Obituaries

Mrs. Osgood spent 24 years working for the Public Health Service, which became a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

She wrote articles on nursing and government management of nursing for professional journals. Among them was a survey of federal nursing priorities for the 1980s.

Among her professional memberships, she was a past president of the District of Columbia League for Nursing and served on its board until her death. She was a recipient of the Public Health Service's Superior Service Award and the American Academy of Nursing's President's Award for deepening understanding of the profession.

Gretchen Anderson was a Minneapolis native, a 1943 graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Mass., and a 1946 graduate of Johns Hopkins University's nursing school.

She received a master's degree in supervision in public health nursing from Boston University's nursing school in 1950.

She spent nine years as an associate nursing director at the University of Illinois's research and education hospitals in Chicago before settling in the Washington area in 1962.

In 1946, she married Robert E. Osgood, who became a dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. After his death in 1986, she endowed a professorship and a student fellowship, both in her husband's name, and also gave money toward summer internships, all at SAIS.

She had no immediate survivors.

-- Adam Bernstein

Lilia Nielsen HyltoftReal Estate Agent

Lilia Nielsen Hyltoft, 77, a retired real estate agent with Long & Foster for 18 years in Northern Virginia, died July 25 at her home in Churchville, Va. She had lung and pancreatic cancer.

Mrs. Hyltoft was born in Copenhagen and lived in Denmark until 1972, when her husband came to Washington to take a job as a conservator with the Folger Shakespeare Library.

She retired from Long & Foster in 1992 and moved to Churchville.

She was a member of the art committee at the Folger Library and served with the women's auxiliary of Gideons International, the Bible distribution and evangelism group.

She lived in Herndon and Manassas for many years and was a Sunday school teacher at Woodbine Family Worship Center in Manassas.

In retirement, she sang in church choirs and was a member of the Staunton Choral Society. She also traveled throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

Survivors include her husband of 59 years, Johannes Hyltoft of Churchville; two children, Anette Veldhuyzen of Fredericksburg and Kean Hyltoft of Rileyville, Va.; 12 grandchildren; a brother; and two sisters.

-- Matt Schudel

Adelaide M. HawkinsOSS, CIA Analyst

Adelaide Mulheran Hawkins, 94, who was an analyst in the Office of Strategic Services and its successor, the Central Intelligence Agency, died July 10 of renal and congestive heart failure at her son's home in Arlington.

Mrs. Hawkins, who also was an antiques dealer and volunteer, was born in Wheeling, W.Va., and came to Washington with her husband and three children in 1940.

While her husband worked in the temporary munitions building on Constitution Avenue as a cryptanalyst for the Army, Mrs. Hawkins began studying his cryptanalysis lessons. After learning of her studies, her husband's boss offered her a job.

She began working with Gen. William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan, who was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's coordinator of information, in what became the Office of Strategic Services.

Mrs. Hawkins created the OSS message center and remained its deputy director throughout World War II. She oversaw the reception, processing and distribution of sensitive communications, and she trained agents in communicating from behind enemy lines in occupied Europe.

After the war, she was part of the greatly reduced staff known as the Central Intelligence Group until it was absorbed into the new Central Intelligence Agency in 1947. Mrs. Hawkins spent several years in London in the late 1950s, where she developed an interest in antiques. She retired from the CIA in 1974.

After retiring, Mrs. Hawkins entered the antique business and partnered at different periods with her brother, her daughter, her son and daughter-in-law, and with a CIA colleague.

She bought and restored an antebellum Methodist church in Hillsboro in Loudoun County, where she operated Stone Church Antiques in the 1990s.

From the 1970s to 1990s, she volunteered with the Treasure Trove Thrift Shop at Inova Fairfax Hospital and with the Opportunity Shop at St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Washington.

In 1982, Mrs. Hawkins bought and restored a derelict but exotic Mayan-style house in Arlington where she cared for her mother. The extensive garden next to the house, with scores of goldfish in its ponds, became the site of many neighborhood gatherings.

When her mother died in 1992, Mrs. Hawkins moved to the Jefferson retirement condominium community in Arlington.

Her marriage to Edward Hawkins ended in divorce. Two of their children died: Edward J. Hawkins in 1975 and Shelia Van Vliet Beckner in 1990.

Survivors include a son, Don Alexander Hawkins of Arlington; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Sharron T. PriceFairfax County Teacher

Sharron T. Price, 63, who spent 26 years as a first-grade teacher at Ravensworth Elementary School in Springfield, died July 21 at her home in Fairfax Station. She had ovarian cancer.

After retiring in 1992, Ms. Price volunteered at Ravensworth, teaching reading to kindergartners and first-graders.

She also captured an injured bald eagle and turned it over to the Wildlife Rescue League for treatment, rehabilitation and release into the wild. She was honored at the release ceremony at the Wildlife Center of Virginia.

Sharron Taylor Price was born in Washington and raised in Bethesda. She was a 1962 graduate of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School and a 1966 cum laude education graduate of Ohio University.

Survivors include a sister, Sandra P. Cihlar of Washington.

-- Adam Bernstein