Obituaries

Marilyn Moran WalkerMontgomery County Teacher

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Marilyn Moran Walker, 80, a Montgomery County elementary and special education teacher from the 1960s to late 1980s, died July 1 at her daughter's home in Rockville. She had pancreatic cancer.

Mrs. Walker taught at Barnsley Elementary School, Seven Locks Elementary School and the old Holiday Park Elementary School.

Marilyn Pereira was born in Cleveland and raised near Tarrytown, N.Y. She was a graduate of the State University of New York at New Paltz and received a master's degree in special education from George Washington University in 1979.

She taught elementary school on Long Island before settling in the Washington area in the early 1960s. She moved to Oberlin, Ohio, from Rockville last year.

Her marriage to Henry Moran ended in divorce. A daughter from that marriage, Sharon Christopher, died in 1986.

Survivors include her husband of 17 years, Dr. Barry Walker of Oberlin; three children from the first marriage, Maureen de la Cruz of Bethesda, Nancy Fenton of Rockville and Timothy Moran of Easton, Md.; and 11 grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

J. Loren PeckAir Force Colonel

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J. Loren Peck, 84, an Air Force colonel and veteran of three wars who retired in 1974 and spent two decades in Washington area real estate sales, died June 6 at his home in Alexandria. He had skin cancer.

Col. Peck served in the Army Air Forces during World War II and afterward joined the Air Force when it became a separate branch.

He saw combat during the Korean War and spent 20 years flying with units of the Strategic Air Command. He was chief of the Military Assistance Command's air reconnaissance division in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970.