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Mr. Cohn, a native Washingtonian, graduated from Roosevelt High School and George Washington University. He started law school but dropped out when his wife, Etta Cohn, died about 1957.

He began a private practice as a certified public accountant before operating his book business. He did auditing for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

He also produced community theater shows and created Masquers II theater.

Survivors include his wife, Gloria Cohn of Silver Spring; a daughter from his first marriage, Claudia Bullock of Lawrence, Kan.; two stepchildren, Brad Van Grack of Silver Spring and Vickie Klein of New York; and three grandchildren.

Lelia HurdSocial Worker

Lelia Myers Hurd, 63, a Washington resident and program manager at the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency, died April 7 at the Washington Home hospice. She had multiple myeloma.

Mrs. Hurd spent much of her early career as a social worker and supervisor at Harlem Hospital Center in New York.

She moved to the Washington area in 1981 and did social work and program management at a variety of hospitals and city organizations before joining the Child and Family Services Agency in 1997.

Lelia Myers was born in Pinola, Miss., and raised in Memphis, where she participated in protests to desegregate the city. She was a 1965 biology graduate of Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) and received a master's degree from Smith College's School for Social Work in 1970.

Her memberships include the National Association of Social Workers and the Bethel Dukes branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.

Her marriage to Leon E. Hurd ended in divorce.

Survivors include her mother, Edna Myers of Memphis; her twin sister, Ardie Myers of Washington; and two brothers, Rufus Myers of Memphis and Gayther Myers of Manhattan, N.Y.

Kenneth L. KronbergSterling Businessman

Kenneth L. Kronberg, 58, a Leesburg resident who was president of PMR Printing Co. and World Composition Services Inc., both in Sterling, died April 11 in a fall from a highway overpass in Sterling.


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