Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Timothy V.A. DillonLawyer
Timothy V.A. Dillon, 89, a Washington lawyer who had a solo private practice specializing in environmental law, died of pneumonia Dec. 27 at the Washington Home hospice.
Mr. Dillon had a law practice in Washington for more than 60 years, most of that time in the Rust Building at 15th and K streets NW. He worked on water and environmental issues, representing California state and municipal agencies, including such major clients as the California Water Resources Board and the Westlands Water District.
Mr. Dillon was a Chicago native and a 1941 graduate of Loyola University. He received a law degree from Catholic University in Washington in 1944.
In the 1950s, he was a consultant to the Interior Department for the Virgin Island Corp., negotiating leases for businesses on federal land. He also did pro bono legal work over the years for indigent and elderly D.C. residents.
As a community volunteer, Mr. Dillon was instrumental in the founding of the Friends of the National Zoo. FONZ was formed while he was president of what is now the Cleveland Park Citizens Association, which organized a committee to propose ways to improve the condition of the zoo and its surrounding area.
Mr. Dillon was an active member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Washington. He also was an avid sailor and early member of the Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis.
Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Katherine Esdohr Dillon of Washington; five sons, James Dillon of Clovis, Calif., Brian Dillon of Arlington, Mark Dillon of Tampa, David Dillon of Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, and Anthony Dillon of Greensboro, N.C.; five daughters, Helen Dillon Boorman of Washington, Jane Dillon Engwall of Timonium, Lisa Dillon of Falmouth, Maine, Abigail Dillon Mullan of Bethesda and Katherine Dillon of New York; and 16 grandchildren.
A daughter, Anne Dillon, died in 1962.
Harold S. ChuProfessorHarold S. Chu, 82, a retired professor and director of the Center for Bilingual-Multicultural-ESL Education at George Mason University, died of cancer Dec. 11 at Capital Hospice in Arlington. He lived in Fairfax.
While a faculty member at George Mason from 1980 to 2002, Dr. Chu helped to solidify the university's bilingual education program. Among his responsibilities was grant writing to win government funding for the center, which awarded scholarships to graduate students preparing to become teachers of English as a second language.
He established faculty exchange programs with universities in Korea and Japan. He also wrote several books, contributed book chapters and published articles on language education and Asian and U.S. cultural issues, among other topics. In the late 1990s, he participated in the President's Initiative on Race, a national effort using dialogue in local communities to quell racial tensions.
Over the years, he received a number of professional honors and awards, including one in 1978 for volunteer work with D.C. public schools.
Born in Chunnam, South Korea, he served in the Korean army and worked with U.S. troops as an interpreter in the Korean War. He came to the United States in 1953 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1962.
He graduated from the University of Minnesota, where he also received a master's degree and a doctorate (Phi Kappa Phi), both in linguistics. He moved to Washington to teach at Georgetown University.
His marriage to Lori Chu ended in divorce.
A daughter, Diane Kaiser, died in 2004.
Survivors include his wife of 26 years, Moon Chu of Fairfax; two children from his first marriage, Michael Chu of Washington and Naomi Chu of Minneapolis; a sister; and a grandson.
Warwick Montgomery CarterBusinessmanWarwick Montgomery Carter, who was in the insurance business in Washington for 40 years and co-owned a small shopping center in Arlington, died Dec. 18 at Sibley Memorial Hospital of complications of pneumonia and Parkinson's disease. He was 79.
Mr. Carter, a chartered life insurance underwriter, worked for 40 years with American National Life Insurance Co. until 1990. He and his five brothers owned Lee Heights Shops on Lee Highway until selling the business in about 2003.
He was born in Newtown Square, Pa., and spent most of his life in Washington. He attended high school in Portsmouth, R.I., before graduating from Georgetown Preparatory School.
During World War II, he served in the Army with the U.S. occupation of Japan. He also served in the Army Reserve, retiring as a captain.
After the war, Mr. Carter graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a bachelor's degree in economics. He was a member of Delta Psi, St. Anthony Hall.
