Obituaries

Mrs. Howlett was born in Thomasville, Ga., and was raised in Sulphur Springs, Fla., where she met her husband. They moved to Prince George's County in 1951 and settled in Clinton in 1957.

She worked as an administrative specialist for the Clinton Motor Co. and Edgemeade School in Croom. After retiring from Edgemeade in 1981, she decided to further her education. In 1987, she graduated from the University of Maryland at the age of 64 with a double major in art history and history.

Her husband of 59 years, Francis W. Howlett, died in 2002.

Survivors include, two daughters, Lynn Howlett of Manassas and Dana Howlett of Albuquerque; two sons, Carey Howlett of Callao, Va., and Neal Howlett of Alexandria; a sister; and two grandsons.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Janice Mildred EklundFinancial Planner

Janice Mildred Eklund, 57, a financial planner and analyst, died May 6 of colon cancer at her home in Annandale.

Ms. Eklund was born in Lowell, Mass., and graduated from Abbot Academy, now Phillips Academy Andover. She attended Vassar College before receiving a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Maryland in 1975. She also did graduate work in American literature at George Washington University.

Andover's motto, "non sibi" (not for ourselves), inspired Ms. Eklund to a lifelong involvement in social and political service. As a student at Vassar, she helped organize a student strike for peace and represented the school in meetings with then-Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird and Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.). A passionate Democrat, she was an advocate for the rights of women, gay men and lesbians, and victims.

Active in Falls Church's public schools, she volunteered in the classroom, served as vice president of the PTA and was vice chairman of the school board. She worked on the gifted and talented committee and helped arrange a partnership with the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech University. She also played a key role in implementing a process to regularly review and revise board policies.

For most of the 1980s, Ms. Eklund was the financial administrator for the flagship division of Control Data Corp. until the pioneering computer company went through a drastic restructuring. From 1990 until 2004, she worked for two private financial planners.