Obituaries

Mrs. Price, who came to Washington in 1951, worked for the permanent investigations subcommittee of the Government Operations Committee and took dictation from investigators and from chief counsel Robert F. Kennedy.

She transferred to the staff of Sen. Samuel J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.), where she worked closely with him during the Watergate investigations and during his tenure on the Labor Rackets Committee. After Ervin's retirement at the end of 1974, she worked for Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss.) on the Committee on Armed Forces until her retirement in 1977.

She was born in Greensboro, N.C., and attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She graduated from Kings Business College in 1941.

Mrs. Price was a member of the Yacht Haven Garden Club for more than 25 years. She was also a member of the White House Historical Association, the Capital Historical Society and the National Presbyterian Church.

Her husband, David Ray Price, died in 1980.

Survivors include a brother.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Joseph J. KisnerWoodbridge Teacher

Joseph John Kisner, 53, who had taught ancient world history at Woodbridge Middle School in Prince William County for the past decade, died July 17 at Capital Hospice in Arlington. He had cancer.

Mr. Kisner was an ordained Ukrainian Catholic priest in Pennsylvania and Ohio before settling in the Washington area in 1985, initially to work in finance. He became an assistant vice president of the old Trustbank Savings in Washington.

He was a native of McKeesport, Pa., and a 1976 history and philosophy graduate of St. Basil College Seminary in Stamford, Conn.