Obituaries

He received agency awards for honorable service and career achievement.

He was born in Newark and raised in West Orange, N.J. He was a 1952 graduate of George Washington University and spent two years in Army intelligence.

Mr. Close was a member of Fairfax National Golf Club, where he was captain of the retired men's league for 10 years. He was a member of the Northern Virginia Retired Men's Golf Association, and he also volunteered for tournaments it sponsored.

He also was president of the Linden Square housing association in Fairfax.

His marriage to Mary Milton Close ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Hart Close of Fairfax, whom he married in 1998; a daughter from his first marriage, Carol Mattey of Bethesda; a brother; and three granddaughters.

-- Adam Bernstein

Frances Leonie BouquetNurse, Interior Decorator

Frances Leonie Nassetta Bouquet, 55, who worked as a registered nurse on the psychiatric ward at Inova Fairfax Hospital and also spent 30 years helping people redesign their homes, died Aug. 4 of brain cancer at her home in Fairfax County.

Mrs. Bouquet was a stay-at-home mother who home-schooled her son for many years. She worked as a nurse for a year before retiring last year because of ill health.

Interior decorating was an avocation that allowed her to help people, said her husband, Byron Bouquet. "She would go into people's homes and use what they had to change the environment not only for usefulness, but for the aesthetics," he said.