Obituaries

Her hobbies included photography.

She was a deacon at the Old Presbyterian Meeting House in Alexandria.

Her first marriage, to retired Army Lt. Col. Frederick H. Black Jr., ended in divorce.

Her second husband, John L. McLucas, whom she married in 1981, had served during the 1970s as secretary of the Air Force and administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. He died in 2002.

Survivors include five children from her first marriage, Matthew Black of Seattle, Bruce Black of Yardley, Pa., Elizabeth Black of Arlington County, Beverly Roca of Haymarket and Robert Black of Alexandria; four stepchildren, Pam Byers of San Francisco, Susan McLucas of Somerville, Mass., John C. McLucas of Baltimore and Roderick K. McLucas of Manhattan, N.Y.; nine grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.

-- Adam Bernstein

Elizabeth Jane Mills PaddockAdvocate, Pilot

Elizabeth Jane Mills Paddock, 85, who worked with her husband on world food issues and population growth, died May 3 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at her home in Antigua, Guatemala. She was a former resident of the District.

Mrs. Paddock was born in Sioux City, Iowa, and grew up in Bethany, Mo. She graduated with a home economics degree from Iowa State University in 1943 and taught home economics at Penn State University.

Mrs. Paddock's husband, William Carson Paddock -- who died in March -- was a plant pathologist who specialized in developing disease-resistant strains of corn for Third World agriculture. In 1952, the Paddocks and their children moved to Guatemala.

When she got her pilot's license in 1953, after taking flying lessons at the Guatemala City airport, officials told her that she was the first female licensed pilot in Central America.

After four years in Guatemala and five years in Honduras, the Paddocks settled in the District, where Mrs. Paddock served on the board of the Federation for American Immigration Reform and on the steering committee of the Center for Immigration Studies.

She also helped her husband write a book about famine and world population growth, "We Don't Know How" (1973). The couple returned to Guatemala in 1992.

Cherishing her roots in rural Iowa, Mrs. Paddock took her children and grandchildren on an annual trip to the farm her family had homesteaded in 1850.

Survivors include two children, Paul Mills Paddock of West Palm Beach, Fla., and Ana Livingston Paddock of Santa Fe, N.M.; a sister; and two granddaughters.

-- Joe Holley

John B. RicheyManagement Consultant

John B. Richey, 62, an international management consultant who worked for many nongovernmental organizations, died of a metastatic brain tumor April 21 at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif. He had been a Washington resident since 1988.

As a consultant until the mid-1990s, Mr. Richey traveled to Africa, Asia and Latin America. His specialties included management training and human resource development, as well as strategic planning for public and private sector executives.

In the late 1990s, he was a National Science Foundation higher education research and policy administrator.

John Brooks Richey was born in Everett, Wash., and raised partly in Ethiopia, where his father worked as an engineer.

At the University of Washington, he received a bachelor's degree in personnel administration, corporate finance and economics. He pursued graduate studies in organizational development and public administration at the University of Southern California.

Early on, he held research administration and governmental affairs positions at Stanford University, the University of Rochester and the American University of Cairo in Egypt.

He was a board member of the Foreign Service Youth Foundation and a former board member of the Carrollsburg Condominium in Washington, where he lived.

His memberships included St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in the District.

His marriage to Laurel Downey Richey ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 21 years, Ardelle G. Foss of Washington and Sweden, Maine; three children from his first marriage, Matthew Richey and Stephen Richey, both of Laguna Niguel, Calif., and Karen Richey-Elliott of Stamford, Conn.; a stepson, P. Keith Griffin of Albany, Maine; his parents, Clarence and Ann Richey of Everett; a sister; and seven grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein