Obituaries

Thomas B. EllsworthNaval Officer

Thomas B. Ellsworth Jr., 68, a retired naval officer and business executive, died of respiratory failure Dec. 16 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church. He lived in Alexandria.

Capt. Ellsworth served in the Navy for 30 years, retiring in 1992 as assistant to the director of naval intelligence for Soviet studies. An expert in the history of merchant shipping, he then joined Booz Allen Hamilton as a national security adviser.

He was born in Norwalk, Conn., and graduated from Yale University. He entered the Officer Candidate School, was commissioned an ensign and served tours on the picket ship USS Investigator, radar station ship USS Protector and destroyer USS Mahan. In 1970, Capt. Ellsworth was designated a restricted line officer in intelligence and assigned to the Naval Reconnaissance and Technical Support Center in Suitland.

He served as an intelligence adviser in Vietnam, as an assistant naval attach¿ in Moscow, deputy director of intelligence at the U.S. European Command Center in Stuttgart, and many other posts.

He received a master's degree in public administration from George Washington University in 1984.

His marriage to Alice Low ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 26 years, Adele Bemus Ellsworth of Alexandria; two children from his first marriage, Thomas Ellsworth III of Raleigh, N.C., and Laura Ellsworth of Los Angeles; three stepdaughters, Marti Hope Gonzales of Minneapolis, Linda Hope of San Francisco and Karen Hope of Baltimore; and two granddaughters.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Maidee Coffman DemingSilkscreen Artist

Maidee Coffman Deming, 88, a silkscreen artist and Washington native, died Dec. 14 of lung cancer at her home in Georgetown.

Mrs. Deming was a graduate of McKinley Technology High School and the University of Maryland, where she was a member of the Kappa Delta sorority.