Obituaries

Mrs. Moran, whose maiden name was also Moran, was a native of Archbald, Pa. She moved to the Washington area in 1953 and later settled in Rockville.

She worked as a crossing guard with the Montgomery County Police Department off and on from the 1950s until the late 1980s. She also was a front desk checkout supervisor at a Kmart store in Aspen Hill for about 20 years until the late 1980s.

She was a member of Wheaton Moose Lodge Chapter 1435 in Silver Spring and a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Rockville.

Her husband of 46 years, Charles K. Moran, a career Silver Spring firefighter, died in 1999.

Survivors include six children, Colleen Waybright of Monrovia, Lisa Hankins of Rockville, Lynn Caskey of Falling Waters, W.Va., Michele Little of Mount Airy, Md., Timothy Moran of Rockville and Charles Moran of Gettysburg; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

William Stanley WrightTravel Agency Proprietor

William Stanley Wright, 82, who owned a Silver Spring travel agency for 30 years, died March 14 at a nursing home in Durango, Colo. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Mr. Wright was born in Minneapolis and grew up in Kansas City, Mo., and San Mateo, Calif., where as a young man he was active in a local radio drama group.

During World War II, Mr. Wright served as an officer in the Marine Corps. He was among the first Marines sent ashore in Nagasaki at the end of the war and helped supervise the first postwar elections.

In 1948, he received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California at Berkeley. Anxious to travel, he set sail aboard the cruise ship Grover Cleveland, where he worked in the purser department.

He came to Washington in 1949 and began a career with the Central Intelligence Agency. He was posted to Japan for a three-year tour of duty, followed by an assignment in Hong Kong. He later worked for Civil Air Transport, a CIA-owned airline that supported covert operations in Asia.

In 1959, Mr. Wright returned to the United States and settled with his family in Nashville. There, he was an owner of International Travel Guides.

In 1963, the family moved to Silver Spring, where Mr. Wright and his wife owned and operated Windward Travel Service for three decades. They lived in the Manor Club Community in Rockville for 26 years before they sold the business in 1994 and moved to Durango.

Mr. Wright, a past Rotary Club president in Rockville, and his wife traveled extensively, including four trips to Norway to explore his wife's roots.

Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Susan Wright of Durango; three children, Debbie Wright of Durango, Judi Jackson of Ignacio, Colo., and Chapin Wright of Flemington, N.J.; a sister; and five grandchildren.