The Washington Post Obituaries Desk

Mary Gardiner Jones, 89, the first female commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission and a lively consumer advocate who didn't hesitate to upset the staid federal bureaucracy of the 1960s, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 23 at her home in the District.

Kenneth Noland, an influential abstract painter who was a founder of the Washington Color School of painting, the only major development in 20th-century art to originate in the District, died Jan. 5 of kidney cancer at his home in Port Clyde, Maine. He was 85.

Retired Gen. Lew Allen Jr., a nuclear physicist who led the National Security Agency and served as the senior uniformed officer in the Air Force before heading NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1980s, died Jan. 4 at home in Potomac Falls of complications from rheumatoid arthritis. He was 84.

Courtney A. Evans, 95, a top FBI official who served as a liaison among FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, died Dec. 11 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the Carlisle Naples retirement center in Naples, Fla.

Marcia Slacum Greene, 57, a tenacious Washington Post editor and reporter whose assignments included politics, housing and social services and who saw journalism as a way to humanize and illuminate the lives of the marginalized and voiceless, died Jan. 4 at her home in Washington. She had...

Smith Bagley, 74, a prominent Democratic fundraiser, activist and Georgetown socialite, died Jan. 2 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda of complications from a stroke he suffered Christmas Eve while vacationing in St. Simons Island, Ga.

Lee P. Sigelman, 64, a political science professor at George Washington University whose wit enlivened political research, died Dec. 21 at his home in Washington. He had colon cancer that had metastasized to his liver.

Robert H. Smith, a real estate mogul and philanthropist who created the sprawling government and commercial center of Crystal City in Arlington County, and who built his family's company into the single largest property owner in the Washington region, died Dec. 29 at Winchester Medical Center in ...

Joseph Grimaldi, 83, a former soccer coach at the University of Maryland and Walter Johnson High School, died Dec. 18 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. He had dementia.

Eugene D. Glover, 86, a leader of the international machinists union for two decades, died Dec. 18 at Ellicott City Health and Rehabilitation Center of complications from diabetes. He lived most recently in Laurel.

John Rendall Braddon, 80, a Marine pilot whose 1964 rescue of downed helicopter crews in Vietnam resulted in the award of the Silver Star medal, died Dec. 11 of heart disease at Capital Hospice in Arlington. He lived in Fairfax County.