Obituaries

Richard T. Leonard Naval Aviation Analyst

Richard T. Leonard, 85, an aviation systems analyst with the Naval Air Systems Command from 1967 to 1979, died June 9 of congestive heart failure at Memorial Hospital in Easton, Md. He had been a resident of Easton since 2002.

Mr. Leonard began his federal career in 1946 as a control specialist for the Navy Department in Philadelphia. Later, he became a foreign sales officer, selling warplanes to foreign countries before moving to Bowie in 1967. He worked for a defense contractor after retiring from the federal government.

Richard Thomas Leonard, a native of Philadelphia, served in the Marine Corps during World War II and the Korean War. He was a member of the Marine Corps Reserve until 1962. He was also a member of the Marine Corps League.

In 1948, as a member of the Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association, he won the President's Cup Regatta on the Potomac.

A son, Richard T. Leonard Jr., died in 1959.

Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Jane Clay Leonard of Easton; three children, Denise L. Jacklin of Poolesville and John C. Leonard and Donna R. Leonard, both of San Francisco; a sister; and three grandchildren.

-- Lauren Wiseman

James R. Lockard Transportation Dept. Official

James R. Lockard, 76, former chief of the Transportation Department's National Driver Register, died June 6 at his home in Arlington County. He had Parkinson's disease and liver disease.

Mr. Lockard worked for the federal government for 31 years, starting in 1951 in records management at the FBI.

After graduating from Southeastern University in Washington, he moved on to several other positions dealing with automated file systems until he settled at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

At the safety agency, he became an authority in information technology and data systems having to do with drivers, motor vehicles, traffic accidents and highway records. He provided advice to motor vehicle organizations in every state.

After retiring in 1982, Mr. Lockard worked as director of motor vehicle information systems for a now-defunct consulting firm, NNCSI, for 10 years.

He was a Civil War enthusiast. Mr. Lockard also enjoyed carpentry and sailing.

James Reeder Lockard was a native of Salem, W.Va., and later lived in Arlington for more than 30 years.

A daughter, Sandra Jane Lockard, died in 1957.

Survivors include his wife, Janice Lockard of Arlington; a daughter, Jeri Lynn Offutt of Fairfax County; two sisters; two brothers; and two grandsons.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Dorothy Mae McCarty State Department Employee

Dorothy Mae "Dottie" McCarty, 87, who was an administrative assistant at the State Department in the 1940s and '50s, died June 8 at Loving Arms nursing facility in Front Royal, Va. She had Alzheimer's disease.

Mrs. McCarty, who was born Dorothy Mae Johnson in Ozark, Ala., came to Washington during World War II after graduating from Alabama's Auburn University. She worked at the State Department into the 1950s, when she resigned to raise her family.

From 1958 to 1978, she lived in Front Royal, where she was a member of Calvary Episcopal Church and the Front Royal Garden Club. She had lived in Delaplane since 1978. She was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Delaplane.

She enjoyed painting, gardening and entertaining.

Her husband of 56 years, Dennis P. McCarty, died in 2006.

Survivors include four sons, Daniel L. McCarty of Front Royal, D. Neal McCarty of Silver Spring, D. Page McCarty of Delaplane and D. Jay McCarty of Clifton; and six grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Edward L. Nance Store Employee

Edward Louis Nance, 61, a buyer for Rodman's Discount Stores in Maryland and the District from 1998 until 2009, died May 31 at his home in Chevy Chase of arthrosclerotic heart disease.

Mr. Nance, a native of Pensacola, Fla., moved to the Washington area in 1971. From 1975 until 1996, he was a buyer and store manager for S. Freedman and Sons, a paper supply company in Landover.

Earlier in his career he was manager of hotel gift shops in Washington.

There are no immediate survivors.

-- Lauren Wiseman

Nellilewis W. Quay Secretary, Singer

Nellilewis Winger Quay, 95, an executive secretary with the Rockville law firm Betts, Clogg and Murdock from 1953 until her retirement in 1988, died May 30 at her home in Montgomery Village of complications from a stroke.

Mrs. Quay, a native of Chicago, appeared on Broadway during the 1930s, cast in small roles in musicals. She also performed at Radio City Music Hall.

She moved to Potomac during World War II and later lived in Rockville. She was a member of the Potomac Garden Club, the Junior League and Christ Episcopal Church in Rockville, where she was a soloist in the choir.

Her marriage to William W. Quay ended in divorce. A son, Edward L. Quay, died in 1991.

Survivors include two children, William W. Quay Jr. of Darnestown and Julie W. Quay of Los Angeles; and two grandchildren.

-- Lauren Wiseman

R. Carter 'Sandy' Sanders Lawyer, HUD Official

R. Carter "Sandy" Sanders, 66, a former official with the Department of Housing and Urban Development who later practiced law in Washington, died May 30 of an internal hemorrhage at his home in Austin. He was a former resident of Alexandria.

Mr. Sanders became a staff assistant in San Diego to then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and did advance work during Reagan's successful presidential campaign in 1980. He was appointed a deputy commissioner at HUD in 1981 and served until 1983, when he opened a solo law practice.

He was deputy general counsel of the Republican National Committee from 1984 to 1988 and was special counsel at the Republican National Convention in 1984. In 1988, Reagan appointed Mr. Sanders to a four-year term on the Administrative Conference of the United States, a federal advisory committee charged with ensuring the efficient administration of various federal agencies.

From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Sanders worked for the D.C. firm of Lerner, Reed, Bolton and Sanders, specializing in real estate law. He was of counsel to the D.C. firm Alston and Bird from 1997 to 2000 and had a solo practice in Washington through 2007, when he moved to Austin.

Raymond Carter Sanders was born in Atlanta and graduated from the University of Georgia. He served as a Navy officer in the Vietnam War. In 1971, he graduated from law school at the University of San Diego and practiced law in San Diego before coming to Washington.

His marriages to Deanna Sanders and Jackie Wolcott ended in divorce.

Survivors include two children from his first marriage, John Brinkley Sanders of San Jose and Hollyn Martin of Hailey, Idaho; a daughter from an earlier relationship, Julie Diaz of Houston; and seven grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Kathryn Lois Shanks Music Director

Kathryn Lois Shanks, 77, a retired organist and director of music for the Orange Presbyterian Church in Orange, Va., died June 9 of kidney failure at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton. She was a Warrenton resident.

Mrs. Shanks, who went by Lois, was director of the Culpepper Piedmont Choral Society for 10 years and the organist and director of music for the Orange Presbyterian Church for 29 years. She retired in 2000. She also played the organ at the old Shoreham Hotel and at restaurants and other venues in the Washington area.

In 1974, she became a real estate salesperson and later a broker in Warrenton, first for Cosner Co. and then for Roy Wheeler Realty Co. Although the Fauquier County Board of Realtors voted her its 1977 "Salesperson of the Year," music was her true love, her husband recalled.

She was born Kathryn Lois Morrow in Wellston, Ohio, and spent part of her childhood in Washington, where she attended McFarland Junior High (now Middle) School. She returned to Ohio after World War II and then moved back to the Washington area in 1951. She received her undergraduate degree in music, with honors, from Jacksonville University in 1970 and her master's degree in music from Catholic University in 1983. In the mid-1950s, she was the organist and music director at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Bethesda.

Her marriage to Robert Leonard ended in divorce.

Survivors include her husband of 54 years, William E. Shanks of Warrenton; two children, Robert B. Shanks of the District and Kimberly S. Payne of Warrenton; five grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.

-- Joe Holley

Mellicent E. Treadwell Receptionist

Mellicent E. Treadwell, 83, a former Takoma Park resident who was a receptionist for a doctor and for her husband's company, died May 20 of a brain tumor at Big Spring Care Center in Humansville, Mo.

Mrs. Treadwell was born Mellicent Elizabeth Kidwell in Beckley, W.Va., and moved to the Washington area in 1944. She worked as a secretary and receptionist for her husband's business, Treadwell Excavation. She later spent more than 15 years as a receptionist in the Takoma Park office of Dr. Roy Sandstrom before retiring in the late 1980s.

