Obituaries

He also earned letters in baseball and lacrosse at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., before graduating from D.C. Teachers College. He served two years in the Navy and in the mid-1950s received a master's degree in education from American University.

Mr. Janigian was a past president of D.C. Coaches Association.

He was volunteer of the year at St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church, where he was a member and served on the board of trustees.

For more than 35 years, Mr. Janigian was involved with the Redskin Singers, also known as the Precisionists. He started at the old Griffith Stadium and continued with the ensemble group at RFK Stadium into the late 1990s, his brother said.

"His only claim to fame was that he went 26 years in a row without missing a Redskins home game," said Paul Janigian of the District.

Survivors include his brother.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

June Gay RuebushArtist, Homemaker

June Gay Ruebush, 87, an artist and homemaker, died of cancer June 14 at her home in Chevy Chase.

Mrs. Ruebush, an accomplished dressmaker and designer, was an artist-in-residence in textiles at Marymount College in Arlington County during the late 1960s.

Born in Washington, she graduated from Roosevelt High School and studied at the Art Students League of New York. During World War II, Mrs. Ruebush worked in Washington for the British army, leading a team of other artists and drawing weaponry parts.

Mrs. Ruebush and her husband, a veterinarian, formerly owned Ambassador Animal Hospital in Silver Spring and the Aspin Hill Pet Cemetery, the country's second-oldest pet burial grounds. They sold the cemetery in 1988.

She was a past president of the women's board of the Montgomery County chapter of the American Heart Association and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Survivors include her husband of 65 years, Dr. E. Edgar Ruebush of Washington; three daughters, Judith Townsend of Camp Hill, Pa., Shari Gay of Boston and Valerie Grace of Chevy Chase; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

C. Evans HaysVOA Senior Editor

C. Evans Hays, 62, a broadcast journalist and senior news editor with the Voice of America who retired in 2003, died June 20 at Baptist Hospital of Miami of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Mr. Hays worked for Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty in Munich before joining VOA in the late 1980s.

He headed VOA's Bonn, Germany, bureau for several years and covered stories including German reunification and the Balkans wars.

After his VOA retirement, he accompanied his second wife on her State Department assignments to Ghana, Iceland and Venezuela. He maintained a home in Alexandria.

Creighton Evans Hays Jr. was born in Denver and raised in Arlington, where he was a 1964 graduate of Washington-Lee High School.

He served in the Army in Germany from 1968 to 1970 and was a 1972 social and behavioral sciences graduate of Johns Hopkins University.

He began his career as a writer and editor at the United Press International wire service in Richmond.

His hobbies included gardening and mountain-climbing, and his memberships included the National Press Club.

His marriage to Ellen Hays ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 14 years, Sally Hodgson of Caracas, Venezuela.

-- Adam Bernstein

Harolyn 'Sue' KaplanRecreation Specialist

Harolyn "Sue" Kaplan, 50, a former physical therapist and recreation specialist, died June 27 at her home in Takoma Park of complications from metastatic breast cancer.

Ms. Kaplan was born in Washington and graduated from Northwood High School in Silver Spring. She was a 1984 graduate of the University of Maryland, where she was an intern in a campus child psychology clinic.

In 1985, she joined the Episcopal Center for Children and later became co-director of the residential program. She was an adaptive aquatics instructor for children with emotional and physical disabilities and developed a pet therapy program, using animals donated from pet shops. She was also the center's lifeguard and pool operator for a summer swimming program.

She had to retire because of her illness in 2000.

She participated in several Susan G. Komen races for the cure, to raise money to fight breast cancer.

Survivors include her partner of 28 years, Catherine Markley of Takoma Park; two sons, Jeremy Kaplan-Markley and Justin Kaplan-Markley, both of Takoma Park; two brothers, Melvin Kaplan of Lusby and Marc Kaplan of Potomac; and a sister, Robin Kaplan of Damascus, Va.

-- Matt Schudel