Obituaries

Among his awards were two Legions of Merit and the Air Medal.

In Bowie, he was a member of the Christian Community Presbyterian Church.

Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Virginia Douglass of Litchfield Park; two children, Walter Douglass Jr. of Littleton, Colo., and Cheryl Bujac of Annapolis; three grandsons; and two great-grandsons.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Mary F. Davies-GerowFederal Writer, Editor

Mary F. Davies-Gerow, 90, a writer and editor for the Department of Labor, died after a heart attack Jan. 6 at Roper St. Francis Hospital in Charleston, S.C.

Mrs. Davies-Gerow worked for the department off and on from 1937 through 1974, sometimes part time, sometimes taking years off while she raised her children. At the department, she worked on the Manpower Report of the President, which is now the Employment and Training Report of the President.

She was born in Palestine, Tex., and moved to the District as a child, graduating from McKinley High School. She graduated from George Washington University in 1937, where she was president of her college sorority, Alpha Delta Pi.

Mrs. Davies-Gerow was a member of St. Luke Lutheran Church in Silver Spring, a volunteer for Lutheran Social Services and a member of the League of Women Voters. She moved to Lancaster, Va., in 1985 and was a member of Grace Episcopal Church in Kilmarnock.

Her husband of 52 years, John Wallace Davies, died in 1993. Her second husband, William Gerow, died in 2005.

Survivors include two daughters from her first marriage, Susan Benson of Charleston and Sara Gruber of Brookeville; and eight grandchildren.