Obituaries: Robin S. Vierbuchen; Alice Tafoya; Patricia Watson; George C. White Jr.; Peter Winter; Raedina D. Winters; Albert Yamada; Janice Bertsch; Maurice Flagg

Robin S. Vierbuchen Volunteer

Robin S. Vierbuchen, 82, a volunteer at Meals on Wheels, the Chevy Chase Women's Republican Club and the Kiwanis Club, died Aug. 16 at Springhouse at Westwood, a nursing home in Bethesda. She had lymphoma.

Robin Love Stickle, a third-generation Washingtonian, was a 1946 graduate of the National Cathedral School. She attended Chevy Chase Junior College and George Washington University.

She attended Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, where her husband was president. She was a longtime Bethesda resident.

Her husband of 49 years, Richard C. Vierbuchen Sr., died in 1999.

Survivors include four children, Richard C. Vierbuchen Jr. of Weybridge, England, Robin Sproul of Bethesda, Thomas Vierbuchen of Charlottesville and L. Catherine Moreland of Middletown, Md.; a twin sister, Ruth Bernard of Mays Chapel, Md; and nine grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Alice Tafoya U-Md. Secretary

Alice Tafoya, 88, who retired in 1978 from the University of Maryland's admissions office, died Aug. 9 at Bowie Assisted Living. She had Alzheimer's disease.

Mrs. Tafoya did secretarial and administrative work in the admissions office, which she joined in 1968 after raising her children. From 1942 to 1950, she was a secretary at the Pentagon.

Alice Mae Zeni was born in Hibbing, Minn., and received a secretarial degree from Hibbing Community College in 1942.

She volunteered with the parent-teacher associations at her children's schools and with local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts troops.