Obituaries

He was an usher at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Kensington for many years and was a member of Kensington Masonic Lodge. He enjoyed golf, playing cards, dancing, bowling, reading and watching westerns on television.

His wife of 48 years, Mary "Polly" Polhamus Bonner, died in 2002.

Survivors include four children, Betty Jo Bonner of Hagerstown, Sheri Bonner Mastromatteo of Pasadena, Calif., Ed Bonner of Rochester, N.Y., and Susie Bonner Tighe of Los Gatos, Calif.; and seven grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Charles T. JacobsCIA Officer

Charles T. Jacobs, 81, a retired intelligence officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, died Feb. 22 of cancer at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg.

Mr. Jacobs was born in Gaithersburg and graduated from the Charlotte Hall School, a military school in St. Mary's County that closed in 1976. After serving in the Army in Japan, he graduated from the University of Maryland in 1976.

He then joined the CIA and served in the Washington area and Frankfurt, Germany. He was an authority on overhead reconnaissance systems and retired as a senior intelligence officer in 1988. He received the Intelligence Medal of Merit.

Mr. Jacobs was a knowledgeable amateur historian of the Civil War and co-founded the Montgomery County Civil War Round Table in 1998. He was a volunteer Civil War historian for the Montgomery County Historical Society, for which he wrote the "Civil War Guide to Montgomery County, Maryland." He often spoke about the war to civic and historical organizations and served as a tour guide to Civil War sites in Montgomery.

He was a member of the Central Intelligence Retirees' Association, the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and the Charlotte Hall alumni association.