Obituaries

Ms. O'Neill retired in 2004 and received the Career Intelligence Medal. In retirement, she worked as a contractor for BDS Corp.

Survivors include her father, John E. O'Neill Sr., and a brother, John E. O'Neill Jr., both of Arlington.

Dale FrySocial Services Official

Dale Fry, 51, director of the early Head Start program for the Family Services Agency of Montgomery County Inc., died Dec. 29 at her home in Germantown. She had gastric cancer.

Mrs. Fry joined the Family Services Agency in 2002 and became director of the early Head Start program the next year.

Before joining the agency, she worked for two years for the federally funded Women, Infants and Children program administered by Montgomery County's health department.

Dale McGee was born in Elkton, in Cecil County, Md., and raised partly in the Philippines, where her father was a civilian employee of the U.S. Coast Guard. She graduated from Gaithersburg High School in 1973.

She was a 1977 health education graduate of Towson University. Before her recent illness, she did graduate work in curriculum and instruction at Hood College in Frederick.

From 1979 to 1987, she was a health education teacher in Howard County. She then spent 14 years as a coordinator with a Montgomery public schools program for young children and their parents.

Survivors include her husband, Rodney Fry, and two children, Shannon Fry and Wesley Fry, all of Germantown; three sisters, Wanda Anastasi of Rockville, Cora Rencher of Arlington, Tex., and Sandi McGee of Potomac; and two brothers, Walter Nelson McGee of Hagerstown and Larry McGee of Frederick.