Saturday, June 16, 2007
Timothy A. DaviasBuilding Engineer
Timothy Alan Davias, 42, a building engineer at Washington area hotels and apartments, died June 1 at a Red Roof Inn in Fairfax County.
He was at the hotel while moving between Chantilly and the Fort Belvoir area of Fairfax.
A spokeswoman for the Fairfax medical examiner said determination of the cause of death is pending tests.
Mr. Davias last worked at Alexandria Apartment Homes before being hit by a car in 2005 while crossing Route 1 in Alexandria. He lost a leg in the accident and had been in rehabilitation since.
He was born in Butler, Pa., and raised mostly in Alexandria. He left high school and at 17 joined the Navy but was discharged after neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder of the nervous system, was diagnosed.
Afterward, he became certified in boiler repair and received a license as an air-conditioning technician. Among the places he worked was the old Wyndham Bristol Hotel in Northwest Washington.
Survivors include his mother, Jeanette Davias of Springfield; and a half-sister.
-- Adam Bernstein
George B. Prettyman Jr.NSA Lawyer
George B. Prettyman Jr., 67, a longtime lawyer with the National Security Agency, died June 7 of pancreatic cancer at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson, Md. He lived in Ellicott City.
Mr. Prettyman joined the NSA in 1961 and worked early in his career as an intelligence analyst, country desk officer and intelligence officer. After receiving his law degree, he joined the agency's legal office and served as assistant general counsel from 1984 until his retirement in 2001. He received the agency's Exceptional Civilian Service Award.
From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Prettyman practiced corporate law with the Washington office of Kaye Scholer. More recently, he served on the board of directors of EADS North American Defense Security and Systems Solutions Inc. and of Frequentis Inc., an Austrian company involved in the defense industry.
Mr. Prettyman was born in Rising Sun, Md., and graduated from the University of Delaware. He served two years as an Army artillery officer and received a master's degree in history from Johns Hopkins University. He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1977.
Largely as a hobby, Mr. Prettyman wrote columns on sports for the Cecil Whig and the Record in Harford County for many years. He was especially knowledgeable about Johns Hopkins lacrosse and followed the team to games up and down the East Coast. On May 28, he was in attendance as Johns Hopkins won the national championship game in Baltimore.
He was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City.
His marriage to Janet D. Prettyman ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife of 25 years, Barbara Edmonds Prettyman of Ellicott City; two children from his first marriage, Jeffrey R. Prettyman of Richmond and Susan P. Lewis of Seattle; two stepchildren, Leslie L. Edmonds of Virginia Beach and Jeffrey G. Edmonds of St. Petersburg, Fla.; his father, George B. Prettyman of Ellicott City; and four grandchildren.
-- Matt Schudel
Carl M. Vorder BrueggeBusiness Executive
Carl Martin Vorder Bruegge, 77, a former executive with IBM and MCI, died May 31 of pancreatic cancer at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Conn. He lived in Riverside, Conn.
From 1971 to 1986, Mr. Vorder Bruegge was based in Washington as senior vice president of MCI. He was director of marketing and sales for the company during the prolonged court battles that led to the breakup of AT&T in 1982.
He was born in Memphis and was a graduate of the University of Tennessee. He received a master's of business administration degree in 1955 from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Vorder Bruegge held various sales and management positions with IBM from the mid-1950s until 1969. From 1969 to 1971, he was an executive with Leasco Equipment Services Inc. before joining MCI.
He served as an Army officer in the Korean War and received the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart.
Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Sarah Whitley Vorder Bruegge of Riverside, Conn.; four children, Carl M. Vorder Bruegge Jr. of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Angela Hudson of Haverford, Pa., John W. Vorder Bruegge of Springfield, Vt., and Richard W. Vorder Bruegge of Fredericksburg; and eight grandchildren.
-- Matt Schudel
David K. JohnsonMarine Band Member
David K. Johnson, 72, who played the trumpet for 30 years in the "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band, died of bladder cancer June 6 at his home in Manassas.
Mr. Johnson, who also played the cornet, began a legacy in the Marine Band and in his family. His daughter Susan Franke joined the band as a violist in 1981, making the two the first father and daughter duo in band history. She retired in 2005. Her husband, Phil Franke, plays the euphonium, and their eldest son, Christopher, recently became a member of the violin section.
