Obituaries

A longtime Arlington resident, Mrs. Layno taught reading and writing at Kenmore Middle School from 1973 to 1978 and English at Wakefield High School from 1978 to 1980. She also taught English as a second language to new immigrants as part of Arlington's adult education program. She retired in 1980.

She was born Rebecca Hernandez in San Pablo City, Philippines. Although her education was interrupted by World War II, she completed her undergraduate degree in English and political science from the Philippine Women's University in Manila in 1948.

She worked for the YWCA and the Girl Scout Council in the Philippines before pursuing graduate study in the United States. In 1954, she received her master's degree in education from the State University of New York at New Paltz and in 1960 a master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Washington.

In retirement, Mrs. Layno enjoyed painting, doing embroidery, playing the piano and writing poetry. She was a member of Clarendon Presbyterian Church in Arlington.

Her husband, Salvador B. Layno, died in 1976.

Survivors include four children, Benjamin Layno and Carl Layno, both of Arlington, John Layno of Falls Church and Tina Layno of New York; and two grandsons.

-- Joe Holley

Eugene J. Linehan Jesuit Priest

The Rev. Eugene Joseph Linehan, 87, a Jesuit priest who served as chaplain at the National Institutes of Health for more than 25 years, died May 23 at Manresa Hall, a Jesuit community in Merion Station, Pa. He had congestive heart failure.

Rev. Linehan was born in Philadelphia and entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1940 at the Novitiate of St. Isaac Jogues near Wernersville, Pa. He was a 1947 philosophy graduate of the old Woodstock College near Baltimore and received a master's degree in theology in 1952 from what is now the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Massachusetts.

He began his ministry in 1955 at Loyola High School in Towson, where he taught English to juniors. After serving for two years as pastor of Our Lady of the Wayside Church in Chaptico, Md., he became sub-minister to the Jesuit community and professor of homiletics at Woodstock College. From 1966 to 1972, he held the positions of superior and director of Manresa-on-Severn retreat house in Annapolis.

After a year of graduate study in theology at Wesley Theological Seminary in the District, he began his tenure as Catholic chaplain at NIH. He retired from NIH in 1999 but remained in residence as a pastoral minister at Georgetown Preparatory School for the next decade. He moved to Manresa Hall in 2009.

Survivors include a sister and a brother.

-- Joe Holley

Henry H. 'Hank' Scofield Navy Oral Pathologist, Professor

Henry H. "Hank" Scofield, 91, a retired captain in the Navy Dental Corps who was an oral pathologist and later taught at Georgetown and other universities, died May 17 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda of congestive heart failure. He was a Potomac resident.

Henry Harland Scofield was born in Chicago and graduated from Loyola University in his home town in 1942, when he joined the Navy. He graduated from Loyola's dental school in 1945.

After several postings in the Dental Corps, Capt. Scofield received a doctorate in oral pathology from Georgetown University in the late 1950s. He was chairman of the oral pathology department at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology from 1963 to 1966.

From 1966 until his retirement from the Navy in 1972, he led the oral pathology department at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. He received the Meritorious Service Medal.

Capt. Scofield joined the faculty of Georgetown's dental school in 1972 and taught in the oral pathology department until the school closed in 1990. He was also a professor of pathology at the George Washington University School of Medicine in the 1960s and lectured at the University of Maryland and Howard University.

In addition, he was a member of the research faculty at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown and published several papers in professional journals. Capt. Scofield was a two-time president of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and held leadership positions with the American Registry of Pathology.

His wife of 43 years, Patricia Scofield, died in 1988.

Survivors include two daughters, Kathleen Porter of Vienna and Mary Jo Doyle of Springfield; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Ellis Price Shanks Sr. Air Force Officer, Pilot

Ellis Price Shanks Sr., 74, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and commercial pilot, died of kidney failure May 29 at Baptist Hospital of Miami.

Col. Shanks, a Miami resident, was born in Jefferson City, Tenn., and moved with his family to the Washington area in 1940 when his father took a job with the Census Bureau. He graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School and attended the University of Maryland before joining the Air Force. He became a pilot with the Strategic Air Command.

After retiring from active duty in 1965, he became a pilot for Pan-American World Airways and flew cargo planes to Vietnam with the Air Force Reserve. Retiring a second time in 1986, he joined North American Airbus, where he trained pilots who flew for the airlines that purchased the airbus. He retired again in 1992.

Survivors include his wife of 50 years, the former JoAnn Fruge of Miami; four children, Ellis P. Shanks Jr. of Orlando, Lynda Barnes of Lakeland, Fla., Sarah Shanks of Miami and Jennifer Flinn of Gainesville, Fla.; a brother, Bill Shanks of Warrenton; and 10 grandchildren.

-- Joe Holley

Gloria G. Steffan Office Manager

Gloria G. Steffan, 79, an office manager from 1987 to 1999 for Klein, Landau and Romm, a legal staffing firm in Washington, died May 26 at her home in Falls Church. She had breast cancer.

Mrs. Steffan lived in New York before moving in the late 1980s to Arlington County, where she volunteered for people running for local office.

Gloria Ann Gallagher, a native of St. Paul, Minn., received a bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Minnesota in 1949.

She volunteered with the American Cancer Society and the Mathias-Baker Volunteer Fire and Rescue Squad in Baker, W.Va., where she had a weekend home.

Her marriage to William J. Steffan ended in divorce.

Survivors include three sons, Daniel J. Steffan of Portland, Ore., Brian J. Steffan of Falls Church and Timothy J. Steffan of McLean; and two grandchildren.

-- Lauren Wiseman