Obituaries

Mrs. Giampietro began her nursing career after arriving in the Washington area in 1949. She was an instructor for the Visiting Nurses Association of greater Washington and, throughout the 1950s and '60s, was a private-duty nurse in hospitals.

In the 1970s, she was a nurse in the Rockville medical offices of Ralph Himmelhoch and Peter Pushkas and also was nursing director at a Chevy Chase nursing home. She conducted peer reviews of local hospitals for the National Capital Medical Foundation before joining the old Capitol Hill Hospital in 1978 as director of patient affairs. She was assistant administrator for nursing at the hospital until her retirement in 1984.

Mrs. Giampietro was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduated in 1948 from the school of nursing at Brooklyn's old Prospect Heights Hospital.

She was a member of Aglow International, a Christian women's charitable organization.

A daughter, Lynn Case, died in 2007.

Survivors include her husband of 59 years, Dominick M. Giampietro of Rockville; five children, Camille G. Dyer of Burleson, Tex., Niki M. Queen of Myersville, Adam Giampietro of Germantown, Vincent Giampietro of Silver Spring and D. Michael Giampietro of Ijamsville; a brother, Peter J. Lombardi of Naples, Fla.; a sister, Camille G. Ward of Edgewater; and 16 grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

James A. Keys Sr.Painter and Contractor

James A. Keys Sr., 88, a retired government painter who later had a painting and contracting business in Northern Virginia, died Aug. 18 at his Falls Church home of complications from liver cancer.

Mr. Keys was born in Bristow and attended Manassas High School before joining the Army in 1939. He served in the Army's 27th Infantry Division during World War II and was wounded in battle on the Pacific island of Saipan.