Obituaries

Mrs. Waymoth joined the Applied Physics Laboratory in 1951. When she retired in 1985, she was administrative secretary of the laboratory's fleet systems department in Howard County.

She was born in Evansville, Ind., and graduated from Lockyear's Business College there. After her marriage in 1940, she moved to Washington, where she worked as a secretary and department manager in the personnel branch of the Army Corps of Engineers. She later worked as a secretary with Transcontinental & Western Air, the forerunner of Trans World Airlines. She had lived in Silver Spring since 1951.

Mrs. Waymoth enjoyed caring for animals and had poodles and Siamese cats as pets. She also was fond of children and often went shopping with the children of friends and neighbors.

Survivors include her husband of 67 years, Paul S. Waymoth of Silver Spring.

-- Matt Schudel

Hertha Schlefer RoshalVolunteer

Hertha Maxine Googe Schlefer Roshal, 79, a volunteer who sang in a local chorale and sorted mail at the Clinton White House, died of cancer Aug. 29 at the house her grandfather built 99 years ago in Arlington.

Mrs. Roshal was born in Brownsville, Tex., and moved to Arlington at age 9. She graduated from Washington-Lee High School and was a 1949 graduate of the University of Chicago. She worked for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore and then in Brooklyn, N.Y., retiring from the agency in 1988.

She moved to Arlington the following year. She sang with the Arlington Senior Chorale and was a member of the Arlington Democratic Committee, from which she became a volunteer in the White House mailroom during the Clinton administration.

Mrs. Roshal also enjoyed working in her garden and mall-walking at Ballston Commons. She and her husband traveled and sampled the cuisines of China, Sweden, Norway, the Galapagos Islands, France, England and the United States.

Her first husband, William Schlefer, died in 1976. Her second husband, Dr. Jay "Hoodie" Roshal, died in 2004.