Obituaries

-- Joe Holley

Lewis Rockwell JohnsonResearch Chemist

Lewis Rockwell Johnson, 94, a former research chemist with the Naval Research Laboratory, died of complications from a stroke Dec. 13 at Covenant Medical Center in Westminster, Colo.

Mr. Johnson worked for the research lab from 1946 until he retired in 1974. He lived in Lake Barcroft and Oxon Hill during those years.

He was born in Madison, Wis., and grew up in the Washington area. He graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School and George Washington University and received a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin. He served in the Navy during World War II in stateside posts.

Mr. Johnson enjoyed travel, the arts, literature and classical and jazz music. He moved to Colorado in 2000.

His first wife, Mazie Johnson, died in 1974.

Survivors include his wife, Jean Baker Quick of Westminster; three stepchildren, Kenneth Quick of Columbia, Sharon Quick Collins of Severna Park and Brenda Quick Lee of Louisville, Colo.; a brother; six grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Barbara Neal ZiemsCIA Employee

Barbara Neal Ziems, 74, who worked for the CIA for 21 years, died Dec. 13 of cancer at Bayview Villa, an assisted living facility in San Carlos, Calif. She was a former resident of McLean.

She was born in London and grew up there and in Vermont and Florida. She graduated from Rollins College in Florida and settled in McLean.

She was active in the Republican Party and served as a precinct captain in Fairfax County. In the early 1970s, she was a district manager for the U.S. Census Bureau and co-owned a bookstore in McLean.

At the Central Intelligence Agency, she worked in counternarcotics and counterterrorism and on special projects before retiring in 2003. After retiring, she moved to Benicia, Calif., to be nearer her daughters and grandchildren.

Her marriage to Robert T. Ziems ended in divorce.

Survivors include three children, Gretchen Malara of Folsom, Calif., Charlotte Ziems of Redwood City, Calif., and Robert Ziems of Falls Church; and two grandchildren.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb