Obituaries
Obituaries
Thursday, January 25, 2007; Page B07
Estelle Frankel DruskinModeling Agency Owner
Estelle Frankel Druskin, 94, who was owner and director of the Model Guild Inc. for 17 years, died Dec. 24 at the Rockville Nursing Home of hypertensive heart disease as a complication of dementia.
Ms. Druskin was born in Waynesboro, Pa., and grew up in the District, where her parents operated Frankel's Style Shop until the late 1950s selling men's and women's clothing. She graduated from Central High School and the old Poteet Business School and went to George Washington University at night to study journalism. She later worked for a direct mail company and the federal government's Lend-Lease Administration, before marrying in 1940.
When her husband, David Druskin, died in 1949, she sold classified newspaper ads for a while and then worked for a modeling agency. She opened her own agency in 1957, where she mentored other women who became professional models, and ran summer programs for inner-city youth. She also staged fashion shows throughout the city.
After the riots in the late 1960s destroyed the building on 14th Street NW that housed her business, she relocated to Connecticut Avenue and opened a second office in Chevy Chase. She closed her business in 1974.
In retirement, she enjoyed traveling, reading, knitting and painting.
She was a former resident of Chevy Chase and Rockville.
Her husband of 11 years, Mark Pluguian, died in 1990.Survivors include three children from her first marriage, Judi Levine Goozh of Rockville, Ken Druskin of West Palm Beach, Fla., and Cindy Perlis of San Anselmo, Calif.; two stepdaughters, Claire Gilbert of Bethesda and Edith Frank of Morristown, N.J.; three sisters, Marion Krakow of Silver Spring, Frances Abramson of Bethesda and Dorothy Filderman of Rockville; 17 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Frank Paul LozuponeDIA Intelligence Analyst
Frank Paul Lozupone, 88, an intelligence analyst and senior manager who retired in 1973 after about 25 years with the Defense Intelligence Agency, died of a blood disorder Dec. 25 at the Springhouse at Westwood assisted-living facility in Bethesda.
Mr. Lozupone, who had lived in Bethesda since 1925, was born in Gioia del Colle, Bari, Italy. His parents had been in Italy for about four years, unable to return to their home in Washington until the end of World War I in 1918.
In 1936, Mr. Lozupone graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, where he played varsity basketball. He graduated with a degree in engineering from the University of Maryland in 1940 and went to work for the government surveying what is now Reagan National Airport.
When the United States entered World War II, he entered the Army and served in China as an airport engineer for Gen. Claire L. Chennault's Flying Tigers.
Mr. Lozupone was a longtime active member of St John's Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase, serving as Sunday school superintendent, senior warden and chairman of the stewardship and finance committees.
