Saturday, March 24, 2007
David Emerson BrownHospital Executive
David Emerson Brown, 55, a health-care executive who was president of Greater Southeast Community Hospital for four years until 1996, died March 19 at Johns Hopkins University Hospital of severe internal hemorrhage resulting from a fall.
Mr. Brown became seriously ill in February and was admitted to the intensive care unit at Beaufort Memorial Hospital in South Carolina, where for the past 11 years he had been president and chief executive.
On Feb. 11, he was flown to Johns Hopkins University Hospital, his sister, Catherine W. Brown of Washington, said.
At Greater Southeast, Mr. Brown helped the urban institution navigate through tough economic times with a business model that focused on treating patients in its neighborhood.
"The hardest thing has been balancing our expenses with what has been shrinking revenues from all payers," Mr. Brown told The Washington Post in 1994. "We're constantly looking for ways to care for patients in a less expensive way."
Mr. Brown, who possessed a mild-mannered, low-key demeanor, began his career in 1976 when he became executive assistant director of the Prince George's County Federation for Medical Care, a professional standards review organization. There, he began to hone a professional relationship with doctors.
In 1982, he joined the Greater Southeast Community Hospital Foundation. He held various senior-level management positions with its subsidiaries and affiliates.
A son of a Foreign Service officer, Mr. Brown was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and at times lived in India, the Netherlands and Canada.
He graduated from Boston University, where he also received a master's degree in business administration/health-care management in 1976.
Besides the Boston Red Sox, he loved to be on the water sailing. During his years in the Washington area, he lived in Annapolis, where he kept his sailboat Moonshadow.
In recent years, he had waterfront homes in Beaufort and Harbor Island, S.C., where he carved duck decoys and collected model sailboats and artwork related to the sea and sailing.
His marriages to Terry Taylor and Rita R. Brown ended in divorce.
In addition to his sister, survivors include a companion, Lisa Gilligan Stewart of Wyndmoor, Pa.; two children from his second marriage, Caitlin Ryan Brown and Ryan David Brown, both of Beaufort; his father, Emerson M. Brown of Reed City, Mich.; and a brother, Christopher G. Brown of Columbus, Ohio.
June Catherine WilkinsBusinesswomanJune Catherine Wilkins, 84, a Manassas businesswoman, died of lung disease March 11 at her daughter's home in Port Republic.
Mrs. Wilkins trained as a cosmetologist and in the early 1950s opened the first of several June's Beauty Salons in Manassas. She expanded her business activities into a clothing and gift shop, the Ivy Door, also in Manassas. She retired in the early 1980s.
Mrs. Wilkins was born in Reidsville, N.C., and grew up in Manassas, where her father was a veterinarian. Her business success, her daughter said, was due to her "impeccable taste and the respect, friendly service and comfort" she gave her customers.
She made many business trips to New York but was deeply involved in her community. She was an early president of the Junior Woman's Club in Manassas, a founding member of the Prince William Hospital Auxiliary and a member of Manassas Baptist Church, the Soroptimist club, Children of the Confederacy, a bowling league, a bridge club and an investment club.
In 2003, she moved from Manassas to Port Republic, where the family had often vacationed and where her daughter lives.
Her husband, Paul Wilkins, died in 1988.
Survivors include two children, Paul C. Wilkins Jr. of Manassas and Loretta K. Straka of Port Republic; a sister, Fanelle Polen of Manassas; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
William B. BoydAir Force Officer
William B. Boyd, 87, a retired Air Force colonel who worked on security and VIP protection at the Republican and Democratic National conventions in 1968, died March 16 at Powhatan Nursing Home in Falls Church of complications of injuries suffered in a fall. He was a resident of Lansdowne.
Col. Boyd, a Kentucky native who grew up in Cincinnati and Chicago, had been a motorcycle police officer in Michigan when as a young man he joined the Army Air Corps. During World War II, he was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor to the CIA, and helped set up OSS headquarters in Paris in 1944 and Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1945.
He was also assigned to an OSS detachment in Luxembourg, where he met Mary Curio, whom he later married.
After the war, he returned to law enforcement and became chief of detectives with the Fort Lauderdale police in Florida. His family said that Col. Boyd recounted that the detective bureau at the time consisted of four other detectives, a car and "all the felonies we could handle."
He was recalled to active military duty during the Korean War and was assigned to the Office of Special Investigation. He was also posted at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska.
Col. Boyd later attended the Armed Services Staff College in Norfolk, returned to Wiesbaden on another assignment and worked on security at the 1968 Republican and Democratic National conventions.
After his retirement from the Air Force in 1968, he taught for nine years in the criminal justice program at Northern Virginia Community College. He also volunteered with the Fairfax County Police Department and Inova Fairfax Hospital.
His marriage to Dorothy Boyd ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Mary Boyd of Lansdowne; a daughter from his first marriage, Kathleen Conlin of Albuquerque; five children from his second marriage, Michael Boyd of Hendersonville, N.C., Patrick Boyd of Springfield, Andrew Boyd of Leesburg, Lauren Boyd Summers of Valparaiso, Ind., and Susan Dietz Guthof Valrico, Fla.; 16 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Kenneth Ray ZugelPilotKenneth Ray Zugel, 39, a pilot at Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. in Manassas, died March 7 of injuries suffered in a traffic accident in Morgan County, W.Va. He lived in Haymarket.
Mr. Zugel's sport-utility vehicle slid across the center line on a snowy U.S. 522 about four miles from the Virginia state line just after midnight, police said. He was struck by a semitrailer truck and died at the scene.
For the past 10 years, he had been working at the Manassas airport as a pilot.
He was born in Alexandria and graduated from Washington-Lee High School. He graduated from Florida Institute of Technology and San Diego State University, where he rowed on the crew team. Mr. Zugel was working on a master's degree in business administration at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, N.H.
Mr. Zugel was a member of Living Hope Presbyterian Church, where he was part of the men's club, and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. He studied languages and enjoyed plays, the outdoors, soaring, skiing, scuba diving and traveling.
Survivors include his wife, Mim Marie Zugel; two children, Cecilia Ann Zugel and Patrick Kenneth Zugel; his father and stepmother, Raymond Zugel and Elaine Germas-Zugel of Fairfax; his mother, Laura Ann Zugel of Trier, Germany; two brothers, Anthony M. Zugel of Oakland, Calif., and Jonathan Scott Germas of Sterling; two sisters, Mary Margaret Germas of Alexandria and Sylviana Nica of Falls Church.