Obituaries

C. Isabelle McDonaldSecretary, Volunteer

C. Isabelle McDonald, 90, who worked at Peoples drugstores from the late 1930s to 1953 and left as secretary to the pharmaceutical division chief, died Dec. 25 at the Homewood at Crumland Farms retirement community in Frederick. She had congestive heart failure.

Mrs. McDonald became a Silver Spring homemaker and volunteered in the office at nearby Our Lady of Good Counsel High School. She later settled in Middletown, in Frederick County, before moving to the retirement community in 2002.

Her memberships included St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church and St. Katherine Drexel Catholic Church, both in Frederick, as well as a Middletown seniors organization and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association.

Clarice Isabelle Latchford was a native Washingtonian and a 1935 graduate of McKinley Technology High School. She attended Strayer secretarial school.

Her husband, Francis A. McDonald, whom she married in 1945, died in 1983.

Survivors include three children, Francine I. Heaton and Mary Ann Rankin, both of Urbana, and Timothy McDonald of Germantown; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Katreen M. KorteReal Estate Broker

Katreen M. Korte, 98, founder of Korte Realty in Falls Church, died Dec. 2 at her Falls Church home. She had Alzheimer's disease.

She obtained her real estate agent's license in the early 1950s and worked for real estate agents and brokerages, including C.M. Hailey, the Moncure Agency and Mary Munson, before obtaining her own broker's license in 1965 and opening Korte Realty in Falls Church.