Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Clement T. Hertslet Research Analyst
Clement T. Hertslet, 80, who spent many years as a research analyst for the Defense Department, died Aug. 13 at the National Lutheran Home & Village in Rockville. He had Parkinson's disease.
Mr. Hertslet joined the Defense Department in 1962 and was a senior research analyst on matters related to China. He retired in 1989.
Clement Townsend Hertslet was born in Kansas City, Mo., and served in the Marine Corps in the 1940s. He was a graduate of what is now the University of Central Missouri and received a master's degree in geography from Oklahoma State University in 1954.
From 1955 to 1961, he taught geography and world history in a public high school on the island of Guam.
In 1962, Mr. Hertslet received a master's degree in library science from Rutgers University in New Jersey and moved to the Washington area. He lived in Bethesda for 40 years before settling in Boyds.
Mr. Hertslet received a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in 1976 and participated in a study at the National Institutes of Health for 12 years.
He was a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Bethesda.
Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Mary Smith Hertslet of Boyds; two children, Stephen Hertslet of Boyds and Lisa Good of Neshanic Station, N.J.; and two granddaughters.
-- Matt Schudel
John Albert Lucas Navy Commander
John Albert Lucas Jr., 66, a retired Navy commander who worked in the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps, died of hypoglycemic shock Aug. 11 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, where he had been hospitalized after complications from esophageal surgery. He was a McLean resident.
Cmdr. Lucas served with the Seabees and was the engineering manager for construction of the strategic naval installation on Diego Garcia, the tiny Indian Ocean atoll. He was director of facilities development on the Navy staff for the Royal Saudi navy. He retired from the military in 1985 and became a consultant on international development and finance.
He was born in Stamford, Conn., and graduated from Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. Cmdr. Lucas received a master's degree in civil engineering from Penn State in 1965. He earned a master's degree in business administration in 1977 from California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks and a master's degree in international affairs from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in 2003.
Cmdr. Lucas loved adventure and travel, in Europe, Central and South America, Asia and the Middle East. He enjoyed visiting his mother's homeland of Scotland, hiking in Germany and visiting the Holy Land. He was a volunteer and member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood.
Survivors include his wife of 43 years, Margaret-Alice Haggart Lucas of McLean; two daughters, Caroline Lucas of Menlo Park, Calif., and Stephanie Caden of Bethesda; a sister; and four grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan
Barbara Reed Businesswoman, Party Activist
Barbara Reed, 80, a former businesswoman and Democratic Party activist in Fairfax County, died Aug. 13 at a son's home in Fairfax County. She had lung cancer.
From 1974 to 1991, Mrs. Reed helped run her husband's business, Envelopes Inc., an envelope printing and manufacturing company. She also was active in local politics, serving as a Democratic Party precinct chairman in Fairfax in the 1960s.
Barbara Joan Desper was born in the District. She graduated from the city's Western High School in 1947 and attended Mary Washington College, now the University of Mary Washington, in Fredericksburg.
She drove a school bus for St. Louis Catholic School in Alexandria in the late 1950s and early 1960s and then began working at the National Technical Information Service, a Commerce Department agency.
Her volunteer activities included the Virginia Hills community association, Little League and parent-teacher groups.
Mrs. Reed and her husband of 52 years, Leonard Reed, retired in 1991, having lived in Fairfax and Alexandria for nearly 40 years. They moved to New Bern, N.C., in 1993. Mr. Reed died in 2001. Their son Mark Reed died in 2006.
Survivors include three children, Barbie Greene of Powder Springs, Ga., Christopher Reed of Fairfax Station and Kevin Reed of Annandale; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
-- Becky Krystal