Washington-area obituaries of note
Version 0 of 1. Obituaries of residents from the District, Maryland and Northern Virginia. Sholom Wacholder, 60, a biostatistician and cancer epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute, died Oct. 4 at his home in Rockville, Md. The cause was prostate cancer, said his wife, Michele Rhone. Dr. Wacholder was born in Fort Worth. He was an assistant professor at McGill University in Montreal before moving to the Washington area and joining the National Cancer Institute staff in 1986. Since 1992, he had been senior staff investigator in the epidemiologic methods section of the biostatistics branch. Dorine E. Smoot, 73, a secretary at Kendall Demonstration Elementary School on the campus of Gallaudet University in Northeast Washington, died Sept. 26 at a hospital in the District. The cause was cancer, said a daughter, Sabrena Barfield. A native Washingtonian, she was a lifelong resident. In the 1970s and 1980s, she was secretary to the principal at Kendall. R. Dabney Chapman, 86, a retired Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency who had served in the Soviet Union, West Germany, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands and Turkey, died Sept. 28 at his home in Shepherdstown, W.Va. The cause was cancer, said a daughter, Sarah Monahan. Richard Dabney Chapman was born in Los Angeles. He served from 1956 to 1985 in the Foreign Service, and his overseas specialties included cultural and public affairs. He was chief of the European division of Voice of America. He moved to Shepherdstown from Reston, Va., upon retirement. — From staff reports |