Obituaries

She was a longtime resident of Leisure World in Silver Spring until moving to Bowie more than two years ago.

Her husband of 50 years, Charles F. Warburton Sr., died in 1984. A daughter, Joan Bloomquist, died in 2001.

Survivors include a son, Charles F. Warburton Jr. of Bowie; six grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Dorothy Sandison CulverEditor

Dorothy Sandison Culver, 93, who was an editor with a trade association and for federal agencies, died Oct. 6 at Wilson Health Care Center of Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg. She had cancer and dementia.

Mrs. Culver moved to Washington in 1947 and worked as an editor with the Association for Childhood Education International for nine years. She worked at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology from 1956 to 1962 while under the aegis of the National Academy of Sciences. From 1962 until her retirement in 1976, she was an editor at the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mrs. Culver was born in Huntsville, Mo., and was a graduate of Northwest Missouri State University. She received a master's degree in education from George Washington University in 1954.

She was a member of the Woman's National Democratic Club and the Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority. She lived in Washington and Silver Spring before moving to Gaithersburg in 1984.

She had been a member, successively, of Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church in Washington, Woodside United Methodist Church in Silver Spring and Grace United Methodist Church in Gaithersburg.

Her marriage to Leslie Carlson ended in divorce.