Obituaries

His marriage to Jean Shaffer Monroe ended in divorce. His second wife, Katherine Gallant Monroe, died in 2003.

Survivors include a son from his first marriage, Mark E. Monroe of Bealeton; a brother; a sister; and a grandson.

-- Joe Holley

Phyllis B. Marriott Church, Community Leader

Phyllis B. Marriott, 91, an officer in church, community and scouting organizations in the Washington area, died Dec. 13 at her home in Salt Lake City. She had heart and lung ailments.

She moved back to her native Utah from Kensington after suffering a stroke in 2000.

Mrs. Marriott was a former young women's president of Washington area wards and stakes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was a genealogy consultant for the Mormon church's family history library in Kensington.

She received several top scouting awards as one of the first women to serve on the executive board of the Boy Scouts' National Capital Area Council, which she did from 1954 to 1972. She had also been a den mother.

She was a former president of Kensington Parkwood Elementary School's parent-teacher association. Her other memberships included the League of Republican Women, and she participated in community fund drives for the Cancer Fund of America and the United Givers Fund, among other organizations.

On Mother's Day 1974, the organization American Mothers named her national mother of the year.

Phyllis Brown was born in Ogden, Utah. She and a sister were orphaned in a flu pandemic and raised with their maternal grandmother in Pleasant Grove, Utah.