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Harold Deyton, 89, a retired Air Force master sergeant who later worked as a civilian supervisor at Air Force headquarters, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease June 17 at Virginia Hospital Center. He lived in Arlington.

Mr. Deyton was born in Robbinsville, N.C., and served two tours of duty in the Air Force overseas before retiring in 1960. He then worked as a civilian administrative supervisor assigned to Air Force headquarters in the Pentagon.

He was a member of Greenbrier Baptist Church in Arlington.

His wife, Inez Deyton, died in 1995.

Survivors include two children, Kenneth Deyton of Arlington and Sandra O'Connor of Warrenton; and a brother.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Barbara Adams HaymanFinancial Planner

Barbara Adams Hayman, 81, a retired financial planner and adviser, died June 7 of pulmonary fibrosis at Capital Hospice in Arlington County. She lived in Alexandria.

Mrs. Hayman began her career in the 1970s, when she was living in Washington. She later worked for T. Rowe Price, H&R Block and Ferris Associates before forming her own financial planning firm. She retired in the late 1980s.

Mrs. Hayman was born in Des Moines and grew up in an Army family all over the world, including Washington. She was a 1944 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School in the District and attended the University of Oklahoma for two years.

From 1961 to 1984, she lived in Washington, Baltimore and Fairfax County. She lived in Annapolis from 1984 to 1996.


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