Obituaries

Mr. Jankowski completed an accounting course at Boyds School of Accountancy in Washington in 1954 and continued taking tax education courses throughout his practice. In 1972, he received a law degree in American law and procedure from LaSalle Extension University. Mr. Jankowski and his business partner incorporated their accounting business in the 1970s in the Hyattsville area. He served as an independent accountant for the Officer's Club and NCO Club at Fort McNair from 1968 to 1972.

He served as president of the Maryland Society of Accountants for consecutive terms, from 1979 to 1981. He was governor of District 3 of the National Society of Accountants from 1981 to 1984.

His poetry, for which he received an award, was published in anthologies in the United States and England. He also was the author of two books, "The Christmas Gift" (2006) and the yet-to-be published "Curse of A Saddle."

His wife of 56 years, Polly Ann Jankowski, died in 2003.

Survivors include two children, Susan May and Nancy Kongsomboon, both of Silver Spring; a brother; two sisters; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Christopher G. TuroffAir Force Colonel

Christopher G. Turoff, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who had a second career in real estate, died of pulmonary failure Dec. 11 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County. He was 86.

Col. Turoff was born in Springfield, Ohio, to parents who had immigrated to the United States from Macedonia in the early 1900s.

After graduating from high school in 1939, he found work during the Depression as a machinist until he enlisted as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Forces in 1943.