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Obituaries

JANE DALTON WEINBERGER, 91

Author, Founder of Publishing Company

By Elaine Woo

Los Angeles Times

Jane Dalton Weinberger, 91, the wife of former defense secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, who coaxed her husband into politics and later published children’s books, died July 12 at a nursing facility in Bar Harbor, Maine. She was 91. She had a stroke last week. Mrs. Weinberger founded the

1973 WASHINGTON POST FILE PHOTO BY MARGARET THOMAS

Jane Weinberger encouraged her husband, Caspar, to enter politics. She later called his role as U.S. secretary of defense “the worst job in the world.”

Windswept House publishing com- pany, named after the family home in Somesville, Maine, in 1984 when her husband was defense secretary under President Ronald Reagan. Over the next two decades, the com- pany published more than 100 titles, mostly for young readers. Mrs. Weinberger, down-to-earth and occasionally irreverent, wrote a dozen books, including “As Ever” (1991), which was aimed at adults. The compilation of letters she had written to friends and family over the years shared what she called “the views of one ordinary woman living a somewhat extraordinary life.” Those views included opinions on people such as Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (“makes me sick”), first lady Nancy Reagan (“irritable and snappish”) and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin (“a wily old bas- tard but amusing”).

In a 1983 interview with The

Washington Post, Mrs. Weinberger described her husband’s position as defense secretary as “the worst job in the world” and said he was physi- cally shrinking in the job. “He was a tall man when he came

to Washington,” she said. He died in 2006. Mrs. Weinberger was born in Mil- ford, Maine, on March 29, 1918. She attended the University of Maine and the Somerville Hospital school of nursing. She taught nursing be- fore joining federal emergency man- agement efforts during World War II.

In 1942, she was on a troop trans- port ship from San Francisco to Aus- tralia when she met Caspar Wein- berger, a Harvard law school gradu- ate and Army second lieutenant. When they disembarked three weeks later, they got married. After the war, they settled in Cas-

par Weinberger’s native San Francis- co. He was working for a law firm when she suggested that he run for office. In 1952, he won a seat in the California assembly and served six years.

Mrs. Weinberger took an active role in her husband’s campaigns while raising their two sons — Cas- par Weinberger Jr., of Mount Des- ert, Maine, and Arlin Weinberger of Marin County, Calif. — who survive her. Other survivors include a sister,

three grandchildren and five great- grandchildren. Mrs. Weinberger accompanied her husband to Washington at the beginning of Richard M. Nixon’s presidency, when Caspar Weinberg- er was asked to head the Federal Trade Commission. He later served Nixon as director of the Office of Management and Budget and as sec- retary of health, education and wel- fare, continuing in the latter post un- der President Gerald R. Ford. Wein- berger was defense secretary for most of Reagan’s two terms, resign- ing when his wife faced health chal- lenges, including cancer. Mrs. Weinberger went into pub- lishing during her husband’s first term in the Reagan Cabinet. She was spurred into the business when fed- eral funding was eliminated for her

pet project, the Future Scientists Fund, which matched young schol- ars with eminent scientists for a summer of study at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor. She wrote “Vim,” a book about a self- important lab mouse, and donated the sales revenue to the fund. A subsequent book, “Kiltie,” named for the family dog, was a col- laboration with her husband, whose photographs illustrated the story. She acknowledged her husband in the author’s note for “Please Buy My Violets,” a 1986 book about charita- ble fundraising, in which she said she spent part of each year in Wash- ington, “where her husband works with the government.”

Washington Post staff writer Matt Schudel contributed to this report.

EULA BOOKER TATE, 60

UAW Lobbyist and Advocate for Voting, Civil Rights Acts

Eula Booker Tate, 60, a former lobbyist for the United Auto Work- ers who briefly directed a labor union for women, died July 11 of lung cancer at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. She lived in Cen- treville. Ms. Tate began her union activ- ities in the 1960s, when she was working on the assembly lines at Chrysler in her native Michigan. She was a member of the City Council of Ypsilanti, Mich., from 1981 to 1991 and served as mayor pro tempore. She taught at Michi- gan State University’s School of Labor & Industrial Relations in the 1980s. Ms. Tate came to Washington in

1991 as a lobbyist for the United Auto Workers, for whom she worked until 2007. Last year, she was interim executive director for the Coalition of Labor Union Women, of which she was a life- time member. She also served as administrative assistant to the coa- lition’s president. In Washington, Ms. Tate ad-

vocated for the passage of the Fam- ily and Medical Leave Act, the Vio- lence Against Women Act, the Civ- il Rights Act of 1991 and the 2006 renewal of the Voting Rights Act. Last year, she lobbied in support of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which was signed into law by President Obama in January. She

Ms. Tate briefly ran a union for women last year.

also served as an interna- tional election observer in South Africa. Eula Mae

Booker was born in Ypsi- lanti and was an assembler, forklift driver and union shop steward at Chrysler for

many years. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1977 and received a master’s degree in public administration from George Mason University in 2006.

She was a member of the Fairfax County chapter of the NAACP and the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, and she was a delegate to several Democratic national conventions, including last year’s in Denver. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Manassas and sang in the choir. Survivors include her husband

of 26 years, Ronnie Tate of Cen- treville; two children, Stephen Tate and Jennifer Tate, both of Centreville; three stepchildren, Yomika Tate, Ronald Tate and Donald Tate, all of Rome, Ga.; two sisters; two brothers; and a grand- daughter.

— Matt Schudel

Evelyn L. Brooks

Church Member

Evelyn L. Brooks, 101, who served as a deacon at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Rockville from 1964 to 1989, and whose husband served as the church’s pastor from 1963 to 1985, died July 8 at the Envoy of Alexandria nursing home of hypertensive cardio- vascular arrest.

According to the Pentagon, Mrs. Brooks was the matriarch of the only African American family to have three members reach the rank of major gen- eral in the Army. A son and two grand- sons have held the two-star rank. Evelyn Julie Lemon was born in

Falling Springs, Va., and graduated from Cardozo Senior High School in 1927. She had been an Alexandria resi- dent since 1930. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star of Alexandria, a Ma- sonic organization. She served as the worthy matron, or president of her chapter, in 1946 and 1947. Her husband of 60 years, Houston G. Brooks Sr., died in 1987. A son, Henry C. Brooks, died in 2001. Survivors include four children, Houston G. Brooks Jr., of Somerset, N.J., Nellie B. Quander and retired Army Major Gen. Leo A. Brooks, Sr., both of Alexandria, and Francis K. Brooks of Montpelier, Vt.; 13 grand- children; and eight great-granddaugh- ters.

— Lauren Wiseman

CORRECTION

The July 15 obituary for Anita L. Rabinowitz omit- ted the name of her hus- band, Rabbi Stanley Rabi- nowitz.

Patsy Hunt

Company Vice President

Patsy Hunt, 83, who with her hus- band operated a company that repre- sented aviation interests in Washing- ton, died July 1 of a heart ailment at her son’s home in Austin. Mrs. Hunt came to Washington in 1955, when she and her husband founded Hunt Aviation, which served as a Washington consultant to aviation groups in dealing with national reg- ulatory and executive bodies and with foreign governments. As vice presi- dent, Mrs. Hunt did a great deal of en- tertaining. The company closed in 1985. From 1990 to 2000, Mrs. Hunt op- erated Accessories by Patricia, a wholesale business that designed and produced handmade pillows, bags and containers for sale to specialty shops. Patsy Ruth Williams was born in

Wiley, Tex., and was a model for the Neiman Marcus department store in Dallas in the 1940s. She was one of the store’s first models to travel to Paris to show new lines of clothing. She lived in New York and Chicago before moving to Chevy Chase, where she resided until 2008. Mrs. Hunt was a member of Chevy Chase United Methodist Church, was a Cub Scout den mother and volun- teered with what is now Crittenton Services of Greater Washington, an or- ganization that helps unwed mothers. Her husband of 47 years, A. Joe Hunt, died in 1994. Survivors include two children, Jo- seph Hunt of Austin and Jacqueline Durden of Rockville; two grandchil- dren; and four great-grandchildren.

