C8 THOMAS V. KELLY, 86
Journalist also was active part of his Capitol Hill neighborhood
by Emma Brown
Thomas V. Kelly, 86, a Washing- ton journalist whose home on Capitol Hill was such a communi- ty hub that he came to be known as the mayor of the neighbor- hood, died June 17 at George Washington University Hospital after a heart attack. Mr. Kelly lived for all but 11 years of his life on the same block of Constitution Avenue on Capitol Hill. He was the husband of Mar- guerite Kelly, who has for many years written the “Family Alma- nac” column in The Washington Post’s Style section, and the father of journalist Michael Kelly, who was killed in 2003 while covering the U.S. invasion of Iraq for the Atlantic Monthly. Tom Kelly worked for the
Washington Daily News during the 1950s and ’60s, covering the Eisenhower and Kennedy admin- istrations and Sen. Joseph R. Mc- Carthy’s hearings into alleged Communist subversion in govern- ment. He also covered local news, and his stories about misman- aged funds and other administra- tive misconduct at D.C. General Hospital led to sweeping changes there. In 1962, one of Mr. Kelly’s tough questions earned him a sock in the left eye from former Army Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker, who as- pired to be governor of Texas and who helped organize protests against the use of federal troops to enforce racial integration at the University of Mississippi. Walker was leaving a testy Sen-
ate hearing when Mr. Kelly ap- proached him. The reporter asked for a response to a statement by American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell, who had praised Walker. Walker answered with a punch
that made headlines around the country. “My eye doesn’t hurt much,” Mr. Kelly said afterward, “and I don’t plan any action.” Mr. Kelly left the Daily News in 1965 and later became the editor of a monthly Canadian magazine and a freelance writer for publica- tions including the New York Times, People and the Nation. In the 1990s, he worked as a feature writer for the Washington Times. He had a reputation for clever turns of phrase. In a profile of a Louisiana governor, he wrote, “Gov. Edwin Edwards is so cold, if you put a pat of butter in his mouth in the morning, it would still be there when he went to bed at night.” He wrote an occasional series on intriguing murder cases for the Washingtonian magazine and in 1983 published “The Imperial Post,” a scathing history of The Post that was not well-received by those inside the paper who found it unfairly critical. In Washington, the Kellys were known for hosting large parties
Robert G. Carnahan FAA OFFICIAL
Robert G. Carnahan, 95, a re-
tired official in the Federal Avia- tion Administration’s congres- sional relations office, died May 31 of heart disease at Montgom- ery General Hospital in Olney. He lived at Leisure World in Silver Spring. Mr. Carnahan joined the FAA in the late 1950s and spent three years in Paris as an aviation min- ister to NATO. From 1963 until his retirement about 10 years lat- er, he worked in the FAA’s con- gressional relations office. Robert Goskirk Carnahan was
a native Washingtonian and a 1933 graduate of McKinley Tech High School. He received an asso- ciate’s degree from George Wash- ington University, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsi- lon fraternity. He joined the Army Air Corps in 1940 and command- ed a submarine reconnaissance unit in the Pacific during World War II. He later became a B-29 bomber pilot, flying missions over Japan. After the war, Mr. Carnahan joined the old Civil Aeronautics Board, where he was chief of air traffic regulations. In 1953, he was recalled to active duty and spent three years in the Air Force planning office at the Pentagon before returning to the Civil Aeronautics Board. He was a member of Our Lady
of Grace Catholic Church in Sil- ver Spring and two military avia- tion groups, the Quiet Birdmen and Order of Daedalians. He lived in Sun City, Fla., for more than 20 years before moving in Leisure World in 1999. His first wife, Rita Gallagher Carnahan, died in 1974 after 33 years of marriage.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The above photo was taken shortly after Mr. Kelly was punched in the left eye by former Army Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker. He objected to a question asked by the reporter.
inspired by Marguerite’s New Or- leans heritage, featuring Dixie- land bands and crawfish. Ken Ringle, a retired Post reporter, wrote in an e-mail: “Their enor- mous dining room has always been a genuine salon where ideas were bandied about and joyously debated while Tom gestured from his end of the table and told sto- ries with his memorable snorting little Irish laugh.”
Thomas V. Kelly wrote annual Christmas plays in which he cast scads of neighborhood children.
