Obituaries

Virginia Birch FioriChurch Member

Virginia Birch Fiori, 65, a McLean resident and a member of Lewinsville Presbyterian Church in McLean, died June 30 of ovarian cancer at Boulder Community Hospital in Boulder, Colo.

Mrs. Fiori was born in Morristown, N.J., and attended the University of Michigan before settling in the Washington area in the 1960s.

Her husband of 26 years, Charles Edson Fiori, died in 1992.

Survivors include two children, Alice Fiori of Boulder and Peter Fiori of Nederland, Colo.; and four grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Miriam Heller BowenVolunteer, Artist

Miriam Heller Bowen, 75, a volunteer and artist, died July 20 of breast cancer at her home in Potomac.

Mrs. Bowen was born in Baltimore and was a graduate of Syracuse University, where she was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority.

She moved to Washington in the late 1950s and worked as an administrative assistant at WRC-TV and WTOP. She pursued her interest in painting with courses in studio art at Catholic University and the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

Among her volunteer activities, she was chairman of the Azalea Garden Festival at the Landon School and was a two-time president of the Fairfax County Medical Society Auxiliary (now the Medical Society of Northern Virginia).