Obituaries

Mr. Donnelly was born in Lackawanna, N.Y., and raised in Watertown, Mass. He served in the Navy from 1964 to 1968 and was an electronics technician aboard the aircraft carrier Forrestal when on July 29, 1967, a rocket accidentally set the vessel on fire.

He served in the Navy Reserves from 1968 to 1993 and belonged to a Moose Lodge in Alexandria.

He lived until recently on a boat moored in Dewey Beach, Del.

His marriage to Beatrice Donnelly ended in divorce.

Survivors include two children, David Donnelly of Alexandria and Denise Donnelly of Centreville; a sister, Karen Skedgell of Alexandria; and two grandchildren.

Daphne M. WhiteNOAA Employee

Daphne M. White, 79, who worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1975 to 1993, retiring as a program specialist who played a role in creating the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Monterey, Calif., died Jan. 1 at the RiverMead Retirement Community in Peterborough, N.H. She had pneumonia.

Mrs. White spent most of her NOAA time in Washington, where she was a paralegal specialist, policy analyst, fishery management specialist, writer and editor. She received four outstanding performance awards from NOAA.

Daphne Milbank was born in Vancouver and raised in Burlingame, Calif. She attended Smith College in Massachusetts from 1944 to 1947 and graduated in 1962 with a bachelor's degree in political science. She received a master's degree in public affairs from American University in 1979.

She spent most of her early married life in Alaska, where her husband was president of Operation Statehood, a civic group advocating statehood for what was then a U.S. territory. She volunteered for Operation Statehood, helped write a model Alaska constitution and was involved in the League of Women Voters in Anchorage, among other activities.

She settled in the Washington area in 1967 to work for the League of Women Voters Education Fund. She was briefly communications director for the Public Affairs Council.

Mrs. White, a former Bethesda resident, moved to California in 1990 and to New Hampshire in 2004. She was a former director of the Alaska State Society in Washington and a former board member of the Youth Citizenship Fund, a voter registration organization.

Her marriage to Barrie M. White Jr. ended in divorce.