Margaret M. Weid

Margaret M. WeidWomen's Board Member

Margaret M. Weid, 91, a member of George Washington University Hospital's women's board and a volunteer at the hospital, died June 29 at her home in Washington. She had pneumonia.

Mrs. Weid's other memberships included the Town Club, a women's organization to raise money for charities, and Belle Haven Country Club in Alexandria. She enjoyed playing bridge and watching horse racing.

Margaret Main was born in Perote, Ala., and settled in the Washington area in 1947. She was a 1957 education graduate of George Washington.

Her husband of 65 years, Arthur C. Weid, died in 2006.

Survivors include a daughter, Diana Neill of Washington; two sisters; three grandsons; and eight great-grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Joseph Z. WolkeD.C. Liquor Store Owner

Joseph Zev Wolke, 89, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who owned and operated L&J liquor store on Capitol Hill, died June 14 at his home in Silver Spring after a stroke.

Mr. Wolke owned a grocery store in Baltimore before settling in the Washington area in 1959. He retired from his liquor business in the 1970s and spent the rest of his life as a diamond dealer for private clients.

Yosef Wolkowiscz, the oldest of 11 children, was the only member of his immediate family to survive World War II. His parents and siblings died at the Treblinka death camp, and he was sent to several concentration camps, including Auschwitz, as well as slave labor factories.

He was a founding member and former vice president of Woodside Synagogue, an Orthodox congregation in Silver Spring. He was a member of Young Israel Shomrai Emunah of Greater Washington and Kemp Mill Synagogue, both Orthodox congregations in Silver Spring.