Obituaries

Survivors include her husband, Charles Lester Strickler of Gainesville; five children, Susan Sloan of Salem, S.C., Christina Moores of Bristow, Va., Shelley Metropol of Lexington, S.C., Stacey Strickler of Los Angeles and Charles Gregory Strickler of Houston; two brothers, Thomas W. Grimes of Alexandria and Whitey Grimes of Chapel Hill, N.C.; 14 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

William J. Simon

Transportation Executive

William J. Simon, 95, an executive with a transportation consulting firm, died of congestive heart failure May 10 at Carriage Hill of Bethesda, where he lived.

Mr. Simon worked for the Highway Users Alliance from 1948 to 1974, when he retired.

He was born in Belleville, Ill., graduated from the University of Illinois and received an advanced degree in management from Harvard University in 1935. He served in the Navy during World War II in the South Pacific.

After the war, he moved to the Washington area. He served on the Chevy Chase View town council in the early 1960s. He was also a member of Warner Memorial Presbyterian Church in Kensington.

His wife, Ruth Gerth Simon, died in 1996.

Survivors include four children, Terrell Simon Murphy of Stamford, Conn., Robert Gerth Simon of New York City, Wendy Lee Simon of Silver Spring and Edwin Chatfield Simon of Atlanta; six grandchildren; and one great-grandson.