Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Lillian Ann GellerHomemaker, Church Member

Lillian Ann Geller, 87, a homemaker and church member, died Dec. 11 of complications from a hip fracture at the Clairmont rehabilitation center in Longview, Tex. She was a former Annandale resident.

She was born in New York and graduated from a business school there. She married and was a homemaker until 1986, when she divorced and moved to Annandale.

She was a member of Friendship United Methodist Church in Falls Church and belonged to a local garden club. She moved to Texas in 2005.

Her marriage to Charles Geller ended in divorce.

Survivors include two daughters, Patricia Berent of Suffolk, Va., and Kathleen Corley of Pensacola, Fla.; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Larry R. Seidel, 58, a managing partner in a strategy and technology consultant firm and a former executive vice president of a software development firm, died Dec. 30 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. He had polycystic kidney disease.

From 1973 to 2003, Mr. Seidel was an executive with American Management Systems. He founded AMS's federal civilian consulting and software development business, expanding it from five people to 1,000, and served more than 50 federal agencies. He also developed the first standardized, government-wide financial management system, which is still used at many federal agencies.

Mr. Seidel managed the software development firm's federal civilian agency, health-care and financial services businesses simultaneously. The company eventually was acquired by GCI.

For about four years until early 2007, he was managing director of MST New Ventures, an independent business consultancy based in Tysons Corner. He worked with venture-backed information technology and professional services firms to improve business performance.

Mr. Seidel, a resident of Arlington, worked at Claraview Inc. in Reston for the last eight months in 2007.

He was born in Washington and graduated from the University of Chicago, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics in 1971 and an MBA in labor economics and finance in 1972.

A pickup basketball player who enjoyed betting on college basketball games, Mr. Seidel wrote two books on sports betting: "Investing in College Basketball" (2004) and "College Basketball: Wagering to Win" (2005).

He was on the visiting committee for college and student activities for the board of trustees at the University of Chicago.

He was a congregant of Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church.

Survivors include his wife of more than 35 years, Kathleen Gilles Seidel of Arlington; and two daughters, Dorothy Rebecca Seidel and Lillian Elaine Seidel, both of Arlington.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb