Obituaries

Miss Unkle was born in Bethesda, grew up in Fairfax County and graduated from W.T. Woodson High School. She received a bachelor's degree in economics from Mary Washington College and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Southern California's Washington branch in 1989.

She was a member of the Professional Managers Association, the Federal Mentoring Roundtable, Federally Employed Women, the Hispanic Internal Revenue Employees and Asian Pacific Internal Revenue Employees.

She played the parlor game Bunco for a number of years with a group of women in Alexandria and traveled extensively in Asia, Europe and the United States. She enjoyed decorating and antiquing and took a class at the Corcoran College of Art and Design on interior decorating.

She loved the theater and had season tickets to the Kennedy Center.

She supported numerous national and local charities. She adored children and brought clothes and toys for numerous children at the Central Union Mission, where she also volunteered. She also was involved with efforts in the 1990s to block a proposed Washington Redskins stadium in Potomac Yard.

Survivors include her parents, John and Marie Unkle of Fairfax, and a sister, Patricia Unkle Goodman of Washington.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Garnett B. Weatherford Sr.Bus Driver

Garnett Burnell Weatherford Sr., 80, an Alexandria resident and bus driver for what became the Metro transit system, died June 27 at Inova Alexandria Hospital. He had a pulmonary embolism.

Mr. Weatherford spent 25 years with the AB&W transit company until it was acquired by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in 1973. He then spent 16 years with Metro before retiring.

He was born in Danville, Va., and served in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II.