Obituaries: Thomas Hagler; F. Roger Headley; Howard W. 'Bill' Kulp; Mary Annette Lindsay; Anne L. Magill; Jean E. Marsh; George F. Murphy Jr.; Ursula Ruth Pariser; John F. Phillips; Bert Remer; Frank H. Shultz

Jean Estell Odell was born and raised in West Pittston, Pa. She spent many years moving frequently with her husband to posts in the United States and abroad. She and her family moved to the Washington area in the mid-1960s and settled in Falls Church.

Mrs. Marsh was a member of Christ Crossman United Methodist Church in Falls Church. She enjoyed traveling and was a member of a Post Cana social group for widows and widowers.

Her husband, David Robert Marsh, died in 1980. A son, David Wayne Marsh, died in 1969.

Survivors include two other sons, William T. Marsh of Springboro, Ohio, and Jeffrey Marsh of Spotsylvania, Va.; a sister; and five grandchildren.

-- Emma Brown

George F. Murphy Jr. USIA Official

George F. Murphy Jr., 85, an atomic energy and arms control official who served as inspector general of the U.S. Information Agency under President George H.W. Bush, died April 13 at a hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He had congestive heart failure.

Mr. Murphy was a CIA case officer before embarking on a long career on Capitol Hill. He spent about 20 years with the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, serving as its executive director from 1975 until it was abolished in 1977.

Subsequently, he directed the Senate's office of classified national security information and was a consultant with the American Nuclear Energy Council, a nuclear power lobbying organization. In 1988, he was named deputy director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and began working at USIA in 1990.

George Francis Murphy Jr. was born in Boston and grew up in nearby Newton Centre. He served in the Army Air Forces in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II and graduated from Harvard University in 1949.

Mr. Murphy's wife of 55 years, Eleanor Enright Murphy, died in 2006, and he moved from Bethesda to Ohio that year.

Survivors include two sons, George Murphy III of Charlottesville and Charles Murphy of Dublin, Ohio; a sister; and five grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Ursula Ruth Pariser Photographer

Ursula Ruth Pariser, 92, a photographer at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, died April 3 of cancer at her home in Chevy Chase.

Miss Pariser worked at the National Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery of Art and Dumbarton Oaks during her 22-year career in Washington. She had previously been head of the photographic department at the Courtauld Institute of Art, part of the University of London, and was a special art adviser to the Queen of England before immigrating to the U.S. in 1965.

She was born in Berlin and graduated from the Reimann Institute of Photography in London, and subsequently taught for 20 years at Courtauld. After immigrating, she settled in the Washington area and began working for the museums. She retired from Dumbarton Oaks in 1987.

Survivors include a brother and a sister.

-- Patricia Sullivan

John F. Phillips Copy Editor

John F. Phillips, 74, a copy editor at The Washington Post from 1976 to 1996 who worked predominately for the newspaper's sports section, died April 4 at his home in Kathleen, Ga. He had colon cancer.

Mr. Phillips was a copy editor at the Washington Star and Washington Daily News and a public relations director at the D.C. Convention and Visitors Bureau before joining The Post.

In retirement, he moved to Georgia from Cabin John. He wrote books on his family genealogy and published monographs on baseball teams and baseball players from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

John Frederick Phillips was a native of Columbus, Ohio, and a 1958 journalism graduate of Ohio State University. He worked at newspapers in the Midwest and California before moving to the Washington area in the early 1960s.

Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Margaret Pool Phillips of Kathleen; two children, John C. Phillips of Perry, Ga., and Courtney Phillips of Santiago, Chile; a sister; and a granddaughter.

-- Adam Bernstein

Bert Remer Defense Engineer

Bert Remer, 85, a retired missile engineer for the Defense Department, died April 4 at a hospice in Boynton Beach, Fla., where he lived. He had diabetes.

Mr. Remer joined the Defense Department as a civilian engineer after serving in the Navy in World War II. He had a lead role in designing the Harpoon missile for the Navy in the 1970s and represented the United States at NATO meetings concerning missiles. He retired in 1987.

Bertram Robert Remer was born in New York and moved to Washington as a boy. He graduated from Roosevelt High School and Duke University. He lived in Silver Spring before moving to Florida about 10 years ago.

In 1949, he married Estelle Belfort. She died in 2005.

Survivors include four children, Mona Epstein of Boynton Beach, Jay Remer of Wheaton, Sherri Curtin of Columbia and Andy Remer of Silver Spring; a brother, Mitchell Remer of Silver Spring; a sister, Esta Leader of Orlando; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Frank H. Shultz Real Estate Developer, Broker

Frank H. Shultz Jr., 87, a Washington area residential real estate broker and developer for more than 40 years, died April 11 at the Memorial Hospital at Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He had liver cancer.

Mr. Shultz was a longtime resident of Chevy Chase before moving to Oxford, Md., in 2000.

He worked for the Bogley real estate firm and Long & Foster until retiring in the early 1990s.

Frank Hood Shultz was born in Washington and grew up in Chevy Chase. He graduated from Augusta Military Academy in Fort Defiance, Va., and the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va.

He joined the Army in 1943 and landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day during the invasion of Normandy. A member of the 1st Infantry Division known as the "Big Red One," he later fought in the Battle of the Bulge and other major battles of the European theater.

As a young man he taught waterskiing in Cypress Gardens, Fla., and on the Chesapeake Bay. He was a member of the Chevy Chase Country Club and the Metropolitan Club in Washington.

His wife of 45 years, Linda Gair Shultz, died in 2000.

Survivors include his son, Frank Shultz III of Oxford.

-- Emma Brown