She was a member of Takoma Park Seventh-day Adventist Church.

She moved to Hagerstown, Md., in about 1988 and lived in Florida and North Carolina before settling in Missouri.

Her husband of 49 years, Winfield Treadwell, died in 1997.

Survivors include three daughters, Treadene Keightley of Humansville, Jeanette Darnell of Granite Falls, N.C., and Terri Milburn of Palm Coast, Fla.; and four grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Vallo Truumees Army Officer, Defense Official

Vallo Truumees, 71, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who later became an official with the Defense Technology Security Administration, died May 18 while vacationing in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. He had diabetes and congestive heart failure.

Col. Truumees was born in Kurresaare, Estonia, and spent seven years as a child in a displaced persons' camp in Germany. He came to the United States in 1951 and grew up in Seabrook, N.J.

He graduated from the Citadel in Charleston, S.C., and served 22 years as an Army officer, including two tours in Vietnam and two tours in Germany. He received a master's degree in international relations from Boston University in the early 1970s.

After retiring from the Army in 1983, he spent 18 years with the Defense Technology Security Administration, retiring in 2001 as deputy director of trade security policy.

Col. Truumees lived in Fairfax Station and was a member of veterans' groups and the Citadel alumni organization.

Survivors include his wife of 46 years, Sigrid Truumees of Fairfax Station; two sons, Marc Truumees of Huntsville, Ala., and Eeric Truumees of Royal Oak, Mich.; and four grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

William F. 'Flem' Winders Business Executive

William Flemmon "Flem" Winders, 98, a retired executive with a chemical and plastics company, died June 11 of multiple organ failure at his home in Reston.

Mr. Winders moved to Northern Virginia in 1986 after spending most of his career in Tennessee. He lived at the Virginian retirement community in Fairfax City for 10 years and led a weekly program of poetry, jokes and storytelling for residents.

He lived in London for three years in the 1990s before returning to Northern Virginia.

William Flemmon Winders was born on Hilton Head Island, S.C., and spent 40 years with the Tennessee Eastman Co. (now the Eastman Chemical Co.), a manufacturer of chemicals and plastics. He retired in 1976 as vice president for industrial and public relations.

He was chairman or director of the American Management Association, Southern Industrial Relations Conference, U.S. Industrial Council and Tennessee Manufacturers' Association. He also held many civic leadership positions in Kingsport, Tenn., where he lived until 1986.

His wife of 60 years, Mary Jenkins Winders, died in 1998.

Survivors include two children, Peter J. Winders of Tampa and Martha W. Helgerson of Reston; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Rajababu C. Yalamanchili Howard University Professor

Rajababu C. Yalamanchili, 76, an electrical engineering professor at Howard University from 1968 until his retirement in 1999, died June 6 at Frederick Memorial Hospital of complications from a stroke. He had been a Silver Spring resident since 1970.

During the 1970s, Dr. Yalamanchili was chairman of Howard's electrical engineering department, electrical engineering graduate studies and the school of engineering. He also helped establish the doctorate program for electrical and mechanical engineering.

He taught engineering part time at what is now Capitol College in Laurel, and during the summers he worked as an engineer and researcher for COMSAT, IBM and NASA.

Rajababu Chowdhary Yalamanchili, a native of Varahapatnam, India, received an bachelor's degree in physics from Government College in India in 1953 and a master's degree in physics in 1956 from Saugor University in Madhya Pradesh, India.

He received a master's degree and a doctorate, both in physics, from Georgetown University.

Before moving to the United States in 1959, he taught physics at colleges in India.

He was a founding member and inaugural secretary of what is now the Greater Washington Telugu Cultural Society. He also was a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Vasundhara Chintumaneni Yalamanchili of Silver Spring; two children, Ravi Yalamanchili of Frederick and Vijayalakshmi Peters of Manassas; a brother; a sister; and three grandchildren.

-- Lauren Wiseman