Obituaries

Emanuel 'Bud' Lehman Jr.Credit Manager

Emanuel "Bud" Lehman Jr., 88, a longtime district credit manager with a Falls Church plumbing and heating supply company and a former president of the National Association of Credit Management, died Dec. 18 at Inova Fairfax Hospital of head injuries suffered in a fall at his home in Fairfax City.

Mr. Lehman was born in Richmond. After high school, he worked as a cost accountant for the Southern Biscuit Co. During World War II, he served with the Army in five European battle campaigns and received the Bronze Star.

In 1947, he became a district credit manager for Noland Co. Inc., a plumbing and heating supply company in Falls Church. He also served as Noland's assistant secretary for the Maryland, D.C. and Northern Virginia branches. He retired in 1983.

In 1968-69, Mr. Lehman served as president of the Credit Management Association of Greater Washington and from 1976 to 1978 as vice president of the eastern division of the National Association of Credit Management. In 1979, he was the international president of NACM and traveled more than 125,000 miles worldwide during his tenure.

Mr. Lehman served two terms as president of the Country Club of Fairfax. He was a longtime member of the Kiwanis Club of Arlington, serving as president in 1971-72 and as lieutenant governor of the 20th Division, Capitol District Kiwanis in 1985-86. He also served on the advisory board of the Salvation Army and was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church in Falls Church.

His first wife, Elizabeth Smith Lehman, died in 1973.

Survivors include his wife of 30 years, Caroline Lehman of Fairfax City; a son from his first marriage, Richard W. Lehman of Seattle; three stepchildren, Don Gibson and Gary Gibson, both of Fairfax City, and Linda Matter of Burke; and six grandchildren.

Nelia Badilla ForestProgram Assistant

Nelia Badilla Forest, 50, a program assistant at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, died Nov. 28 at her family home in Salinas, Calif. She had a rare form of peritoneal-abdominal cancer.

Ms. Forest, a Silver Spring resident, worked in the center's environmental change and security program from 2003 until February. Previously, she was a teaching assistant at the University of California Washington Center. She came to Washington in 2000 for a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sea grant fellowship.

She was born into a military family in Sendai, Japan, where her father, a sergeant in the Army, was stationed. She lived at times in Germany, Hawaii, Colorado, Georgia and Salinas.

She received a bachelor's degree in 1989 and a master's degree in 1995, both in landscape architectural from the University of California-Berkeley.

Ms. Forest, who was passionate about coral reef ecosystems and coastal resource management, was nearing completion of her doctorate in geography at the time of her diagnosis. She received a master's degree in geography from UC-Berkeley in 2004.