Mr. Kelly, a diminutive Irish- man who reminded friends of a mischievous Leprechaun, wrote annual Christmas plays in which he cast scads of neighborhood children. The plays, children’s stories with dialogue that dou- bled as political commentary, were always staged in the Kellys’ backyard before a crowd of par- ents. Thomas Vincent Kelly was born in Washington on Aug. 2, 1923. He graduated from Gonzaga College High School in the Dis- trict and had his first newspaper job as a copyboy at The Post be- fore he enlisted in the Navy dur- ing World War II. “I knew nothing about the
Navy. I thought it consisted most- ly of battleships,” Mr. Kelly said in a 2001 interview with The Post. “I’d seen a Fred Astaire movie where sailors sang and danced on the quarterdeck. I figured that
Survivors include his wife of 35 years, Carol Knapstein Carnahan of Silver Spring; three children from his first marriage, Judith C. Connor of Cary, N.C., Joan C. Hosmer of Silver Spring and Rob- ert G. Carnahan Jr. of Round Rock, Tex.; a brother, William E. Carnahan of Silver Spring; six grandchildren; and four great- grandchildren.
— Matt Schudel
Karen P. Murphy XEROX SALES EXECUTIVE
Karen P. Murphy, 61, who
worked as a Xerox Corp. sales ex- ecutive for more than two dec- ades before retiring several years ago, died June 8 of multiple or- gan failure at Inova Alexandria Hospital. She lived in Old Town Alexandria. Karen Patricia Murphy was born in Baltimore and grew up in Hazleton, Pa. After graduating from Pennsylvania State Univer- sity in 1970, she held a staff posi- tion with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and worked for Gerald Ford’s 1976 presidential campaign. She worked for Xerox in Chica-
go for several years before mov- ing with the company to the Washington area in 1989. Ms. Murphy was a member of
St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Al- exandria. Survivors include two broth-
ers. — Emma Brown
William J. ‘Bill’ Bowman LAW FIRM PARTNER
William J. “Bill” Bowman, 58, a
partner with the Hogan Lovells law firm, died June 6 at George- town University Hospital. He had cancer.
was the kind of service I could handle.” He served on the Navy’s last sail-powered warship, the triple- masted USS Guinevere, which es- corted supply convoys across the Atlantic. “We were supposed to patrol for U-boats, but we stayed just out of sight of the convoys,” he said. “It would have depressed the mer- chant sailors too much to think that all that stood between them and Hitler’s navy was a sailing ship.” After the war, he earned a jour- nalism degree at Pennsylvania State University in 1947. He went to work as a reporter at the Baton Rouge-State Times and later the New Orleans Item, where he met his future wife. They moved to Washington in the early 1950s. In addition to his wife, to whom he was married 57 years, survivors include three daugh- ters, Katherine Kelly Bottorff and Meg Kelly Rizzoli, both of Wash- ington, and Nell Conroy of Dari- en, Conn.; and eight grandchil- dren.
At the time of his death, Mr.
Kelly was finishing a book about the life and death of his son. Mi- chael Kelly once wrote that he had decided to become a reporter because of deep admiration for his father, whom he described as an unfailing optimist. “What a good father is sup- posed to do for the people he loves is fix whatever goes wrong with them,” Michael Kelly wrote in a 2001 Post column. “So, happi- ly, it was for me. In the house where I was lucky enough to grow, the weather was always bal- my, rain or shine. And life was al- ways good, good or bad, and the children were always successes, succeed or fail. And the experi- ences were always marvelous.”
browne@washpost.com
Mr. Bowman had worked for
Hogan Lovells, previously Hogan and Hartson, for more than 25 years and was a prominent litiga- tor in the field of insurance cover- age.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Bowman worked as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary subcom- mittee on juvenile justice and at the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia, where he was chief of the career criminal unit in the early 1980s. William Judkins Bowman, a
Chevy Chase resident, was born in Willard, Ohio. He graduated from Harvard University in 1973 and from Georgetown Law School in 1976. Mr. Bowman then clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Flannery. Survivors include his wife of 25 years, Margaret Chou, and two sons, Scott Bowman and Matt Bowman, all of Chevy Chase; his mother, Constance Bowman and sister, Betsy Bowman, both of Charlottesville; and a brother, Bob Bowman of Westport, Conn. — Emily Langer
Elisabeth R. ‘Betty’ Myers
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KLMNO OBITUARIES THAI MCGREIVY, 43
Co-founded firm that staffs several area hospitals’ ERs
Thai McGreivy, 43, a founding
partner and chief financial officer for a medical group that runs the emergency rooms at several Washington area hospitals, died June 6 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. He had a heart attack while bicycling on Me- morial Day. Dr. McGreivy moved to the Washington area in the early 1990s for a residency in emergency medicine at Johns Hop- kins University. He and several colleagues founded Medical Emer- gency Professionals to run emergency rooms at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Germantown Emergen- cy Center, Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown, St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonard- town and the Western Maryland Health System in Cumberland. The company oversaw the
vate Phillips Academy in Ando- ver, Mass. His nickname came from Thailand, where his parents had met when his mother was in the Peace Corps and his father was backpacking around the world.
