Obituaries

Barbara Ann Wauhop Turner

CIA Employee, Church Member

Barbara Ann Wauhop Turner, 73, who was a secretary at the Central Intelligence Agency and was an active member of Knox Presbyterian Church in Falls Church for more than 40 years, died of cancer May 12 at her home in Fairfax.

Mrs. Turner was born in Glen Morgan, W.Va., and moved with her family to Washington in 1947. She graduated from Anacostia High School and began work as a clerk typist with the Department of the Navy's Bureau of Ships in 1952.

In 1956, she married Dale Turner, who worked with the CIA, and accompanied him on assignments to the Philippines and Italy. She joined the agency in 1957 and did administrative and secretarial work for a group of communications engineers. She retired in 1989.

She was a Girl Scout leader, Sunday school teacher and homemaker, and she enjoyed volunteer work and time at the beach.

She lived in Anacostia and Falls Church before moving to Fairfax in 1978.

Survivors include her husband of 52 years of Fairfax; a daughter, Tamara Lemmons of Herndon; and a grandson.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

David C. 'Gus' Swaggard

Construction Business Owner

David C. "Gus" Swaggard, 58, who owned and operated D.C. Swaggard Construction, which built residential and commercial properties in the Washington area from 1980 to 2006, died April 24 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He had leukemia.