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In 1952, Mr. Licht went to Burma to work on development issues with Robert R. Nathan Associates, an international economic consulting firm.

He returned to Washington in 1957 and joined the U.S. Agency for International Development. He served in Togo, Chad, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and Ivory Coast before retiring in 1975.

His wife of 25 years, Babs McAllister Licht, died in 1977. A son from that marriage, Gordon Licht, died in 1993.

Since 1996, Mr. Licht divided his time between Washington, Cleveland and Florida.

Survivors include his wife, Riviann Joseph Licht of Cleveland, whom he married in 1996; and a daughter from his first marriage, Ellen Licht of Santa Rosa, Calif.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Simon Tisnado MunozPediatrician

Simon Tisnado Munoz, 102, a pediatrician and radiologist, died of respiratory arrest and lung cancer June 30 at his home in Falls Church.

Dr. Munoz moved to Northern Virginia in 1994 from his longtime home in Peru. He was a volunteer in the Hispanic communities at Baileys Crossroads and at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Arlington. He was a member of the Family Association of the Inter-American Development Bank. He enjoyed concerts and opera and ballet performances at the Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap.

Dr. Munoz was born in Cajamarca, Peru, and graduated from the medical school at the Peru's University of San Marcos in 1948. He became a professor of pediatrics and diagnostic radiology in Peru and was editor of the journal of the Peruvian Society of Pediatrics.

A fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics since 1955, he wrote more than four dozen research papers and clinical studies published in Latin American medical journals.


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