Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Walter Dexter Warren Jr.Advertising, Business Manager
Walter Dexter Warren Jr., 95, a former advertising and business manager with W.C. & A.N. Miller Development Co., died Feb. 2 of a heart attack at his home in Bethesda.
Mr. Warren was born in Winthrop, Mass., and graduated in 1933 from the University of Virginia.
He moved to Washington that same year to become Washington correspondent for a consortium of New England newspapers. From 1935 to 1961, he worked in the real estate advertising department of the Washington Star newspaper, eventually becoming manager of display advertising. From 1964 until his retirement in 1986, he was advertising and business manager for W.C. & A.N. Miller's Leaves magazine.
Mr. Warren was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase, the Friendship Lions Club and Kenwood Country Club.
A daughter, Judith Marich, died in 1999. His wife, Lillian Stelzer Warren, died in 2005.
Survivors include three children, Richard Warren of Salisbury, Dr. Roger Warren of St. Kitts, West Indies, and Mary Elizabeth Spinks of Middletown, N.Y.; three grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.
Lawrence C. Dalley Jr.Insurance ExecutiveLawrence Cutting Dalley Jr., 79, an insurance executive, died Feb. 5 of Parkinson's disease at his home in Princeton, N.J. A former resident of the District, he moved to Princeton in 2005.
Mr. Dalley was born in New York and graduated in 1948 from Yale University, where he was captain of the varsity hockey and football teams. Also while he was at Yale, he sang with several a cappella groups and continued his love of singing with the Washington-based Augmented Eight.
He moved to Washington in 1948 and worked as an executive in the insurance industry throughout his career. He also served briefly with the Foreign Service in Kolkata, India, before returning to Washington to raise a family and pursue a career in insurance. He retired from the brokerage firm Dalley & Associates in 1991.
Mr. Dalley was past director and president of the Yale Club of Washington and past president of the Chevy Chase Club, where he spearheaded the construction of the ice skating rink and Winter Center. He also was a regional representative for his alma mater, Phillips Academy Andover, and was co-founder of the Potomac School fathers' club. He was a member of the Metropolitan Club.
A gifted athlete, Mr. Dalley continued playing and coaching hockey well into his adult life. He also was a waterfowl hunter, mostly on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and enjoyed collecting waterfowl etchings, paintings and decoys.
Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Agnes Dalley of Princeton; four children, Laura Tobin of London, Kip Dalley of Francestown, N.H., Richard Dalley of Lambertville, N.J., and Sarah Shannon of Hopewell, N.J.; a sister; and six grandchildren.
Virginia O. ReadGift-Shop EmployeeVirginia O. Read, 95, a manager and buyer in the 1960s and 1970s at Prince George's Hospital Center's gift shop, died Feb. 1 at Holy Cross Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Burtonsville. She had a stroke two years ago.
Mrs. Read, a longtime resident of Bladensburg and Silver Spring, lived with a son in Beltsville for the past two years.
Virginia Oliver was born in Ridgefield Park, N.J., attended what is now Montclair State University in New Jersey and settled in the Washington area in the late 1930s.
She did volunteer work for St. Jerome Catholic School in Hyattsville and was a former president of the Decatur Heights Homemakers Association in Bladensburg.
Her husband, Clark E. Read Jr., whom she married in 1936, died in 1971.
Survivors include two sons, Michael Read of Martinsburg, W.Va., and Dennis Read of Beltsville; three sisters; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Ralph H. OlsonCivil ServantRalph H. Olson, 89, a retired federal civil servant who worked in the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service, died of congestive heart failure Jan. 26 at the Gainesville Health and Rehabilitation Center in Gainesville, Va. He was a resident of the District.
Mr. Olson was a native of Rutland, Vt., and a graduate of the Green Mountain Institute in Poultney, Vt. He served in the Army Air Forces during World War II and was stationed in England with the 8th Division under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
He settled in Washington in the 1940s and worked for the Agriculture Department until 1972.
He leaves no immediate survivors.
Harlow Grosvenor FarmerCIA AnalystHarlow Grosvenor Farmer, 83, a retired Central Intelligence Agency analyst, died of pneumonia Jan. 31 at the BayWoods of Annapolis retirement home.
Mr. Farmer worked about 17 years for the CIA, until 1983. Earlier, he was a researcher with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass.
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, TeacherWilbur 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.
Survivors include two children, Ellen C. Young of Washington and retired Army Col. Robert M. Young of Brussels, and three grandchildren.
Alex Craig CaldwellCommodity Exchange SupervisorAlex Craig Caldwell, 92, the last administrator of the Commodity Exchange Authority, died Jan. 30 of an aortic aneurysm at Inova Alexandria Hospital. He was a longtime Alexandria resident.
He became administrator of the agency charged with supervising futures trading in 1960. During his tenure, the size and complexity of the futures market grew from about 10 million contracts worth about $59 billion to more than 55 million contracts worth approximately $571 billion. He worked closely with congressional committees on legislation broadening the scope of federal regulation of futures trading and remained with the Commodity Exchange Authority until his retirement in 1975, when Congress reorganized the regulation of commodity trading and created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Mr. Caldwell was born in Ennis, Tex., and attended Washington University, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California at Los Angeles. He enlisted in the Army during World War II and rose from private to captain while serving as artillery engineer, battery commander and post executive. He was in the active reserve after the war and retired in 1958 with the rank of major.
He began his Civil Service career in 1950 as an investigator with the Commodity and Exchange Authority when it was an agency of the U.S. Agriculture Department. Later, he worked as director of the CEA's Compliance and Trade Practice Division and was based in the Chicago and New York field offices.
Mr. Caldwell was an active member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Alexandria, and in retirement he devoted himself to the care of his mother until her death in 1983. He also enjoyed playing golf and traveling the world. He taught himself French so he could more fully enjoy the south of France, as well as the menu at his favorite restaurant, Chez Andre in Alexandria.
He leaves no immediate survivors.
Richard S. KimmelDocuments SpecialistRichard Simpson Kimmel, 78, who was a documents specialist with the Senate National Security Office at the U.S. Capitol before retiring in 1988, died Feb. 10 of cardiac arrest at his home in Silver Spring.
Mr. Kimmel was born in Washington and graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. He attended Benjamin Franklin University and served in the Army in occupied Japan.
He began working for the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, predecessor of the Senate National Security Office, remaining there for 30 years.
Mr. Kimmel was a member of the Boat Owners Association of the United States. He was an avid Chesapeake Bay fisherman and a U.S. history and Civil War buff.
He could give a better tour of the Capitol than most tour guides because he knew so much detail, said a daughter.
His marriage to Margaret E. Kimmel ended in divorce.
Survivors include his companion, Virginia Pedone of Kensington; three children, Lynn Cherrier of Chippewa Falls, Wis., Barbara Kimmel of Silver Spring and Sally Kimmel of Shepherdstown, W.Va.; and three grandchildren.