Obituaries

In recent years, she had been member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Barnesville.

Carole Anne Joyce was born in Silver Spring, where she was a graduate of the old Academy of Holy Names.

Survivors include her husband of 45 years, Thomas E. Finnin of Gaithersburg; three children, Kevin T. Finnin of Rocky Ridge, Kelly Carmack of Waynesboro, Pa., and Karrie Padgett of Thurmont; a brother, Martin Joyce of Prince Frederick; four grandchildren; and a great-grandson. A son, Martin Finnin, died at birth in 1967.

-- Adam Bernstein

Constance Ives Real Estate Agent

Constance Ives, 91, a former residential real estate agent in Georgetown, died June 3 of complications from pneumonia at Holy Spirit Hospital in Harrisburg, Pa.

Mrs. Ives worked for Millicent Chatel & Associates Inc. for more than 25 years, tapering off into retirement in the early 1990s. She lived in Washington from 1961 until moving to Frederick in 1994 and later to Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Constance Elizabeth Morley was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., and graduated in 1938 from a school that is now part of Pace University in New York.

Her husband of 39 years, Army Maj. Gen. H. Dudley Ives, died in 1983.

Survivors include two sons, H. Dudley Ives of Chevy Chase and Stewart M. Ives of New Cumberland, Pa.; two sisters; and five grandsons.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Ruth O. Peters Postal Service Governor

Ruth O. Peters, 84, a Postal Service executive who was a member of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors from 1983 to 1988, died of a heart ailment June 16 at Capital Hospice in Arlington County.

As a postal governor, Ms. Peters was an advocate of updated electronic mail-sorting equipment. She began her career with the old Post Office department in 1954 in the personnel bureau. She worked as a recruiter and also helped to develop a promotion exam program. She retired in 1980 as the director for postmaster selection.

Ruth Oberia Peters was a native of Oakdale, La., and a 1948 psychology graduate of what is now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She received a master's degree in industrial psychology from American University in 1958.

Ms. Peters's belief in the efficiency and profitability of innovation began at a young age. At 12, she processed her neighbors' corn crops with a one-horsepower cracker and bought an old Ford Model A with the profits, though she wasn't allowed to drive it off the family farm.

She had been active in retirement, traveling on her 32-foot powerboat down the Intracoastal Waterway to a home she owned on Anna Maria Island in Florida. She was an Arlington resident.

She had no immediate survivors.

-- T. Rees Shapiro