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Joseph Charles Kordella was born in Baltimore and attended Johns Hopkins University and Auburn University in the 1930s but did not graduate. He served in the Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. He was stationed in Guam, where he served as a tail gunner.

Mr. Kordella came to Montgomery County after the war ended.

His memberships included several professional organizations and area golf courses. Mr. Kordella worshiped at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Kensington.

Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Claire Foscue Kordella of Kensington; three children, Joseph Charles Kordella Jr. of Parkersburg, W. Va., Dana Kordella of Sterling and Scott Clayton Kordella of Herndon; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

-- Rick Rojas

Armand Bonneau Professor, Dentist

Armand Bonneau, 79, a dentist who spent more than 25 years as an associate professor at his alma mater, the Georgetown University School of Dentistry, died June 26 at the Envoy of Alexandria rehabilitation center. He had lung cancer.

Dr. Bonneau joined Georgetown University as a part-time professor after graduating from the school in 1961. After 10 years of private practice at the Seven Corners Medical Center in Falls Church, he joined the faculty full time in 1971. He retired with the school's last graduating class in 1990.

Armand Wilfred Bonneau was born in New Bedford, Mass., in 1930. He received a mathematics degree from Stonehill College as a member of its first graduating class in 1952. He spent three years, 1952-55, in Army intelligence, and deciphered radio codes in Alaska during the Korean War.

Dr. Bonneau, an Arlington County resident, spent his retirement golfing at the Washington Golf and Country Club, and he had a box at the Kennedy Center, where he enjoyed all forms of theater.

He left no immediate survivors.


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