Obituaries

She settled in the Washington area in the early 1950s and briefly did clerical work at the National Security Agency.

She did volunteer work with Hadassah and a literacy program at Second Genesis, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. She was a member of Ohr Kodesh, a conservative synagogue in Chevy Chase.

Survivors include her husband of 59 years, Sidney Levine of Potomac; two sons, Steven Levine of Baton Rouge, La., and Eric Levine of Frederick; a sister; and five grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Betty W. ShawMontgomery County Teacher

Betty Whitmore Shaw, 84, who taught elementary school in Montgomery County public schools for 41 years, died Sept. 19 at Holy Cross Hospital. She had complications after brain surgery two days earlier.

Mrs. Shaw retired in 1984 from Twinbrook Elementary School in Rockville.

She was born in Charles Town, W.Va., and graduated from the University of Maryland.

She was a docent at Washington National Cathedral and a member of Grace Episcopal Church in Silver Spring, where she lived.

Her husband, Daryl W. Shaw, whom she married in 1957, died in 1992. Two stepsons died, Richard Shaw in the 1940s and David Shaw in the 1960s.

Survivors include a stepdaughter, Patricia Walsh of Naples, Fla.; a sister, Peggy Johnson of Lower Marlboro; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.