Wednesday, June 4, 2008
George A. Enuton Sr.FCC Engineering official
George A. Enuton Sr., 72, who retired from the Federal Communications Commission in 1989 as assistant chief of the Mass Media Bureau's FM branch, died May 5 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury, on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He had neck and head cancer.
Mr. Enuton spent his entire career at the FCC, where he helped minorities receive licenses to start or buy FM radio outlets.
George Alpert Enuton Sr. was born in Washington and raised in the Prince George's County community of Bradbury Heights. He was a 1955 graduate of Suitland High School and a 1959 electrical engineering graduate of the University of Maryland.
He was active in parent-teacher associations, organized a singles group named the Jokers Club and started a youth group that organized community concerts at the New Carrollton public library.
He was a longtime Beltsville resident and in 1970 ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Prince George's County Council.
Mr. Enuton took singing lessons for many years and in his retirement years in Ocean City, Md., performed under the stage name Hawaiian George.
He also wrote manuscripts on subjects including global peace and his cancer.
His marriages to Barbara Schultz Enuton, Barbara Vancavish Enuton and Brenda Lagonera Enuton ended in divorce.
Survivors include a daughter from his first marriage, Robin Enuton Rothschild of Chincoteague, Md.; a son from his second marriage, George Enuton Jr. of Kona, Hawaii; two stepchildren, Michael Lagonera of Baltimore and Michelle Manimbo of Bay Village, Ohio; two children from Ethiopia he adopted with his third wife, Endalkachew "Chuck" Tadesse of Dallas and Admassu "Ed" Tadesse of Johannesburg; a brother; and five grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein
Isobel W. 'Annabel' HolmanSaleswoman
Isobel W. "Annabel" Holman, 85, who worked in retail sales for Anita's Kids Place in Fairfax County in the late 1970s and early 1980s, died April 28 at Inova Fairfax Hospital.
A spokeswoman for the Fairfax medical examiner said determination of the cause of death was pending further tests.
Isobel Ann Woit was born in Fort William, now called Thunder Bay, Ontario. A brother, Benny Woit, played for the Detroit Red Wings when the team won the Stanley Cup in the mid-1950s.
During World War II, she helped manufacture Spitfire fighter planes for Canada Car and Foundry. She also was trained as a registered nurse in Canada before moving to Indiana in 1949 and becoming a U.S. citizen.
She taught parochial school and did retail sales work in Indiana before moving to the Washington area in 1971.
Survivors include her husband of 52 years, Tom Holman of Fairfax County; two children, Terry Holman of Burke and Tom Holman Jr. of Jackson, Miss.; two brothers; and a grandson.
-- Adam Bernstein
Frances Geller KirshbaumSocial Worker
Frances Geller Kirshbaum, 91, a retired social worker, died May 21 of respiratory failure at Inova Cameron Glen Care Center in Reston.
Mrs. Kirshbaum was born in Philadelphia, grew up in the Washington area and graduated in 1938 from the old Wilson Teachers College in the District. She did graduate study in social work at Catholic University.
During World War II she was a Red Cross social worker.She was a social worker for the D.C. child welfare agency and later for the old Department of Public Welfare in Baltimore. After her marriage in 1953, she was a homemaker.
Mrs. Kirshbaum was a member of Hadassah, a Jewish women's organization, and was interested in Jewish history and the Yiddish language. She visited Israel several times.
Over the years, she lived in Silver Spring, Bethesda, Potomac, Sterling, Herndon and Reston.
Her husband, Amiel Kirshbaum, died in 1991.
Survivors include four daughters, Barbara Simon of Tampa, Anne Rosenberg of Herndon and Susan Silberschein and Betty Intrater, both of Jerusalem; a brother, Marvin Geller of Baltimore; and 10 grandchildren.
-- Matt Schudel