Obituaries

After 1948, Mrs. Barrows accompanied her husband to diplomatic posts in Paris, Rome, Athens and Saigon, where she developed skills as a hostess and official spouse. The family returned to Washington in 1958. In 1960, her husband was named U.S. ambassador to Cameroon, where they lived until 1966.

Returning to the United States, they lived for three years in Pittsburgh. In 1969, they returned to Washington.

Her husband, Leland Barrows, died in 1988.

Survivors include two children, Leland Conley Barrow of Denmark, S.C., and Jennifer Golden of Washington; and a granddaughter.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Walter Cosby Bonner Jr.Supply Chief

Walter Cosby Bonner Jr., 84, a retired official at the National Bureau of Standards, died of congestive heart failure Feb. 25 at Loyalton of Hagerstown, where he lived.

Mr. Bonner was section chief of the supply division at the standards bureau, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He worked there for more than 35 years, retiring in 1979. He also worked at Woodward & Lothrop as a salesman and at an icehouse in Gaithersburg during the early 1960s.

After he left the National Bureau of Standards, he again worked in sales at Woodward & Lothrop and Hecht Co. stores, selling linens and lighting supplies until 1991.

In retirement, Mr. Bonner worked in the pro shop and on the driving range of Montgomery County's Northwest Golf Course until 2004.

He was born in Hot Springs, Va., and served in the Army during World War II in the Pacific theater and later in Japan. He moved to Arlington County shortly before the war and returned there after he was discharged, but he spent most of his life in Rockville, where he lived from 1960 through 2005.