Obituaries

Mrs. Schneider was born in Kingston, N.Y., and graduated from the old Ladycliff College in Highland Falls, N.Y. She did graduate work at George Mason University and Trinity Washington University.

She was a member of St. Louis Catholic Church in Alexandria and the National Education Association.

Her husband, John W. Schneider Jr., died in 1975.

Survivors include two children, John W. Schneider III of Bristow and Elizabeth S. Kuhn of Alexandria; a sister, Josephine A. Ward of Gainesville; a brother, Francis J. Ambrose of Kingston; and six grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Ann R. BrandtNurse, Homemaker

Ann Roarke Brandt, 96, a nurse and homemaker, died July 2 at the Arleigh Burke Pavilion nursing facility in McLean after a stroke. She was a longtime Arlington County resident before moving to the Hermitage assisted living center in Alexandria and then to Arleigh Burke.

Mrs. Brandt was born on a farm outside Troy, N.Y., and received her nursing degree from the Troy Hospital School of Nursing in 1933. After her marriage in 1934, she and her husband moved to the Washington area. They bought their first house in Arlington, and Mrs. Brandt lived there until 1999.

She worked as a registered nurse at George Washington University Hospital in the late 1940s and as a school nurse at St. Thomas More School in Arlington in the early 1950s, but she considered her primary responsibilities that of homemaker, wife and mother.

She was a founding member and lifelong parishioner of the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington and also enjoyed gardening and bridge.

Her husband, Joseph A. Brandt, died in 1999.