Obituaries

She was a 1937 graduate of Immaculata Seminary in Washington and received a bachelor's degree from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana.

During World War II, she did cryptography work in Scotland, London and Italy for the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Her husband, Frank A. Robey Jr., whom she married in 1948, died in 2000.

Survivors include eight children, Marie R. Wood of Chevy Chase; John Christopher Robey of Germantown; Philip V. Robey of Washington; Ann B. Robey and Dr. James W. Robey, both of Kensington; and Frank A. Robey III, Peter E. Robey and Richard B. Robey, all of Bethesda; and 16 grandchildren.

Margaret HarrisonVolunteer

Margaret Harrison, 88, a former president of the East Bethesda Citizens Association and the Bethesda Chevy-Chase Citizens Advisory Board, died Dec. 23 at Suburban Hospital. She had pneumonia.

Mrs. Harrison, a Bethesda resident since 1959, was active in local scouting troops in the 1960s. A former chemist, she led a panel for the Montgomery County Tuberculosis and Heart Association and edited the booklet "You and Your Heart."

She headed the East Bethesda Citizens Association in the 1970s and the Bethesda Chevy-Chase Citizens Advisory Board in the early 1980s. In the 1990s, she oversaw the landscape committee at Whitehall condominiums in Bethesda.

She received the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce's Community Service Award in 1982.

Margaret Leadbeater was born in Northampton, England, and graduated in the 1930s from Kings College of the University of London. She became a U.S. citizen in 1969.

During World War II, she worked in London as a senior chemist with J. Lyons & Co., a catering and food manufacturing business. She volunteered in air raid shelters during the war.

Living after the war in Lake County, Ill., she helped detect pollution at a lake near her home. Within a few years, partly at her urging, the county started a health department.

She settled in Bethesda in 1959 and was a member of the Potomac Craftsmen Guild. She enjoyed weaving and lacework as well as gardening and going on mushroom walks.