Obituaries

Mrs. Friedlander fought private and public schools in Fairfax County to educate a daughter who was born with cerebral palsy and is mentally disabled, her husband said. Her daughter attended seven schools.

"She never let up," Philip Friedlander Jr. of Vienna said of his wife.

Mrs. Friedlander was born in Teague, Tex., and graduated as valedictorian of her high school. She attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

She worked as a secretary and dental assistant in Dallas before moving to the Washington area about 50 years ago. She was a member of the Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna for 45 years.

In addition to her husband of 47 years, survivors include three children, Dorothy Friedlander of Arlington County, Beth Friedlander of Vienna and James Friedlander of Fairfax Station; and two grandchildren.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Theresa A. CarrollCommerce Program Manager

Theresa Ann Carroll, 61, who worked at the U.S. Commerce Department for 24 years before retiring as a program manager in 2006, died Jan. 12 at Capital Hospice's Halquist Memorial Inpatient Center in Arlington County. She had non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Mrs. Carroll was born in Philadelphia and received a bachelor's degree in math from Chestnut Hill College in her home town in 1968. She received a master's degree in applied statistics from Villanova University in 1974.

She worked at the Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia in 1975 and became an operations research analyst at the criminal investigation division of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington. She also was a program manager at the U.S. Agriculture Department before joining the Commerce Department.

A Fairfax County resident for 30 years, Mrs. Carroll was a member of St. Lawrence Catholic Church there.

She and her husband traveled for business and vacations to many countries, including Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Borneo, Malaysia, Brazil, Mexico and Germany.

Survivors include her husband of more than 27 years, James R. Carroll of Fairfax; her mother, Eleanor Elmendorf of Cherry Hill, N.J.; three brothers; and two sisters.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb