Obituaries

Joy I. TodChurch Member

Joy Ismond Tod, 101, a founding member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington County, where she played piano, died Jan. 2 at Inova Alexandria Hospital after a heart attack.

Mrs. Tod, a longtime Arlington resident, had spent the past decade at Goodwin House Baileys Crossroads in Falls Church.

She was born in Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University. She was a captain in the Women's Army Corps during World War II.

Her husband of 48 years, retired Army Lt. Col. Carrel I. Tod, died in 1997. A daughter, Barbara Evans, died in 1972.

Survivors include a daughter, Susan Reichenbacher of Manassas; six grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and nine great-great-grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Walter A. Douglass Sr.Air Force Colonel

Walter Alexander Douglass Sr., 86, a retired Air Force colonel, died of congestive heart failure Jan. 4 at Sun Health La Loma hospice in Litchfield Park, Ariz.

Col. Douglass lived at Fort Myer and in Springfield in the 1950s and in Bowie for 12 years until 1970. He then moved to Illinois, retired from the Air Force and settled in Arizona.

A native of Dallas, he joined the Army Air Forces during World War II and was a P-51 fighter pilot. Shot down on D-Day, he was taken prisoner. He was liberated almost a year later, April 29, 1945, by Army forces under the command of Gen. George S. Patton.

He transferred to the Air Force when it was formed and flew in the military airlift and air intelligence commands, with assignments in Washington, Florida, Hawaii and Japan. At Andrews Air Force Base, he was with the 89th Airlift Wing's Special Air Mission as director of personnel in the presidential wing. At the Pentagon, he was group commander for military personnel in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence.