Obituaries

Rev. Maccallum left Rockville in 1981 and, in retirement, received a doctorate from Andover-Newton Theological School in 1990. His marriage to Alyce Maccallum ended in divorce.

Survivors include two children, Priscilla Maccallum of Hampton and Victor Maccallum of Glen Burnie; and a sister.

John Howard KeithleyLutheran Minister

John Howard Keithley, 84, a Lutheran minister, died of a heart attack Oct. 27 at Kettering Memorial Hospital in Kettering, Ohio. He lived in Dayton.

Rev. Keithley, a native Washingtonian, graduated from Eastern High School and played the trumpet in several local bands in his youth. He served in the Marine Corps in the South Pacific during World War II and was recalled to duty during the Korean War, stationed in the United States.

He worked for C&P Telephone Co. for 21 years, working his way up to the job of PBX installer, which took him to many government buildings, including the Pentagon and CIA headquarters. He took night classes at the University of Maryland and in 1966 graduated from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Two years later, he graduated from the Hamma School of Theology at Wittenberg and was ordained a Lutheran minister.

In Ohio, he was pastor at several churches and chaplain of the Jefferson Township Fire Department. He retired in 1990.

Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Lois Reckeweg Keithley of Dayton; four children, Kathy Browning of Kettering, Linda Bechtol and Donna Rhyne, both of Miamisburg, Ohio, and Steve Keithley of Celina, Ohio; two sisters, Marian Jones of St. Inigoes and Ruth Hutt of Brandywine; and six grandchildren.

Marlene ShannonArlington Nurse

Marlene Grenna Shannon, 84, who spent 20 years at Northern Virginia Doctors Hospital in Arlington before retiring as a head nurse in 1987, died Oct. 26 at Manor Care nursing home in Arlington. She had congestive heart failure.

In the late 1940s, Mrs. Shannon was a staff nurse at the old Doctors Hospital in Washington. She went on to work as a private-duty nurse at Georgetown University Hospital, where she assisted kidney specialist George Schreiner and surgeon Charles A. Hufnagel, who helped invent a plastic heart valve.

She later was an office nurse for Anthony R. DiSario, an internist and cardiologist who practiced medicine in Arlington.

The daughter of Czech immigrants, Mrs. Shannon was born in Smock, Pa., and was a 1941 graduate of the Brownsville (Pa.) Hospital nursing school. She was a member of the Catholic Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. A longtime Arlington resident, she moved to the nursing home a year ago.

Her husband of 52 years, Anthony J. "Pat" Shannon, died in 1997.