Friday, November 24, 2006
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. OrganizationsOlga 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.
She was a charter member of the Assistance League of Northern Virginia, a social service organization benefiting primarily young people and the elderly. She volunteered with Hunters Woods Fellowship House in Reston, assisting people with disabilities, and with the Greater Reston Newcomers and Neighbors Club.
She was also a member of the League of Women Voters and St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Reston.
Mrs. Daly was born in Syracuse, N.Y., and graduated cum laude from Syracuse University in 1948. She worked in radio, television and public relations in Syracuse for several years and was director of membership and publicity for the Syracuse YWCA from 1951 to 1953. She was director of public affairs at Le Moyne College in Syracuse from 1970 to 1972.
Her husband of 41 years, Mark Towse Daly, died in 1995.
Survivors include five children, Mark T. Daly Jr. of Tucson, John J. Daly of Irvine, Calif., Ann Daly McNerney of Oakton, Mary Elizabeth Daly of Alexandria and Patricia Daly Olsen of Grand Forks, N.D.; two sisters; and nine grandchildren.
Helen M. DanielsEnglish College ProfessorHelen M. Daniels, 48, a college professor who studied for the ministry, died after a heart attack Nov. 17 at her home in Catonsville, Md.
Ms. Daniels taught English at the Community College of Baltimore County in Catonsville from 1998 to 2005 while she was studying at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington. She recently completed her clergy candidacy at Metropolitan Community Church in Baltimore, where she was also a board member.
Born in Laredo, Tex., she graduated from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and received a master's degree in creative writing in 1980 from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where she also did doctoral work. She taught at Hunter College in New York before moving to Maryland in 1998.
Survivors include her father, Daniel H. Daniels of Beaufort, S.C.; three sisters, Ann Zinsser of Silver Spring, Cindi Freilinger of Canton, Conn., and Frances Culley of Pittsburgh.
Doris B. KrezellExecutive Secretary, Church Volunteer
Doris Berry Krezell, 89, an executive secretary, died of pneumonia Nov. 17 at Washington Adventist Hospital. She lived at her daughter's home in College Park.
Mrs. Krezell was a sixth-generation Washingtonian. She grew up in Southwest Washington and graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School.
She worked as an executive secretary for the Justice Department, Houses by Hughes Realty, Notre Dame Academy and Trinity University, from which she retired in 1994.
She volunteered at Holy Redeemer Catholic School and Church in College Park and enjoyed playing bridge and gardening.
Her husband, Stanley W. Krezell, died in 1951.
Survivors include two children, Charles Krezell of New York and Janet Cavanagh of College Park, and a grandson.