Obituaries

Jacob 'Jack' StempelDevelopment Bank Official

Jacob "Jack" Stempel, 71, an operations coordinator for the Inter-American Development Bank for more than 30 years before retiring in the early 1990s, died Feb. 9 at his home in Rockville. He had leukemia.

At the bank, Mr. Stempel arranged for loans to help finance infrastructure projects in Central and South America.

He was a former president of the Inter-American Development Bank-International Finance Corporation federal credit union. He also was a staff representative on the investment committee of the development bank's retirement fund.

Mr. Stempel was born in Kiel, Germany, to a Jewish family that found passage to Bolivia in 1939. He became a U.S. citizen in retirement.

He was a graduate of the University of Oregon and received a master's degree in political science at American University. From 1979 to 1980, he was a fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs.

Mr. Stempel spoke English, German, Spanish and Portuguese and, in retirement, was a volunteer tutor of English as a second language at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville. He also was a translator for a team of pediatric plastic surgeons that visited Cuba in recent years.

He was a board member of the VisArts arts center in Rockville and a member of Congregation Har Shalom, a conservative synagogue in Potomac. He also participated in Senior Olympics tennis.

Survivors include his wife of 46 years, Hilde Schaaf Stempel of Rockville; three children, Monica Slater of North Potomac, David Stempel of Ivoryton, Conn., and Daniel Stempel of Wellesley, Mass.; a sister; and seven grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Edward Louis Flaim Jr.Attorney

Edward Louis Flaim Jr., 57, who practiced law in Minneapolis, died of smoke inhalation Feb. 6 during a house fire at his home in Bethesda.