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William L. Moyer CIA OFFICER


William L. Moyer, 67, a retired senior executive and technical program manager in the Telecom- munications Information Sys- tems group of what is now the CIA’s Directorate of Support, died July 14 at his home in Oakton. He had liver cancer. Before joining the Central In-


telligence Agency, Mr. Moyer worked at the Federal Aviation Administration from 1968 until the mid-1980s. He retired in 2000. William L. Moyer was a native of Aurora, Ill., and a 1964 gradu- ate of Beloit College in Wisconsin. He was an engineering officer in the Navy from 1964 to 1967. He was a member of the Unitar-


ian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax in Oakton, where he taught Sunday school and served on the finance and auction com- mittees. Survivors include his wife of 45 years, Kristin Crocker Moyer of Oakton; two children, David R. Moyer of Fairfax County and Me- linda K. Moyer of Olney; his mother and stepfather, Mildred and Arthur Johnson of Montgom- ery, Ill.; a sister; and a grand- daughter.


—Lauren Wiseman


Nan B. Packard SECRETARY


Nan B. Packard, 78, a secretary


at the Washington law firm Ar- nold and Porter from the early 1970s until her retirement in 2006, died July 6 at Lynn House, a nursing home in Alexandria. She had congestive heart failure. She was born Patricia Nan Brenk in Boca Raton, Fla., and moved to the Washington region in 1950.


She was a secretary at the Cen-


tral Intelligence Agency from 1965 to 1969 and then for two Re- publican California congressmen, Robert B. Mathias and Alphonzo Bell.


She had been an Arlington


County resident since 1968 and a member of Third Church of Christ, Scientist, in Washington. Her marriage to Duane L. Pack- ard ended in divorce. A son, Mark Packard, died in 1992. Survivors include three chil- dren, Kurt L. Packard of Falls Church, Soos Packard of New York City and P.D. Packard of Brooklyn, N.Y.; a sister; two broth- ers; and three grandchildren. —Lauren Wiseman


Dorothy B. Parker LAWYER


Dorothy B. Parker, 94, a mem- ber of the National Appeals Board of the U.S. Parole Commission from 1976 to 1980, died July 1 at her home in Washington. She had a heart attack. Mrs. Parker served as minority counsel for the Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 1970 to 1975. She served on Senate sub- committees on constitutional amendments, and refugees and escapees, through which she helped Vietnamese refugees. Dorothy Botwen, a native of


New York City, received a bach- elor’s degree from Barnard Col- lege in 1936 and a law degree from Columbia University in 1938. From 1938 to 1964, she ran a pri- vate law practice in New York. She moved to the Washington region in the mid-1970s and was an Ar- lington County resident until 1995. Her marriage to Alexander Ap- pel ended in divorce. Her husband of 30 years, Benja- min M. Parker, died in 1992. Survivors include three step- children, Eve Hoffman of Nor- cross, Ga., Daniel N. Parker of Minneapolis and Nathan Parker of New York.


—Lauren Wiseman


William H. Quasebarth Jr. MACHINIST


William H. Quasebarth Jr., 49, a machinist who worked during the 1980s and ’90s for Hoppman Corp. in Chantilly, died of cancer June 27 at a hospital in Martins- burg, W.Va. He was a resident of


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Berkeley Springs, W.Va. Mr. Quasebarth had previously


worked for Atlas Machine & Iron Works in Gainesville. He lived in Northern Virginia until moving to Berkeley Springs about a year ago. William Henry Quasebarth Jr. was a Washington native and a graduate of Brentsville District High School in Prince William County. He served several years in the Navy. Using his welding skills and ar- tistic sense, he created sculptures that were displayed in restaurants and other establishments. His marriage to Lynda Songer ended in divorce. Survivors include three chil-


dren, Laura Quasebarth, Rachel Nilsen and Anthony “Tony” Qua- sebarth, all of Manassas; his fa- ther, William H. Quasebarth Sr. of North Myrtle Beach, S.C.; a broth- er, Gary C. Quasebarth of Lake- wood, Ohio; two sisters, Pamela Q. Unger of Alexandria and Cheryl Q. Crummett of North Myrtle Beach; and six grandchil- dren.


—Emma Brown


David A. Shonerd NAVY CAPTAIN


David Austin Shonerd, 88, a re-


tired Navy captain who worked for Fairfax County Public Schools as an information technology ad- ministrator and special education aide, died July 16 at the Fairfax, a retirement community in Fort Belvoir. He had congestive heart failure. Mr. Shonerd, a San Diego na- tive, joined the Navy after gradu- ating from the U.S. Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis in 1942. His final active-duty assign- ment, in 1972, was deputy for the Board of Inspection and Survey at the Pentagon. His military deco- rations included the Legion of Merit. From 1975 to 1985, he was an IT administrator and special educa- tion aide at Falls Church and W.T. Woodson high schools. In addition to membership in parent-teacher groups, he was a member of the McLean Historical Society and the Camelot home- owners association in Annandale, where he helped start the neigh- borhood watch program. He was a member and Sunday school teacher at St. Alban’s Epis- copal Church in Annandale, where he had been a resident since 1966. His wife of 51 years, Arnette Switzer Shonerd, died in 1996. Survivors include his wife of nine years, Nina Harman Shon- erd of Annandale; four sons from his first marriage, David W. Shon- erd of Raleigh, N.C., Mark Shon- erd of Chesapeake, Va., Jon Shon- erd of Springfield and Peter Shon- erd of Manassas; six grandchildren; and four great- grandchildren.


