Obituaries

His marriage to Kelly Austin ended in divorce.

Besides his daughter, of Sterling, survivors include his mother and stepfather, Sandy and Burl Siemers of Falls Church; his father and stepmother, Harold and Nora Ousley of Naples, Fla.; five sisters, Joy Wright of Falls Church, Jan Finks of Dallas, Ga., Alice Laing of Fairfax City, JanMathov of Brambleton and Patty Runge of Remington; two brothers, Joe Ganley of Vienna and Gary Lavinus of Ashburn.

Thomas Phillips ArmourCIA and Dept. of Defense Official

Thomas Phillips Armour, 58, a career intelligence officer at the Central Intelligence Agency who later served as a program manager with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, died Feb. 11 at his home in Reston. He had brain cancer.

Mr. Armour was born in Cleveland and spent his childhood in several locations throughout the country before graduating from McLean High School in 1966. From Cornell University, he received two electrical engineering degrees: a bachelor's degree with distinction in 1970 and a master's degree in 1971. He also received a master of business administration from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in 1975.

He was a navigator for the Air Force, where he flew combat missions in AC-119K gunships in Vietnam and worldwide airlift missions.

Mr. Armour joined the CIA in 1975 and held a number of analytic, staff officer and managerial positions involving foreign strategic systems, computing and methodological support, intelligence collection, arms control and strategic vision. His last assignment was senior technology officer for the Directorate of Intelligence, with responsibility for helping the Directorate think strategically about the impact of technology on its business.

His recommendations resulted in new initiatives at the agency, including a significant effort to reinvent the intelligence production process. In recognition for his work, Mr. Armour achieved the Senior Intelligence Service rank.

Mr. Armour also served two invited tours at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as program manager, initially with a research and development program known as Genoa, aimed at revolutionizing the formulation of U.S. national security policy.

After retiring in early 2001, he became chief technology officer and chief information officer for Creative Technology Inc. After the events of Sept. 11, 2001, he was asked to return to DARPA to build on his previous work in the initiation of a new counterterrorism program.

At the time of his death, Mr. Armour was a principal with Jasmah Consulting, where he continued to assist intelligence community and Department of Defense organizations in improving mission effectiveness.

Mr. Armour was an avid private pilot and the proud owner of a Cessna 172 aircraft.

Survivors include his wife of 36 years, Janet Cook Armour of Reston; a son, Douglas Cook Armour of Los Angeles; his parents, Thomas and Jeanne Armour of Williamsburg; and a sister, Jayne Storey of New Plymouth, Idaho.

Mary Kathryn NennoAffordable Housing Advocate

Mary Kathryn Nenno, 83, a retired associate director with the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, died Feb. 10 of atherosclerotic coronary vascular disease at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Bryn Mawr, Pa. A former District resident, she had lived in Bryn Mawr since 2002.

Miss Nenno was born in Olean, N.Y., and was a 1945 graduate of Elmira College in New York. She studied at the Institute of Local and State Government at the University of Pennsylvania in 1945-46 and received a master's degree in government from the University of Buffalo in 1948.

She was director of research and publications for the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority from 1950 to 1960, when she moved to Washington to join the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, an advocacy group for affordable housing. She was the organization's associate director for policy development until 1991. In 1992, she became a visiting fellow at the Urban Institute. She retired in 1996.

Miss Nenno was the author of numerous publications about housing, urban planning and urban development, including the book "Ending the Stalemate: Moving Housing and Urban Development into the Mainstream of America's Future" (1996).

In Washington, she was a member of St. Stephen Martyr Roman Catholic Church, where she was a liturgical minister and chaired the Finance Council. She served on the board of St. Mary's Court, a housing development for low-income senior citizens operated by the Episcopal Church in Washington. She also was a member of the John Carroll Society, an organization of Roman Catholic professionals, and the Woman's National Democratic Club.

Survivors include a brother.

George EbnerArchitect, Contractor

George Ebner, 85, an architect and contractor who founded a family construction business, died of congestive heart failure Feb. 8 at his home in Wheaton.

With his brothers, Mr. Ebner owned and operated Ebner Brothers Builders Inc. for 35 years, building homes, small commercial projects and warehouses. He retired about 20 years ago and moved to Palm Coast, Fla.

Born in Hungary, he grew up on a farm on the outskirts of Budapest. He graduated in architecture from the Technical University of Budapest and served in the Hungarian Army during World War II. After the war, he worked on the reconstruction of Germany until 1949, when he immigrated to the United States.

After learning English and working as a draftsman in several Washington architectural firms, he became a registered architect.

In 1955, Mr. Ebner and his brothers opened their firm, first building homes and later expanding into such projects as the Fairland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, the Fernwood House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, the Kindness Animal Hospital in Wheaton, the North Rockville Veterinary Hospital and several commercial warehouses in Rockville.

Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Mary Ebner of Wheaton and Palm Coast; six children, Marie Hartman of Pasadena, Cathy Ebner Rainard and G. Thomas Ebner, both of Wheaton, Sue Birch of Steamboat Springs, Colo., Lizanne Weigand of Barnesville and Tim Ebner of Broomfield, Colo.; and 20 grandchildren.

Phyllis LuccarelliHomemaker, Church Member

Phyllis Luccarelli, 77, a homemaker and member of St. Louis Catholic Church in Alexandria, died Feb. 8 of complications from heart surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. She was an Alexandria resident.

Mrs. Luccarelli was born in Sayre, Pa., and was a homemaker in Trenton, N.J., before moving to Alexandria in 1962. From the 1970s through the 1990s, she provided child care in her home for a number of families. She stayed in close contact with those families over the years and also enjoyed spending time with her own children and grandchildren.A son, Vincent Luccarelli Jr., died in 2005.

Survivors include her husband of 57 years, Vincent Luccarelli of Alexandria; three children, Philip Luccarelli of Fairfax, Donna Womack of Youngsville, N.C., and Paula Panayiotou of Limassol, Cyprus; a sister; two brothers; and four grandchildren.