Obituaries

Ms. Drbal was born in the Czech Republic and immigrated to the United States by way of Canada. She lived in the Washington area for about 55 years and obtained her U.S. citizenship in 1957. She initially worked at the Austrian Embassy.

She enjoyed playing bridge.

Her marriage to Aristides Joseph Drbal ended in divorce.

She leaves no immediate survivors.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Gerald L. HeatleyCIA Officer

Gerald L. Heatley, 80, a retired CIA counterintelligence officer and a former Manassas resident, died Nov. 11 at Bayfront Medical Center in Largo, Fla., of injuries sustained when his car was hit by a motorist who had lost control of her Jeep.

Mr. Heatley, known as Jerry, was born in the District and graduated from Charlotte Hall Military Academy in St. Mary's County, where he played varsity football, basketball and baseball. He served with the Navy in the Pacific theater in 1945-46 and received a degree in business administration in 1950 from the University of Maryland, where he lettered in baseball and basketball.

He was an assistant hearing examiner for the International Organizations Employees Loyalty Board and an investigator for the U.S. Civil Service Commission before joining the CIA in 1953. His 25-year career as a counterintelligence officer included a five-year assignment in the Far East.

After his retirement from the CIA in 1978, he moved to Roper, N.C., and then to Dunedin, Fla., in 1997. His wife, Ruby Reynolds Heatley, died in 1992.

Survivors include four children, Berry Heatley of Wayne, Pa., Patricia Flock and Holly Rodgers, both of Rockville, and Matthew Heatley of Tampa; and four grandchildren.

-- Joe Holley