Obituaries

He lived in Hollin Hills in Fairfax County from 1955 until 1994, when he moved to Mitchellville.

Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Elisabeth Puckett Martin of Mitchellville; two children, Burnham Martin of Brunswick, Maine, and Betsy Martin of Newton, Mass.; and two grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Jean Carroll MacdonaldTeacher, Community Leader

Jean Carroll Macdonald, 83, a former teacher in the D.C. public schools, died July 14 of esophageal cancer at Georgetown University Hospital. She lived in Washington.

Mrs. Macdonald taught in several D.C. schools, including Payne and Webb elementary schools, from 1972 until her retirement in 1993. She continued to volunteer at Webb Elementary School (now Webb/Wheatley) for several years after she retired.

After moving to Southwest Washington from Chevy Chase in 1972, Mrs. Macdonald became active in the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly.

She was secretary of the community organization and volunteered with its elections committee. In 1982, she and her husband helped found the Youth Activities Task Force. She chaired the task force at the time of her death.

She developed sailing, rowing and Tae Kwon Do programs for young people in her community and was a leader of the neighborhood King Greenleaf Recreation Center. She was also active in Harbour Square Owners Inc. and was a member of its landscaping committee and Southwest affairs committee. She sometimes wrote for a neighborhood newspaper, the Southwester.

Mrs. Macdonald was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Bronxville, N.Y.

She was a graduate of Simmons College in Boston. She received a master's degree in elementary education from Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania in 1971 and a second master's degree, in reading education, from Washington's Trinity University in the mid-1980s.

Between 1947 and 1969, Mrs. Macdonald spent many years abroad with her husband, a Foreign Service officer, living in Korea, Turkey and Switzerland. When based in Washington, she volunteered at the Meridian International Center.

Her husband of 48 years, Donald Macdonald, died in 1993. An infant son died in 1947; another son, James C. Macdonald, died in 1980.

Survivors include a son, Thomson S. Macdonald of Boston; a niece she helped raise, Mary Elizabeth Alpern of St. Petersburg, Fla.; and two grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel