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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

M. Ellen Flint Voter Registrar

M. Ellen Flint, 86, who registered voters for the Fairfax County elections office from 1974 to 1999, died Oct. 7 at her daughter's home in Alexandria of complications from a fall. She had lived in Annandale since 1960.

Mattie Ellen Dotson was born in Central Station, W.Va. She moved to the Washington area in 1942 and until 1948 was a clerk for the Army Air Forces at the Pentagon. From 1951 to 1956, she worked for the Social Security Administration in Clarksburg, W.Va.

She was a member of Springfield Christian Church, where she was a Sunday school secretary in the 1980s and early 1990s.

She volunteered at Annandale Elementary School, Poe Middle School in Annandale and Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria in the 1960s and 1970s.

Her husband of 26 years, Kemper S. Flint, died in 1974.

Survivors include a daughter, Dr. Laurie A. Flint of Alexandria.

-- Lauren Wiseman



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