Obituaries

She was born in Chapman, Kan., and graduated from Kansas State University. She married an officer in the Army Air Forces and accompanied him on his assignments around the United States and the world. In addition to Newfoundland, she also lived overseas in London.

Mrs. Dalziel was a member of the Air Force Wives Club and volunteered for its scholarship programs and children's holiday programs at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She enjoyed gardening, bird-watching and her book club.

Survivors include her husband of 64 years, retired Air Force Col. George T. Dalziel, and her son, Ted Dalziel Jr., both of Montgomery Village.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Frank Roger DesiderioGSA Design Chief

Frank Roger Desiderio, 90, a former chief of design services for the General Services Administration, died Feb. 6 at his home in Vienna of complications from a fall.

Mr. Desiderio worked for the GSA from 1954 until he retired in 1979. A native of Philadelphia, he moved to Washington during the Depression and helped support his family as a carpenter. He used his carpentry skills to help renovate the Government Printing Office and built his family's home in Camp Springs and a beach cottage in Bethany Beach, Del.

During World War II, he enlisted in the Army. First assigned to guard government facilities in Washington, he later was sent to Europe, where he fought in the Battle of Metz and rose to the rank of staff sergeant.

After the war, he returned to Washington and was a foreman with the Matthew McCloskey Construction Co. When he joined the GSA, he managed construction projects in some of the buildings he had guarded when he was first in the Army.

He retired in 1979 as the GSA's chief of design services and moved to Englewood, Fla. For the next 15 years, he played the piano and accordion, painted and volunteered at his church. He returned to the Washington area in 1998 and lived in Vienna.

His wife of 61 years, Mary Prencipe Desiderio, died in 2003.