Obituaries

She was a member of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Sterling and enjoyed reading, gardening and watching birds and animals.

Her husband of 50 years, Robert Forsythe Floyd, died in 2002.

Survivors include four children, Mary Lynne Hensley of Minneapolis, Suellen Pometto of Boone, Iowa, Robert W. Floyd of Furnace Mountain, Va., and Elaine Wilkinson of Purcellville; a sister; 10 grandchildren; and a great-grandson.

-- Matt Schudel

L. Garry CoitCIA Agent

L. Garry Coit, 81, a former CIA agent, died of pneumonia Feb. 29 at Memorial Hospital in Easton, Md. He lived in Oxford and had dementia.

Mr. Coit worked for the CIA for 26 years, starting as a French translator for Vietnamese trainees in Guam and spending four years at the U.S. Embassy in Paris and four years in London.

He was a native of Duluth, Minn., and moved to the Washington area as a youngster, graduating from Landon School in Bethesda. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until he joined the Navy during World War II. He served in the United States.

After the war, he transferred from MIT to the University of Maryland, where he graduated. Sailing by freighter to France, he spent a year at the Institut de Politique in Paris.

Aboard the family's 22 1/2 -foot Sea Sprite, accompanied by a Hobie Cat catamaran, he took two of his sons to a North Carolina sailing camp in 1976. The family adventure, which included an Albemarle Sound gale, a flipped catamaran and Mr. Coit being tossed overboard, cemented his interest in ocean sailing. After retiring in 1978, he bought a 37-foot cruiser sailboat and for the next seven years sailed to the Bahamas, the Caribbean, New England, the Azores, Europe, the Mediterranean and the Adriatic Sea.