Obituaries

Dr. Suskind was a staff investigator and experimental pathologist at the Laboratory of Viral Carcinogenesis at the National Institutes of Health until his retirement in 1982.

Dr. Suskind, who was fluent in French, German and Italian, was a guest fellow at the Laboratoire de Medecine Experimentale, College de France.

He was a member of the Washington Society of Pathologists, and his research was published in numerous medical journals.

Dr. Suskind was born in Berlin and came to the United States after his family escaped Germany during the Holocaust.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1944 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and classics. He received a medical degree from the University of Bern in Switzerland in 1952. After completing his medical studies, he returned to the United States and began his career at NIH in 1953.

A devoted Francophile, Dr. Suskind and his wife brought an apartment in Paris, where they had spent six months a year since 1985.

In retirement, he pursued his passions for art, French literature, music, cooking and gardening. He and his wife went on painting excursions in France and exhibited their work at the Gerald Wartofsky Studio and the Alliance Francaise in Washington and at the Simart Gallery in Paris.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Jane Power Suskind of Washington, whom he married in 1962, and a sister.

Evelyn J. BurgeNative Washingtonian

Evelyn Johnson Burge, 67, a native Washingtonian who did administrative work for the Government Printing Office from the late 1960s to early 1970s, died May 2 at her home in Harrisburg, Pa. She had lung cancer.

Mrs. Burge, a 1959 graduate of Cardoza High School, moved to Harrisburg from Washington in the early 1970s.

She retired from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry in 1999 as a contract supervisor.

She was a former member of Peace Lutheran Church in Washington.