Mr. Carter, a dedicated genealogist, was proud of his family's heritage. His many notable ancestors included Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who signed the Declaration of Independence; John Carroll, who was the first Catholic bishop in the United States and founder of Georgetown University; and Daniel Carroll, of whom he was a direct descendant, who signed the U. S. Constitution and was appointed by George Washington as one of the first three commissioners of the District of Columbia.
He was also active in a number of local clubs and organizations, including the Metropolitan Club, the Chevy Chase Club, the Society of Colonial Wars and the Society of the Cincinnati.
Survivors include his wife of 44 years, Louise Cahill Carter of Washington and Palm Beach, Fla.; three children, Warwick M. Carter Jr., of Darien, Conn., Prescott C. Carter of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Lee C. Carter of Washington; five brothers, Newman Carter of McLean, William Carter of Tampa, C. Carroll Carter of Washington, Dr. Robert Lee Carter of McLean and Francis Carter of Alexandria; and four grandchildren.
Robert E. Ankers Jr.Engineer, D.C. Office ManagerRobert Emerson Ankers Jr., 87, an electrical engineer and retired manager of the Washington office of Technology for Communications International, a California-based manufacturer of antenna systems, died Dec. 30 at High Point Regional Hospital in North Carolina. He had pneumonia.
Mr. Ankers was born in Richmond and raised in Falls Church. He was a 1937 graduate of McKinley Technical High School in Washington.
He later was an electrical engineering graduate of North Carolina State University and spent many years as a staff engineer at Deco Electronics in Leesburg.
He served in the Navy on PT boats in the South Pacific during World War II. He moved to High Point from McLean about five years ago.
He was a former board member of Westover Baptist Church in Arlington County, where he once taught Sunday school.
His other memberships included the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Optimist Club of Arlington, the Masons, the Alexandria chapter of the Civil War Round Table and the Model A Ford Club of America.
He also was a trustee emeritus of Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia. His father was a graduate of the school.
Mr. Ankers's wife of 54 years, Betty Lathem Ankers, died in 1998.
Survivors include his wife, Nelda Learnard Ankers of Raleigh, N.C.; a daughter from his first marriage, Elizabeth Tuttle of High Point; a brother, Marvin Ankers of Harrisonburg, Va.; a sister, Margaret Miller of Ashland, Va.; and three grandsons.
Ann Healy RobeyChurch MemberAnn Healy Robey, 88, a native Washingtonian and member Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Kensington, where she was involved in volunteer work, died Dec. 28 at her home in Kensington. She had dementia.
Marguerite Ann Healy was a seventh-generation Washingtonian. She was orphaned by age 9 and was raised in the District by an aunt and uncle.
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 HarrisonVolunteerMargaret 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.
Survivors include her husband of 62 years, Stephen Harrison of Bethesda; two daughters, Barbara Harrison of Bethesda and Frances Stroscio of Myersville, Md.; two sisters; and three grandchildren.
Harlan G. MoenState Department, Film OfficialHarlan Glenn Moen, 74, a retired State Department Soviet and Eastern Europe specialist who became an executive with the Motion Picture Export Association of America, died Dec. 31 at his home in Washington. He had renal cell carcinoma.
Mr. Moen worked for the State Department from 1961 to 1986. Early on, he spent several years as special adviser to the U.S. ambassador in the Hague on U.S.-Soviet relations.
He also participated in strategic arms limitations talks and, in the early 1980s, served as a Vienna-based spokesman for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. His final assignment was political adviser to the commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the U.S. Space Command.
In 1986, he joined the motion picture organization, which represented the export interests of the U.S. film industry, and became senior vice president and managing director of the Brussels-based European office before retiring in 1995.
Mr. Moen was born in Milwaukee and served in the Army in France from 1953 to 1955.
He was a 1958 history and economics graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He received a master's degree in European political and economic integration from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in 1960 and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University in 1972.
His marriage to Dorothy Haase Moen ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife of 43 years, Maria Luisa Scaccianoce Moen of Washington; a daughter from his first marriage, Dana Furman of Cedarburg, Wis.; three children from his second marriage, Alexander G. Moen of Bethesda, Roberta Di Piazza of Milan, Italy, and Christian H. Moen of New York; and six grandchildren.