washingtonpost.com - ObituariesWashington D.C., Maryland and Virginia obituaries, appreciations and death notices.CORRECTION- June 18, 2008 The June 12 obituary for Herbert L. Cooper should have noted that the cause of death had not been officially determined. It also gave the wrong name for his former wife. She is Dr. Karen Cooper.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/314363824/AR20... Cyd Charisse, 86; Actress Danced Across Silver Screen- June 18, 2008 Cyd Charisse, 86, an actress and dancer whose mile-long legs made her a memorable partner with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire in several top musicals of the 1950s, died June 17 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after an apparent heart attack.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/314147351/AR20... Trevor DaCosta; Economist- June 17, 2008 Trevor DaCosta, 78, an economist and diplomat who retired from the World Bank in 1997, died June 2 of complications after a stroke at Washington Hospital Center. He had been a resident of Washington for 46 years.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/313561398/AR20... Obituaries- June 17, 2008 Charles Chapman Binford, a pathologist whose early career was spent in Washington area medical facilities, died May 22 of complications of leukemia at Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma, La. He was 78.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/313583436/AR20... Jerome H. King Jr., 88; Commander In Vietnam- June 17, 2008 Retired Vice Adm. Jerome H. King Jr., 88, the commander of U.S. naval forces in Vietnam who helped wind down the military branch's involvement in the Vietnam War, died June 13 at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. He had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/313561399/AR20... June A. Bradlaw; FDA Research Biologist- June 17, 2008 June A. Bradlaw, 71, a research biologist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition whose work led to test-tube alternatives to using animals in laboratory testing, died of a stroke May 30 at William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn. She had homes...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/313569282/AR20... Obituaries- June 17, 2008 Ray Wiley Nightingale, 72, an agricultural economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, died May 31 of metastatic melanoma at his home in Bethesda.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/313561400/AR20... CORRECTION- June 17, 2008 The June 14 obituary of Mary Rose Murphy gave an incorrect year for the death of her husband, retired Navy Cmdr. James P. Murphy Sr. He died in 1998.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/313569283/AR20... Robert T. 'Bob' Griffin, 90; Ex-GSA Administrator- June 17, 2008 Robert T. "Bob" Griffin, 90, a former deputy administrator at the General Services Administration who got caught in the grinding gears of a political patronage spat in the late 1970s, died June 15 of cancer at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He was a Chevy Chase resident.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/313561397/AR20... Tony Schwartz; His Ads Targeted Viewer Emotions- June 17, 2008 Tony Schwartz, 84, whose genius in audio recording resulted in the most famous political advertisement ever run and in a huge archive of New York sounds, instantly recognizable commercials and anti-smoking public service announcements, died June 15 of heart valve stenosis at his New York City home.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/313476429/AR20... |