Obituaries

Carroll M. HornNASA Engineer

Carroll M. Horn, 82, an electronics engineer who helped design a computer for an unmanned spacecraft while working for NASA, died April 28 at Greenspring Village retirement home in Springfield. He had congestive heart failure and diabetes.

Mr. Horn left NASA about 1969 and continued through the 1980s doing engineering consulting work for General Electric and other companies. Early in his career, he worked for the Naval Research Laboratory.

Carroll Milton Horn was born in Jefferson County, Ky., and grew up partly in the Washington area. He was a 1943 graduate of Washington-Lee High School in Arlington and a graduate of George Washington University. He was an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II.

He was an Annandale resident before moving to Greenspring Village about eight years ago.

He enjoyed golfing.

Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Betty Burroughs Horn of Greenspring Village; two daughters, Debra Garcia of Lake Worth, Fla., and Pamela Horn of Raleigh, N.C.; a sister; and three grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

E. Lee JettFAA Official

E. Lee Jett, 90, who retired in 1980 as chief of international operations in the Federal Aviation Administration's liaison branch, died April 20 at his home in Fort Washington. He had atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.

As chief of international operations, Mr. Jett helped certify foreign air carriers and their pilots.

He spent more than 30 years in what became the FAA, for many years as a safety inspector. In the 1960s, he played a leading role advising the Turkish government on modernizing its air-traffic-control network and establishing air routes between Turkey, Iran and Pakistan.