—Lauren Wiseman


Harold W. Barnes POSTAL SERVICE OFFICIAL


Harold William Barnes, 90, a


director at the U.S. Postal Service in Washington from 1942 until his retirement in 1980, died of sepsis July 6 at Reston Hospital Center. He had been a Fairfax County res- ident. Mr. Barnes, who also was a li- censed flight instructor, was born in Delaware County, Ohio. He was an Army veteran of World War II. His first wife, Evelyn Millard Barnes, died in 1976. Survivors include his wife of 32 years, Zylphia Barker Barnes of Fairfax.


—Lauren Wiseman


Karen E. Dunn REAL ESTATE AGENT


Karen E. Dunn, 66, a real estate


agent who worked for Coldwell Banker in Annapolis until retiring in 2005, died July 16 at her home in Edgewater. She had lung can- cer.


Before working for Coldwell


Banker, Mrs. Dunn was a real es- tate agent for Merrill Lynch in An- napolis, where she became the di- rector of training. She later man- aged the company’s Eastport office.


RALPH HOUK, 90 Managed Yankees to 2 championships in ’60s by Matt Schudel


Ralph Houk, 90, a battle-hard- ened war hero who managed the New York Yankees to two suc- cessive World Series champion- ships in the early 1960s, died July 21 at his home in Winter Haven, Fla. The cause of death was not announced. Mr. Houk became the guardian


of the Yankees’ vaunted tradition at an awkward moment, taking over the team when Hall of Fame Manager Casey Stengel was forced out of the job after losing the 1960 World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Almost 30 years younger than


Stengel, Mr. Houk inherited a star-studded team that had won 10 American League pennants in 12 years. In spring training in 1961, Mr. Houk set the tone by re- laxing the clubhouse atmosphere and by naming outfielder Mickey Mantle the team leader. Mantle, who called Mr. Houk


“the best manager I ever played for,” responded with one of his finest seasons ever as he and Roger Maris engaged in a season- long home-run battle. Mantle ended up with 54 homers, and Maris slugged 61 to break Babe Ruth’s single-season record of 60, set in 1927. With ace lefthander Whitey


Ford winning 25 games, the Yan- kees rolled through the ’61 sea- son with 109 victories and en- tered baseball annals as one of the greatest teams in history. They went on to beat the Cincin- nati Reds in five games in the World Series. The next year, despite injuries to many players, the Yankees won another pennant under Mr. Houk and defeated the San Fran- cisco Giants in a seven-game World Series. After another league title in 1963, the Yankees were swept in four games by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Mr. Houk resigned after the 1963 season to become the Yan- kees’ front-office general manag- er, but when the team faltered under his successors, Yogi Berra and Johnny Keane, he stepped back into the dugout as field manager in 1966. Mr. Houk managed the team


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Manager Ralph “the Major” Houk left the Yankees in 1973. He was later skipper for the Detroit Tigers and the Boston Red Sox.


through 1973, the first year the team was owned by George Steinbrenner, who died July 13. Mr. Houk resigned on the last day of the season because, he lat- er said, Steinbrenner was med- dling in personnel and on-field matters — the first of many Yan- kee managers to make that com- plaint. Mr. Houk later led the Detroit


Tigers and Boston Red Sox, but in his 20-year managerial career he could never match the success of his first three seasons in New York.


Nicknamed “the Major” for his


rank as a decorated Army Ranger in World War II, Mr. Houk was a


TYRAS ‘BUNK’ ATHEY, 83


Anne Arundel delegate led tax-writing committee Schaefer reportedly tapped Mr.


Tyras “Bunk” Athey, 83, a liquor store owner from Jessup who rep- resented Anne Arundel County in the Maryland House of Delegates for 25 years and chaired the pow- erful House Ways and Means Committee, died July 20 at Hos- pice of the Chesapeake in Annap- olis. He had kidney failure, a fami- ly spokeswoman said. Mr. Athey, a Democrat, left the


House of Delegates in 1993 after serving 14 years overseeing the tax-writing committee. He then spent two years as Maryland’s sec- retary of state under Gov. William Donald Schaefer (D). The Washington Post described


secretary of state at the time as a largely ceremonial job whose functions included overseeing charitable organizations and ex- tradition matters.


