washingtonpost.com - ObituariesWashington D.C., Maryland and Virginia obituaries, appreciations and death notices.Clay S. Felker, 82; Influential Editor of New York Magazine- July 2, 2008 Clay S. Felker, the pioneering editor who founded New York magazine and helped launch the new journalism of the 1960s, with its novelistic techniques and strong point of view, died July 1 at his Manhattan home at 82. He had battled throat cancer in recent years.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/324216088/AR20... Robert Seamans Jr., 89; Scientist Led Push for Manned Space Flights- July 1, 2008 Robert C. Seamans Jr., 89, a leading U.S. scientist-administrator during the space race of the 1960s and secretary of the Air Force during the Vietnam War, died June 28 at his home in Beverly Farms, Mass., after a heart attack.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/323809664/AR20... Shirley O. Brown, 89; Educator and Union Leader- July 1, 2008 Shirley O'Donnell Brown, 89, an administrator at several District high schools who later was president of the union representing school officials, died June 7 at Washington Hospital Center of injuries suffered that day in an automobile accident. He lived in Hyattsville.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/323688354/AR20... Obituaries- July 1, 2008 Garven F. Hudgins, 84, a former Associated Press journalist who later became an executive for an education association, died June 23 at Manor Care nursing home in Potomac. He had dementia.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~3/323794526/AR20... |