Obituaries
Obituaries
Saturday, December 16, 2006; Page B05
Annette H. ChappellReference Librarian
Annette H. Chappell, 91, who for many years lived abroad as a wife of a Foreign Service officer before working as a reference librarian in Montgomery County, died of congestive heart failure Nov. 28 at her home in North Hills, Calif.
Mrs. Chappell first moved to Washington in the 1930s when she worked in the Senate offices of Hattie Carraway and William J. Fulbright, both Democrats from Arkansas.
In the 1950s and 1960s, she and her husband, Joseph J. Chappell, lived in Cuba, Hong Kong and Toronto. During this time, she did volunteer work for charities and served as president of the American Women's Club in Hong Kong.
After her husband's death in 1962, Mrs. Chappell settled in Silver Spring and became an administrative aide at the International Center in Washington. Attending school at night, she received a master's degree in library science from the University of Maryland in 1970.
She worked as a reference librarian in Montgomery County for more than 10 years until her retirement in 1984. She moved to California the next year.
Mrs. Chappell was born in Little Rock, Ark. She attended Sweet Briar College before graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Arkansas.
She was president of the Washington Area Sweet Briar Alumni Association and a member of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington.
Survivors include four children, the Rev. Annette M. Chappell of Baltimore, Joseph J. Chappell of Tupelo, Miss., Harley Chappell of Silver Spring and Richard Russell Chappell of North Hills, Calif.; and two granddaughters.
William Patrick CarleyAccountant, Lawyer
William Patrick Carley, 75, an accountant and lawyer with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for 29 years, died of melanoma Nov. 28 at the University of Virginia Hospital. He lived in Bristow.
At the FDIC, Mr. Carley had oversight of bank examiners and was an ethics specialist. He also was special assistant to the Dallas regional director before retiring in 1995.
Mr. Carley was born in Washington and graduated from Gonzaga College High School. He served in the Marines from 1952 to 1954. He graduated first in his class in accounting from the University of Notre Dame in 1958.
Back in Washington, he worked as an accountant for Haskins & Sells and the Government Accounting Office. He taught at Strayer College while going to law school at Georgetown University, from which he graduated in 1966.
