Obituaries

Early in her career, Dr. Font taught Spanish literature at the University of Maryland and Catholic University.

Marie-Therese Perez-Cisneros was born in Bordeaux, France, to a Cuban diplomat father and French mother.

After her parents died, she was raised in Cuba by her father's family and was a graduate of Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba.

In 1969, she received a doctorate in 20th-century Spanish literature from the University of Maryland. She became a U.S. citizen in 1971.

Among her books was "Espacio: Autobiografíalíricade Juan Ramón Jiménez" (1972), about the Spanish poet and Nobel laureate.

She was a member of St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Annandale.

Survivors include her husband of 61 years, Rafael F. Font of Fairfax County; three sons, Rafael I. Font of Gaithersburg, Louis Font of Oakton and Jorge Font of Houston; and four grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Frances Joan Cladny FriendHomemaker

Frances Joan Cladny Friend, 92, a Chevy Chase homemaker and onetime employee of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, died June 8 at Sibley Memorial Hospital of complications related to lymphoma.

Mrs. Friend was born in New York and moved to the District as a youngster. Not long after graduating from Central High School in 1933, she worked about two years at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where, she liked to say, she "made money."