Obituaries

Edward H. WilcoxArchitect

Edward H. Wilcox, 85, an architect and engineer who helped design many buildings in the Washington area, died April 28 at his home in Arlington County. He had leukemia.

Mr. Wilcox was born in Pittsburgh and moved to Arlington as a teenager. He graduated from Washington-Lee High School. After graduating from Virginia Tech in 1944, he served as an Army officer in the Pacific during World War II and later was among the U.S. occupying forces in Japan.

In 1946, he joined the architectural firm of Milton J. Prassas Associates in Bethesda and worked on houses, churches and commercial buildings. Among the buildings he helped design were Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Bethesda, Del Ray United Methodist Church in Alexandria and Trinity Lutheran Church in North Bethesda.

Mr. Wilcox retired in 1975 but continued to take on part-time architectural jobs until 1990. He lived in Chevy Chase for many years before settling in Arlington. His interests included reading and the stock market.

His wife of 24 years, Eleanor Worden Wilcox, died in 1970.

Survivors include a son, Frederick Wilcox of Gaithersburg, and a grandson.

-- Matt Schudel

Lucia G. WhittemoreD.C. Social Worker

Lucia G. Whittemore, 101, a social worker who became chief of adoptions in the D.C. Department of Public Welfare, died April 20 at Goodwin House Baileys Crossroads retirement community in Falls Church. She had coronary artery disease.

Mrs. Whittemore worked for the Department of Public Welfare's child welfare division from 1955 to 1970.

She was credited with developing new procedures that encouraged cooperation among the staff and helped prevent children from being "lost" in the caseloads of adoption workers.