Obituaries

Janice E. BachtellNVCC Professor

Janice Estelle Bachtell, 76, a Northern Virginia Community College professor of nursing, died of congestive heart failure July 7 at her home in Alexandria.

Ms. Bachtell was born in Johnstown, Pa., and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. She received a master's degree in nursing from Catholic University in the 1950s and a doctorate in counseling and student development from American University in 1984.

She worked at NVCC most of her career and retired about 1997.

She was a member of the National League for Nursing and Zonta International, which works to advance the status of women.

Survivors include three sisters and a brother.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Jessie Harden BakemanSocial Worker

Jessie Harden Bakeman, 93, a former social worker in Montgomery County, died June 12 of lung cancer at her home in Takoma Park.

Mrs. Bakeman was born in Washington and graduated from the old Central High School in 1928. She was a graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio and did graduate study at the University of Chicago. She lived in Greece for two years in the 1930s, working for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

In 1959, she received a master's degree in social work from Howard University.

Mrs. Bakeman worked at D.C. General Hospital during World War II and was a social worker with Montgomery County from 1947 until her retirement in 1978.