Obituaries

Gertrude GreensladeEconomist

Gertrude Schroeder Greenslade, 87, an economist at the CIA and the University of Virginia, died of renal failure March 30 at Powhatan Nursing Home in Fairfax County. She lived in McLean.

Mrs. Greenslade was an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 until 1969 and worked as a consultant to the CIA from 1993 until her death. She was a member of the faculty at the University of Virginia from 1969 until 1993, when she retired.

She was born in Albuquerque and graduated from Colorado State University. She received two degrees in economics from Johns Hopkins University, a master's in 1948 and a doctorate in 1953.

Her specialty was the study of Soviet and Eastern European economies. Mrs. Greenslade was fluent in Russian and was a former president of both the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies and the Association for Comparative Economics.

Her first husband, William Schroeder, died in 1966. Her second husband, Rush V. Greenslade, died in 1978.

Survivors include three stepchildren from her second marriage, Richard M. Greenslade of Milan, Rush D. Greenslade of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Robert L. Greenslade of Elk, Wash.; a half sister; and two half brothers.

Wallace E. Reed Sr.Greenhouse Owner

Wallace E. Reed Sr., 81, a greenhouse owner, florist and grower at St. Elizabeths Hospital, died of cancer March 23 at Southern Maryland Hospital in Clinton. He lived in Fort Washington.

Mr. Reed owned and operated Reed's Greenhouses and Barbara's Florist in Suitland from 1974 to 1990. He then joined the federally owned mental hospital in the District as a grower and groundskeeper, working there until a few months ago.

He was born in South Burlington, Vt., and served in the Navy during World War II in the United States. He was a fighter pilot and helped develop experimental radio-controlled aircraft.

After the war, he graduated from the University of Vermont and worked for the next 25 years on Long Island, N.Y., for A.M. Dauernheim Inc., one of the largest commercial floral greenhouses in the nation at the time. He specialized in growing flowering plants, including azaleas, lilies, poinsettias, cyclamen and mums.

In 1974, Mr. Reed and his family moved to Bowie, where he enjoyed growing many varieties of tomatoes in his home garden. He later moved to Fort Washington.