Obituaries

She later attended Howard and George Washington universities, among other schools.

She was raised Catholic and in 1978 became a born-again Christian. Most recently, she attended New Life Church in La Plata.

Her memberships included Aglow International, a Christian women's organization. She was a former chapter president of Toastmistress International.

She was a tutor and coordinator of the Charles County Literacy Council and a volunteer for the Hospice of Charles County.

Her interests included dressmaking and tailoring as well as donating household goods to an extension of the Tutwiler Clinic in Mississippi, which provides health care to the poor.

Her marriage to Charles A. Bankhead ended in divorce.

Survivors include a daughter, Bonnie M. Bankhead of Washington; and two sisters, A. Cornelia Bowman of Washington and Florence Folks of Trenton, N.J.

-- Adam Bernstein

Vladimir Walter SkubyAir Force Lieutenant Colonel

Vladimir Walter Skuby, 83, an Air Force lieutenant colonel whose specialty was intelligence and Soviet affairs, died Aug. 12 at Capital Hospice in Arlington. He had kidney failure. He was a resident of Springfield.

Col. Skuby flew 19 combat missions as an Army Air Forces pilot in Europe during World War II. During the Vietnam War, he was an Air Force combat group adviser on flight operations to the South Vietnamese air force.