Obituaries

Margaret Fenlon KuhOffice Manager

Margaret Fenlon Kuh, 83, a retired office manager with a public opinion research company, died May 10 of a blood disease at Collingswood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rockville. She was a Rockville resident.

Mrs. Kuh came to Washington in 1962 and held positions with the League of Women Voters and Woman's National Democratic Club in the 1960s. In 1973, she became the office administrator and personnel manager of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a public opinion research firm where she worked for 11 years. She then spent five years as a paralegal and office manager at the Bethesda law firm of Furey, Doolan & Abell.

Mrs. Kuh was born in Chicago and served in the Marine Corps from 1945 to 1949. She later worked as a paralegal and office manager for a Chicago law firm. She was a founder and president of an association of legal office managers in Chicago.

She lived in Washington and Bethesda before settling in Rockville 10 years ago. She volunteered for Democratic political candidates from the 1960s until 2006.

In her 70s, Mrs. Kuh began painting and sculpting and became a devotee of water aerobics.

Her husband of 37 years, Peter G. Kuh, died in 1993.

Survivors include five children, Jerome Kuh of Seattle, Rita Stoops of Prosser, Wash., Monica Hogge of Harveys Lake, Pa., Anne Kuh of Kensington and Mary Ambulos of Chilmark, Mass.; three stepchildren, Charlotte Kuh of Washington, Audrey Straight of Rockville and Peter M. Kuh of Wingrave, England; five sisters; 18 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Walter W. KreimannAdministrative Services Director

Walter W. Kreimann, 87, a retired director of administrative services at the Federal Reserve Board and a World War II fighter pilot, died May 7 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) at his home in Bethesda.

Mr. Kreimann was born on a farm in South Dakota and grew up in an orphanage in Sioux Falls, S.D. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1943 and was assigned to the 78th Fighter Squadron. He flew a number of combat missions over Japan and survived a fiery bailout from a P-51 Mustang over uncharted waters of the North Pacific.