Karen Eugenia Carbaugh was born in Hagerstown and graduat- ed from the University of Mary- land with a degree in education. Early in her career, she taught special education for the Carroll County public schools, where she helped launch the Head Start pro- gram. From 1978 to the early 1980s, she worked for Auto-Train Corp. as a vice president and di- rector of training. Survivors include her husband of 40 years, Richard Dunn of Edgewater; a son, Christian Dunn of Baltimore; a brother, Kenneth Carbaugh of Hagerstown; and two sisters, Candace Clevenger of


Athey for the job hoping to draw on his expertise in tax and budg- eting matters when the state was implementing austerity measures to address a weakened economy. Mr. Athey was a past chairman of the Anne Arundel delegation. In 1996, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In profiles, Mr. Athey was called affable and well-liked among legislators. He told the Baltimore Sun of his approach to working in Annapolis: “I could scream and holler and be a bad guy, but what good what that do? My theory has always been you can attract more flies with honey than vinegar.” Tyras Snowden Athey was a Burtonsville native and attended


Woodbridge and Melody Hain of Hagerstown.


—Lauren Wiseman


Leonard H. ‘Buck’ Hoyle TRADE GROUP EXECUTIVE


Leonard H. “Buck” Hoyle, 71, a


retired executive vice president of Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International, a trade organization, died July 18 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. He had prostate cancer. Mr. Hoyle worked at the trade group from 1981 to 1998 and then was an adjunct professor of event marketing at George Washington


stern old-school baseball man who had signed his first minor- league contract with the Yankees for $200 in 1939. Jim Bouton, an irreverent pitcher with the Yan- kees in the 1960s, wrote in his classic book, “Ball Four,” that Mr. Houk “had the personality of a regional sales manager.” Bouton learned just how tough


the Major could be in 1964, when he demanded a raise to $20,000 after winning 21 games the previ- ous year. The Yankees offered $18,500. “My offer will be reduced $100


a day every day you delay report- ing,” Mr. Houk told Bouton, ac- cording to an article in Baseball


Digest magazine. “At that rate,” Bouton replied,


“I’ll be owing you money by July.” “No, you’re wrong,” Mr. Houk


said. “You’ll be in Richmond by July” — the site of the Yankees’ top minor-league team. Bouton signed his contract for $18,500. Ralph George Houk was born


Aug. 9, 1919, on his family’s farm near Lawrence, Kan., and grew up playing baseball with his brothers, cousins and uncles. He was an all-state football player in high school but turned down a scholarship offer to the Univer- sity of Kansas to pursue baseball. He enlisted in the Army in 1942 and was sent to officer can- didate school. He participated in the Normandy invasion in June 1944 and the Battle of the Bulge. He received the Silver Star for re- pelling German tanks, while be- ing open to hostile fire, during an engagement in Luxembourg. His other decorations included the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart. He kept his Army helmet, which had been pierced, front to back, by a bullet. Mr. Houk joined the Yankees


as a catcher in 1947 but, warming the bench behind Hall of Famer Berra, appeared in only 91 games during an eight-year career. He spent most of his time in the bullpen, learning the game from the perspective of pitchers. He managed in the minors for


the Yankees and became the par- ent club’s first-base coach in 1958. After leaving the Yankees in


1973, Mr. Houk managed the De- troit Tigers for five seasons and later led the Boston Red Sox from 1981 through 1984. In the late 1980s, he worked in the front of- fice of the Minnesota Twins. His wife, Bette Porter Houk, whom he married in 1948, died in 2006. Survivors include two children; four grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Once, when Mr. Houk was


asked about the pressure of man- aging in the World Series, he re- sponded like the unflappable combat veteran that he was. “Why,” he asked, “is somebody


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Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring. His grandfather gave him his nickname, after a comic strip character. After Navy service in World


War II, he married Dorothy O’Lexey, known as “Chick.” They took over her parents’ Old Farm Inn restaurant near Fort Meade. They later turned the restaurant into Ye Olde Farm Spirit Shoppe, a liquor store, and they sold the business in 1995. Last year, they moved from Odenton to Centreville, in Queen Anne’s County, Md. In addition to Mr. Athey’s wife,


survivors include three children, Darlene Athey of Crofton, Cathy Pritchard of Jessup and Bryan Athey of Pasadena, Md.; and five grandchildren.


—Adam Bernstein


University until last year. In 2002, he wrote the book “Event Market- ing: How to Successfully Promote Events, Festivals, Conventions and Expositions.” In the early 1970s, he was the


director of conventions and expo- sitions for the Mechanical Con- tractors Association of America. From 1974 to 1981, he worked for the American Society of Associa- tion Executives (ASAE), where he became an executive vice presi- dent. He was chairman of the ASAE Board of Governors and an exec- utive director of the old National Association of Exposition Manag-


Tyras “Bunk” Athey, pictured in 1994, represented Anne Arundel in the Maryland General Assembly for 25 years.


ers. Leonard Hughes Hoyle was a


native Washingtonian and a 1957 graduate of Gaithersburg High School. He received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in 1962. He was a Silver Spring resident until last year, when he moved to Millersville. Survivors include his wife of 46


years, Judith Disney Hoyle of Mil- lersville; two children, Beth Hoyle of Gaithersburg and Steve Hoyle of Millersville; and a granddaugh- ter.


—Lauren Wiseman


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