Obituaries

Muriel FleischerExecutive Assistant

Muriel Fleischer, 83, a retired executive assistant at ABC News in Washington, died of liver cancer July 21 at her home in Plymouth Meeting, Pa.

Mrs. Fleischer worked for ABC from 1977 to 1993. She worked for broadcasters including Howard K. Smith and Ted Koppel.

She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduated from City College of New York. During World War II, she worked as an auxiliary telephone operator for the New York Fire Department and sang with her sister at the USO in New York.

Mrs. Fleischer was a buyer for women's millinery after the war, then moved to Detroit with her family.

She moved to Washington in 1975 and volunteered at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and at the Library of Congress. She was a founding Member of Women of Washington, a networking organization. She lived for 33 years on Capitol Hill.

Survivors include her husband of 60 years, Robert Fleischer of Plymouth Meeting; three daughters, Jody Miller of Plymouth Meeting and Andrea Fleischer and Stacey Fleischer, both of New York City; and two grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Irving LichtUSAID Economist

Irving Licht, 88, an economist with the U.S. Agency for International Development, died of complications from a series of strokes July 15 at the Montefiore nursing home in Cleveland. He lived in Washington until moving to Ohio about two years ago.

Mr. Licht was born in Cleveland and graduated from Ohio University. He served in the Merchant Marines during World War II.

After the war, he came to Washington and worked as an economist with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1947 to 1951. During this time, he also helped establish in Logan Circle one of the first interracial cooperative rooming houses in the District.