Obituaries

Jan E. FiskeClinical Psychologist

Jan E. Fiske, 57, a clinical psychologist with offices in Glen Burnie and Clinton, died March 7 of a heart attack at Howard County General Hospital. She lived in Columbia.

Dr. Fiske was born in Syracuse, N.Y., and grew up in Marcellus, N.Y. She received a bachelor's degree in history from Northeastern University in 1972 and a master's degree in clinical psychology from Loyola College in Maryland, in Baltimore, in 1983. She received a doctorate in clinical psychology from Widener University in 1995.

She opened her clinical psychology practice in 1983 and was still in practice at the time of her death.

Dr. Fiske was a member of the American Psychological Association and the Maryland Psychological Association and was a contributor to and former editor of the Maryland Psychologist.

She enjoyed exploring out-of-the-way communities and antique shops.

Survivors include her father, Neil V. Fiske of Blossburg, Pa., and a brother, Ronald N. Fiske of Fredericksburg.

-- Joe Holley

Joem Davis GaffneyFloral Designer, Lecturer

Joem Davis Gaffney, 96, who demonstrated and taught floral design for many years in the Washington area, died of pneumonia March 11 at Brooke Grove Retirement Village in Sandy Spring, where she lived.

Mrs. Gaffney was a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., and attended Salem Academy and Draughon's Business College in North Carolina. She moved to Washington in 1932 and worked for the National Recovery Administration. When that agency was abolished in 1935, she worked for the Works Progress Administration as secretary to the deputy administrator.