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Lorraine Marie McKinleyTelephone Operator

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Lorraine Marie "Rae" McKinley, 90, a telephone operator for three Washington area companies, died of cardiac arrest June 29 at her daughter's home in San Antonio.

Mrs. McKinley, a native Washingtonian, graduated from the old St. Cecilia's High School. She worked as a nursery school teacher in the District's Montrose Park and then as a telephone operator for Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone, D.C. Transit and Northup Page Communications. She retired in 1980.

She and her husband moved to Vienna in 1971. She moved to Atlanta in 1991 and to San Antonio in 2005.

Her husband of 44 years, Francis D. McKinley, died in 1980. A son, Jack McKinley, died in 1991, and another son, Mike McKinley, died in 2005.

Survivors include her daughter, Mary Margaret Binsted of San Antonio; nine grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Martha Ann NallyBoy Scout Volunteer

Martha Ann Wilson Nally, 80, who held many leadership and training positions as a Boy Scout volunteer, died June 12 at Heritage Hall Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Leesburg. She had Parkinson's disease and was a resident of Leesburg.

Mrs. Nally was born in Nashville and was a Girl Scout there. She became a Cub Scout den leader in 1955 and served on Scout councils in Asia and Europe, where her husband was stationed in the Air Force.

After moving to the Washington area in the 1960s, she volunteered with the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts. She was a member of the executive board and advisory board, chairman of the international committee and chairman of Cub Scout leader training.

She chaired the Cub Scout committee in the Southeast region and served on the regional board of directors. At the national level, she was vice chairman of the Cub Scout committee and chairman of the Cub Scout 50th anniversary committee during the nationwide celebration in 1980. She and her husband wrote the Boy Scouts' official history of the Cub Scouts. She also wrote articles on training and scouting history.


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