Obituaries

Margaret H. WrightReal Estate Saleswoman

Margaret H. Wright, 87, a legal secretary and a real estate saleswoman, died March 4 at the Friends House retirement community in Sandy Spring of complications of a stroke that occurred last year.

Mrs. Wright sold property in the Wesley Heights neighborhood of Northwest Washington from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. She previously had worked for her husband's legal practice.

She was born in Starkville, Miss., and moved with her family to Washington when she was a child. She graduated from American University, married and lived in Richmond, Pennsylvania and Cape May, N.J.

Mrs. Wright returned to her childhood home in Wesley Heights in 1970 and lived there until she moved to Friends House in 1996.

For most of her life, she was a member of the Friends Meeting of Washington. For several years in the 1980s, she served on the board of the William Penn House, a Quaker hospitality and seminar center on Capitol Hill.

Her husband, Walter C. Wright Jr., died in 1981. Her companion, Ted Pritzker, died in 2006.

Survivors include three children, Diana Wright Barlow of Dunstable, Mass., Walter Wright of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Melanie Wright Tripp of Pleasantville, N.Y.; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Norman Earl LangmaidHome Builder

Norman Earl Langmaid, 93, a retired home builder and collector of antiques, died March 16 at his home in Washington of complications of bladder cancer.

Mr. Langmaid was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He lived in Baltimore and later Washington as a young man. He served in a Navy Seabees construction unit during World War II.