Thai McGreivy frequently volunteered.
In 1988, he received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Califor- nia at Berkeley, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor soci- ety. He graduated from the medical school at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1992. Dr. McGreivy volun- teered his medical ser- vices at a Montgomery County clinic and coached his son’s soccer team. He was a member
of the Edgemoor Club in Beth- esda and founded a social organi- zation for men in his Bethesda neighborhood. He was a frequent contributor
emergency room treatment of 300,000 patients each year and was praised for improving patient satisfaction. As a member of the Federal
Emergency Management Agen- cy’s Urban Search and Rescue team, Dr. McGreivy was among a team of doctors who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Martin Stewart McGreivy was born in Laguna Beach, Calif., and graduated in 1984 from the pri-
DANIEL D. CANTOR, 92
Philanthropist gave millions to a variety of Jewish causes
Sun Sentinel
Daniel D. Cantor, 92, a philan- thropist who gave his name to a senior center, extraordinary sums to Israel and support to Democrats including Bill Clinton, died June 14 at his home in Tam- arac, Fla. No cause of death was reported. The son of a real estate devel-
oper, Mr. Cantor grew up in Mid- dle Village, N.Y. He earned his law degree from New York University and served stateside in the Navy during World War II. He started practicing law after the war, but his attention quickly turned to real estate, where he made his fortune buying, selling and build- ing garden apartments for re- turning veterans. He made his first $1 million by
age 31. The giving was already well under way. When Mr. Cantor retired to Tamarac in 1980, South Florida became a prime recipient of his charity work. In 1996, then-Rep. Peter
Chaplain Corps. Before returning to the region in the late 1970s, Mrs. Myers was an administra- tive assistant for the Foreign Service in Stockholm and a cor- porate event planner in Oakland, Calif.
She was a member of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Arlington. Her first marriage, to George Robillard, ended in divorce. Her second husband, Morris Myers, died in 2003 after 27 years of marriage. Survivors include a son from
her first marriage, Stephen Robil- lard of Northampton, Mass.; two stepchildren, Mark Myers of Seat- tle and Brooke Wickham of Olympia, Wash.; two sisters; five grandchildren; and two great- grandchildren.
— Lauren Wiseman
Edward F. Noonan NAVAL ENGINEER
WHITE HOUSE VOLUNTEER
Elisabeth R. “Betty” Myers, 85, who volunteered for then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s of- fice from 1992 to 1996, died June 11 at a hospital in Mechanicsburg, Pa., of complications from vascu- lar surgery. She moved to Carlisle, Pa., from Fairfax City in 2000. She was born Elisabeth Ruth Daugherty in Chambersburg, Pa., and moved to the Washington area in 1930. She was a 1941 grad- uate of McKinley Technology High School.
During the early 1940s, she was a secretary for the Army
Edward F. Noonan, 94, a me- chanical engineer who special- ized in ship vibrations, died June 13 at his home in Annapolis. He had Alzheimer’s disease and died a day before his 95th birthday. Mr. Noonan, who had lived in Annapolis since 1974, was a co- founder of the Silver Spring engi- neering firm Noonan, Knopfle and Feldman, which specialized in hull dynamics and ship vibra- tions. The firm consulted on the development of the Spruance class destroyer, the primary de- stroyer warship of the U.S. Navy fleet during the 1970s. Edward Francis Noonan was born in New York and received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Manhattan College in 1937. He worked as an engineer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard early in his career.
