Obituaries

She was a Woodbridge resident and a member of the Polish National Alliance, a heritage group.

Survivors include her husband of 35 years, Paul Perdue Sr. of Woodbridge; a son, Paul Perdue Jr. of Manassas; three sisters, Benia Grygent of Point Pleasant, N.J., Tania Baldauf of Port Orange, Fla., and Maria Smith of Alexandria; two brothers, Ben Filipczyk of Chevy Chase and Mike Filipczyk of the Alexandria part of Fairfax County; and three grandchildren.

R. Blair Richards Jr.Defense Department Official

R. Blair Richards Jr., 56, a Bethesda resident who since 2003 had been supervisor of the printing and production staff at the Defense Intelligence Agency, died Nov. 8 at Casey House hospice in Rockville. He had cancer.

Before joining the Defense Department, Mr. Richards spent four years as director of art and production at PostNewsweek Tech Media, a company that publishes Government Computer News and other magazines for government employees.

Earlier, he was involved in design and production work at the National Geographic Society in Washington, Hallmark Cards Inc. in Kansas City, Mo., the Phillips magazine publishing group in Potomac and the American Trucking Association in Alexandria.

Robert Blair Richards Jr. was born in Washington and raised in Bethesda, where he was a 1969 graduate of Walt Whitman High School.

He received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Randolph-Macon College in 1973, where he was in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity, and a master's degree in printing and technology from the Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology in 1984.

He was on Randolph-Macon's swimming team and later participated in triathlons supporting the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic.

Survivors include his parents, R. Blair Richards and Maxine Richards, of Gaithersburg; three sisters, Genevieve Gilday of Kensington and Leslie Wright and Barbara Casey, both of Bethesda; and three brothers, John Richards of Bethesda and Stewart Richards and Kim Richards, both of Silver Spring.

John Henry MendenhallArmy Officer, Psychologist

John Henry Mendenhall, 80, a retired Army colonel, clinical psychologist and computer programmer, died Nov. 1 of failure to thrive at Redstone Village, an assisted living facility in Huntsville, Ala. He was a former resident of Vienna and Montgomery County.

Col. Mendenhall was born in Baltimore and grew up in Orlando. He enlisted in the Navy in 1943 and served 14 months aboard the cruiser USS Helena. He was discharged in 1946. He received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Duke University in 1948, a master's degree from the College of William & Mary and a doctorate from Georgia State University, both in psychology. He worked as a clinical and school psychologist.

He received an Army commission in 1951 and flew medevac helicopters for two years in Vietnam. He received the Bronze Star and a number of other medals and retired in 1976.