Obituaries

Leila Fosburgh WilsonVolunteer

Leila Fosburgh Wilson, 96, a homemaker and volunteer, died of congestive heart failure April 28 at Collington Episcopal Life Care Community in Mitchellville, where she lived.

Mrs. Wilson was a docent and a member of the Advisory Council at the Textile Museum in Washington for many years.

She was born in New York and graduated from Smith College in 1934. She married a career Foreign Service officer and accompanied him on his postings to Mexico, Iran, India, England and Lebanon, culminating in Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War. She lived in Washington from 1968 to 1989, when she moved to Mitchellville.

While overseas, Mrs. Wilson volunteered in local schools and orphanages, and with women's groups and Planned Parenthood.

She was a member of St. John's Georgetown Episcopal Church in the District, the Sulgrave Club and Chevy Chase Club.

Her husband, Evan Morris Wilson, died in 1984.

Survivors include two daughters, Leila W. Brown of Portland, Ore., and Martha L. Wilson of Arlington; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Margaret N. WhitneySecretary

Margaret N. Whitney, 97, a secretary who retired from the Air Force Department in the early 1970s, died April 21 at the Falcons Landing retirement community in Sterling after a fall.

Starting in the early 1950s, Mrs. Whitney had worked for Rep. Edgar W. Hiestand (R-Calif.), the National Education Association, General Textile Mills and Welex Electronics.