Obituaries

Her husband, Ernst Linde, died in 1998.

Survivors include three children, Michael Linde of Silver Spring and Sarah Linde-Feucht and Anita Linde, both of Kensington; and three grandchildren.

LeRoy D. 'Lee' SkillmanMetro Planner

LeRoy David "Lee" Skillman, 72, a site planner and senior development specialist for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority who later did consulting work for transit-related development, died Oct. 27 at his home in Columbia. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Mr. Skillman worked for Metro from 1970 to 1987, initially helping the subway system with early planning and community review processes. Later, he helped develop joint projects around Metro stations that focused new development at transit hubs.

After Metro, he formed a consulting business. He curtailed his work in the mid-1990s after being found to have Alzheimer's.

Mr. Skillman was a native of Deposit, N.Y., and a 1960 landscape architecture graduate of what is now the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.

Early in his career, he was a landscape architect for the National Park Service; a site planner with the General Services Administration's Public Building Service; and an acquisition and development specialist with the Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks.

His memberships included the American Institute of Certified Planners, the Urban Land Institute and the Church of St. John the Evangelist United Methodist/Presbyterian in Columbia.

Survivors include his wife of 45 years, Phyllis Westcott Skillman of Columbia; two daughters, Cameron Skillman of Ocean City and Lynn Skillman Gulley of Columbia; three brothers, Stewart Skillman of Columbia and John Skillman and William Chase Skillman, both of Silver Spring; a sister, Charlotte Kramer of Phoenix; and a grandson.