Obituaries

Harvey Cable Treasury Department Official

Harvey Cable, 74, who retired from the Treasury Department in 1998 as director of facilities for the Financial Management Service, died Oct. 11 at his home in Bowie. He had complications from colon cancer.

Mr. Cable worked for the Treasury Department in his 40-year federal career. In his final job, he oversaw the physical plant for the Financial Management Service buildings in the Washington area and their overall maintenance and security.

In an earlier assignment for the Treasury, he was director of adjudication for the management service. In that role, he was responsible for the organization that adjudicated claims of non-receipt for federally issued checks.

Harvey Bernard Cable was a Cincinnati native and a 1956 business administration graduate of Penn State. In the late 1950s, he was an Army medic in Korea.

He was lifetime member of the Elks.

Survivors include his wife of 45 years, Margaret Beach Cable of Bowie; two children, Karen Cable of Crofton and Brian Cable of Bowie; a sister; a cousin with whom he grew up; and two grandsons.

-- Adam Bernstein

Emory G. Evans History Professor

Emory G. Evans, 81, a scholar of Colonial American history and history department chairman at the University of Maryland from 1976 to 1986, died Sept. 20 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring after a heart attack. He was a Beltsville resident.

While serving as chairman, the department awarded 202 master's degrees and 47 doctorates. After his tenure, Dr. Evans returned to the classroom and taught American history until his retirement in 1996.

He wrote two books and numerous articles on Colonial-era Virginians. This spring, the University of Virginia published his book "A 'Topping People': The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790," the result of two decades of research. In 1975, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation published Dr. Evans's book "Thomas Nelson of Yorktown: Revolutionary Virginian."

Emory Gibbons Evans was a Richmond native and a 1950 graduate of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va. He received a master's degree in American history in 1954 and doctorate in Colonial American history in 1957, both from U-Va. From 1945 to 1946, he served in the Army.

He first taught at the University of Maryland from 1956 to 1958 before joining the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh. From 1964 to 1974, he was history department chairman at Northern Illinois University and then a professor there until returning to the University of Maryland in 1976.

His memberships included the American Historical Association, the Southern Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians.

Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Winifred Burton Evans of Beltsville; three children, Jeffrey B. Evans of New York, Christopher M. Evans of Pittsburgh and Philip S. Evans of Virginia Beach; and four grandchildren.

-- Lauren Wiseman