Obituaries

Mary Corbett MoranPsychologist

Mary Corbett Moran, 85, a retired clinical psychologist who practiced for 18 years in Cumberland, Md., died Sept. 6 of cancer at Howard County General Hospital. She had lived for the past two years in Ellicott City.

Mrs. Moran was born in Beloit, Wis., and came to Washington as a seventh-grader. She graduated from the old Sacred Heart Academy and, in 1943, from Trinity University in Washington.

During World War II , she worked with the Red Cross as a displaced persons specialist, helping to resettle war refugees. She received a master's degree in clinical psychology from Catholic University in the late 1940s and did additional graduate work at the university.

Mrs. Moran lived with her family in the Midwest in the 1960s and 1970s. During that time, she taught psychology and philosophy at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, and worked as a psychologist for a rehabilitation hospital in Ohio.

In 1976, she settled in Cumberland, where she was a psychologist with the Allegany County Health Department. She retired in 1994.

Ms. Moran was an advocate for people with disabilities and was on the board of directors of Friends Aware, a group providing assistance to disabled people in Cumberland.

Her interests included writing, reading, sewing and current events.

Her husband of 34 years, Lawrence Moran, died in 1985. A son, Gregory Moran, died in 1990.

Survivors include five children, David Moran of River Ridge, La., Lucy Moran of Ellicott City, Joann Moran of Austin, Martha Rollins of Cumberland and Liz Capone of Burtonsville; two sisters, Helen Owens of Bethesda and Anne Mann of Washington; and eight grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel