washingtonpost.com - ObituariesWashington D.C., Maryland and Virginia obituaries, appreciations and death notices.Obituaries- June 26, 2008 Constance Elizabeth Cronin Brant, 89, a retired Kensington schoolteacher, died of pneumonia June 21 at her home in Chevy Chase.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/320303680/AR20... Irving 'Irv' Kator, 88; Lawyer Represented Federal Workers- June 26, 2008 Irving Kator, 88, a Washington lawyer who specialized in employment law involving federal employees, died June 3 of a heart attack in Paris on his way to Berlin. The Bethesda resident collapsed in an airport and died shortly afterward at Jean Verdier Hospital.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/320303678/AR20... Leonid Hurwicz; Won Nobel in Economics- June 26, 2008 Leonid Hurwicz, 90, who shared the Nobel Prize in economics last year for developing a theory that helps explain how buyers and sellers can maximize their gains and found real-world applications at Google and the Federal Reserve, died June 24 at a hospital in Minneapolis. He had been on kidney...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/320303677/AR20... Robert Rice; Interim Chief Sought Change in Culture of D.C. Schools- June 26, 2008 Robert C. Rice, 69, an interim superintendent of D.C. public schools, past superintendent of Anne Arundel County schools and an executive in the Maryland State Department of Education, died June 21 of complications of lung transplant surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center's intensive...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/320173148/AR20... Obituaries- June 26, 2008 Xavier W. "Bill" Eilers, 92, a retired Foreign Service officer, died of pneumonia June 19 at Holy Cross Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Burtonsville.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/320303681/AR20... Obituaries- June 25, 2008 Solaman G. Lippman, 96, a labor lawyer and longtime general counsel of the old Retail Clerks International Union who also worked in private practice for about 30 years, died June 19 at Roland Park Place, an assisted living facility in Baltimore. He had diabetes.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/319447042/AR20... Allan Goldberg, 40; Athlete Twice Survived Cancer- June 25, 2008 Allan Goldberg, 40, a triathlete and two-time cancer survivor who was executive director of a nonprofit organization that introduced young cancer survivors to outdoor adventure sports, died of cancer June 22 at his parents' home in Rockville.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/319455388/AR20... Stuart S. Smith; Journalist, Justice Department Officer- June 25, 2008 Stuart S. Smith, 78, a former journalist who became a Justice Department public information officer and a union chapter president, died June 18 at Suburban Hospital. He had multiple myeloma.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/319455389/AR20... Elizabeth Brown; New Orleans Muralist- June 25, 2008 Elizabeth Chase Whitmire Brown, 84, an artist whose murals of Louisiana swamp scenes adorn numerous public and private spaces in Washington and New Orleans, died of colon cancer June 9 at Arleigh Burke Pavilion in McLean.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/319455387/AR20... Obituaries- June 25, 2008 Geoffrey B. Templeton, 68, an Army major and decorated veteran of the Vietnam War who became a quality-control official at NASA, died of an embolism June 8 at his home in Emmett, Idaho.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/319455390/AR20... |