Linda Fitch, Ilona Gants, Margaret Grant, Harold November, Lloyd Plaine, Daniel Rudolph, Jacob Serling, Delma Sullivan, John van Santen, Jerry Baugh Jr., Lucille Easson, Grace Grove, Adele Harvey, Brian Hill, Robert Keith die

Daniel J. Rudolph was born in Sheridan, Wyo., and grew up in Fort Collins. He was a 1972 graduate of the California Institute of Technology and received a doctorate in mathematics from Stanford University in 1975. He had postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at Stanford before coming to Maryland.

Dr. Rudolph was also an accomplished dancer and performed with several modern dance companies in the Washington area.

Survivors include his wife of 18 years, Michelle Hyde Rudolph, and three children, Beatrice Rudolph, Jonah Rudolph and Layton Rudolph, all of Fort Collins; and a brother.

-- Matt Schudel

Jacob Serling USAID Official

Jacob Serling, 98, a retired official with the U.S. Agency for International Development, died Feb. 8 of pneumonia at a hospital in Tualatin, Ore. He moved from Bethesda to Lake Oswego, Ore., in 1986.

Mr. Serling joined the State Department in 1949 and retired in 1977 as deputy director of inspections. He had overseas postings in Ankara, Turkey, and Seoul and traveled throughout the world.

He was born in Syracuse, N.Y., and was a 1936 graduate of Syracuse University. He served in an intelligence unit of the Army Air Forces during World War II and was a 1949 law school graduate of Georgetown University.

He was a member of Kesher Israel synagogue in Washington and Congregation Beth El in Bethesda.

Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Helen Scheffman Serling of Lake Oswego; three daughters, Margery S. Cohn of Yokneam, Israel, and Marsha S. Goldberg and Sandi S. Zimmerman, both of Lake Oswego; 11 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Delma M. Sullivan Church Member

Delma Sullivan, 91, a longtime resident of Alexandria and member of the Arlington Seventh-day Adventist Church, died Feb. 19 at her son's home in Kansas, Ala. She had cancer.

Delma Madolyn Slagle was born in Cheat Neck, W.Va., and moved to the Washington area as a teenager. She was a 1936 graduate and salutatorian of George Mason High School in Alexandria.

Mrs. Sullivan enjoyed gardening, sewing and crossword puzzles. She celebrated her 91st birthday at San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge after a cross-country road trip with her son Patrick, her first journey west of the Mississippi River.

Her husband of 58 years, John Melvin Sullivan, died in 1994. Her son, Michael Sullivan, died in 2008.

Survivors include four children, Patrick Sullivan of Kansas, Timothy Sullivan of Colorado Springs, Caren Russell of Leeds, Ala., and Philip Sullivan of Richmond; 13 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.

-- Emma Brown

John van Santen Army officer, federal official

John van Santen, 83, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who later became an official with the Energy and Defense departments, died Feb. 1 of pneumonia at his daughter's home in Crofton. He lived in North Bethesda.

Col. van Santen joined the Army in 1944 and served in Germany during and after World War II. He held positions in military intelligence, nuclear energy and missile defense systems, and he managed a U.S. military resort in Germany in the 1960s.

After retiring from the Army in 1966, Col. van Santen joined the old Atomic Energy Commission in California and transferred to Washington in 1969. He remained with the agency as it became the Department of Energy in 1977 and was a charter member of the U.S. Senior Executive Service. From 1982 until his retirement in 1995, he was assistant director of resources for the Defense Contract Audit Agency.

John Henry van Santen Jr. was born in Akron, Ohio. He graduated from George Washington University in 1960 and received a master's degree in management from Central Michigan University in 1985.

He was a member of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association and was a volunteer poll watcher and census worker.

His wife of 55 years, the former Lillian Whittenburg, died in 2008.

Survivors include two children, John H. van Santen III of Potomac and Elizabeth Schrader of Crofton; a brother; seven grandchildren; and a great-grandson.

-- Matt Schudel

Jerry Baugh Jr. Banking Official

Jerry Baugh Jr., 60, a former bank executive who later became executive vice president of the Consumer Bankers Association, died Feb. 21 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He had sleep apnea.

Mr. Baugh came to the Washington area in 1970, began his career at Arlington Trust Co. and later held executive positions with Arlington-Fairfax Savings and Loan and First American Bank. In 1982, he joined Continental Federal Savings and Loan in Fairfax County, where he became chief operating officer.

Since 1992, he had been executive vice president and director of membership for the Consumer Bankers Association.

Jerry Robert Baugh Jr. was born in Corpus Christi, Tex., and was a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He received a master's degree in finance from the University of Virginia in 1978.

He was a longtime Vienna resident and a past president of the Edgelea Homeowners Association. He was a Boy Scout scoutmaster and a member of Oakton United Methodist Church and the Rotary Club. He also taught courses for the American Bankers Association.

