Obituaries

Laurence W. Hartge Annapolis Businessman

Laurence W. Hartge, 93, who owned and operated yacht sales and yacht insurance businesses as well as a real-estate company, all in Anne Arundel County, died Jan. 18 at his home in Annapolis. He had melanoma that had metastasized.

Early in his career, Mr. Hartge did boat-design work at his family's boatyard in the Anne Arundel County community of Galesville.

Starting in the 1960s, he started Hartge Yacht Sales and Hartge Yacht Insurance. He later bought Annapolis Yacht Sales and established Hartge-Dahlby Real Estate. He retired to Florida in 1981 and returned about 10 years ago to Annapolis, where he started the Hartge Nautical Museum in Galesville.

Laurence Woodrow Hartge was born in Galesville and graduated from Southern High School in Lothian. He served as a Navy signalman in the Pacific during World War II, then spent several years on the West Coast as a home builder.

His first marriage, to Anne Lupo Hartge, ended in divorce. His second wife, Virginia Dahlby Hartge, died in 2004. A son from his first marriage, Peter Hartge, died in 1985.

Survivors include a daughter from his first marriage, Patricia Hartge of Chevy Chase; two stepsons, Mark Dahlby of Santa Cruz, Calif., and Kim Dahlby of Sarasota, Fla.; two brothers, Robert L. Hartge of Galesville and Henry "Bill" Hartge of Huntington Beach, Calif.; eight grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.

-- Adam Bernstein

Frank G. MacMurray District Internist

Frank G. MacMurray, 91, founding partner of Foxhall Internists, which became one of Washington's most prominent medical practices, died Jan. 25 at the Sylvestery assisted living center in McLean. He had dementia.

Dr. MacMurray and another doctor started a private practice in 1950 that became Foxhall Internists. He retired from active practice in 1993. Over the years, he was a clinical professor at the Georgetown University medical school and doctor on call at the private Madeira School near his home in McLean.