Obituaries

Philip E. CarolanTreasury Official

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Philip E. Carolan, 65, a former senior executive at the Treasury Department, died of cancer June 24 at his home in Washington.

Mr. Carolan worked at the Treasury Department from 1975 until his retirement in 1994. Previously, he worked for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for a year and before that, the Foreign Service.

Born in Quincy, Ill., Mr. Carolan grew up on a farm outside of Mendon, Ill. He graduated from Illinois State University and served in the Peace Corps in Iran. He joined the Foreign Service, working at the Agency for International Development in Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia and Afghanistan. He moved to Washington in 1974 to work at the mediation and conciliation service and then Treasury. He was executive director of the Treasury Executive Institute when he retired.

Mr. Carolan served as chairman of the board of the Treasury Department's Federal Credit Union for 14 years. He also volunteered as president of the board of his housing cooperative.

Survivors include his partner of 13 years, W. Michael Neal of Washington; three brothers; and two sisters.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Margaret 'Peggy' UnkleIRS Senior Manager

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Margaret "Peggy" Unkle, 53, a senior manager of product assurance at the Internal Revenue Service who started a successful employee mentoring program, died June 11 of cardiac arrest at Inova Alexandria Hospital. She lived in Alexandria.

Miss Unkle started at the IRS in 1975 auditing individual tax returns in the Atlanta office. In her most recent job, she oversaw system testing for individual and business returns, error resolution and modernized electronic filing projects.

She was founder and program manager of an agency mentoring program that has grown to serve more than 7,000 employees. Miss Unkle, described as cool under pressure, personally mentored many IRS employees and tried to help them progress in their jobs, her family and co-workers said.

She was selected for the IRS 2007 Executive Readiness Program.