Obituaries

In 1954, he received a bachelor's degree in music education and a master's degree in educational administration from Nashville's old George Peabody College for Teachers.

His avocations included square dancing, flying private airplanes, home building and digital photography. He saw nine solar eclipses during his travels.

His memberships included Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church in Camp Springs.

Survivors include his wife 52 years, Martha Irene Goldschmidt "Tahleen" Nabors of Fort Washington; two sons, Keith Nabors of Santa Clara, Calif., and Eric Nabors of Farmington, Conn.; and a sister.

-- Adam Bernstein

William P. RoosNavy Department Employee

William Peter Roos, 91, a chemical engineer who retired from the Naval Ordnance Systems Command in 1982, died Sept. 14 at Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital. He had complications from gastrointestinal surgery.

Mr. Roos spent 22 years with the Navy Department in the Washington area. In the ordnance systems command, his responsibilities included inspecting munitions storage and manufacturing sites for production and safety concerns.

He was a native of Ashland, Pa., and a 1938 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., where he also received a master's degree in chemistry.

Early in his career, he worked for private industries in acid, drug and nitroglycerine production nationwide.

His memberships included the American Chemical Society, the American Philatelic Society and St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alexandria.

He moved to Lancaster from Alexandria in 1996. He also had a winter home in Belleair, Fla.

His wife, Helen Ross Roos, whom he married in 1941, died in 2000. A son, G. Anthony "Tony" Roos, died in 2004.

Survivors include two daughters, Christine A. Mehl of Lancaster and Mary Jo Roos of Alexandria; six grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.

-- Adam Bernstein

Kenneth P. RaederDIA Senior Intelligence Analyst

Kenneth Paul Raeder, 61, who retired in 2005 as a senior intelligence analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency section overseeing Latin America, died Oct. 3 at Inova Fairfax Hospital.

He had complications from heart and lung ailments as well as liposarcoma, a rare form of cancer.

Mr. Raeder joined the DIA in 1979 and toward the end of the Cold War helped analyze the roles of the Soviet and Cuban military in Latin America.

He also briefed high officials on hostage crises and the Falkland Islands war and went on fact-finding visits to Nicaragua and Honduras.

He was operations officer in 1986 for the Libya Intelligence Support Team and was an analyst in 1998 for the Iraq Intelligence Task Force.

His honors included the Defense Intelligence Director's Award.

He was born in Jersey City and raised in nearby Weehawken and Paramus.

He was a 1968 political science and economics graduate of Drew University in Madison, N.J., after which he spent four years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. He was named a Peace Corps volunteer of the year in 1971.

At Tulane University, he received a master's degree in political science with a focus on Latin American studies and also completed all but his dissertation for a doctorate. He was fluent in German, Spanish and Portuguese.

His avocations included real estate investment and property management as well as genealogy and the seafood cooking style of the coastal Carolinas. He had a house in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., but his main residence was in Burke, where he was a member of the Catholic Church of the Nativity.

Survivors include his wife of 26 years, Blanca Rojas Raeder of Burke; three daughters, Jacqueline Hydock of St. Louis and Charlotte Raeder and Christina Raeder, both of Burke; a stepdaughter, Juliana Gellman of Portland, Ore.; a sister; and three grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Catherine Carre TardiffTeacher

Catherine Carre Tardiff, 55, a former teacher and speech and language pathologist, died of complications from lupus Sept. 11 while on vacation in Cotuit, Mass.

Mrs. Tardiff taught at Bethesda's Mater Dei School for five years and was a speech and language pathologist at Mount Vernon Hospital near Alexandria in the mid-1980s.

She was born in Needham, Mass. and graduated from Emerson College in Boston. She received a master's degree in education from Northeastern University in 1975. She worked in the Charlotte and Winston-Salem, N.C., areas before moving to Bethesda in 1983.

She was a member of the Christ Child Society and the Washington chapter of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She also chaired the board of the Chevy Chase United Methodist Church Preschool.

Survivors include her husband of 32 years, James G. Tardiff of Chevy Chase; two sons, Jeffrey Tardiff and Daniel Tardiff, both of Chevy Chase; a sister; and a brother.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Joseph E. Puccini Jr.Naval Aviator

Joseph E. Puccini Jr., 82, a retired Navy aviator, died of respiratory failure Sept. 24 at Reston Hospital Center.

Capt. Puccini spent 32 years in the Navy, serving aboard 14 aircraft carriers, and flew a variety of aircraft, including the Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a propeller-driven attack bomber. During his two tours in the Korean War, he was the leader of the squadron with the highest number of strikes.

He was born in Uvalde, Tex., and attended Texas A&M University before joining the Navy. He graduated from George Washington University and later received a second bachelor's degree and a master's in computer management systems from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., in 1969.

He retired from the Naval Air Systems Command in Washington in 1975.

A Reston resident since 1969, Capt. Puccini was a member of McLean Bible Church in Vienna.

His marriage to Adeline K. Puccini ended in divorce.

Survivors include a daughter, Nancy Ann Puccini of Reston.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Morrell J. BerryMoving Company Estimator

Morrell Joseph Berry, 86, who worked for Washington area moving companies as a salesman providing cost estimates for potential moves, died Oct. 1 at his home in Rockville after a heart attack.

He retired from E.I. Kane's Office Movers in the early 1990s after more than 15 years with the commercial moving company. Earlier, he worked for Victory Van.

For the past 15 years, he held part-time assignments for Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring.

He was born in Philadelphia and raised in Washington, where he attended McKinley Technology High School. He later received a general equivalency diploma.

He joined the Marine Corps in 1938 and during World War II participated in the campaigns for Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester in New Guinea. He also was a gunnery sergeant aboard the aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard.

He was a founding member of what is now the Shrine of St. Jude Catholic Church in Rockville and participated in fundraising drives for its construction and later expansion.

His wife of 45 years, Alberta Opalko Berry, died in 1996.

Survivors include three children, Maureen Raimo of Olney, Joseph Berry of Brunswick and John Berry of Washington; and four grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein