Washington-area obituaries of note
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Version 0 of 1. Obituaries of residents from the District, Maryland and Northern Virginia. Ernestine “Teenie” Williams, 93, an Alexandria, Va., homemaker and doubles tennis player, died Sept. 14 at a hospital in Alexandria. The cause was cardiac arrest due to congestive heart failure, said a granddaughter, Michel Williams. Mrs. Williams was born Ernestine Barnes on the outskirts of Prosperity, S.C. She moved to Alexandria in 1958. Jack A. Green, 87, who worked for more than 50 years at an accounting firm in Kensington, Md., died Oct. 11 at his home in Kensington. The cause was congestive heart failure, said a son, Charles Green. Mr. Green was born in Kansas City, Mo., and moved to the Washington area in 1942. He started at what is now Moose, Green and Korom in 1952 and retired in 2007. He had been president and a charter member of what was then called the Wheaton-Kensington Rotary Club and was a volunteer with the Salvation Army. Lu Hu Chen “Trudie” Ball, 91, who owned and operated several Washington-area Chinese restaurants from the 1960s to 1980s, died Sept. 27 at a hospice center in Rockville, Md. The cause was cancer, said a daughter, Pao Lin Hatch. Mrs. Ball, a resident of Potomac, Md., was born Lu Hu in Shanghai. From 1955 to 1957, she was a member of the Taiwan delegation to the United Nations. She settled in the Washington area in 1960 and opened Trudie Ball’s Empress restaurants in Washington and Silver Spring, Md., as well as Trudie’s in Washington. Joan Trudeau Kane, 90, who volunteered with organizations including the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, died Oct. 13 at a retirement home in Washington. The cause was complications from pneumonia, said her husband, retired Army Col. Francis Kane. Mrs. Kane was born Joan Trudeau in the District. She accompanied her husband on military postings in Europe and elsewhere. She held a leadership position with the Society of Daughters of the U.S. Army, volunteered with the Cub Scouts and the Catholic Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Washington, and performed with the Arlington Players theater company and with the Knollwood Singers musical group at her retirement community. William F. Whalen, 81, a budget officer for the Navy Department, the defense secretary’s office, the Peace Corps and the Department of Housing and Urban Development during a three-decade federal career, died Oct. 13 at his home in Wilmington, N.C. The cause was complications from prostate cancer, said a son, Bill Whalen. Mr. Whalen was born in Mc-Keesport, Pa. He served in the Navy from 1956 to 1960 and then in the Navy Reserve, rising to the rank of captain. A former resident of Falls Church and Arlington, Va., he volunteered at Washington-area museums including the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, the Freer and Sackler galleries and the National Gallery of Art before retiring to Wilmington in 2005. Joseph Guarnieri, 78, who did business development and marketing work for companies including AT&T, Litton Industries and Northrop Grumman before his retirement in 2002, died Oct. 13 at a hospital in Bethesda, Md. The cause was complications from pneumonia, said his wife, Merle Guarnieri. Mr. Guarnieri, a resident of Potomac, Md., was born Giuseppe Guarnieri in Roccella Ionica in Calabria, Italy. He came to the United States after World War II and settled in the Washington area in the 1970s. — From staff reports |