Obituaries

After retiring, she continued to work until 2003 as a State Department consultant on immigration issues.

She was an Oklahoma native and served in the Women's Army Corps in the Pacific during World War II. She was a 1952 graduate of George Washington University.

She had no immediate survivors.

Morris W. KandleGovernment Official

Morris W. Kandle, 89, an official with the Department of Defense, the Peace Corps and the General Accounting Office, died April 22 of congestive heart failure at Nexus Specialty Hospital in Shenandoah, Tex. He lived in The Woodlands, Tex., and was a former resident of Alexandria and Bethesda.

Mr. Kandle settled in the Washington area in the late 1940s and was a civilian employee of the Defense Department from 1949 to 1964. He worked first on the staff of the U.S. Air Force and later on the staff of the secretary of defense as director of operations of the comptroller's office.

From 1965 to 1967, Mr. Kandle was the first controller of the Peace Corps and designed a program for planning and budgeting Peace Corps projects worldwide. He then became vice president for administration, finance and resource management for Federal City College and the Washington Technical Institute from 1967 to 1969. The colleges were later merged into the University of the District of Columbia.

After a short time as a management consultant, Mr. Kandle joined the GAO as deputy director of personnel and compensation in 1970. He received the GAO's director's award and retired in 1981.

Mr. Kandle was born in Philadelphia and was a graduate of Temple University. He did graduate work at Georgetown University.

During World War II, he served in the Army Air Forces in Europe, Africa and the China-Burma-India theater. He won two Bronze Star Medals and continued to serve in the Air Force Reserve until 1978.

He moved to Texas in 1993.

Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Frances Kandle of The Woodlands; three children, Jeffrey Kandle of The Woodlands, Jonathan Kandle of Spring, Tex., and Elissa Dean of Boulder, Colo.; and two grandchildren.

R. Gerald SuskindMedical Director

R. Gerald Suskind, 82, a retired medical director with the U.S. Public Health Service who investigated viral causes of cancer, died April 11 of a cerebral hemorrhage after heart surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He was a Washington resident.