Obituaries

Helen W. Askew Telephone Company Employee

Helen W. Askew, 79, an operators' manager at the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. in the late 1940s and early 1950s, died Oct. 19 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville. She had complications from a perforated bowel.

Helen Jean Watson, a native Washingtonian, was a 1947 graduate of Washington-Lee High School in Arlington County. She spent much of her life as a homemaker. She was a Potomac resident.

Her husband of 49 years, William R. Askew, died in 2000.

Survivors include three children, Diane Brace of Sanibel Island, Fla., Bill Askew of Dumfries and Jeanne Lynch of Silver Spring; and a grandson.

-- Lauren Wiseman

Dorothy Bishop Volunteer

Dorothy Bishop, 80, a volunteer for the Rockville Senior Center and the Metropolitan Police Relief Association, died Oct. 21 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring after a heart attack. She had congestive heart failure and other ailments.

Mrs. Bishop was born Dorothy Zeleny in New York and moved to the Washington area in the late 1940s. She lived in Rockville.

Her husband, Walter R. Bishop Sr., who retired as Herndon police chief, died in 2004.

Survivors include four children, Walter R. Bishop Jr. of Hagerstown, Md., Dorothy R. Jackson of Millersville, Kathleen L. Healey of Pocomoke City, Md., and Richard D. Bishop of Henderson, Nev.; a granddaughter she helped raise, Kathleen Munzer of Pocomoke City; eight other grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.