Obituaries

Marguerite Moncure Lamond Church Member, Photographer

Marguerite Moncure Lamond, 94, a member of Episcopal Christ Church in Alexandria and a photographer and horticulturist, died Oct. 1 at the Goodwin House retirement home in Alexandria. She had congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease.

At the church, Mrs. Lamond served on the vestry, helped start the gardens and, as a young woman, was a soloist in the choir. She also was the church photographer and archivist. She contributed photos and articles to Alexandria Magazine in the late 1970s, as well as articles, poetry and photos to other publications.

She was a past president of the Alexandria Garden Club and a member of the Garden Club of Virginia. She wrote a book, "Christmas Creativity: How to Make Interpretive and Elegant Decorations" (1974).

Marguerite Virginia Moncure was an Alexandria native and a graduate of the Washington College of Music. As a young woman, she owned and operated an Alexandria preschool called Jack and Jill University.

Mrs. Lamond was interviewed by Winston Churchill's granddaughter, Celia Sandys, for a television documentary that aired on public television, "Chasing Churchill: In Search of My Grandfather" (2008).

In that documentary, Mrs. Lamond reflected on being present Jan. 1, 1942, for a New Year's Day religious service at Christ Church, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill attended.

A longtime Alexandria resident, she lived in Williamsburg in the 1990s and then at Goodwin House.

Her husband, Clyde C. Lamond Jr., whom she married in 1939, died in 1986. Three of their sons died, the Rev. Thomas R. Lamond, an Episcopal priest, in 1985, Robert M. Lamond in 1999 and John S. Lamond in 2000.

Survivors include a son, Clyde C. Lamond III of Upperville; six grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein