Saturday, May 3, 2008
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.
He was a recipient of the FAA Distinguished Career Service Award.
Edward Lee Jett was a Baltimore native and a 1941 graduate of the University of Baltimore law school.
During World War II, he served as an Army Air Forces test pilot. He participated in the development of the assault glider used in the Normandy invasion and was among the first certified helicopter pilots in his military branch. He retired from the Air Force Reserves in 1977 as a lieutenant colonel.
After his FAA retirement, Mr. Jett was a consultant to the International Civil Aviation Organization and briefly worked as a real estate agent.
He was a member of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington and attended Providence-Fort Washington United Methodist Church. His hobbies included tennis, boating and gardening.
His first wife, Nina Lee Jett, whom he married in 1943, died in 1955.
Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Hildegard Geyer Jett of Fort Washington; a son from his first marriage, Lee D. Jett of Falls Church; a son from his second marriage, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas W. Jett of Yorktown, Va.; two sisters, Downing Kay of Towson, Md., and Lillian Stevens of Lovettsville; and four grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein
Dr. Karen Hanula RosenTherapist, Professor
Dr. Karen Hanula Rosen, 62, a therapist and former professor of marriage and family therapy at Virginia Tech University's Falls Church campus, died April 29 of brain cancer at her home in Clifton.
Dr. Rosen was born in Vineland, N.J., and received an undergraduate degree in education from Radford University in 1968. After teaching for several years at Francis T. Maloney High School in Meriden, Conn., where she also founded the girls' basketball and track teams, she took a teaching hiatus to raise two sons.
She moved to Northern Virginia in 1977 and received a master's degree in marriage and family therapy from Virginia Tech in 1984.
She worked as a clinical therapist in private practice and as a caseworker and guardian for the Refugee Unaccompanied Minors program. She received a doctorate from Virginia Tech in 1992, with an emphasis on counseling education.
As a professor of marriage and family therapy at Virginia Tech's National Capital Region campus in Falls Church, Dr. Rosen taught graduate-level courses in clinical supervision, received two awards for teaching excellence and was a mentor to graduate students in marriage and family therapy.
She published a number of journal articles, one book and 12 book chapters.
She was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2004 and was unable to continue the teaching career she loved. Named professor emerita in 2005, Dr. Rosen remained as active in the Virginia Tech program as her health would permit and also was a gubernatorial appointee to the Virginia Board of Counseling.
She was a triathlete who completed her third Reston Triathlon in 2003. Her Race for Hope Team, Karen's Crew, has more than 80 members and has raised nearly $20,000 for brain cancer research.
Survivors include her husband of 40 years, Cecil C. Rosen III of Clifton; two sons, Jeffrey Rosen of Fairfax City and Michael Rosen of Oak Hill, Va.; her mother, Mary Hanula of Vineland, N.J.; a brother; and one grandson.
-- Joe Holley
Peter Emile JugeMobil Oil Executive
Peter Emile Juge, 76, a Foreign Service officer and Mobil Oil executive, died April 25 of acute respiratory failure and congestive heart failure at Reston Hospital Center. He lived in Potomac Falls.
Mr. Juge was born in New Orleans and served in the Coast Guard during the Korean War. He graduated from Louisiana State University in 1957 and joined the Foreign Service soon afterward. He served in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Yaounde, Cameroon.
In 1969, he became an executive with Mobil Oil, working in Lagos, Nigeria; Medan, Indonesia; and Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. He retired as president of Mobil Overseas Services in 1988.
Living in Alexandria and later Potomac Falls, Mr. Juge did volunteer work at Christ Church and the Carpenter's Shelter for the homeless. He also wrote eight books for his grandchildren that featured the adventures of Matey, his bichon frisé.
His wife, Nancy Young Juge, died in 1999.
Survivors include two children, Suzanne Irene Juge Klipfel of Herndon and David Alcee Juge of Greenwich, Conn.; a brother; and three grandchildren.
-- Joe Holley
Donald C. PomeroyTravel Agent
Donald C. Pomeroy, 64, who was a Northern Virginia travel agent, died April 15 of cardiac arrest at Henry Medical Center in Stockbridge, Ga. He lived at Locust Grove, Ga.
Mr. Pomeroy first came to Washington in the 1960s, when he was in the Air Force. After his discharge in 1970, he entered the travel business. He worked at several travel agencies before retiring in 1997 as district manager of the American Automobile Association's travel services in Northern Virginia.
He was born in Aruba in the Netherlands Antilles. He lived in Fairfax County and Reston before moving to Sarasota, Fla., after his retirement. He had lived in Georgia since 2006.
His marriages to Ricky Callaway and Glanvel "Pinkie" Pomeroy ended in divorce.
Survivors include his partner of 30 years, Lou Abramson of Locust Grove; a daughter from his second marriage, Jennifer White of McDonough, Ga.; a sister; and three grandsons.
-- Matt Schudel
Helen E. MooreBallet School Founder
Helen E. Moore, 85, the founding director of the National Ballet School and Company in Crofton, died April 21 of liver cancer at her home in Tracys Landing.
Mrs. Moore founded the ballet school in District Heights in 1948. Now located in Crofton, the school had its 60th anniversary gala two days before Mrs. Moore's death.
She taught thousands of students over the years, including at least 40 who became professional dancers with ballet companies throughout the country. Mrs. Moore designed many of the costumes for her company, which has performed at the Kennedy Center, at Lisner Auditorium and at outdoor festivals at the White House.
She continued to teach until two years ago. The school is now led by her daughter, Pamela MacLean.
Mrs. Moore was born in Detroit and began studying ballet as a girl. Her teachers included the celebrated ballet master Leon Fokine. After moving to Washington in the 1940s, she studied theater at George Washington University.
She was schooled in the Cecchetti method, a rigorous system of classical ballet education devised by Enrico Cecchetti, a 19th-century dancer and ballet master. Mrs. Moore was chairwoman of the East Coast committee of the Cecchetti Council of America and president of the Northeast Regional Ballet Association.
In addition to her work in dance, Mrs. Moore was a competitive swimmer and figure skater in her youth. She also enjoyed racing her sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay and was a member of the West River Sailing Club.
She was also known for rescuing animals and restoring them to health on her 36-acre farm. After nursing injured opossums, raccoons and deer, she returned them to the wild. Her home also became a sanctuary to many stray cats and dogs. An animal shelter at Dancing Oaks Farm in Brandywine will be named Helen's Haven in Mrs. Moore's honor.
Her husband of 57 years, NASA official William Moore, died in 2001.
Survivors include her daughter, of Bowie; a son, former ABC News vice president William Moore Jr., of Haymarket; four grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.
-- Matt Schudel