Obituaries

Hermione Evelyn BoswellPrinting Employee, Homemaker

Hermione Evelyn "Peg" Boswell, 92, a retired U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing employee, died of congestive heart failure March 19 at her home in Sterling.

Mrs. Boswell was born in Richmond and came to Washington as a child. She graduated from Dunbar High School and began working for the federal government about 1940. She retired on disability in the late 1950s and became a full-time homemaker.

She enjoyed bowling and sports.

Her husband, Warner W. Boswell, died in 1984. A daughter, Joyce Johnson, died in 1983.

Survivors include five daughters, Faith Van of St. Petersburg, Fla., Judith Arnaud of New Orleans, Betty Frances Boswell and Constance Boswell of Sterling, and Cecile McKoy of Woodbridge; 13 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Maysie Williams FloydOffice Manager

Maysie Williams Floyd, 83, who was office manager at a Northern Virginia distillery, died March 17 of cancer at her home in Sterling.

Mrs. Floyd was born in Cynthiana, Ky., and worked for a publisher in Kentucky and for McCall's Corp., the publisher of McCall's magazine, in Dayton, Ohio, before moving to Northern Virginia in 1968.

She was a bookkeeper at Capper's Nursery in Tysons Corner before working as office manager at the A. Smith Bowman Distillery in Reston for more than 10 years. The distillery produced Virginia Gentleman bourbon whiskey and, for many years, was Virginia's only legal distillery. Mrs. Floyd retired when the distillery moved to Fredericksburg in 1987.