<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Local Life</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/obituaries/locallife?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><description>Local Life</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Young Anacostia Teacher Built a Family of Admirers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12560-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12560-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "If there was one thing Jen was religious about, it might have been 'Sex and the City,' " said Rigel Oliveri, smiling as she recalled her friend and former college roommate Jennifer Ingrum. "Every Sunday night, we all got together at Jen's apartment, religiously, to watch 'Sex and the City.' She taped every episode."]]></description><author> Joe Holley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plain-Spoken Parish Priest Spread Church's Reach in N.Va.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40640-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40640-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Monsignor Thomas Patrick Scannell was not one to avoid telling his congregants what he believed they needed to know.]]></description><author> Patricia Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marine's Desire to Speak Mandarin Drives a Life Devoted to Language]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22021-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22021-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Although he may not have realized it at the time, John Robert Shaw set the course for his life with a simple act of defiance in 1937 as a young U.S. Marine stationed in the Chinese capital, Peking, now Beijing.]]></description><author> Louie Estrada</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lifelong Resident a Rare Link  To Rural Montgomery County]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3950-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3950-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[To get to the house in Germantown in which R. Cromwell Allnutt grew up, you have to travel on both Dawson Farm Road and Mateny Hill Road. Allnutt  was in the neighborhood so long that he knew both the Dawsons and the Matenys.]]></description><author> Matt Schudel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restoring Statuary Brought  Metallurgist Unalloyed Delight]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50453-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50453-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In more than five decades as a metallurgist and chemical engineer, Joe Mazia took a shine to things that most of us take for granted, some that we see only from a great distance. Things such as the "Freedom" statue atop the U.S. Capitol dome, the majestic equestrian statuary at the Arlington Memorial Bridge and numerous other domes, sculptures and public works of art in this city of grand and glorious monuments.]]></description><author> Joe Holley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Career of Internationalism And a Passion for a Homeland]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10577-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10577-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  When Raj Krishna brought his family to Washington in 1969, people from India were a rare sight. There was just one Indian restaurant and a single Indian-goods store.]]></description><author> Matt Schudel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loudoun Native Was a Constant In the Civic Affairs of His Town]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56712-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56712-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Ask people in Purcellville what they remember about their old friend Spike Fields, and chances are they'll recall how every Thursday morning for a good many years he would haul himself out of bed at 4:30, make his way to Bethany United Methodist Church and by 5 be hard at work in the church kitchen preparing the weekly Rotary Club breakfast.]]></description><author> Joe Holley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman of Many Passions Pursued Them All With Fervor]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20018-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20018-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Patricia Jaffray made up her mind while listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. For all the things she had mastered in life, she had never learned to play a musical instrument. Beethoven persuaded her to take up the cello.]]></description><author> Matt Schudel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling the Best Stories For a Storied D.C. Family]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1716-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1716-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Elsie Alexandra Carol Grosvenor Myers, better known as Carol, was "very, very outgoing," said her youngest son. "Definitely an extrovert," said her only daughter. "My father said she couldn't go to the corner to mail a letter without having an adventure," said her 99-year-old sister.]]></description><author> Patricia Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign Correspondent's Career Spanned the World and War]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47828-2005Jan29.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47828-2005Jan29.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The first American soldiers to fight on the Asian mainland during World War II were a remarkable band of roughnecks known as Merrill's Marauders. The volunteer commando unit, which had more than a few misfits and rogues in its ranks, marched into action in Burma in 1944.]]></description><author> Matt Schudel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts Administrator, Playwright Vantile Whitfield Dies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29685-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29685-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Vantile Whitfield, known as "Motojicho," an influential playwright, director of stage and screen and founding director of the Expansion Arts program at the National Endowment of the Arts, died Jan. 9 at the Washington Home of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 74 and was considered a dean of black theater.]]></description><author> Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hardware Customers Relied  On Worker's Store of Knowledge]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12666-2005Jan15.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12666-2005Jan15.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For the past 24 years, customers at the venerable White's Hardware in Silver Spring knew Jim Thompson would have the answers. Whether it was unclogging a drain, picking the right hammer or making a balky John Deere tractor run, Thompson could be counted on to know how to do the job right.]]></description><author> Matt Schudel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Md. Woman Found Harmony  With Nature]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59833-2005Jan8.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59833-2005Jan8.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There was a time a couple of years ago when Cheryl Jean Miller, despite being sick with cancer, toiled to the top of a mountain in western Mexico. She remained there for three days and three nights, alone, without food or water, the days searing hot, the nights cold.]]></description><author> Joe Holley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotee of All Things Irish Taught Jigs to Thousands]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26129-2004Dec25.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26129-2004Dec25.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Every St. Patrick's Day, he was up early, his tam-o'-shanter propped on his head, his walking stick in hand, ready to take his place in the big parade. He walked the entire route with his wife at his side, tossing candy to the children, smiling every step of the way.]]></description><author> Matt Schudel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Ill or the Indigent,  Physician Was Always on Call]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10947-2004Dec18.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10947-2004Dec18.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Stephen Sheehy died Nov. 24 at 2:55 a.m. from a heart attack. It was the hour he slept lightly, expecting calls from patients, fellow physicians or the police, all needing his advice.]]></description><author> Adam Bernstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radio Hobby, Daring Exploits Kept Lawyer Connected to World]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58288-2004Dec11.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58288-2004Dec11.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when the nation froze in panic, confusion and fear, a small army of volunteers considered it their duty to offer help. One of those people was a 72-year-old radio enthusiast from Hyattsville named Edgar F. Rummel.]]></description><author> Matt Schudel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country Boy Escorted Nation Across a Historic Threshold]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36115-2004Dec4.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36115-2004Dec4.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The main thing that Dave Hall would tell you about himself was that  he was just a country boy. He grew up on a Mitchellville farm and liked to hunt, garden, make clocks out of wood, play bluegrass music and build model airplanes.]]></description><author> Patricia Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annapolis History Professor Took Comfort in Tradition]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A951-2004Nov20.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A951-2004Nov20.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  When friends and former colleagues of Philip Warken gathered at the U.S. Naval Academy's Officers' and Faculty Club on Nov. 3 for his wake, there was one thing on which everybody agreed: Their eccentric old friend, a retired history professor and debate coach at the academy, would not have been caught dead at such an event.]]></description><author> Joe Holley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musician Not Quite a Star,  But Always 'Pure Entertainer']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48465-2004Nov13.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48465-2004Nov13.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ He had thousands of songs in his hands and his heart, and a smile to accompany every one. A pianist and lounge singer who led bands around Washington for the past 40 years, Johnny Bradford could answer any request from his inexhaustible memory bank of music. Yet in all his years onstage, working in the outer rings of show business, he never managed to become a star.]]></description><author> Matt Schudel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[State Department Decorator Was A Model of Taste and Diplomacy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31160-2004Nov6.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31160-2004Nov6.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries/locallife</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:21:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Years before "Trading Spaces" and other home-decorating reality shows began captivating TV audiences, Susan Reed McQueen knew exactly how to handle decorating faux pas.]]></description><author> Joe Holley</author></item></channel></rss>