Obituaries

Richard P. PeatGeodesist

Richard P. Peat, 87, a retired employee of the Army Map Service, died Jan. 25 of complications from a stroke at Sky Lakes Medical Center in Klamath Falls, Ore.

He lived in the District for 28 years before moving to Palm Springs, Calif., in 1986 and then to Klamath Falls in 2007.

Mr. Peat was born in Lakeview, Ore. During World War II, he served as an Army infantry unit commander. He was wounded in France in 1944 and received the Purple Heart.

Returning to Oregon after the war, he received his undergraduate degree from Oregon State University in 1946. He also received a master's degree in geodesy from Ohio State University in 1967.

For about 10 years, he operated a 520-acre dairy farm in Lake County, Ore., before moving to Washington in 1958 to take a position with the agency now known as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. He served as chief of the Geodesy Department and chief of the Department of Computer Services before retiring in 1986.

Mr. Peat's wife, Muriel Edith Hughes Peat, died in 1996.

Survivors include two daughters, Sandra Peat of Klamath Falls and Stephanie Peat of Falls Church.

-- Joe Holley

Lillian LeibovitchVA Administrative Aide

Geane Lillian Leibovitch, 89, a retired administrative aide at the Veterans Administration, died of pneumonia Feb. 3 at Maplewood Park Place in Bethesda.

Mrs. Leibovitch, a native Washingtonian, held a variety of federal jobs. She was a secretary to forensic pathologists at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a stenographer in the House and Senate, a fiscal clerk for the War Department and an auditor at the General Accounting Office.