The family is the first to span three generations within the band.
Mr. Johnson was born in Dayton, Ohio, and graduated from Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., with a bachelor's of music with a concentration in applied trumpet. He came to Washington immediately after college after winning a position in the band and was stationed at the Marine barracks. He retired in 1986.
In retirement, Mr. Johnson enjoyed refinishing and making furniture for his family.
In addition to his daughter of Springfield and grandson, survivors include his wife of 50 years, Faye Johnson of Manassas; a daughter, Frances Layne of Centreville; a sister; and five grandchildren.
-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb
Jeanne O'NeillAttorney, Editor
Jeanne O'Neill, 52, an assistant managing editor in the federal tax law division at the Bureau of National Affairs, died of multiple myeloma June 5 at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda.
Ms. O'Neill worked for BNA since 1995 when she went there as a tax law editor. She became manager of the tax management group's news services in 1998 and was appointed assistant managing editor in 2000.
She was born in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in Charleston, S.C., graduating from the College of Charleston in 1977. She moved to Washington to work as an economist and tax law analyst for the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the Department of Commerce, which she did until 1986.
She graduated from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University in 1982 and received an advanced degree in taxation from Georgetown University in 1986.
Ms. O'Neill worked as an associate at two law firms before joining the Washington firm of DeMartino Finklestein Rosen and Verga in 1988, becoming a partner in 1990. She opened a solo practice in 1993, working there for two years until she joined BNA.
She was a past president and board member of the Alzheimer's Association's Greater Washington Chapter and was co-chair of its annual Mall walk for two years. She also performed volunteer legal work for the Legal Counsel for the Elderly and the D.C. Office on Aging, and health insurance counseling.
Survivors include her husband of 18 years, Robert Parker of Bethesda; two stepsons, Alan Jamie Parker of Silver Spring and Steven Parker of Madison, Wis.; four brothers; two sisters; and two grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan
Norman D. SandlerCommunications Officials
Norman Davis Sandler, 53, a White House correspondent for United Press International who later became a corporate communications and public relations official, died June 4 at his home in Washington. A spokeswoman for the D.C. medical examiner said the cause and manner of death is pending.
Mr. Sandler was director of Global Strategic Issues at Motorola, from 1994 to 2006, and vice president and counselor at the public relations firm Powell Tate from 1991 to 1994.
He was a native of Des Moines, and received both a bachelor's degree and master's degree in political science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975. At MIT, he was editor of the Tech, the student newspaper.
He began working at United Press International in 1975 and was Des Moines and Washington correspondent until 1981. He was White House correspondent for UPI from 1981 to 1991. He was president of the White House Correspondents Association in 1987.
Mr. Sandler received the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for Outstanding White House Coverage in 1990 and 1991 for deadline coverage of the U.S.-Soviet summit meetings.
He was the author of "Congressional Oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency: Observations and Analysis" (1974), "28 Years of Looking the Other Way: Congressional Oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency 1947-1975" (1975) and "Telecommunications in Crisis: The First Amendment, Technology, and Deregulation" (1983).
His marriage to Raeanne Hytone ended in divorce.
Survivors include his mother, Jacquelyn Sandler of Los Angeles; and three brothers.
-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb
Stanley W. JonesNavy Captain
Stanley Washburn Jones, 81, a retired Navy captain with 29 years of service, died May 25 at his home in McLean. He had Alzheimer's disease.
Capt. Jones, who was in the Navy from 1943 to 1972, served on a Patrol Craft Escort, the destroyer USS Leonard F. Mason, the cruiser USS Des Moines and the minesweeper USS Vital. He commanded the destroyer USS Robert A. Owens and the destroyer USS Beatty. His final assignment with the Navy was as U.S. defense attache to Belgium.
Capt. Jones was born in New Orleans and graduated from Phillips Academy in Massachusetts and Tulane University in Louisiana.
He was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal in 1969 and the presidential certificate of appreciation in 1972.
In retirement, he worked as an associate real estate broker in Northern Virginia.
His first wife, Phyllis deHaven Jones, died in 1978.
Survivors include his wife of 28 years, Charlotte P. Jones of McLean.
-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb