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Obituaries
He was a past president of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and a member of the American Legion Post 268 in Wheaton.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Martha B. Mucci of Wheaton; two children, Marilyn A. Woodall of Chesapeake, Va., and Michael A. Mucci Jr. of Brookeville; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Ronald R. ConnerEconomist
Ronald R. Conner, 50, an economist and water resources planner with the Army Corps of Engineers, died of liver cancer Jan. 6 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. He lived in Silver Spring.
Mr. Connor worked as a senior economist for the Corps' Institute for Water Resources at Fort Belvoir since 2002. He helped establish the Interagency Flood Hazard Advisory teams and developed flood risk management initiatives for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Association of Flood and Stormwater Management Agencies and the Association of State Floodplain Managers.
He also served as U.S. Section secretary of the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses.
Mr. Conner was born in Oxnard, Calif., and joined the Navy out of high school. He later graduated from the University of La Verne in California and began working for the Corps of Engineers in Los Angeles as an economist, rising to chief of the economics and social analysis branch.
He moved to Washington in 1995 to work for the Corps' directorate of civil works in the planning and policy division. He was also an emergency response program manager at the Corps' headquarters. He received the agency's Leadership Award for Excellence and its Commander's Award for Civilian Service.
Mr. Conner was a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a season ticket holder to the D.C. United soccer team. He enjoyed traveling overseas, with trips to Iceland, Scotland, Greece, Turkey, China, Japan, Bermuda, Italy and Switzerland.
He had no immediate survivors.
Charles W. Humphreys Jr.Internal Medicine Doctor
Charles W. Humphreys Jr., 80, an internal medicine doctor who had a private practice in Washington from 1955 to 1987, died Jan. 5 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had pulmonary fibrosis and pneumonia.
Overlapping with his private practice, Dr. Humphreys was a clinical professor of internal medicine at George Washington University, a senior aviation medical examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration, a medical adviser to the Board of Veterans' Appeals at the Department of Veterans Affairs and attending physician to senior medical staff at Sibley and Washington Hospital Center.
Charles Wesley Humphreys Jr. was born in Roanoke and grew up in Washington, where he was a 1943 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School. During World War II, he served in the Navy's V-12 program at Duke University. He was a 1949 graduate of the University of Maryland medical school in Baltimore.
He was a Japan-based Air Force flight surgeon during the Korean War before completing his internship and residency at the old Garfield Memorial Hospital in Washington. He also had a two-year fellowship in internal medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Humphreys, a Bethesda resident, enjoyed visiting Civil War battlefields. Using his collection of old maps, he would trace troop movements as he hiked the terrain with his family. He also camped at parks in North America.
Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Shirley Charles Humphreys of Bethesda; four children, Eric Humphreys of Columbia, Jane H. Sayler of St. Petersburg, Fla., Bruce Humphreys of Bend, Ore., and Sara E. Sheppard of Silver Spring; and four grandchildren.
S.G. 'Jay' StackigAdvertising Company Founder
S.G. "Jay" Stackig, 80, who founded a Washington area advertising and public relations business long known as Stackig, Sanderson and White Inc. that specialized in high-tech and defense clients, died Jan. 6 at his Marshall farmhouse in Fauquier County. He had cancer.
When Mr. Stackig started the firm in Washington in 1960, he hoped to attract new clients by recruiting friends and neighbors to pretend to be staff members of an established, bustling office. His gamble worked. By the time he sold the company in 1987, it reportedly had annual billings of more than $45 million and a staff of 73 in offices in McLean and Melbourne, Fla.
Among the major clients were federal agencies as well as BDM International, an information technology company; Thomson CGR, a manufacturer of medical-imaging equipment; and NEC America, a maker of telecommunications equipment.
Sven Goran Stackig was a 6-foot-6, flamboyant Swede who spoke often about his beginnings in the United States as a janitor at the Swedish Embassy in Washington. Born in Uppsala, Sweden, he was raised by a single mother and immigrated to the United States in 1946.
He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from American University in 1949 and, having received U.S. citizenship, served in the Air Force from 1952 to 1954. He was assigned to a psychological warfare unit in Idaho.
After his military service, he was a sales representative for a lawn equipment company. On a swing through Texas, he developed an appreciation for cowboy hats. In later years, he was known for his sea captain headgear as well as his ownership of a variety of boats.
He was an account executive at the M. Belmont Ver Standig advertising agency before starting his own business.
He also was a founder, in 1969, of Bethesda-based Scientific Time Sharing Corp., which became one of the country's largest computer service companies. He and his second wife also started a land development company in Culpeper. Mr. Stackig designed, built or renovated every house he lived in, from Virginia to the Florida Keys.
His marriage to Beverly Beckett Stackig ended in divorce. A son from that marriage, Stefan Stackig, died in 1979.
Survivors include his wife, Annette Dodd Stackig, whom he married in 1968, of Marshall; a daughter from his first marriage, Viveca Morris of Winston-Salem, N.C.; two stepsons, Frank Dodd of Boston, Va., and Bruce Dodd of Rapidan, Va.; seven grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
Edward L. HuntResearch Psychologist
Edward L. Hunt, 82, a retired research psychologist at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research who studied the biological effects of electromagnetic radiation, died Dec. 29 at his home in Olney. He had metastatic melanoma.
Mr. Hunt worked at the institute from 1975 to 1988, spending the first two years as chief of the microwave research department. His research on non-ionizing radiation, which includes microwaves and radio waves, helped establish standards in the field of bioelectromagnetic research and determine safe exposure levels for humans.
Edward Lawrence Hunt was a native of East Lansing, Mich., and a 1946 philosophy and psychology graduate of Michigan State University. He did graduate work in psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles.
He spent much of his early career as a biological and experimental research psychologist at the old Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory in San Francisco. He received a lab award for his work on X-rays and their effect on the nervous system.
From 1969 to 1975, he was a research psychologist at Battelle-Northwest in Richland, Wash., and helped develop a powerful measuring device called a twin-well calorimeter to measure amounts of absorbed microwave energy.
With Donald J. Kimeldorf, he wrote "Ionizing Radiation: Neural Function and Behavior" (1965). Mr. Hunt also had articles about ionizing radiation published in such journals as Nature and Science.
He was a founding member, first secretary and treasurer of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, an organization of scientists who study electromagnetics. He also held roles on public policy advisory committees for the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal and scientific bodies.
He was a member of the Randolph Lions Club in Rockville, where he did fundraising work to help the needy buy glasses. He also had a key role in the growth of Lions Camp Merrick in Charles County.
His avocations included gardening, salmon fishing, camping, polka dancing and hosting crab feeds.
His marriage to Shirley Williams Hunt ended in divorce.
Survivors include his partner, Peggy White of Olney; a daughter from his first marriage, Stephanie Hunt of San Francisco; and a son he helped raise with White, Joshua Rose of Olney.
