Obituaries

Survivors include two children, James Schlefer and Frederick Schlefer, both of Brooklyn; and three grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Jean Marie StreeterElementary Teacher

Jean Marie Streeter, 90, a former Montgomery County elementary school teacher, died Aug. 28 of an intestinal disease at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Edgewood, Ky. A former resident of Silver Spring, she had lived in Fort Wright, Ky., since 2001.

Mrs. Streeter began teaching in the Montgomery County schools in the early 1950s. She taught fourth grade at Highland Elementary School in Silver Spring for many years and also taught at Darnestown and Barnesville elementary schools. She retired in 1976.

She was a member of Hughes United Methodist Church in Wheaton and the Maryland State Teachers Association.

Mrs. Streeter was born in Philadelphia and moved as a child with her family to Louisiana and Texas. After graduating from the University of Texas, she received a master's degree in English there in 1938. She did additional graduate work at the University of Maryland.

She served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II and first settled in Washington in 1943.

Her first husband, Herman M. Hall, died in 1968 after 24 years of marriage.

Her second husband, Wallace N. Streeter, whom she married in 1970, died in 1996.

Survivors include three children from her first marriage, Martha Kump of Midlothian, Va., Elizabeth Bernard of Crescent Springs, Ky., and David Hall of Frederick; a brother; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Helen HarpoldAdministrative Assistant

Helen Balcar Harpold, 90, an administrative assistant for federal agencies who retired in 1973 from the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, died Sept. 1 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. She had congestive heart failure.

Mrs. Harpold was born in Fairpoint, Ohio, and graduated from a business college in Wheeling, W.Va., before settling in Washington in the early 1940s. She was a Falls Church resident.

Her avocations included growing flowers, and she grew enough to supply many neighbors. She also bowled and collected glass paperweights.

Her husband, Paul Harpold, whom she married in 1951, died in 1994.

Survivors include a sister, Agnes Paroulek of Arlington; and a brother, Frank Balcar of St. Clairsville, Ohio.

-- Adam Bernstein