Obituaries

John Paul Guttenberg Jr.Federal Immigration Official

John Paul Guttenberg Jr., 69, a federal immigration official who was previously president of a Washington public relations firm, died Nov. 11 of cancer at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He lived in Alexandria.

At his death, Mr. Guttenberg was chief learning officer in a branch of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security. He was leading efforts to restructure the office's training program.

Mr. Guttenberg first worked with the old Immigration and Naturalization Service -- renamed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2003 -- as a management consultant in 1996. He helped restructure the agency's information technology program and developed programs for INS training and career development.

From 1976 to 1996, he was president of Guttenberg & Co., a public relations consulting firm specializing in high technology, telecommunications, international trade, financial services and education.

Before forming the public relations company, Mr. Guttenberg was Washington vice president of Datran (Data Transmission Co.), a Vienna company that built early digital transmission systems.

Mr. Guttenberg came to the Washington area in 1971 as vice president for public affairs of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. He had been a public relations executive with Xerox Corp. and an assistant to the president of Clark University in Worcester, Mass.

Mr. Guttenberg was born in Rochester, N.Y., and graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. He served in the Navy for four years.

He was a member of the Public Relations Society of America and the International Association of Business Communicators.

He wrote widely on such diverse subjects as the information age and art and antiques and was a columnist with Washington Business Journal for several years. He was a member of the board of directors of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, an environmental preservation group, and was immediate past president of the George Town Club in Washington.

Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Diana Guttenberg of Alexandria; two daughters, Karen Jaslow of Arlington and Jennifer Brough of Columbia, S.C.; and five grandchildren.

Olga Guercio DalyVolunteer With N.Va. Organizations

Olga Guercio Daly, 80, a volunteer with several Northern Virginia organizations, died Nov. 19 at Inova Fairfax Hospital of complications from injuries suffered in an automobile accident Nov. 6 in Loudoun County. She lived at Leisure World in Leesburg.

Mrs. Daly lived in Fairfax County from 1972 to 1979 and retired to Herndon with her husband in 1989. She moved to Leisure World four years ago.