Obituaries

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Henrietta Clodfelter LuckeMicrobiologist

Henrietta Clodfelter Lucke, 85, a retired microbiologist with the Environmental Protection Agency, died March 3 at the Renaissance Gardens health-care facility at Greenspring Village in Springfield. She had Alzheimer's disease and osteoporosis.

Mrs. Lucke was born in Lexington, N.C., and graduated in 1943 from what was the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. During World War II, she did research on biological warfare at Fort Detrick while serving in the Navy Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVES. She also served as a chief pharmacist's mate.

She returned to North Carolina to work as a public health bacteriologist for a year. In 1949, she received a master's degree in zoology, with a concentration in parasitology, from the University of Iowa.

She taught biology at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., from 1949 to 1951, before returning to Fort Detrick in 1951 as a bacteriologist with the Army Chemical Corps.

She worked in the physiology department at George Washington University for a year, then worked as a parasitologist at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda from 1953 to 1956.

From 1956 to 1976, Mrs. Lucke was a homemaker, substitute teacher and doctor's office lab technician.

In 1976, she joined the EPA as a microbiologist in the pesticides office. She retired in 1986.

She was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Parasitologists, the Sigma Xi scientific research society, the Arlington Women's Club and the Jane Austen Society of North America. She was a deacon at Little River United Church of Christ in Annandale.

She lived in Alexandria from 1955 to 2000, when she moved to Greenspring Village. She helped organize the Greenspring Village Women in Military Service Club.