Saturday, December 16, 2006
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, LawyerWilliam 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.
After retiring from the FDIC, Mr. Carley taught accounting at Northern Virginia Community College in Manassas for nine years. He also volunteered at Fauquier Hospital, with AARP as a tax aide and at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Bristow, where he was a member.
He enjoyed reading a good book and could be heard whistling a happy tune, his family said.
Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Busra Carley of Bristow; two children, Kathleen Unterkofler of Fairfax and Patrick Carley of Lansing, Kan.; a sister, Eileen Hinton of Silver Spring; and three grandchildren.
Jane Rowley CarneySchool SecretaryJane Rowley Carney, 88, a school secretary, volunteer and church member, died of pancreatic cancer Dec. 7 at her Arlington home.
Mrs. Carney was born in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., and attended Skidmore College. She lived in Texas, New York, Michigan and Virginia, and she worked in Arlington County schools as a secretary and crossing guard in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1979, Mrs. Carney retired to Leesburg, where she was treasurer for the Loudoun County Salvation Army in the late 1980s and early 1990s and volunteered at Loudoun Inter-Faith Relief. She also was a member of Leesburg United Methodist Church. She moved back to Arlington in 2004.
She was a watercolorist, and her quilts and other needlework frequently won prizes in local competitions.
Her husband, Francis X. Carney, died in 1999.
Survivors include four children, Beth Anne Carney McCarthy of Falls Church, John F. Carney of Vienna, George B. Carney of Luray, Va., and Steven R. Carney of Falls Church; three grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Frank P. DeCarloEngineerFrank P. DeCarlo, 78, an engineer with Western Electric and AT&T, died of complications from diabetes and heart disease Dec. 8 at Howard County General Hospital. He lived in Columbia.
Mr. DeCarlo, a native Washingtonian, graduated from St. John's College High School in the District and served in the Army from 1951 to 1956. He retired in the early 1990s and was active in the AT&T Pioneers of America organization.
Survivors include a sister, Marie Welsh of Laurel; and a brother, Anthony DeCarlo of Silver Spring.
Peter B. McWhiteContracting ExecutivePeter Bartow McWhite, 66, the president and chief executive of Rockville-based Engineering Insights, a company that mostly did defense contracting work, died Dec. 7 at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego after his car collided with another.
A spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said Mr. McWhite was driving east on state Highway 52 in San Diego County when he had an apparent heart attack. The spokesman said Mr. McWhite's car drifted into oncoming traffic. Mr. McWhite was the only person injured, and the incident remains under investigation.
After Naval service in the 1960s, Mr. McWhite became a specialist in operations research -- a branch of mathematical analysis -- at the Center for Naval Analysis and General Research Corp. He founded Engineering Insights about 1990.
The son of a Naval officer, Mr. McWhite was born in Harrisonburg, Va., and raised in Annapolis. He was a 1958 graduate of Annapolis High School and a 1962 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.
He went on to graduate from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and received a doctorate in operations research from the University of Florida in 1973.
A Vietnam War veteran, he left active duty in 1970 and retired from the Naval Reserve in 1991 as a captain.
A Potomac resident, he was a member of Faith United Methodist Church in Rockville and a former president of the Potomac-Bethesda Rotary Club.
He volunteered with Montgomery Hospice until his multiple sclerosis prevented him from continuing.
His first wife, Anne McClaughry McWhite, whom he married in 1962, died in 1985.
Survivors include his wife of 19 years, Melinda Falgout McWhite of Potomac; two children from his first marriage, John F. McWhite of Denver and Mary M. Teather of Elkton, Md.; a daughter from his second marriage, Claire D. McWhite of Potomac; a sister, Martha M. Johnson of Rockville; and two grandchildren.
Florence A. WhiteFBI SpecialistFlorence A. White, 79, a former Washington resident who was an intelligence research specialist for the FBI, died Dec. 11 at the Samaritan Keep Home in Watertown, N.Y. She had Parkinson's disease.
Miss White was born in Scranton, Pa., and attended schools in Scranton until the family moved to Utica, N.Y.
In 1950, she moved to Washington, where she joined the FBI. While working, she graduated from Georgetown University, and she received a master's degree in liberal studies there in 1983. She retired from the FBI in 1992, after 43 years.
She was a member of St. Matthew's Cathedral in the District.
She moved to Watertown to join her two sisters in 2003.
Survivors include her sisters, Margaret M. White and Helen R. White; and a brother, Alfred J. White of Washington.