Obituaries

-- Joe Holley

James A. RolenComputer Consultant

James A. Rolen, 69, a computer consultant who did work for branches of the armed forces, died March 20 at the Scottsdale-Osborne Medical Center in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he was visiting relatives. He died of MRSA pneumonia.

Mr. Rolen, a resident of Alexandria, did consulting work in the early 1990s for the Defense Department in the Washington area. He also taught courses for the Air Force.

He was born in Kansas City, Mo. He graduated from the University of Missouri, where he also received a master's degree in public administration in 1968.

He was a mortgage banker in Miami, where he was also a systems analyst and later vice president of mortgage banking at Citizens Federal Savings & Loan. From 1984 to 1992, he was president of RR&B, a consulting firm for savings and loan companies. He had lived in Alexandria since 1992.

He was active at Christ Church in Alexandria. He was in the Air Force Reserve from 1958 to 1998 and retired as a lieutenant colonel.

Survivors include his wife of nearly 34 years, Anna E. Rolen of Alexandria, and a daughter, Linda Perez of Edinburg, Tex.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Margaret Vico SuddarthLibrary Assistant

Margaret Vico Suddarth, 88, a retired library assistant at Quantico Marine Base, died April 5 of complications from a broken hip at her home in Dumfries.