Obituaries

He was a native of Carbondale, Pa., a 1953 graduate of the University of Scranton and a 1957 graduate of Georgetown University law school.

He was an Army veteran of the Korean War and worked for the CIA while in law school.

He was a member of St. Raphael's Catholic Church in Rockville. He had homes in Potomac and Bethany Beach, Del.

Survivors include his wife of 43 years, Catherine Ellis Dirlam of Potomac; two children, Ellen Jones of Silver Spring and Mark C. Dirlam of Gaithersburg; and five grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Walter J. DykeArmy Officer

Walter J. Dyke, 86, a retired Army major who survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, died Aug. 31 at his home in Mollusk, Va. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Maj. Dyke, who was born in Chicago, enlisted in the Army in 1941 and was stationed at Hickam Field in Hawaii when the Japanese attacked the field as part of a larger attack on the nearby U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Then a corporal, Maj. Dyke was assigned to drive communications equipment to a secure location and was wounded in the attack.

He attended Officer Candidate School and became an officer assigned to the Seventh Signal Brigade. He served aboard the USS Mount McKinley, an amphibious force flagship in the Pacific.

After World War II, Maj. Dyke had assignments in Greece, Korea and Japan. He retired from the Army in 1964. He then worked as a project manager with the Navy Department for 15 years.

He lived in Alexandria and later Annapolis before moving last year to Virginia's Northern Neck.