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William R. Carroll worked at NIH, then taught chemistry.
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-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Lucie Belle HambyBookkeeper

Lucie Belle Hamby, 69, who was a bookkeeper with F.W. Woolworth Co. in Washington and California, died of metastatic melanoma June 20 at Mercy Hospice in Scranton, Pa. She lived in Clarks Summit, Pa.

Mrs. Hamby worked for Woolworth's in the District from 1958 to 1967 and in Riverside, Calif., until the five-and-dime store went out of business in 1997. She then worked as a bookkeeper for various businesses in and around Riverside until her retirement in 2001.

She moved from California to Clarks Summit about a year and a half ago.

Mrs. Hamby was born in Washington and graduated from Northwestern High School in Hyattsville in 1958.

Her husband, Donald K. Hamby, died in 2005.

Survivors include her mother, Ruby Janette Gibbon Dudley of Clarks Summit.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb


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