Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Margaret C. AdamsState Department Employee
Margaret C. Adams, 85, a former analyst in the State Department's human resources office, died of a heart ailment Oct. 5 at Woodbine Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Alexandria. She lived in Alexandria.
Ms. Adams was born in Beckley, W.Va., and moved to Washington in her youth. She attended Central High School in Washington and graduated from George Washington High School in Alexandria.
She worked with the State Department for 34 years until retiring in 1977.
Survivors include a daughter from an early relationship, Marylin Adams of Alexandria.
Marshall HornblowerLaw Firm PartnerMarshall Hornblower, 88, a corporation lawyer and founding partner of the Washington law firm Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, died Oct. 6 at his home in Washington. He had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Colleagues regarded Mr. Hornblower as a master draftsman in complex negotiations, and his clients included Kaiser Steel; the U.S. Railway Association, a federally created agency to oversee the government-owned Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail); and the Communications Satellite Corp. (Comsat), the federally created provider of satellite telecommunications.
He also spent 44 years as counsel for the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a scientific research organization.
The son and grandson of lawyers, George Marshall Hornblower was born in Manhattan, N.Y., and graduated from the Groton School in Massachusetts (1935), Princeton University (1939) and Yale Law School (1942).
After Navy service in Washington during World War II, he worked at Cox, Langford, Stoddard and Cutler.
One of the partners, Lloyd Cutler, started Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering in 1962. In 2004, it merged with a Boston firm to become Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Mr. Hornblower was largely retired by the mid-1990s.
He was a founder and former chairman of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's D.C. chapter. He also was a former trustee of the Potomac School, a private school in McLean.
At Princeton, he was coxswain of the varsity crew team, and sailing remained a lifelong interest. He had the nickname "Whistle" from a series of boats he owned named "Whistletoot" that he raced on Long Island Sound, the Potomac River and the lakes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
At his home, he liked planting evergreens.
His wife, Marne Lloyd-Smith Hornblower, whom he married in 1940, died in 2004.
Survivors include four children, Marjorie Johnson of Golden, Colo., Jenny Lawrence of Manhattan, Nancy Rice of Coronado, Calif., and Jonathan Hornblower of Corpus Christi, Tex.; two sisters; 11 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Ross Edward JohnsonTeacher, EnvironmentalistRoss Edward Johnson, 68, a reading teacher at Luther Jackson Middle School in Fairfax County for 25 years until he retired in 1993, died Sept. 20 of a heart attack at his home in Falls Church.
Mr. Johnson was active in Falls Church as an advocate for the environment. His volunteer work included protecting natural areas and improving walking and biking trails.
He was on the board of directors of Falls Church Village Preservation and Improvement Society during the 1970s and 1980s and was active in the Falls Church City Streams Task Force. He did conservation and maintenance work at Four Mile Run and Crossman Park. He held planting parties and helped with construction of a walking trail in the park, where a stream was named Ross' Run in his honor.
Mr. Johnson hosted the Falls Church Home Concert Series and worked as a volunteer in the Family Literacy program for Fairfax County public schools.
He was born in Pittsburgh and graduated from what is now California University of Pennsylvania. He received a master's degree in education in 1967 from Syracuse University, where he met his wife, who was also a student.
During his years as a reading teacher in Virginia, he would often tell his students that his home was in Tupper Lake, N.Y., in the Adirondacks, and that he went south for the winter to teach. He first fell in love with the Adirondacks in 1962 while teaching at Syracuse University's Pinebrook Conference Center on Upper Saranac Lake, and he later became director of Sagamore's Reading Camp on Raquette Lake.
He recently returned from his 36th consecutive summer in the Adirondacks, where in 1973 he designed a log cabin and built it with only a chain saw and hand tools on Tupper Lake's Spruce Island. He was a charter member of the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks.
Survivors include his wife, Sheila Johnson of Falls Church; two sons, Kurt Johnson of Jackson, Wyo., and Brent Johnson of Mariposa, Calif.; a sister; a brother; and two grandsons.
Francis C. MacDonaldCIA OfficerFrancis C. MacDonald, 80, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, died from complications of emphysema Oct. 4 at Fairfax Nursing Center. He lived in Vienna.
He worked for the CIA in Bolivia, Panama, Guatemala, Guyana and Mexico, as well as Washington. When he retired in 2003, he was awarded the Career Intelligence Medal.
Born in Brockton, Mass., Mr. MacDonald joined the Navy during World War II. He served as an aviation radioman. After the war ended, he graduated from Boston University and joined the CIA.
He enjoyed golf and singing and was once a member of a barbershop quartet. He loved to read.
His first wife, Rosa Lovis MacDonald, died in 1967.
Survivors include his wife of 24 years, Lourdes MacDonald of Vienna; two daughters from his first marriage, Melinda MacDonald and Melani MacDonald, both of Fairfax; a daughter from his second marriage, Lauren MacDonald of Vienna; a sister, Beverly MacDonald of Washington; and two brothers, Robert MacDonald of Cape Town, South Africa, and Myles MacDonald of Florida.
John PickardUrban Planner, MusicianJohn Pickard, 62, who had an urban planning practice and also was a singer and musician, died Oct. 1 of cancer at his home in Bethesda.
Mr. Pickard came to the Washington area in 1971 and worked with Barton-Aschman Associates and other urban planning firms for about 10 years. He was a consultant to Metro in the early 1970s.
In the early 1980s, he established an urban planning practice under the name of John Pickard Associates. He worked on designing several communities in Northern Virginia, most notably the Broadlands and Lansdowne on the Potomac, both in Loudoun County. He also worked on downtown revitalization plans for Gaithersburg, Annapolis and Alexandria.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Mr. Pickard did a considerable amount of work in Armenia, Russia and Ukraine. As a consultant to the World Bank, he helped develop plans for privatizing housing and spent three years in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the mid-1990s. He also worked in India, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian territories. He retired in 2005.
Mr. Pickard was born in Leicester, England, and received a bachelor's degree in architecture and a master's degree in civic design, both from the University of Liverpool. After coming to the United States in 1968, he received a master's degree in urban planning from the University of Illinois the following year.
Mr. Pickard was an accomplished pianist and singer who sang bass with the Choral Arts Society of Washington. He also composed music for his church and for family occasions.
He was a member of St. Columba's Episcopal Church in Washington.
Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Patricia Pickard of Bethesda; a daughter, Claire Slabaugh of Bethesda; a sister; and two grandchildren.