Obituaries

She was born in Vincennes, Ind., and worked as a stenographer for the FBI during World War II. She attended Sullins College in Virginia and George Washington University.

At GWU, she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. Members of the group started a monthly bridge group 50 years ago, and although the bridge faded away, the friendships did not. About 30 years ago, armed robbers entered the Georgetown home of one of the members while the women played bridge, made them lie on the floor and took their jewelry, a daughter recalled.

Mrs. Cooper volunteered with the Florence Crittenden Society and the Assistance League of Northern Virginia, making beadwork crafts, jewelry and ornaments to sell to raise money for the two groups. She also drove cancer patients to their treatments for the American Cancer Society.

She supported her husband's business ventures, which included two Japanese steakhouses in Arlington and Bethesda. Her husband, Benjamin Herbert Cooper Jr., and his brother-in-law, Frank Trent, also founded the Cooper-Trent Printing Co., which had sites in the District, Maryland and Virginia.

Her husband of 53 years died in 1998.

Survivors include four children, Benjamin Herbert Cooper III, Suzanne Cooper Buck and Barbara Cooper Keaton, all of Arlington, and Katherine Cooper Miller of Durham, N.C.; and six grandchildren.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Jane Atherton RomanCIA Officer

Jane Atherton Roman, 91, a 27-year veteran of the CIA, died of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Sept. 6 at her home in Bethesda.

Mrs. Roman joined the Office of Strategic Services in 1944, and her early assignments took her to wartime London and postwar Germany. For much of her later career, she worked as a counterintelligence officer, serving as a liaison between the CIA and the FBI. She received a Distinguished Service Medal when she retired in 1971.

She was a native of New York City and graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts in 1936. She worked for a Cape Cod, Mass., theater company and a New York advertising agency before joining the OSS.