— Matt Schudel

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Thomas J. Kennedy Jr. Biomedical Scientist

Thomas J. Kennedy Jr., 89, a doctor and biomedical scientist who was an associate director of the National In- stitutes of Health and later an official with the Association of American Medical Colleges, died June 28 at his home in Garrett Park of liver failure. Dr. Kennedy joined the Association of American Medical Colleges in 1976 as director of the department of plan- ning and policy. He remained at the as- sociation for nearly two decades. He was a staff researcher at the Na- tional Heart Institute, beginning in 1949. He studied the physiology of the kidney, writing more than 30 scientific papers. He was published in several medical journals, focusing on renal disease and electrolyte disturbances. He was director of research facil- ities and resources at the NIH from 1965 to 1968, followed by six years as associate director overseeing planning

and evaluation. He retired from the NIH in 1974 as a rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service. Thomas James Kennedy was a na-

tive Washingtonian and a graduate of Gonzaga High School. He was a 1940 graduate of Catholic University and a 1943 graduate of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity medical school. He was an Army veteran of World War II. Dr. Kennedy was involved in several organizations for doctors and medical researchers, and he was a member of the Cosmos Club. In his work for the Cosmos Club, he was part of a group that successfully challenged the rule banning the admission of women in the 1970s. He was president of the NIH Alumni Association from 1993 to 1995.

Survivors include his wife of 58

years, the former F. Elaine Godtfring of Garrett Park; four children, Ann Kennedy of Austin, Joan Frances Ken- nedy of West Hartford, Conn., Chris- topher Kennedy of Pleasant Hill, Calif., and Paul Kennedy of Silver Spring; and two grandchildren. A son, Thomas J. Kennedy III, died

in 2005.

— Rick Rojas

Richard H. Slater

Architect

Richard H. Slater, 89, former chief architect for the Federal Housing Ad- ministration who also worked on his- toric preservation and restoration, died July 2 at his home in Washington after a heart attack. Mr. Slater worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Africa in the 1960s on projects throughout Africa. In 1968, he moved to Washington and began working for the FHA until he left the government in 1985. He then joined C. Dudley Brown Associates, specializing in his- toric preservation and restoration un- til retiring in 1998. Richard Haskell Slater was born in Ludington, Mich., and graduated from Ohio State University. During World War II, he served in the Navy in the South Pacific. In 1949, he received a second bachelor’s degree, in architec- ture, from the University of Florida. He worked as an architect in Braden- ton, Fla., until joining USAID in 1960. He was a member of Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ in Bethesda, where he served on a number of boards and commit- tees. He was also a member of the Arts Club of Washington and the Diplo- matic and Consular Officers, Retired. Survivors include his wife of 59

years, Dorothea Little Slater of Wash- ington.

— Patricia Sullivan

Patricia G. Miles Strippy

Glass Company President

Patricia G. Miles Strippy, 72, who rose from secretary to president in 35 years at her family’s Miles Glass Co. in Silver Spring, died of lung cancer June 30 at Frederick Memorial Hospi- tal.

Mrs. Strippy joined her family’s business as a clerical worker and was a saleswoman and vice president before leading the company. She was also a founding member and president of the Maryland Glass Association, which became the Mid-Atlantic Glass Associ- ation. In 1997, the association named her to its hall of fame. Patricia Gail Miles was born in the District and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1954. She at- tended Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg. She moved to Mary- land after college, eventually landing in Frederick.

Her first husband, Laurier Bedard, died in 1977. Survivors include her husband of 17

years, Russell Strippy of Frederick; a son from her first marriage, Jeffrey Be- dard of Salt Lake City; and three sis- ters, Barbara Miles of Gaithersburg, Sherry Miles of Montgomery Village and Bonnie Miles of Columbia.

— Rick Rojas

Arthur Ticker

Chemist

Arthur Ticker, 90, a retired chemist from the former David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Cen- ter in Annapolis, died June 29 from myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disorder, and pneumonia at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville. He lived in Rockville. Mr. Ticker, who lived in the Wash- ington area for 39 years, had worked at the Naval Applied Science Labora- tory in Brooklyn, N.Y. but moved to Maryland when his office was reorga- nized.

He was born in New York and grad- uated from Long Island University. He served in the Army during World War II in hospitals in Europe and North Af- rica and Pacific. He was a longtime member of the

Nevey Shalom congregation in Bowie and B’nai B’rith and also enjoyed gar- dening and entertaining. He held three patents related to ship painting, anti-corrosion and anti-fouling inven- tions.

His wife of 41 years, Helen Ticker, died in 1989. Survivors include two sons, Ron

Ticker of North Potomac and Jay Tick- er of Brooklyn, N.Y., and six grand- children.

— Patricia Sullivan

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