Obituaries

Thérèse 'Terry' Lewett Retail Sales Clerk

Thérèse "Terry" Lewett, 80, a salesclerk in the Lord and Taylor department store in Falls Church from 1975 to 1990, died Sept. 28 at Inova Fairfax Hospital of a ruptured abdominal aneurism.

Mrs. Lewett did clerical work for Fairfax County's Alcohol Safety Action Program in the early 1970s. She was a Fairfax resident and a member of St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Annandale.

Thérèse Ann Mulcahy was born in New York City to Irish immigrant parents. She attended Fordham University. She had a brief modeling career under the name Terry Phillips and appeared on early TV programs starring Perry Como and Fred Waring.

She became a homemaker in New Jersey after marrying in 1951 and settled in the Washington area in 1963.

She was separated for about 20 years from her husband, George P. Lewett, although they remained close.

Her husband, of Falls Church, survives, along with their six children, George Lewett, who is a Franciscan priest living in the West Bank, Linda Lewett of New York, Jeanne Cooper of Warrenton, Susan Fiebig of Montclair, Va., and John Lewett and Stephen Lewett, both of Fairfax County; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Herbert M. Federhen IV Army Colonel

Herbert M Federhen IV, 81, a retired Army colonel who worked for 12 years at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a Defense Department research and development office known as Darpa, died of multiple organ failure Oct. 6 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County. He had been an Arlington resident for 40 years.

Col. Federhen served for 30 years in the Army Signal Corps and was twice awarded the Legion of Merit. After he retired from the military in 1980, he worked as a consultant in the defense industry, at both General Research Corp. and the Institute for Defense Analyses.

Herbert Melancthon Federhen IV was born in Newton Highlands, Mass., and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in electrical engineering. He entered the Army in 1950 and received a master's degree in international affairs from the Naval War College in 1964 and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1967.