Obituaries

Mrs. Nally spoke to Scout groups throughout the world and served on the Boy Scouts' international committee and on the staff of Scout training facilities in New Mexico and New Jersey. She was the Boy Scouts' representative to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and ambassador for the World Scout Bureau in Geneva. She also served eight years as a member of the Scouts' National Court of Honor.

She received the Good Shepherd Emblem, the Silver Fawn, the Silver Antelope and, Scouting's highest award, the Silver Buffalo. The 1995 Silver Beaver class of the National Capital Area Council was named in Mrs. Nally's honor.

Her husband, retired Air Force Col. James D. Nally, died in 1991.

Survivors include four sons, James Michael Nally of Marshall, Charles Patrick Nally of Cocoa Beach, Fla., Timothy Wilson Nally of High View, W.Va., and Steven James Nally of Red Oak, Va.; a sister; and four grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Harriet Thomas PankratzAirline Agent

Harriet Thomas Pankratz, 50, a gate agent with United Airlines, died June 6 of breast cancer at her home in Ashburn.

Mrs. Pankratz was born in Baltimore and was a graduate of Frederick High School. She studied horticulture at the University of Maryland.

She lived in Puerto Rico, Maine, Florida and Virginia, where her husband was based in the Navy. She worked with United Airlines at Dulles International Airport from 1999 until this year.

She was a member of Daybreak Community Church in Ashburn. She enjoyed travel, fitness, scuba diving, swimming, skiing and bicycling. She was an accomplished seamstress and quilter.

Survivors include her husband of 22 years, Mark Pankratz of Ashburn; two daughters, Ashley Pankratz and Heidi Pankratz, both of Ashburn; her father, Leonard "Ike" Davis of Hilton Head Island, S.C.; and a brother.

-- Matt Schudel

Ian Michael ToneyPiano Technician

Ian Michael Toney, 36, a piano technician and repairman, died July 6 of pneumonia and a lung infection at a friend's home in Washington. He lived in Reston.

Mr. Toney was born in Seville, Spain, and lived in various countries while growing up in a diplomatic family.

He worked for American Airlines at Dulles International Airport, was a framer at an art shop and worked for several years at Foxes Music in Falls Church.

He graduated from the Chicago School for Piano Technology and had operated Ian's Piano Services, repairing and tuning pianos in the Washington area, since last year.

He enjoyed playing the piano and writing poetry.

Survivors include his parents, Gerald and Tuula Toney of Reston; and a sister, Lisa Toney of Ashburn.

-- Matt Schudel

Irene A. WerthmannCIA Officer

Irene A. Werthmann, 94, a former CIA officer, died of respiratory failure June 16 at her Fairfax County home.

Mrs. Werthmann began at the agency in 1960 as a telephone operator and rose to supervisor, section manager and chief operator. Just before she retired in 1974, she oversaw the replacement of the outdated electromechanical phone switching center with a modern electronic system capable of worldwide connectivity.

She was born in Manhattan, N.Y., and worked as a telephone operator for the old Bell Telephone system in New York City. She was chosen as one of a dozen operators trained to demonstrate a revolutionary electronic speech-synthesizing device, the Voder machine, at the 1939 World's Fair.

During World War II, she worked for Pennsylvania Railroad. She returned to Bell after the war and moved to Washington in 1951.

Mrs. Werthmann taught kindergarten and was a founding member of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Fairfax. She worked briefly for the Government Printing Office in 1959 before joining the CIA.

After her retirement, she volunteered at St. Leo's, delivered Meals on Wheels and was a member of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees.

Her husband, Andrew T. Werthmann, died in 1981.

Survivors include two sons, Andrew Werthmann of Fairfax and Robert Werthmann of Great Falls; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan