Obituaries

He was active in the Gaithersburg Jaycees and other community organizations.

Survivors include his parents, Ted and Eileen Warchall of Palm City, Fla.; two brothers, Blair Stanley Warchall of Germantown and Greg William Warchall of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Patricia Ann WaltonHomemaker, Gift Shop Manager

Patricia Ann Walton, 78, a homemaker and retired manager of the National Institutes of Health gift shop, died June 17 of kidney failure at Garrett County Memorial Hospital in Oakland, Md.

She was born Patricia Ann Hammer in the District, grew up in Edmonston and graduated from Hyattsville High School in 1947. After her marriage that year, she lived in Hyattsville and Berwyn Heights before moving to Boblingen, Germany, in 1964. She and her husband, who worked for a government agency on a U.S. military base, lived in the village with their four sons, immersed themselves in the German language and culture and made lasting friends.

Mrs. Walton also lived in Potomac before moving to Oakland in 1995 after her husband retired from the Consumer Products Safety Commission.

She managed and operated the NIH gift shop from 1975 to 1995.

In retirement, she and her husband enjoyed world travel.

Survivors include her husband of 60 years, William W. Walton Jr. of Oakland; four sons, William W. Walton III of the Woodlands, Tex., P. Robert Walton of Manheim, Pa., Thomas P. Walton of Laurel and D. Eric Walton of Gaithersburg; and a sister.