Obituaries

Lillian DorfmanReal Estate Agent

Lillian Dorfman, 80, a Bethesda area real estate agent who spent much of her career with Shannon & Luchs Co., died June 25 at Suburban Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Mrs. Dorfman spent 28 years in real estate before a cerebral hemorrhage forced her to retire in 2000 from Weichert Realtors, which had acquired Shannon & Luchs in 1993. She won professional honors for her work.

After winning a design contest at 17, she was a dress designer in New York and Philadelphia before settling in the Washington area in 1959.

She taught color theory and design for a Montgomery County adult education program in the 1960s and exhibited fabric collages at the Franz Bader Gallery in Washington.

Lillian Wildansky, the daughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, was born in New York and raised in Colchester, Conn.

She attended the City College of New York and New York University as well as a fashion school in New York.

In later years, she enjoyed gardening, painting still lifes and landscapes, and sewing calico bears for newborns of friends and relatives.

She was a longtime Bethesda resident and spent the past five years at the Summerville assisted living community in Potomac.

Her husband, William Dorfman, whom she married in 1950, died in 1977.

Survivors include three children, Jonathan Dorfman of Rockville, Jennifer Mellgren of Grenoble, France, and Joel Dorfman of Potomac; two sisters; and six grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein