Obituaries

Nancy Lovell DeanCIA Officer, Budget Analyst

Nancy Lovell Dean, 75, a former CIA officer and budget analyst at the National Institutes of Health, died of a pulmonary embolism June 4 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. She lived in Silver Spring.

Mrs. Dean worked for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953 to 1959. She joined the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1971 as a budget analyst and later switched to the NIH, from which she retired in 1989.

She also was a White House volunteer from 1993 to 2000, working on incoming correspondence.

She was born at Fort Monroe, Va., and graduated from the College of William and Mary.

A resident of the Washington area for 60 years, she volunteered for a variety of organizations, including the Korea-Cold War Families of the Missing, the Stoneybrook Civic Association, the Cub Scouts, the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association and the American Red Cross. She also was the Republican precinct judge for the Montgomery County Board of Elections for 36 years.

A son, Frank McKaig Dean, died in 1967.

Survivors include her husband of 60 years, retired Navy Cmdr. Richard W. Dean of Silver Spring; and two sons, Army Col. Richard W. Dean II of Springfield and Army Col. Robert L. Dean of Reston.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Carol Susan MessingNOAA Attorney

Carol Susan Messing, 42, an attorney for the Department of Commerce, died of ovarian cancer June 5 at Boca Raton Community Hospital in Boca Raton, Fla.

Ms. Messing worked as senior enforcement lawyer in the Office of General Counsel for Enforcement and Litigation at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She prosecuted many fisheries cases, suing to protect scallops and halibut, her sister said.