washingtonpost.com - ObituariesWashington D.C., Maryland and Virginia obituaries, appreciations and death notices.Kenneth H. Wood; Adventist Editor- June 25, 2008 Kenneth H. Wood, 90, an influential former editor of Adventist Review, a national publication of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and a longtime elder of the church, died May 25 of congestive heart failure at a ManorCare nursing facility in Potomac. He lived in Silver Spring.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/319412987/AR20... Virginia B. Hagen- June 24, 2008 Virginia B. Hagen, 88, a Government Printing Office occupational health nurse from 1972 to 1990, died June 20 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville. She had pneumonia.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/318966280/AR20... William 'Bill' E. Davis- June 24, 2008 William "Bill" E. Davis, 84, a former special agent in the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, died of cancer June 20 at home in Washington.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/318966279/AR20... Freda C. Clark- June 24, 2008 Freda C. Clark, 92, a Defense Department equal opportunity official who won a discrimination lawsuit against the federal government, died June 3 at her daughter-in-law's home in Santa Cruz, Calif. She had respiratory arrest.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/318966278/AR20... Dody Goodman; Quirky, Versatile Comic Actress- June 24, 2008 Dody Goodman, 93, the delightfully daffy comedian known for her television appearances on Jack Paar's late-night talk show and as the mother on the soap-opera parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," died June 22 at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey. No cause of death was reported.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/318664698/AR20... George Carlin, 71; Prolific Comedian- June 24, 2008 George Carlin, the iconoclastic and inventive comedian who died June 22 in Santa Monica, Calif., experienced several incarnations in a career spanning half a century. He was the rapid-fire radio DJ and clean-cut stand-up comic in the Ed Sullivan era who morphed into the whacked-out hippie dude of...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/318119357/AR20... Veteran Journalist Peter Mackler, 58- June 23, 2008 Peter Mackler, 58, a veteran journalist with Agence France-Presse, died June 20 at George Washington University Hospital after having an apparent heart attack at work in his Washington office. He had been AFP's chief editor for North America since 2006.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/317896645/AR20... Allen Gagnon; Chatty Owner of Lobster Roll Shack- June 23, 2008 Allen "Red" Gagnon, 71, whose informal coastal eatery Red's Eats in Wiscasset, Maine, was known far and wide, died of respiratory failure June 13 at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/317856755/AR20... Tasha Tudor, 92; Vermont Artist Instilled Whimsy in Kids' Books- June 23, 2008 Children's book illustrator Tasha Tudor, 92, whose whimsical drawings of country outings, gardens and family life in rural New England echoed her own picturesque lifestyle, died June 18 at her home in Marlboro, Vt.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/317896646/AR20... Jerusalem Hotelier Valentine Vester, 96- June 23, 2008 Valentine Vester, 96, who witnessed history as the proprietor of the storied American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, died June 15. She spent the last years of her life in an apartment on the manicured grounds of the hotel, which sits on the line between the city's Arab and Jewish sections.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/317856754/AR20... |