Obituaries

Martha Schultz LisserEducator

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Martha Schultz Lisser, 83, a lifelong educator who taught bridge at the Friendship Heights Village Center in Chevy Chase, died of pancreatic cancer March 23 at her home in Chevy Chase.

Mrs. Lisser, a native of the Bronx, N.Y., graduated from Hunter College and received a master's degree in psychology in 1948 from New York University. She taught in New York City public elementary schools for more than 30 years. When she retired in 1981, she was an assistant principal. She was principal of Westchester Day School in Mamaroneck, N.Y., for a year and adjunct professor of education at Bronx Community College until 1985.

Mrs. Lisser studied at Cornell University to be a master gardener and was named volunteer of the year at the New York Botanical Garden. A member of the League of Women Voters and the Democratic Party, she periodically came to Washington to participate in peace and civil rights marches.

She moved to Chevy Chase in 2004 and immediately delved into community life, teaching bridge at the village center, taking music classes at the Smithsonian Institution, joining the Friday Morning Music Club and attending theater.

Survivors include her husband of 60 years, Morton S. Lisser of Chevy Chase; two daughters, Justine S. Lisser of Bethesda and Amy C. Lisser of Newton, Mass.; a sister; and four grandchildren.

Marshall StoneMusic Director

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Marshall Stone, 76, an Alexandria church music director, organist, choirmaster and organ builder, died of complications from strokes March 17 in a Seattle hospital.

Mr. Stone was organist and choirmaster at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria and St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Arlington County and music director at the Washington Street United Methodist Church in Alexandria.

He was the principal designer of the innovative pipe organ the United Methodist Church bought in 1972. He designed and built a small portable pipe organ, which he patented and sold as a "do-it-yourself" kit. He occasionally lent a prototype to the National Symphony Orchestra during the tenure of Anatol Dorati.

Mr. Stone, a native of Seattle, graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., and served in the Navy in Japan. After military service, he studied organ composition and pipe organ construction in Belgium.

He moved to Alexandria in 1968 and bought and renovated one of a series of former slave quarters. When his workshop proved too confining, he bought a farm in Biglerville, Pa., where he lived and built instruments, storing spare parts, pipes and consoles in the barn. Whenever he heard that a church was buying a new organ, he would salvage the discarded one and use it in the repair of other pipe organs.

In 1979, Mr. Stone moved to Key West, Fla., where he owned and operated a guest house and played the organ at Key West Christian Science Church. In the late 1990s, he returned to his native Washington state, where he worked as organist and choirmaster at First Presbyterian Church in Port Townsend.

No immediate family members survive him.