longtime member of the International Typographical Union, and once, in her sixties, walked a picket line.
She was born in Alloa, Scotland, and moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with her family when she was a girl. She graduated from Dalhousie University in Halifax in 1931, married and lived in Montreal until 1935.
She and her family then moved to New Haven, Conn., where she lived through World War II. While her husband was overseas, she began working in the printing industry in Milford, Conn. In 1946, the family reunited in postwar Germany.
Mrs. Muschamp and her children returned to the United States in 1952 and settled in Arlington.
After retiring from proofreading, she worked several years for Arlington County at the Lee Senior Center, where she helped plan and organize trips throughout the United States and Canada. She was an avid reader and pianist and was a member of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Arlington.
Her marriage to Philip Muschamp ended in divorce. Her daughter, Joan Margaret Brossman died in 2004.
Survivors include two sons, Robert Muschamp of Falls Church and George Muschamp of Warrenton; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Elizabeth Marie JordanHomemaker, VolunteerElizabeth Marie Jordan, 79, a homemaker, volunteer and church member, died of cancer Sept. 23 at her Silver Spring home.
Since 1993, Mrs. Jordan was an office volunteer, and later an employee, at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Silver Spring, where she became a Stephen minister.
For 36 years, she accompanied her husband to his diplomatic posts with the U.S. Information Agency. They lived in Asuncion, Paraguay; Rosario, Argentina; Monterrey, Mexico; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Palermo, Italy; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Dublin; Lisbon, Spain; Havana; Manila, Philippines; and Brasilia, Brazil.
While overseas, she learned four languages and taught English in binational centers. She became proficient at playing the Paraguayan harp, at weaving Portuguese Arraiolos rugs and tapestries and at preparing ethnic cuisine. She collaborated with embassy spouses on compiling three cookbooks of ethnic recipes. She was honored by the Honduran government for her extensive volunteer work in local hospitals.
An avid bridge player, she was a winner of the annual embassy duplicate bridge tournament. A staunch Boston Red Sox fan, she followed the team's ups and downs from around the globe.
She was born Elizabeth Marie Dabareiner in Hortonville, Wis., and attended Milton College. In 1947, she moved with her family to Framingham, Mass., where she attended Framingham teachers college. She also worked as a property tax officer in a local bank.
In 1956, she married and began world travel. She and her family settled in Silver Spring in 1992.
Survivors include her husband, Robert F. Jordan of Silver Spring; three children, Linda J. Winnard of Leawood, Kan., Michael S. Jordan of Damascus and David P. Jordan of Lake Worth, Fla.; a sister; two brothers; and five grandchildren.
Robert Samuel CellFinancial ExecutiveRobert Samuel Cell, 88, a banking and financial executive who also owned a consulting firm, died of a stroke Sept. 4 at his home in Bethesda.
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 OfficialWayne 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.
He lived in Silver Spring and Rockville before moving to Myrtle Beach, S.C., in 1980. He lived in Charlottesville for several years before returning to Rockville.
His first wife, Emma Wise Frankenfield, died in 1970.
His second wife, Helen George Frankenfield, died in 2005.
Survivors include two sons from his first marriage, Jerry Frankenfield of Elk Ridge and Thomas Frankenfield of Clermont, Fla.; two stepsons, Stephen George of Arlington, Tex., and Roger George of San Mateo, Calif.; a sister; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Katherine Pearson PorterVolunteerKatherine Pearson Porter, 91, who volunteered recently as a receptionist at Washington National Cathedral, died Sept. 8 of cardiac arrest at the Riverplace retirement community in Columbus, Ga., where she lived for 2 1/2 years.
Mrs. Porter was born in Washington and graduated from the Madeira School. She then attended the former King-Smith Studio School.
She was a former member of the Junior League and a former volunteer for the American Red Cross. She served on the board of the old Garfield Hospital (now Washington Hospital Center). She was a member of the Chevy Chase Club and worshipped at St. David's Episcopal Church.
Her husband, John L. Porter, died in 1987.
Survivors include two sons, John L. Porter, Jr. of Knoxville, Tenn., and William D. Porter of Columbus; a brother; two granddaughters; three great-grandchildren; and a great-great grandchild.
Milford Walter WoodArtillery Officer, TeacherMilford Walter Wood, 91, a retired artillery officer in the Army who later taught school in Fairfax County, died of pneumonia Sept. 25 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He lived in Springfield.
Col. Wood, a native of South Bristol, N.Y., and a graduate of St. Bonaventure University, entered the Army in 1940. He served in the Pacific theater during World War II and later in Korea and Vietnam. He received a master's degree in aeronautical engineering in 1948 from New York University. His last assignment was at the Pentagon, and he retired in 1970. Among his military awards were two Legions of Merit and three Bronze Stars.
He taught math and science to junior high and middle school students in the 1970s in Fairfax schools.
He was a member of the Potomac Valley Track Club.
His wife of 62 years, Alice Jean Davis Wood, died in 2003. A daughter, Nancy Wood, died in 1987.
Survivors include a daughter, Susan Wood of San Ramon, Calif.; a granddaughter; and a great-grandson.
Thomas Nick JohnsonGWU Anatomy ProfessorThomas Nick Johnson, 83, a retired anatomy professor at George Washington University's School of Medicine, died of pneumonia and respiratory distress Sept. 26 at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore. He lived in Silver Spring.
Dr. Johnson worked at the medical school from 1954 to 1990, teaching many area doctors and nurses neuroanatomy. He received GWU's Golden Apple teaching award.
Born in Davenport, Iowa, he grew up on a family farm. He graduated from St. Ambrose College in his hometown and received a master's degree in 1949 from Michigan State University and a doctoral degree in 1953 from the University of Michigan in anatomy. He taught physiology at Michigan State and had fellowships at Woods Hole, Mass., and at UCLA Medical Center.
Dr. Johnson moved to Washington in 1954 to teach at George Washington. He was a frequent lecturer at Washington Hospital Center, St. Elizabeths Hospital, the U.S. Naval Medical Center, Walter Reed Medical Center and Holy Cross Hospital. He was the recipient of several research grants from the National Institutes of Health, where he was a special consultant for many years.
An amateur photographer, he had one of his photos published in The Washington Post in the 1960s. He enjoyed boating, vacationing on Cape Cod, traveling the United States and, in his younger days, flying airplanes.
Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Despina Mary Johnson of Silver Spring; three daughters, Debbie Johnson of Dortmund, Germany, Madeline Johnson-Oler of Gaithersburg and Donna Beagle of Eldersburg; and four grandsons.