Obituaries

Her first marriage, to William Bicknell Richardson, ended in divorce.

Her second husband, retired Navy Capt. Jay Stanley Howell, died in 2001.

Survivors include two daughters from her first marriage, Elizabeth Faye Richardson of Rockville and Alice Richardson Hwang of Albuquerque; and eight grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

FR RuskinEditor

FR Ruskin, 86, a former editor with the New Republic and other publications, died July 4 of a heart ailment at her home in Washington.

Miss Ruskin moved to Washington from her native New York in the late 1930s. Her given name was Florence Rose, and she was also known as Rusty.

After attending the University of Wisconsin and George Washington University, Miss Ruskin graduated from the University of Maryland in 1947. She had worked earlier in the classified advertising department of The Washington Post and as an assistant to muckraking journalist I.F. Stone.

Miss Ruskin joined the New Republic in 1947 as an assistant to the publisher and later became a copy editor, working at the then-weekly magazine until 1968.

She later worked at the National Journal and then spent many years editing research reports for the National Academy of Sciences. She retired in 1991.

Miss Ruskin was a stickler for proper grammar and would sometimes correct strangers when they used words incorrectly. She had 30 dictionaries at her home.