Obituaries

Malcom Roy Geologist, Airline Employee

Malcom Roy, 75, a geologist for Phillips Petroleum Co. who became a United Airlines reservations agent, died Dec. 8 at Iliff Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Dunn Loring. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Mr. Roy spent 22 years with Phillips, which took him from Oklahoma to England. He discovered a number of oil reserves around the world and became the Colorado-based director of Phillips's West Coast offshore drilling.

He moved to the Washington area in 1989, after retiring from Phillips, and worked until 2001 for United Airlines in Sterling. He was a Chantilly resident.

Mr. Roy was born in Baghdad, graduated from Baghdad University and served in the Iraqi army. He worked on oil rigs in Iraq until moving to the United States in 1964. He received a master's degree in geophysics from the University of Kansas in 1966 and became a U.S. citizen in 1973.

He was a member of St. Veronica Catholic Church in Chantilly.

Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Ikhlass Taktak Roy of Chantilly; three daughters, Reema Butler of Oak Hill, Dr. Rita Roy Merril of Great Falls and Rhonda Roy-McKee of Leesburg; two sisters, Beatrice Michael of Wichita, Kan., and Irene Albucher of Carbonne, France; four brothers, Patrick Roy of Englishtown, N.J., Dr. Johnny Roy of Edmond, Okla., Nelson Roy of Great Falls and Jesse Roy of Oklahoma City; and eight grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Harry Wilcox Monroe Broadcaster

Harry Wilcox Monroe, 88, a retired broadcaster with the Voice of America, died Dec. 21 of respiratory failure at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital. He was a Fairfax City resident.

Mr. Monroe was born in Herkimer, N.Y., and received an undergraduate degree in 1941 from Syracuse University. During World War II, he served in the Army with the 1st Infantry Division ("Big Red One") and participated in combat in North Africa, Sicily and the Normandy invasion.

He became a broadcaster with the Voice of America after his discharge from the Army and worked in Richmond before being transferred to Washington in 1963. He retired in 1985.