Obituaries

-- Patricia Sullivan

William Clark HainsworthAccountant

William Clark Hainsworth, 82, a retired government accountant and a skater extraordinaire, died March 17 of pulmonary fibrosis at his home in Crofton.

In years past, Mr. Hainsworth was a regular roller skater at the Riverside Stadium rink, one of the largest in the country when it opened in the late 1940s. He met his wife while both were skating at the rink, located beside the Potomac where the Kennedy Center stands today. The Hainsworths continued pair dancing on skates into their 80s.

Mr. Hainsworth was born in Bridgeport, Conn., and served as a Navy pharmacist's mate during World War II. He was among the first who came ashore at Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day.

After the war, he settled in Washington and ran several businesses, including a hobby shop in Southeast. In the early 1960s, he received a degree from Strayer University and went to work as an accountant for the Consumer Products Safety Commission. He later joined the Agency for International Development. He retired in 1985.

In addition to skating, Mr. Hainsworth enjoyed line and ballroom dancing. He was a charter member of the Community United Methodist Church of Crofton, a life member of the Maryland Terrapin Club, a mason and a member of the Elks.

Survivors include his skating partner and wife of 62 years, Ellen Hainsworth of Crofton; three children, Becky Kirwan of Chesterfield, Va., Bonny Sunderland of Clayton, N.C., and Barby Gill of Davidsonville; seven grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

-- Joe Holley

Lucy Scott BerglandForeign Service Officer

Lucy Scott Bergland, 85, a retired Foreign Service officer, died March 20 of leukemia at her home in the District.

Ms. Bergland was born in Wilmington, Del., and graduated in 1946 from Radcliffe College. She joined the Foreign Service shortly after college and served in Ireland, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Cameroon, Egypt, Nigeria, Angola and South Africa.

After her retirement in the early 1970s, she enjoyed travel, cooking and entertaining. She also enjoyed theater, music and the movies, as well as Vermont wildlife and her garden, pond and apple trees. An inveterate reader, she volunteered at the Bryn Mawr Lantern Bookshop in Georgetown.

There are no immediate survivors.

-- Joe Holley