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She was a member of All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, the Washington Memorial Society and the Women's National Democratic Club. She enjoyed traveling in her retirement.

Her husband of 41 years, Robert Bakeman, died in 1982.

Survivors include two children, David Bakeman of Takoma Park and Mary B. White of Alton, N.H.

-- Matt Schudel

Eugene LallyComputer Analyst

Eugene Lally, 82, who was a computer analyst at Goddard Space Flight Center, died June 20 of respiratory failure at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. He had lived at ManorCare Health Services in Wheaton since last year.

Mr. Lally was born in New York and served in the Navy in the Pacific theater during World War II. He settled in Washington after the war and worked successively as a D.C. firefighter, police officer and letter carrier.

He worked at the David Taylor Model Basin of the Naval Surface Warfare Center before joining the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt in the 1960s. He retired in 1983.

Mr. Lally had been a 44-year resident of Rockville before moving to Tucson in 1999 and then to Lake Wales, Fla.

He was a member of an Irish heritage group.


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