Obituaries: Preston, Ezell, Bickford, Bateman Connell, Rapp

In the late 1950s, she married Oswald C. Connell, who died in 1978.

She had no immediate survivors.

-- Matt Schudel

Barbara J. Rapp College Cashier

Barbara J. Rapp, 86, a cashier at Montgomery College's Takoma Park campus from 1971 to 1993, died of gastroenteric bleeding April 21 at Glade Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Walkersville, Md.

Mrs. Rapp, a longtime Silver Spring resident, was a member of Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church in Takoma Park. She had most recently resided at an assisted living home in Frederick.

Barbara Jean Fabel was born in Hartford, Conn., and grew up in Montgomery County.

Her hobbies included making pottery and ceramics.

Her husband, Dr. Edwin R. Rapp Sr., a dentist, whom she married in 1946, died in 1984. Their son Edwin R. Rapp Jr. and a grandson died in a car accident in 1998.

Survivors include six children, Sharyn Rapp MacNeil of Orange, Calif., Ronald A. Rapp of Laurel, Donald D. Rapp of Mount Airy, Richard L. Rapp of Marriottsville, Md., J. Bradley Rapp of Salisbury, Md., and the Rev. Dr. John B. Rapp of Hinsdale, Ill., a Seventh-day Adventist preacher; 17 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein