June Isaminger OlsonArtist

June Isaminger Olson, 82, an artist who was a founder of a cooperative art gallery in Washington, died April 3 of pulmonary fibrosis at South Shore Regional Hospital in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. She lived in Chester, Nova Scotia.

Mrs. Olson was born in Ann Arbor, Mich., and came to Washington with her family in 1939. She graduated from Wilson High School in 1942 and later studied at the Abbott Art School and the Corcoran School of Art.

She was a medical illustrator with the National Institutes of Health from 1945 to 1952. In about 1970, she helped found and was president of Spectrum Co-op Gallery in Georgetown. She painted marine scenes and landscapes primarily.

In 1972, Mrs. Olson moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and later to nearby Chester. She continued to paint and to sell her artwork throughout her life, even after she was stricken with macular degeneration and required the use of a magnifying glass while painting.

Her husband of 31 years, Rodney A. Olson, died in 1980.

Survivors include two daughters, Lorraine Olson of Listowel, Ontario, and Carol Olson of East Chester, Nova Scotia; two brothers, John W. Isaminger of Albuquerque and James Isaminger of Lewes, Del.; a sister, Thora Jean Miller of Montgomery Village; and two grandsons.

Leonard E. CohnLaw Bookstore Owner

Leonard E. Cohn, 82, who owned and operated Lerner Law Books in Washington for nearly 40 years, died of diabetes-related pneumonia April 12 at Montgomery General Hospital. He lived in Silver Spring.

Mr. Cohn took over Lerner Law Books in 1970 after the death of its original owner and also owned the law bookstore that served George Washington University's law school. For about 37 years, Lerner Books was the sole supplier of texts and other materials, including hard-to-find supplementary works, to students at Georgetown University Law Center.

He also owned Washington Law Book Co., which served GWU, before retiring in the early 1990s.

In 1988, Mr. Cohn complained about lost business after Georgetown opened its own bookstore. Two years earlier, he had moved Lerner Law Books from Georgetown to a more isolated site across the street from one of the nation's largest law schools. He said if he had known that the school was opening its own bookstore, he may not have made the move.

Some faculty members and students empathized with Mr. Cohn, noting that his bookstore carried law tomes and fringe materials not found in the school's bookstore.

Mr. Cohn sold law and other professional books to the students at area universities, as well as lawyers, judges and the occasional celebrity. His store was a fixture in Washington, with clients including Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, local martial arts expert Jhoon Rhee and Washington Redskins running back Mike Hull.