Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Richard S. MoreyLaw Firm Partner
Richard Stephen Morey, 68, a senior partner with the law firm Kleinfeld, Kaplan & Becker in Washington and whose clients were chiefly food and drug manufacturers that had regulatory disputes with the Food and Drug Administration, died Oct. 26 at his home in Potomac. He had cancer.
Mr. Morey formerly spent more than 10 years as an adjunct professor at George Mason University law school, where he taught food and drug law.
He was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a 1960 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. After naval service, he was a 1966 magna cum laude graduate of Columbia University law school, where he was editor of the law review and a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar.
He was an associate at Covington & Burling before joining Kleinfeld, Kaplan & Becker in 1974.
He was a deacon at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church in Washington. His avocations included rowing and traveling.
His marriage to Harriet Anne Wilson Morey ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife of 27 years, Helen Berkman Morey of Potomac; two children from his first marriage, Thomas C. Morey of Potomac and H. Marie Morey of Bethesda; three stepchildren, Susan I. Mills of Cambridge, Mass., Matthew D. Berkman of Burke and Michael S. Berkman of Washington; a sister, Beverly S. Williams of York, Maine; a brother, David E. Morey of Washington; and two grandchildren.
Donald J. MaccallumMinisterThe Rev. Donald J. Maccallum, 84, a retired minister who established the United Church Center for Community Ministries (now Community Ministries of Rockville), died Oct. 21 of pneumonia and lung cancer at the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers, Mass. A former resident of Rockville and Gaithersburg, he had lived in Hampton, Mass., since 1991.
Rev. Maccallum was born in Cambridge, Mass., and grew up in Arlington, Mass. He graduated from Tufts University in 1943 and received a bachelor of divinity degree from Pacific School of Religion in 1946 and a master's degree in sacred theology from Harvard Divinity School in 1949.
Ordained in 1946, he served congregations in California and Massachusetts before moving to Rockville in 1966. In 1967, he initiated the merger of local United Church of Christ and United Presbyterian congregations. The resulting United Church Center for Community Ministries, which he directed for five years, became an advocate for the disadvantaged in the area.
Deeply involved with the problems of juvenile delinquency and drug abuse, he was appointed director of the Montgomery County Office of Drug Control in 1971. He occasionally took residents and officials on poverty tours, exposing them to isolated areas of the county where people lived in shacks with no running water or electricity.
He studied criminology and drug abuse at the University of Maryland and San Francisco State University and published articles and delivered lectures on youth problems and drug-abuse issues.
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 MinisterJohn 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 NurseMarlene 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.
Survivors include a daughter, Patricia "Bunny" Shannon-Hasse of Orlando; and a brother.
John M. VendittiCancer ResearcherJohn M. Venditti, 79, former chief of the drug evaluation branch of the National Cancer Institute, died of congestive heart failure Oct. 21 at his home in Bethesda.
For 26 years, Dr. Venditti, an expert on drug interactions, ran the NCI's drug evaluation branch, and for 20 of those years he was director of the NCI's anticancer drug screening program, a worldwide network of research and development projects. In 1983, he established the National Cooperative Drug Discovery Groups, a consortium of academic, industrial and governmental organizations, to mobilize top scientists in the fight against cancer.
Born in Baltimore, Dr. Venditti graduated from the University of Maryland and received a doctoral degree in pharmacology in 1965 from George Washington University's Medical Center for Biomedical Sciences.
He retired from NCI in 1987 after serving as U.S. delegate to the First International Conference on Anticancer Screening Methodology and to the Anticancer Screening Panel of the World Health Organization. He then worked in the private sector as vice president and director of research at Microbiotest Inc. of Sterling, senior associate at Technical Resources International Inc. of Rockville and senior scientist at SAIC-Frederick Inc., from which he retired about six months ago.
Dr. Venditti wrote more than 160 scientific publications and book chapters on cancer research and had been scientific editor of the journal "Cancer Chemotherapy Reports.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Nancy Venditti of Bethesda; three children, Nancy V. Gauss of Gunnison, Colo., the Rev. J. Michael Venditti of Allentown, Pa., and Mary Ruth Yao of Silver Spring; and three grandchildren.
Wilbur H. EskiteNOAA Senior ExecutiveWilbur Henry Eskite, 78, a senior executive at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who did planning work on the Landsat and Seasat satellite systems, died Oct. 27 at Frederick Memorial Hospital. He had lung cancer.
Mr. Eskite worked for NOAA and a predecessor agency in the Commerce Department from 1963 to 1987.
He was born in Gallup, N.M., and raised in Washington, where he graduated from McKinley Technical High School.
After serving with the Army military police in occupied post-World War II Japan, he graduated from George Washington University in 1953 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
He spent seven years as a cartographer for Cartographics Inc. in Washington and worked for other businesses before joining the government.
Mr. Eskite, a Mount Airy resident, enjoyed woodworking, jewelry making, silversmithing and genealogy.
Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Betty Cameron Eskite of Mount Airy; three children, Richard C. Eskite of Pacifica, Calif., Susan J. Eskite of Gaithersburg and Ross A. Eskite of Monrovia; eight grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
Frederick W. FosterProbation, Parole OfficerFrederick Walter Foster, 83, who spent 20 years as a probation and parole officer at U.S. District Court in Washington before retiring in 1986, died Oct. 19 at ManorCare Fair Oaks nursing home in Fairfax County. He had Alzheimer's disease.
Mr. Foster, a Fairfax City resident, was a native of Providence, R.I., and a 1951 graduate of Providence College.
He served in the Navy in the South Pacific during World War II and was recalled to active duty in the early 1950s. He became an aviator, left active duty in 1958 and retired from the reserve in 1973 at the rank of commander.
He was a probation officer in Rhode Island before settling in the Washington area in 1966.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Mary Elizabeth Rettenmyer "Bette" Foster of Fairfax City; three sons, Eric J. Foster of the Alexandria section of Fairfax County, Kirk S. Foster of Nokesville and Alan H. Foster of Dulles; and five grandchildren.
Eileen Sheila LindeCustomer Support RepresentativeEileen Sheila Linde, 77, who worked in customer support for eight years at HomeTech, a Bethesda company that provides software, books and seminars for home remodelers, died Oct. 14 of complications of a heart attack at Suburban Hospital.
She was born Eileen Sheila Dhanda in Oxford, England, and at age 2 moved with her parents to her father's hometown of Indore, India. When she was 5, she returned with her mother to Oxford.
In 1947, she moved to California, where she received a bachelor's degree from Mills College in Oakland. She received a master's degree in American history from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass., in 1952.
Mrs. Linde moved to Washington and worked in cultural affairs at the Indian Embassy, as a program officer the American Council on Education and as a program assistant for the Government Affairs Institute for five years. She married and was a homemaker until after her children grew up.
She was a lifelong Democrat.
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 PlannerLeRoy 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.