Obituaries

Mrs. Charles came to Washington in 1943 and worked at the Lend-Lease Administration and later as a proofreader for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She also worked as an administrative assistant with the former Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the National Institute of Mental Health. She retired in 1974.

Mrs. Charles was born in Bonner Springs, Kan., and was a graduate of Emporia State University. She taught in a one-room schoolhouse in Kansas before moving to Washington.

She was a former member of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, where she sang in the choir. She later joined the North Bethesda United Methodist Church, where she was in the choir and women's groups. She was a member of the Freedom Hill chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

In the early 1950s, Mrs. Charles was injured in a bus accident in Pennsylvania and spent six months recovering in an orthopedic hospital. Her injuries affected her ability to walk.

She lived in Kensington from 1955 to 2002 and enjoyed reading, knitting and cooking.

Survivors include her husband of 52 years, Frederick W. Charles of Gaithersburg; two children, Laurie Meadows of Richmond and Brian Charles of Bethesda; two brothers; and one grandson.

-- Matt Schudel

Mary Belle Morris DalzielTeacher, Military Wife

Mary Belle Morris Dalziel, 88, a school teacher and military wife, died Feb. 4 at Montgomery Village Health Care Center in Montgomery Village. She had Alzheimer's disease.

Mrs. Dalziel, a resident of Montgomery Village for 35 years, was a substitute teacher at Francis Scott Key Middle School in Rockville and Springbrook High School in Silver Spring. Previously, in Newfoundland, she taught dependents of military personnel the high school-level U.S. history that they would need to graduate when they returned to the United States.