Obituaries

Mr. Farmer lived in Falls Church for 37 years before moving to Annapolis in 2002.

He was born and raised in Watertown, N.Y. After serving in the Army during World War II, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also received a master's degree in civil engineering, in 1950. He received a doctorate in physical oceanography from the University of Washington in the late 1960s.

He was a member of the American Geophysical Union, the MIT Club of Washington, the Chesapeake Bay Tartan Sailing Club and St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Annapolis.

Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Sue Shafer Farmer of Annapolis; two sons, Harlow G. Farmer III of Houston and John C. Farmer of Boulder, Colo.; a daughter, Emily O. Farmer of Arlington, Mass.; a brother; a sister; and three grandchildren.

Wilbur P. YoungArmy Colonel, Teacher

Wilbur P. Young, 88, a retired Army colonel who taught business law in the 1970s at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, died Jan. 20 at Greenspring Village retirement community in Springfield. He had cancer.

Col. Young began Army service in 1942 and was in armored divisions in the Philippines and Germany during World War II. He also was a veteran of the Korean War.

He became a supply officer in the Quartermaster Corps, and his final active-duty assignment, in 1967, was in the office of the deputy chief of staff for logistics at the Pentagon. He then spent a few years doing defense contracting work as a military analyst.

His decorations included the Legion of Merit and two awards of the Bronze Star.

Wilbur Philip Young was a native of the Bronx, N.Y., and a business administration graduate of the University of Hawaii. He received a teaching certificate from George Mason University.

He settled in the Washington area in the mid-1960s and had lived in Springfield before moving to the retirement community in 2003.

He was a member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Springfield.

His wife of 59 years, Margaret Malin Young, died in 2003.