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| Wash Post Obituaries
Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia obituaries, appreciations and death notices.
Frank Neuhauser was a patent lawyer who made news headlines more than 85 years ago when he won the first-ever national spelling bee in 1925.
Warren M. Christopher led the State Department during President Bill Clinton's first term.
Cleo Johnson started the country's first black-owned modeling school in the 1950s.
John Hoke invented an air-conditioned pith helmet powered by solar energy.
Carol Anne Patt, 50, a cataloguer with the Library of Congress and Drug Enforcement Administration, died Feb. 17 at her home in Silver Spring. She had a heart attack.
Nancy B. Landon, 74, who was the children's book buyer for two stores in suburban Maryland and who owned a bookstore in Massachusetts, died March 9 of ovarian cancer at her home in Potomac.
Hugh Martin composed "The Trolley Song," and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
Marty Marion, 93, a shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, died March 15 in St. Louis. Michael Gough, 94, known for his role in the "Batman" movies, died March 17 in England.
Mada M. McGill, the retired chief of operations for volunteer recruitment and selection at the Peace Corps, died of pancreatic cancer March 2 at Capital Hospice in Arlington County. She was 57.
Suzanne J. Beicken, 66, a musicologist who was a lecturer, music administrator and concert manager at the University of Maryland's School of Music, and who helped found the Maryland Boy Choir, died Feb. 13 at Hillhaven Nursing Center in Adelphi. She had colon cancer.
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