Obituaries

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Natalie Brown O'KeefeModel, Homemaker

Natalie Brown O'Keefe, 76, a fashion model at Washington area department stores as a young woman and a Marine Corps wife and homemaker, died May 23 of cardiac arrest at her home at The Fairfax retirement community in Fort Belvoir.

Mrs. O'Keefe was born in Fairfax and grew up her on parents' farm, Brimstone Hill, in Fairfax Station. She graduated in 1949 from Marymount School in Arlington County.

After high school, she went to modeling school and modeled for about two years at Hecht's, Woodward & Lothrop and other department stores. In 1950, she married a Marine Corps officer, and the couple spent the next 30 years at bases in Florida, Hawaii and North Carolina and at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.

After Mrs. O'Keefe's husband retired in 1977, the couple settled in Fairfax Station and worked in real estate and land development.

Mrs. O'Keefe was an accomplished painter, mostly of landscapes, a gardener and a bridge player. She and her husband spent much of their time traveling the world.

Her husband, retired Marine Col. Keith O'Keefe, died in 2005.

Survivors include four children, Shawn Klupchak of Chicago, Gene O'Keefe, Kitty MacFadden and P.D. O'Keefe, all of Fairfax Station; seven grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb