washingtonpost.com - ObituariesWashington D.C., Maryland and Virginia obituaries, appreciations and death notices.CORRECTIONS- June 13, 2008 The June 11 obituary of Elly M. Peterson incorrectly said that in 1964 she became the first woman to address the Republican National Convention. That honor goes to J. Ellen Foster, who spoke to the group in 1892, according to the Web site of the National Federation of Republican Women.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/310946386/AR20... Obituaries- June 13, 2008 Kathleen Margaret Berning, 87, a teacher and church lay leader, died May 13 at her residence at the Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg. She had dementia.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/310961114/AR20... Lois Roisman; Philanthropist Had Success as a Playwright- June 13, 2008 Lois Roisman, 70, a founding leader of two philanthropic organizations in the District, died June 2 at her home in Lyme, N.H. She had congestive heart failure.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/310940141/AR20... Dorothy King, 99; Proud Passenger of Public Transportation- June 12, 2008 The recent rise in gasoline prices would not have bothered Dorothy King, 99, who died May 29 of arteriosclerosis cardiovascular disease at De's Ideal Assisted Living in Largo.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/310181699/AR20... Obituaries- June 12, 2008 Amy Warder, 47, a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria, where her husband is rector, died June 9 at a friend's home on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. She had melanoma.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/310181700/AR20... Obituaries- June 12, 2008 Herbert L. Cooper, 54, founder of an organization that encouraged the American private sector to support international arts and cultural programs, International Business Through Arts & Culture, died June 2 at his hotel in Seoul after a heart attack. Mr. Cooper, a 2004 heart transplant recipient, was...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/310188712/AR20... Eliot Asinof; Author of 'Eight Men Out,' About Chicago Black Sox- June 12, 2008 Eliot Asinof, 88, a one-time minor league baseball player who traded a first baseman's mitt and spikes for a pad and pen and who wrote the definitive book on the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal, died June 10 at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson, N.Y., of complications of pneumonia. He had been a...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/310201411/AR20... Vo Van Kiet; Vietnamese Premier and Reformer- June 12, 2008 Vo Van Kiet, 85, a top Vietnamese politician and an economic reformer who led the communist nation away from poverty and isolation and backed the normalization of ties with the United States, died June 11 at a hospital in Singapore after a stroke.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/310201412/AR20... Dolores Neuman, 66; Photographer, Advocate- June 11, 2008 Dolores Neuman, 66, a freelance still photographer and independent-film promoter who worked extensively for public interest and advocacy groups, died June 5 at the Washington Home hospice. She had kidney cancer.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/309402927/AR20... Elly M. Peterson, 94; Republican Urged Moderate Direction for Party- June 11, 2008 Elly M. Peterson, 94, who as the Republican National Committee co-chairman during the 1960s and 1970s was one of the highest-ranking women in her party, died of complications from an infection June 9 at La Villa Grande Care Center in Grand Junction, Colo.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/309388211/AR20... |