Friday, March 23, 2007
Edmond J. NewbouldNavy Captain, Lawyer
Edmond J. "Jack" Newbould, 88, a Navy captain, lawyer and trade association president, died of complications of Parkinson's disease March 17 at his Alexandria home.
Capt. Newbould, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, served in submarines in the Pacific theater during World War II. His military awards included the Silver Star and the Bronze Star, for service aboard the submarine USS Redfish.
His postwar sea commands were a submarine, a destroyer and fleet tanker. On shore, he was on the staff of the Navy's inspector general, and officer-in-charge of the Navy's first liaison office in the U.S. Senate. He also taught at the University of Illinois' Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps, served as administrative officer of naval forces in Europe and commanding officer of the Navy's security station in Washington.
While stationed in Washington, Capt. Newbould received a law degree, graduating from George Washington University's law school in 1959.
He retired from the Navy in 1965 and joined the National Clay Pipe Institute as its government affairs representative, and later became its president. He also volunteered with the Water Environment Federation, and was elected president of the organization in 1981. He resigned the institute's presidency in 1988 to become its corporate counsel, a position he held until 2003.
Capt. Newbould was secretary of the Alexandria Law Library, volunteered as a tax consultant to the elderly for 10 years and was in the choir of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alexandria.
His wife of 52 years, Mary-Elizabeth Patrick Newbould, died in 1997.
Survivors include two sons, John Newbould of Avon, N.C., and Peter Newbould of Alexandria; and two granddaughters.
Philip BriguglioObstetrician and Gynecologist
Philip Briguglio, 74, a physician who practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Alexandria from 1964 until his retirement in 1997, died March 14 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington of complications following lung surgery.
Dr. Briguglio lived in McLean for 30 years and after his retirement began to spend winters in Jupiter Island, Fla.
He was born in Jamaica, N.Y. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., and received a medical degree from Georgetown University in 1958.
Dr. Briguglio interned at Georgetown University Hospital and then served in the Air Force before returning to Georgetown, where he did his residency in obstetrics and gynecology.
He was a past chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at what is now Inova Alexandria Hospital.
Dr. Briguglio was a car aficionado, a world traveler and a golfer with a membership at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda.
He was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown, where he and his wife, Suzanne Faubert Briguglio, were married in 1958.
In addition to his wife, of McLean and Jupiter Island, survivors include three daughters, Laura Bilodeau of Osterville, Mass., Jeanne Crawford of McLean and Elizabeth Fleming of Charlotte; a brother; a sister; and six grandchildren.
Elizabeth McLoughlin QuantHomemaker, Volunteer
Elizabeth "Betty" McLoughlin Quant, 79, a homemaker and volunteer, died of cancer March 17 at her home in the Mount Vernon area.
Mrs. Quant was born in Utica, N.Y., and graduated from the University of Rochester. After marrying, she and her family moved to the Washington area.
She was a founding member of Good Shepherd Catholic Church, where she was also a Eucharistic minister. She volunteered at her children's schools, for her church's housing program and with the Stratford Women's Club.
In retirement, she and her husband traveled extensively in their motor home. Her husband of 52 years, David W. Quant, died in 2001.
Survivors include eight children, Catherine Q. Sutton of Woodbridge, Susan Q. Willetts of Alexandria, Gretchen E. Quant of Newport News, Va., Lauren Q. Stickles of Woodbridge, Sharon Q. Slater of Pembroke Pines, Fla., Lawrence W. Quant of Ames, Iowa, David W. Quant Jr. of Charlotte and Michael M. Quant of Denver; 20 grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
Florence E. MoranCrossing GuardFlorence E. Moran, 75, a retired Montgomery County crossing guard and Kmart employee, died of cardiac arrest March 17 at York Hospital in Pennsylvania. She had lived in the Washington area for nearly 40 years before moving in 1990 to Gettysburg, Pa.
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 ProprietorWilliam 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.