Obituaries

Mrs. Mooney was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Rockville and did volunteer work for Meals on Wheels and St. Ann's Infant and Maternity Home in Hyattsville.

She was born in Washington and raised in Chevy Chase. She was a 1956 graduate of Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda and a 1960 graduate of Rosemont College in Pennsylvania. As a young woman, she excelled in horse-show exhibition jumping.

Her husband, William A. Mooney, whom she married in 1961, died in 2001.

Survivors include four children, William M. "Buzz" Mooney of Frederick, Maura E. Mooney of Rockville and Margaret "Magee" Mooney and Kathleen "Casey" Mooney, both of Berkeley, Calif.; two sisters, Mary Anne O'Donnell of Chevy Chase and Thomasine Schreier of Bethany Beach, Del.; a brother, Edwin P. "Ned" Schreier Jr. of Annapolis; and three grandchildren.

Carlos OrtegaAgriculture Department Officer

Carlos Juan Ortega, 87, who retired in 1984 as a top Agriculture Department administrator with the Food for Peace program in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, died Dec. 27 at his daughter's home in Maplewood, Minn. He had complications from a chronic subdural hematoma.

Mr. Ortega joined the Agriculture Department in 1946 and spent most of his career in the Foreign Agricultural Service. He was an agricultural attache in Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru before settling in the Washington area in 1975. He moved to Minnesota from Burke in 2003.

Mr. Ortega was born in Las Vegas, N.M. He attended New Mexico Highlands University and was a rural schoolteacher in Northern New Mexico. He served in the New Mexico National Guard. He did intelligence work for the Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II.

He received a bachelor's degree from George Washington University in 1975.

He was a former president of the USDA-Washington, D.C., chapter of the Hispanic American Culture Effort.

Survivors include his wife, Betty James Ortega of Maplewood, whom he married in 1944; three children, Elizabeth Aleman of Springfield, Amelia Ortega of St. Paul, Minn., and Dr. Richard Ortega of Columbia; a sister; a brother; four grandchildren; and a great-grandson.

Carroll T. RobinsonNSA Senior Executive

Carroll Thaddeus Robinson, 82, an electrical engineer who became a senior executive at the National Security Agency, died Dec. 22 at Providence Hospital. He had emphysema.

Starting in the late 1940s, Mr. Robinson worked for an Army Department predecessor of the NSA.