Obituaries

Carolyn M. AndradeWatergate Committee Staffer

Carolyn M. Andrade, 86, a former Capitol Hill staffer who was administrative assistant to Samuel Dash, chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee, died May 17 at the Capital Hospice in Arlington. She had cancer.

During the Nixon administration, Miss Andrade worked for C. Jackson Grayson, chairman of the federal Price Commission. In 1973, she was hired by Dash to run the offices of the Senate Watergate Committee. She also worked for the House Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by Rep. Otis G. Pike (D-N.Y.), and the office of the special counsel for the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. She retired in 1983.

Throughout her life, Miss Andrade appraised, bought, sold and traded antiques with a wide network of collectors. In retirement, she ran her own estate sale business.

Miss Andrade was born in Rochester, N.Y., and moved to Washington during World War II to work in support of the war effort. Later, she worked at the Shoreham Hotel before beginning a 31-year career on Capitol Hill.

Beginning in 1952, Miss Andrade worked for Reps. Barratt O'Hara (D-Ill.), Kenneth J. Gray (D-Ill.), Robert W. Levering (D-Ohio), Seymour Halpern (R-N.Y.), Claude D. Pepper (D-Fla.) and Clair A. Callan (D-Neb.). She also worked for Sens. Stephen Young (D-Ohio) and Edward Zorinsky (D-Neb.).

She was a Georgetown resident for more than 45 years and moved to Arlington in 1999.

She traveled widely in the United States and abroad, including to Turkey, Egypt, Peru, Ireland, England, France, Kenya and Costa Rica.

She leaves no immediate survivors.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Mary Florence Snyder HillNursing Administrator

Mary Florence Snyder Hill, 83, who headed a grant and contract program for nursing schools under the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare for 24 years and then became active in social justice circles through her church, died of pancreatic cancer June 8 at her home in Silver Spring.