Obituaries

Gen. Wilson was a past president of the residents' association there and was a member of Providence Presbyterian Church in Fairfax. He also enjoyed photography and staged slide shows for civic and garden clubs in Northern Virginia.

Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Alma Tucker Wilson of Fairfax; a daughter, Sherry Wilson Brown of Alexandria; a sister; and a brother.

Frances A. DavilaSilver Spring Teacher

Frances A. Davila, 100, an art and art history teacher at Northwood High School in Silver Spring from 1956 to 1976 and a longtime civic figure in Great Falls, died Feb. 13 at Powhatan Nursing Home in Falls Church. She had complications from a broken hip.

Mrs. Davila was a widowed high school art teacher in New Jersey and a writer when in 1950 she married Carlos Davila, a former Chilean ambassador to the United States and provisional president of Chile.

They settled in the Washington area in 1954 when he became secretary general of the Organization of American States. She was his personal assistant until his death in 1955.

Mrs. Davila became a teacher again, and her students at Northwood included future photographer Annie Leibovitz.

A Great Falls resident, she was a founder and former president of the Great Falls Music Association and a member of the community's Republican women's club and historical society.

Frances Adams was a native of Melrose, Mass., and a 1927 fine arts graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she focused on architecture. In the late 1940s, she received a master's degree in fine art from New York University.

During World War II, she worked at a Brooklyn dry dock helping develop camouflage techniques.

Her first husband, James S. Moore, whom she married in 1931, died in 1948. A daughter from her first marriage, Adeline "Dolly" Carpenter, died in 1984.

Survivors include a grandson and two great-grandsons.

Lillian G. JonesApartment Manager

Lillian Gene Jones, 65, an apartment building manager, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Feb. 10 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. She lived in Falls Church.