Born in San Francisco, California on September 21, 1923, died on September 13, 2017.
She was the daughter of Ruth Ellis Barry Cowan and Dennie Francis Barry. Her first years were spent mostly in the south: Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana. At the age of 12, the family moved to Washington, DC.
She graduated from the old Western High School and Dunbarton College of Holy Cross, taking her degree in mathematics. During school terms she worked on the Hill for Senator Key Pittman of Nevada and the Washington newspaper, The Evening Star.
After finishing college, she accepted a position as a mathematician at the David W. Taylor Model Basin, now the Navy Research and Development Center at Carderock, Maryland. She worked several years at the Navy Hydrographic office in Suitland, MD and then enlisted in the Army.
She was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in December 1950 and served four years on active duty in Germany as a Quartermaster officer. She initiated the first commissary rail company.
She returned to civilian life in October 1954 and went back to work for the Navy at the Tidal Basin until her retirement on January 19, 1979. She retired from the Army Reserve as a Lt. Colonel.
She was an avid tennis player, won the Middle Atlantic Tennis Championship in women's doubles in 1949, and was a 67-year member of the Edgemoor Tennis and Swim Club.
She was a member of the DAR for over 50 years, the Richard Arnold Chapter of the District of Columbia. She was also a member of Colonial Dames of America, and the Daughters of Colonial Wars (DCW).
She is survived by her niece Darrell Landon Jones Spalding of Seminole, Florida; a great niece, Carrie Spalding of Burbank, California, and a great nephew, Robert Spalding of Washington, DC.
She will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on February 9, 2018 at 1 p.m., near her father and her great uncle General James Milton Thompson.
Published in The Washington Post on Jan. 28, 2018
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She was the daughter of Ruth Ellis Barry Cowan and Dennie Francis Barry. Her first years were spent mostly in the south: Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana. At the age of 12, the family moved to Washington, DC.
She graduated from the old Western High School and Dunbarton College of Holy Cross, taking her degree in mathematics. During school terms she worked on the Hill for Senator Key Pittman of Nevada and the Washington newspaper, The Evening Star.
After finishing college, she accepted a position as a mathematician at the David W. Taylor Model Basin, now the Navy Research and Development Center at Carderock, Maryland. She worked several years at the Navy Hydrographic office in Suitland, MD and then enlisted in the Army.
She was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in December 1950 and served four years on active duty in Germany as a Quartermaster officer. She initiated the first commissary rail company.
She returned to civilian life in October 1954 and went back to work for the Navy at the Tidal Basin until her retirement on January 19, 1979. She retired from the Army Reserve as a Lt. Colonel.
She was an avid tennis player, won the Middle Atlantic Tennis Championship in women's doubles in 1949, and was a 67-year member of the Edgemoor Tennis and Swim Club.
She was a member of the DAR for over 50 years, the Richard Arnold Chapter of the District of Columbia. She was also a member of Colonial Dames of America, and the Daughters of Colonial Wars (DCW).
She is survived by her niece Darrell Landon Jones Spalding of Seminole, Florida; a great niece, Carrie Spalding of Burbank, California, and a great nephew, Robert Spalding of Washington, DC.
She will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on February 9, 2018 at 1 p.m., near her father and her great uncle General James Milton Thompson.
Published in The Washington Post on Jan. 28, 2018
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Born in San Francisco, California on September 21, 1923, died on September 13, 2017.
She was the daughter of Ruth Ellis Barry Cowan and Dennie Francis Barry. Her first years were spent mostly in the south: Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana. At the age of 12, the family moved to Washington, DC.
She graduated from the old Western High School and Dunbarton College of Holy Cross, taking her degree in mathematics. During school terms she worked on the Hill for Senator Key Pittman of Nevada and the Washington newspaper, The Evening Star.
After finishing college, she accepted a position as a mathematician at the David W. Taylor Model Basin, now the Navy Research and Development Center at Carderock, Maryland. She worked several years at the Navy Hydrographic office in Suitland, MD and then enlisted in the Army.
She was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in December 1950 and served four years on active duty in Germany as a Quartermaster officer. She initiated the first commissary rail company.
She returned to civilian life in October 1954 and went back to work for the Navy at the Tidal Basin until her retirement on January 19, 1979. She retired from the Army Reserve as a Lt. Colonel.
She was an avid tennis player, won the Middle Atlantic Tennis Championship in women's doubles in 1949, and was a 67-year member of the Edgemoor Tennis and Swim Club.
She was a member of the DAR for over 50 years, the Richard Arnold Chapter of the District of Columbia. She was also a member of Colonial Dames of America, and the Daughters of Colonial Wars (DCW).
She is survived by her niece Darrell Landon Jones Spalding of Seminole, Florida; a great niece, Carrie Spalding of Burbank, California, and a great nephew, Robert Spalding of Washington, DC.
She will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on February 9, 2018 at 1 p.m., near her father and her great uncle General James Milton Thompson.
Published in The Washington Post on Jan. 28, 2018
.
She was the daughter of Ruth Ellis Barry Cowan and Dennie Francis Barry. Her first years were spent mostly in the south: Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana. At the age of 12, the family moved to Washington, DC.
She graduated from the old Western High School and Dunbarton College of Holy Cross, taking her degree in mathematics. During school terms she worked on the Hill for Senator Key Pittman of Nevada and the Washington newspaper, The Evening Star.
After finishing college, she accepted a position as a mathematician at the David W. Taylor Model Basin, now the Navy Research and Development Center at Carderock, Maryland. She worked several years at the Navy Hydrographic office in Suitland, MD and then enlisted in the Army.
She was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in December 1950 and served four years on active duty in Germany as a Quartermaster officer. She initiated the first commissary rail company.
She returned to civilian life in October 1954 and went back to work for the Navy at the Tidal Basin until her retirement on January 19, 1979. She retired from the Army Reserve as a Lt. Colonel.
She was an avid tennis player, won the Middle Atlantic Tennis Championship in women's doubles in 1949, and was a 67-year member of the Edgemoor Tennis and Swim Club.
She was a member of the DAR for over 50 years, the Richard Arnold Chapter of the District of Columbia. She was also a member of Colonial Dames of America, and the Daughters of Colonial Wars (DCW).
She is survived by her niece Darrell Landon Jones Spalding of Seminole, Florida; a great niece, Carrie Spalding of Burbank, California, and a great nephew, Robert Spalding of Washington, DC.
She will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on February 9, 2018 at 1 p.m., near her father and her great uncle General James Milton Thompson.
Published in The Washington Post on Jan. 28, 2018
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