Survivors include his wife of 39 years, Donna Scarborough Baugh of Vienna; three children, Christopher Baugh of Philadelphia, Jennifer Baugh of Austin and Navy Lt. Jonathan Baugh of Colorado Springs; his mother, Gertrude Baugh of Corpus Christi; two half-brothers, Robert Tubbs of Corpus Christi and Michael Tubbs of Washington; and three granddaughters.

-- Matt Schudel

Lucille P. Easson Administrative Director

Lucille P. Easson, 83, who held administrative positions with trade associations, died Feb. 21 at her home in the District. She had Parkinson's disease.

Mrs. Easson came to the District in 1980 and worked for a graphics firm before joining the old Council on Economic Regulation in 1984. In 1991, she joined the American Youth Policy Forum, where she was an administrative director and financial officer until her retirement in 2003.

Lucille Pauline Stipurko was born in Boston and attended Tufts University in Medford, Mass. She lived in Glens Falls, N.Y., before moving to the District.

Her marriage to Graham R. Easson ended in divorce.

Survivors include two daughters, Robin Easson of the District and Elizabeth Easson of Syracuse, N.Y.; and a sister.

-- Matt Schudel

Grace Grove Bookkeeper, Dispatcher

Grace Grove, 86, a bookkeeper and dispatcher for 28 years at A.H. Smith Sand and Gravel and A.H. Smith Asphalt in Prince George's County, died Feb. 21 at Hillhaven nursing home in Adelphi. She had congestive heart failure.

Mrs. Grove retired in 1998. She had previously worked as a secretary at Frank Ewing Lumber and K-Lath, both in Beltsville.

She was born Grace Wiser in Berwyn Heights and graduated in 1940 from Greenbelt High School.

She was a lifelong member of Berwyn Baptist Church, where she served as a Sunday school teacher and a trustee.

Survivors include her husband of 69 years, Harry R. Grove of Beltsville; three children, J. Dennis Grove of Elkridge, Michael Grove of Los Banos, Calif., and Patricia Pikulski of Burtonsville; two brothers, Ralph L. Wiser of Gaithersburg and C. Lawrence Wiser of Kensington; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

-- Emma Brown

Adele Harvey Junior League Member

Adele Harvey, 86, a longtime member of the Junior League of Washington, died of congestive heart failure Feb. 23 at Fox Hill, a senior assisted-living facility in Bethesda. She had been a Potomac resident for more than 40 years before moving to Fox Hill in 2008.

Besides her work with the Junior League for nearly 60 years, Mrs. Harvey was also a board member of Washington's old Hospital for Sick Children.

Adele Dillon, a native of Youngstown, Ohio, was a 1945 Spanish graduate of what is now Trinity Washington University in the District.

She received a master's degree in liberal arts from Johns Hopkins University in 1968.

Survivors include her husband of 60 years, Dr. John Collins Harvey of Fox Hill; five children, Elizabeth Yon of Sherborn, Mass., Margaret Granitto of Bethesda, Amy Reese of Potomac, William Charles Harvey II of Great Falls, and Navy Adm. John C. Harvey Jr. of Norfolk; and 12 grandchildren.

-- T. Rees Shapiro

Brian E. Hill FDA Employee

Brian E. Hill, 73, who worked for the Food and Drug Administration for more than 30 years, died Feb. 4 of lung cancer at his home in Millville, N.J.

Mr. Hill worked as the branch chief of general services in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition before retiring in 1992.

Brian Eugene Hill was born in Kenosha, Wis. He enlisted in the Army after high school and served two years before entering the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

In 1959, he graduated with a political science degree and moved to the District.

Mr. Hill learned that he had multiple sclerosis in the 1970s. He moved to New Jersey in 2006, when it became too difficult to negotiate the stairs at his townhouse in Northwest Washington.

He was a lifelong fan of the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Cubs and an appreciator of the arts who held season tickets to the Kennedy Center. He had a waterfront condominium in Ocean City.

His first marriage, to Janet Hill, ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 25 years, Dorothy Lynne Edwards; two children from his first marriage, Laura Burtner of Bethlehem, Pa., and Eric Hill of Bowie; a sister; and seven grandchildren.

-- Emma Brown

Robert C. Keith News Service Editor

Robert C. Keith, 78, a former editor at the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, died Feb. 23 of emphysema at his home in Baltimore.

Mr. Keith joined The Washington Post as an editor at its news service in 1963. He became director of the news service in 1975 and retired in 1977, after a heart attack.

Robert Charles Keith was born in Detroit and learned to sail on the Great Lakes. He served in the Navy during the Korean War and was a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Before joining The Post, he was the founding editor of Africa Report and Ocean World magazines and news editor of Congressional Quarterly.

In the late 1970s, he lived on a skipjack while writing "Baltimore Harbor, a Picture History." He also edited "The Jim Richardson Boat Book," a collection of interviews with a Chesapeake boat builder.

Mr. Keith owned and captained a historic oyster boat, which he donated to the Living Classrooms Foundation for use by students in Anacostia. He was a member of a Baltimore advisory council on light-rail transit.

An early marriage ended in divorce. He had no immediate survivors.

-- Matt Schudel