Obituaries

Barbara L. Beyer Aviation Consulting Executive

Barbara L. Beyer, 62, president and chief executive since 1987 of Avmark, an aviation consulting company in Vienna, died Oct. 23 at a hospital in Daytona Beach, Fla., of complications from abdominal surgery. She lived in Oakton.

Ms. Beyer joined Avmark in 1975 as vice president and helped open its international offices, including those in Hong Kong, which later moved to Singapore.

Barbara Lynn Beyer was born in Miami. She received a bachelor's degree in business administration from George Washington University in 1979. She moved to the Washington area in 1975.

During the mid-1960s, she was a technical assistant for Saudi Arabian Airlines in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. From 1968 to 1970, she was a crew scheduling coordinator for Modern Air Transport, a charter airline in Miami. From 1970 to 1972, she was the financial administrator for Air Berlin in Germany.

Survivors include her partner of four years, John Ardella of Daytona Beach; her father, Morten Beyer of Washington; a sister; and two brothers.

-- Lauren Wiseman

William E. Cassidy Insurance Executive

William E. Cassidy, 91, who worked for the District-based A.H. Baker & Co. insurance brokerage from 1962 until retiring as vice president in 1989, died Oct. 29 at his home in Washington. He had congestive heart failure.

Mr. Cassidy worked for the Continental insurance company of New York for much of his early career, first in New York and then in the Washington area starting in the early 1950s.

William Edgar Cassidy was a New York native and attended the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school and George Washington University. He served in the Coast Guard in the South Pacific during World War II.

He was a past president of the Metropolitan Washington Association of Independent Insurance Agents and chairman of the executive committee of the D.C. Insurance Rating Bureau. His memberships included Manor Country Club in Rockville.