Obituaries

Alice C.G. HsuIMF Official

Alice C.G. Hsu, 70, retired assistant division chief with the International Monetary Fund, died Dec. 5 at the Aegis Gardens assisted living facility in Fremont, Calif. She had dementia.

Ms. Hsu began working for the IMF in 1967 as a programmer in the research department. She later worked as a computer systems officer, where she helped computerize the IMF's statistical databases, then rose through the ranks to assistant division chief. She retired in 1995.

She was born in Suzhou, China, and moved to Taipei, Taiwan, in 1954. She graduated from Taichung College of Agriculture, now known as the National Chung-Shing University. She married and in 1962 came to the United States to study computer programming.

Ms. Hsu moved to the Washington area in 1966 and worked for a year as an analyst at Computer Usage and then Computer Science Corp. She became a U.S. citizen in the 1990s.

She was a member of the Bretton Woods Recreation Center; CAREN, an Adelphi-based Chinese American Retirement Enterprise; and the Washington chapter of the FF-Fraternity, an international brotherhood of Chinese academics, professionals and entrepreneurs.

She lived in Silver Spring, Bethesda, Potomac and Rockville before moving to Fremont in 2004. She enjoyed playing mah-jongg, karaoke, reading novels, watching basketball and movies, and traveling.

Survivors include her husband of 45 years, Ronald Hsu, of Pleasanton, Calif.; three children, Lewis Low of Portland, Ore., Walter Hsu of Potomac and Leslie Hsu Besner of Millburn, N.J.; a brother; and seven grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Myra 'Dell' Singer StricklerNurse, Volunteer

Myra "Dell" Singer Strickler, 85, who was a private duty nurse, volunteer and harpist who played for churches and schools in Washington, died Dec. 19 in Phillipsburg, Pa., of a heart attack while en route to a doctor's appointment. She lived in Penfield, Pa.

Mrs. Strickler, a District resident for 50 years before moving in 2000, also played concert harp and was a performing member of National Capital Harp Ensemble in Washington and the Western Pennsylvania Harp Society.