Obituaries

He lived in Washington Grove before moving to Asbury Methodist Village in 1998.

His wife of 42 years, Marian Waters Jacobs, died in 1995.

Survivors include two daughters, Ann Laskodi of San Jose, Calif., and Mary Beth Fleming of Frederick; and four grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Gertrude KellyEditor

Gertrude Clark Blackwood Kelly, 83, who worked for 20 years as an editor for two medical institutes, died March 9 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda of complications after hip-joint surgery. She lived in Bethesda.

From the 1970s until 1998, Mrs. Kelly worked in the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health and then with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, both in Bethesda.

Mrs. Kelly was born in Pittsburgh. From the University of Pittsburgh, she received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in 1948, both in psychology.

She began working in 1946 as an instructor in psychology at West Virginia University and married a year later.

She and her husband lived in Pittsburgh, Eastchester, N.Y., and then Bethesda.

As a young woman, she assisted her father in editing and publishing his physics textbooks. She worked with her physicist husband in a similar way throughout the early years of their marriage.

Mrs. Kelly enjoyed playing bridge, learning to use her computer more proficiently, and keeping up with activities of her family and friends. She was a member of the Bethesda United Church of Christ and the American Medical Writers Association.

Survivors include her husband, William C. Kelly of Bethesda; two children, Emily K. Szumowski of Northbrook, Ill., and William B. Kelly of St. Petersburg, Fla.; and three grandchildren.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb