Obituaries

In 1935, she was named Miss American Legion in Baltimore. She married Paul J. Connor two years later. Until his death last December, her husband often reminded people that he married a beauty queen.

Mrs. O'Connor was an adept seamstress who made the clothes for her 10 children and constantly encouraged their education. At St. James Catholic Church, she was a member of Sodality, St. James Mothers Club and in later years, the Happy Seniors Program.

Survivors include her 10 children, Patricia Baumann of Cumming, Ga., Paul Connor of Alexandria, Margaret Gregory of Aptos, Calif., Susan Steinberg of Potomac, Ruth Brancato of Westminster, Md., Mary Kellogg of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Judith Connor of Monterey County, Calif., Deborah Connor of Chesapeake, Md., Charles Connor of Newton, Mass., and Joseph Connor of Greenbelt; 18 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson.

-- Joe Holley

George L. Cary Jr.CIA Legislative Counsel

George L. Cary Jr., 85, the CIA's legislative counsel from 1974 to 1978 who served as a liaison between the spy agency and the Senate intelligence oversight committee as well as the White House, died April 20 at his home in Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg. He had pulmonary fibrosis.

Mr. Cary spent 27 years with the Central Intelligence Agency before retiring in 1978, initially in human resources before becoming an agency lawyer.

After the CIA, he served three years as the Army Department's legislative liaison.

His honors included two awards of the CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal and the Army's Distinguished Civilian Service Award.

George Lee Cary Jr. was a native Washingtonian, a 1940 graduate of Roosevelt High School and an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II. He was a 1949 government and politics graduate of the University of Maryland and a 1951 graduate of George Washington University law school.

He was a founding member of Faith United Methodist Church in Rockville, where he was a former chairman of the board of trustees as well as church treasurer. He also taught Sunday school and sang in the choir.