Obituaries

Joanne Schaeffer Patient Advocate

Joanne Schaeffer, 75, a former patient advocate at Southern Maryland Hospital Center in Clinton, died Sept. 28 of complications from heart surgery at Washington Hospital Center. She lived in the District.

Mrs. Schaeffer worked for Southern Maryland Hospital Center for 20 years until retiring in the mid-1990s. Before that, she held administrative assistant positions at what was then Greater Southeast Community Hospital for 20 years.

She was born Joanne Ott in Williamsport, Pa., and moved to Washington in 1972. She was a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church in Washington. Her family said she was an advocate for the disabled.

Two of her children died, Agnes Schaeffer in 1957 and Dennis Schaeffer in 1985.

Survivors include her husband of 56 years, Patrick A. Schaeffer of Washington; four children, Paul Schaeffer of Ocean City, N.J., Patrick Schaeffer of Upper Marlboro, Michael Schaeffer of Washington and Pamela Sadler of Lewes, Del.; seven grandchildren; and a great-grandson.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Delores J. Hartley Businesswoman

Delores J. Hartley, 87, who formerly owned a Silver Spring restaurant with her husband and later had businesses in Ocean City, Md., died Sept. 30 at Montgomery Hospice's Casey House in Rockville. She had metastatic lung cancer.

Mrs. Hartley was born Delores Jeanette Green in Bethesda, grew up in Washington and graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1940. She was a supervisor at Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. in the 1940s.

Beginning in the 1950s, she and her second husband, Glenn Odell "Odie" Hartley, owned several businesses in Silver Spring, including the Villa Rosa Restaurant. They moved to Ocean City in 1970 and opened several other businesses, including Sea Side Slides, which was one of the first water-slide parks on the East Coast.

Mrs. Hartley retired in the early 1990s and lived in Maine for several years before settling in Silver Spring's Leisure World in 2001.