Saturday, July 5, 2008
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.
He was honored by Jewish groups for his community service, which included extensive charitable giving. As his grandfather had done for him, he commissioned a Torah written in Israel for his only grandson's bar mitzvah.
Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Guta Nieman Wolke of Silver Spring; two daughters, Cyna Cohen of Potomac and Dr. Anita Wolke Brooks of Great Falls; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein
John E. GogartyReal Estate Appraiser
John E. Gogarty, 82, who operated a real estate appraisal business for many years, died July 3 of stomach cancer at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He lived in Potomac and Hutchinson Island, Fla.
Mr. Gogarty was a native Washingtonian and a 1944 graduate of St. John's College High School. He served as a naval air corps gunner during World War II. He was a graduate of the University of Maryland.
Mr. Gogarty began working in real estate appraisal in the 1950s and formed his own company, John E. Gogarty Inc., in 1960. He retired in 1998. He taught introductory appraisal at the Appraisal Institute in Washington.
He was a member of the Congressional Country Club and the Golf Collectors Society.
Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Denise B. Gogarty of Potomac; three children, Lauren B. Gogarty of San Francisco, John Michael Gogarty of Bethesda and Dennis P. Gogarty of Washington; and two grandchildren.
-- Matt Schudel