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A Small-Town Attitude Toward Life's Big-Picture Questions

Joe Holley — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

"Think globally. Act locally." Okay, so it's a mere bumper-sticker cliche for many people, but not for Dean R. Hoge, a renowned sociologist of religion and retired Catholic University professor who died of cancer Sept. 13 at age 71. Dr. Hoge -- the name rhymes with stogie -- personified the...

Jörg Haider; Politician Made Far-Right Party A Force in Austria

Matt Schudel — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Jörg Haider, a divisive Austrian political figure who rose to prominence as the leader of a far-right movement that was often seen as sympathetic to the country's shadowy Nazi past, died Oct. 11 in a car accident near the southern Austrian city of Klagenfurt. He was 58.

James Barrett; Insurance Co. Executive Was Active in USO

Post — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

James E. Barrett, 85, a retired insurance company executive who held national leadership positions with the USO and other charitable organizations, died Oct. 5 of congestive heart failure at his home in Reston.

Orrin Rankin Magill Jr., 87; Led CIA's East Asia Pacific Area

Post — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Orrin Rankin Magill Jr., 87, the former director of the CIA's East Asia Pacific region who later married hundreds of Fairfax County couples as a court-appointed civil celebrant, died of prostate cancer Sept. 23 at his home in McLean.

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Post — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Charles Thomas Fahy, 78, a Benedictine monk who spent most of his career teaching at St. Anselm's Abbey School in Washington, died Oct. 6 in a traffic accident in East Earl Township, Pa. He lived in Philadelphia.

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Post — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Elaine M. Daniels, 69, director of the Montgomery County Public Schools refugee training program in the 1980s and early 1990s, died of a pulmonary embolism Oct. 10 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Medford, Mass.

Marc Cathey; Champion of Horticulture

Adrian Higgins — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H. Marc Cathey, 79, former director of the U.S. National Arboretum and a flamboyant promoter of gardening everywhere, died Oct. 8 at a nursing home in his home town of Davidson, N.C. He had Parkinson's disease.

Jewelry Family Scion Charles Schwartz, 85

Post — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Charles Schwartz, 85, a namesake and former owner of one of the oldest jewelry stores in Washington who held leadership roles in community and professional organizations, was fatally struck by a car Oct. 1 as he crossed the 5000 block of Connecticut Avenue in Northwest Washington.

'All My Children' Actress Eileen Herlie, 90

Post — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Eileen Herlie, 90, a distinguished Scottish-born stage actress most remembered for a role she played for more than 30 years, the motherly Myrtle Fargate on the ABC soap opera "All My Children," died Oct. 8, it was reported from New York. She had pneumonia.

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Post — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Virginia Stokes Jones, 99, who led religious education classes at several local Presbyterian churches, died Sept. 23 of congestive heart failure at Ingleside at Rock Creek retirement home in Washington.

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Post — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Isabel Field, 82, an artist long affiliated with Printmakers Inc., in the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, died Oct. 6 at her home in Alexandria. She had breast cancer.

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Post — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Boutsaba Bourommavong, 64, who taught the language of her native Laos to the State Department, the Army and intelligence agencies, died Oct. 3 at her home in Springfield. She had lung cancer.

Renowned Flamenco Dancer Mario Maya

Terence McArdle — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Mario Maya, a Spanish-born Gypsy who created memorable works of flamenco dance and as a choreographer broadened the scope of the traditional form by adding elements from modern dance, died Sept. 27 of cancer at his home in Seville, Spain. He was 71.

David W. Bostrom; D.C. Police Official Tackled Child Abuse

Matt Schudel — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

David W. Bostrom, 59, a former high-ranking D.C. police official who took an early lead in attacking child abuse in the District and later headed public safety departments in Delaware and Oklahoma, died Sept. 12 of prostate cancer at Christiana Hospital in Wilmington, Del.

Ernest W. Jennes, 90; Communications Lawyer

Joe Holley — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Ernest W. Jennes, 90, a communications lawyer who played a major role in the evolution of his field and whose clients included The Washington Post Co., died Oct. 4 of respiratory failure at the Dove House hospice in Westminster, Md. He lived in Sykesville, Md.

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Post — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Dorothy Brewster Jackson, 95, a former librarian who volunteered with cultural and political groups, died Sept. 10 at the Washington Home hospice of kidney failure. She had lived in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Northwest Washington for 61 years.

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Post — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Marvin B. Fast, 87, who headed the Environmental Protection Agency's intergovernmental relations section from 1970 to 1982, died Oct. 3 at the nursing center of the Greenspring Village retirement community in Springfield. He had leukemia.

'Bravura' Classical Ballerina Nadia Nerina

Adam Bernstein — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Nadia Nerina, 80, an enchanting and virtuosic ballet dancer who inspired choreographer Frederick Ashton's enduring comedy "La Fille Mal Gardée" and outperformed Rudolf Nureyev, died Oct. 6 at her home in Beaulieu-sur-Mer on the French Riviera.

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Post — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Anthony J. Sciacca, 87, a retired Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. repairman and installer, died Sept. 18 at his home in Bowie from coronary heart disease.

Ruedi Rymann; Yodeler Had Gold Record Hit

Joe Holley — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Ruedi Rymann, 75, a Swiss farmer, cheesemaker, forester and game warden who distinguished himself as one of the world's best-known yodelers, died Sept. 10 of liver cancer at his home in Giswil, south of Zurich.

Margaret M. Reuss; Political Activist, Professor

Patricia Sullivan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Margaret M. Reuss, 88, a political, social and environmental activist who was also chair of the economics department at the University of the District of Columbia, died Sept. 30 at her home in Chicago. She had Alzheimer's disease.

Publishing Executive Todd Kiplinger, 62

Post — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Todd L. Kiplinger, 62, an executive in his family's financial publishing company, died of metastatic melanoma Oct. 4 at his home in Bethesda.

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Post — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Curtis Allen Fitzgerald, 65, a retired assistant chief in the FBI's criminal investigations division, died of cancer Sept. 23 at his home in Alexandria.

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Post — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Margaret Cornelia Hightower, 83, a former manager with Fruit Growers Express, a company that leased refrigerated railroad cars and was later purchased by CSX Corp., died Sept. 24 of diabetes at Morningside Assisted Living in Waldorf. She was a Suitland resident.

Edward McCabe, 91; Headed Sallie Mae

Post — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Edward Aenas McCabe, 91, the founding chairman of Sallie Mae, the Student Loan Marketing Association, died Oct. 4 at his home in Bethesda. He had dementia.

Elizabeth W. Stone; Howard Law School Official

Post — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Elizabeth W. Stone, 90, a retired Howard University law school official and founding president of the advocacy organization Black Women's Agenda, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 7 at the Boca Raton Community Hospital in Florida. She moved to Delray Beach from Arlington County in the...

Outspoken Dean of National Cathedral

Adam Bernstein — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Francis B. Sayre Jr., who as dean of Washington National Cathedral for 27 years oversaw much of its completion and used his pulpit to confront McCarthyism, racial tensions and the Vietnam War, died Oct. 3 at his home on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He was 93 and had diabetes.

CORRECTION

Post — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

The Oct. 5 obituary for Col. Edward R. Carwise incorrectly reported the military branch in which he spent his career. He served in the Air Force.

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Post — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Elizabeth A. Bridgham, 87, a retired administrator for the Montgomery County Board of Education, died Sept. 7 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville of cardiac arrhythmia. She was a Rockville resident.

Ex-CIA Agent Ken Moskow; Died Atop Mount Kilimanjaro

Joe Holley — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Ken Moskow, a 48-year-old former CIA agent who worked in counterterrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, died of the effects of altitude sickness Sept. 19 while climbing 19,000-foot Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, with a group of agency friends. He was within 20 yards of the summit when...

Kenneth M. Hoffman, 77; Math Professor, Author

Post — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Dr. Kenneth M. Hoffman, 77, a retired mathematics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a senior consultant with the National Science Foundation, died Sept. 29 of a pulmonary embolism at Dorchester General Hospital in Cambridge, Md. He was a resident of Madison, Md.

Archivist Loved Questions, Reveled in Answering Them

Joe Holley — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

On the occasion of John E. Taylor's 50th-anniversary celebration at the National Archives, with dozens of friends, colleagues and researchers in attendance, the small, stooped, white-haired guest of honor shuffled to the podium and reached into his rumpled tweed jacket.

Virginia Quarterly Review Editor Charlotte Kohler, 99

Matt Schudel — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Charlotte Kohler, who helped shape the path of literature as the longtime editor of the small but influential Virginia Quarterly Review, died Sept. 15 of congestive heart failure at her home in Charlottesville. She died one day before her 100th birthday.

Francis Dennis; Academic, Former Liberian Ambassador

Post — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Francis A. Dennis Sr., 82, a former Liberian ambassador to the United States and other countries who later held an academic post at Howard University, died Sept. 20 of cancer at his home in Falls Church.

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Post — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

TV Reporter Bob Strickland; Covered Barry Arrest, Riots

Patricia Sullivan — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Bob Strickland, 72, a reporter at WUSA (Channel 9) television for almost three decades who won three local Emmys, died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease Sept. 26 at his home in Washington.

Ear, Nose, Throat Doctor Clarence David Hinton, 91

Post — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Clarence David Hinton, 91, a prominent ear, nose and throat doctor in Washington since the late 1940s who had served as otolaryngology department chairman of several hospitals, died Sept. 23 at Holy Cross Hospital. He had a urinary tract infection.

Writer Oliver Crawford, 91; Was Blacklisted in Red Scare

Post — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Oliver Crawford, 91, an author who overcame the Red Scare blacklist of the 1950s to become a prolific contributor to television shows, including "Star Trek," "Bonanza" and "Perry Mason," died Sept. 24 at a hospital in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia.

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Post — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Stephen H. Bunker, 59, a retired Maryland state trooper who later was a civilian helicopter pilot for the Maryland State Police, died Sept. 28 when the medical rescue helicopter he was piloting crashed in a wooded part of Walker Mill Regional Park in Prince George's County.

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Post — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Cheryl T. Tucker, 53, a licensed practical nurse, died Sept. 19 at Montgomery General Hospital in Olney after a stroke. She was a resident of Wiscasset, Maine.

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Post — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Martin Leonard "Bud" Schulman, 88, who expanded his family's photofinishing business nationwide and later became a management consultant to orthodontists, died of cancer Sept. 27 at his home in Chevy Chase.

Nick Reynolds; Kingston Trio Lead Singer

Adam Bernstein — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Nick Reynolds, 75, a founding member and lead singer of the Kingston Trio, one of the most popular of the American folk revival groups in the 1950s and 1960s, died Oct. 1 at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego. He had acute respiratory disease.

Eddie Brinkman, 66; Senators Shortstop

Joe Holley — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Eddie Brinkman, 66, the quintessential "good field, no hit" shortstop who spent 10 seasons with the Washington Senators before being swapped to the Detroit Tigers in the infamous Denny McLain trade in 1971, died Sept. 30 in his home town of Cincinnati, according to an announcement from the Chicago...

House Peters Jr., 92; TV's Original Mr. Clean