During World War II, he joined
Deutsch and then-Sen. Bob Gra- ham (both D-Fla.) had Mr. Can- tor’s name entered into the Con- gressional Record for contribut- ing more than $22 million to the nonprofit community over the previous eight years. Some of the money went to the Jewish Na- tional Fund, the Jewish Institute for Geriatric Care, a program to teach Yiddish in Jewish day schools and a lecture hall for a university in Israel. In 1994, Mr. Cantor established
a $5 million trust for the Jewish Federation of Greater Fort Lau- derdale, Fla., later renamed the Jewish Federation of Broward County. Mr. Cantor donated to schol- arship funds, medical research and housing for the elderly. He gave money to resettle Soviet Jews and to fly Ethiopian Jews to Israel. His first wife, Lucille, died in
1980. Their daughter, Leslie, died of a blood infection a few years ago. Survivors include his second wife, the former Erhla Lapinsky.
the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps and later transferred to the Coast Guard. After the war, he worked as a civilian engineer for the Navy’s Bureau of Ships, where he researched hull vibrations. In 1956, he transferred to the Bu- reau of Naval Weapons, where he helped developed ballistic mis- siles, including Polaris. Mr. Noonan received two Navy Superior Civilian Service awards. He was a member of the An- cient Order of Hibernians and the Knights of Columbus, both Catholic fraternal organizations. Mary Engelman Noonan, his wife of 70 years, died in 2008. Survivors include five children, Edward G. Noonan of North Fort Myers, Fla., William Noonan of Sumter, S.C., Albert Noonan of Richland, Wash., Elaine Ellwood of Fairfax County and Francis Noonan of Annapolis; 16 grand- children; and 30 great-grandchil- dren.
— Timothy R. Smith
INMEMORIAM ADKINS
to several blogs on topics such as finance and the national debt. He had recently bought a motorboat to use in and around the Chesa- peake Bay. Survivors include his wife of 17 years, Katherine Bradley McGrei- vy, and their four sons, Nicholas McGreivy, Luke McGreivy, Kyle McGreivy and James McGreivy, all of Bethesda; his mother, Susan McGreivy of Ithaca, N.Y.; and a brother.
—Emma Brown WILLIAM BRYANT "Stink" and grandchildren, Rochelle and Lionel
Your forever devoted children, Edith, Janice and William, Jr.
What you provided in our lives, continues to echo!
2/25/1926 - 11/13/1998 Happy Father's Day Daddy!
COLLINS
SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010 INMEMORIAM BRYANT
NORWOODCOLLINS, SR. "Wolfman/Hooks" 2/3/1943 - 6/17/2002
Your love, faith & wisdom still surrounds us all, family and friends.
Love Daughter,Vanette Collins;
Son, Norwood Collins, Jr. "Chopper" & Grandchildren
DeSIMONI
MARIA VENTURELLI DeSIMONI
It is one year since we lost you. The Diego D'Amrosio Family misses you as much as ever. Diego, Rosaria, Marco, Fabrizio and Franco
DOWNING
CHRISTOPHER C.DOWNING,SR. Happy Father's Day to a loving husband and wonderful father. Your Loving Family
FIGUEROA
AIDA MARIE FIGUEROA 6/19/1937 - 2/6/2008
In memoriam of Aida Figueroa who passed way on February 6, 2008. Today you would have been 73, such a short life for such a wonderful sister, aunt and friend. You will be greatly missed. Love always,Verena, Celina and Dinorah
JACKSON
October 31, 1937 - September 19, 2005 Peacefully, five years ago, GOD called you home.
MANNINGT. JACKSON
You are truly missed.We love you forever. Your Devoted Loving Wife, Jennie and Children, Marcia,Keith and Manning, Jr.
JETER
ORREN DILLARD JETER, JR. 6/18/32 - 8/12/04
In remembrance of our wonderful dad, on his 78th Birthday and Father's Day. The memories of you will remain
in our hearts forever. We miss you. Wife, Cille, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
KEARNEY
Your daughters and grandchildren, Kandye, LaVonda, Nikki and Octavia, Kayla, Christopher James, Shauna and Jaden Alexander
JAMES ALEXANDER ADKINS Thinking of you on Father’s Day We love and miss you very much
HAPPY BIRTHDAY & HAPPY FATHERS DAY Love,Your Wife,Vera and
FATE KEARNEY 6/20/1918 - 3/2/2005
daughter, Christine
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