Obituaries

He enjoyed cooking, fishing and dancing. He also remodeled several houses, doing the plumbing, carpentry, roofing, bricklaying and electrical work.

Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Dorothy Dyke of Mollusk; two sons, Kevin Dyke of Mollusk and Daniel Dyke of Reston; and two grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

James W. FastenrathFEMA Official

James W. Fastenrath, 77, a former official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency who also collected Haitian art and operated an antiques shop in West Virginia, died Sept. 2 of cancer at Georgetown University Hospital. He lived in Washington.

Mr. Fastenrath began his federal career in 1957 with the old Civil Service Commission in Chicago. He later transferred to the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency in Grand Rapids, Mich., before taking a position with the agency in Washington in 1966.

That office later became part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency when FEMA was created in 1979. He retired in 1987 as FEMA's assistant director of policy and programs.

Mr. Fastenrath was born in Kalamazoo, Mich. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War and was a veteran of the battle of Chosin Reservoir. After his military service, he graduated from Western Michigan University.

Mr. Fastenrath enjoyed art and antiques of all kinds and collected 20th-century American prints, folk art, pottery and vintage radios and clocks. For many years, he had a vacation home in Haiti, and he amassed a large collection of Haitian art.

He and his second wife, Anne Grimmer, had an 18th-century log house in Middleway, W.Va., and operated an antiques shop there for about 20 years before selling it in 2006. They also had a home in New Orleans.

His first marriage, to Alice Childress, ended in divorce.