washingtonpost.com - ObituariesWashington D.C., Maryland and Virginia obituaries, appreciations and death notices.Emilio Weiss, 89; Navy Microbiologist- June 21, 2008 Emilio Weiss, 89, a Navy microbiologist for more than 30 years who specialized in the physiology and genetics of rickettsiales, intracellular bacteria that cause diseases including typhus, died May 30 at the Bermuda Village retirement community in Advance, N.C. He had dementia.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/316708228/AR20... Ward Boston; Investigated Attack on USS Liberty- June 20, 2008 SAN DIEGO -- Ward Boston, 84, a former Navy attorney who helped investigate the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 crew members and said years later that President Lyndon B. Johnson had ordered that the assault be ruled an accident, has died.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/315986390/AR20... Obituaries- June 20, 2008 Dervey A. Lomax, 84, a Navy Department electronic technician and longtime College Park politician who became the city's first black mayor, died June 8 at the St. Thomas More nursing home in Hyattsville. He had lung cancer.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/315986392/AR20... Obituaries- June 20, 2008 Mary Gabriel Harpring Carmack, 44, who worked on Capitol Hill and in the White House, died of cancer June 1 at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital in Alexandria.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/315986391/AR20... Virginia Kirks; Leader of D.C. Salvation Army Women's Unit- June 20, 2008 Virginia Louise Potter Kirks, 94, a founding member of the Salvation Army Women's Auxiliary of Washington, died June 5 at her home in the District. The cause of death was senescence, according to her death certificate, a term that refers to a host of ailments associated with aging.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/316001339/AR20... Obituaries- June 20, 2008 Patricia Kallis Diamondidis, 70, the founder and owner of Highway and Safety Services Inc., a road construction company in Gaithersburg, died June 11 of ovarian cancer at the Casey House hospice in Rockville. She was a Gaithersburg resident.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/315980077/AR20... Clyde Wilson Pace, 90; FAA Official Was in Charge of Dulles, National- June 19, 2008 Clyde Wilson Pace, 90, a retired director of airport services and former chief in charge of Dulles International and Reagan National airports, died June 3 of a stroke at his home in St. Michaels, Md. Mr. Pace also was an Arlington County resident.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/315176881/AR20... Obituaries- June 19, 2008 Michele Burtoff-Civan, 59, a linguist who had taught English as a second language in Montgomery County public schools for the past five years, died June 16 at her home in Bethesda. She had small-cell lung cancer.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/315194300/AR20... Visual Effects Master Stan Winston, 62- June 18, 2008 Stan Winston, 62, an Arlington County native and visual effects master who won four Academy Awards for breathing life into some of the most fearsome and fantastic creatures ever seen in films, died June 15 at his home in Malibu, Calif. He had multiple myeloma.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/314147350/AR20... Thomas P. Powers, 74; Specialized in Labor Law- June 18, 2008 Thomas P. Powers, 74, a Washington labor lawyer who represented broadcasters, bricklayers, steelworkers and school administrators for more than 35 years, died of cancer June 10 at his home in Rockville.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/314379843/AR20... |