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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.
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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...
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Thomas Charles Gillmer, 98, a historian of ships and a naval architect who designed the Prides of Baltimore and other period replica vessels, died Dec. 16 at the Hospice of the Chesapeake's Mandrin House in Harwood, Md. He had dementia.
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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.
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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.
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Deborah Howell, a trailblazing newspaper editor who led the innovative Washington bureau of the Newhouse News Service before serving as ombudsman of The Washington Post, died Jan. 2 in an accident near Blenheim, New Zealand. She was 68.
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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 ...
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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.
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Robert H. Smith, 81, a major developer who was the guiding force behind Crystal City, and the person for whom the University of Maryland's business school is named, died yesterday at age 80 at Winchester Medical Center in Winchester, Va. We'll post more as we know it. His father Charles...
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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.
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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.
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The Washington Post Obituaries Desk Hello, obituary readers. We're short-staffed but we're staffed and working on several good stories for the next few days. Stay tuned and we'll do our best to keep you informed.

December 28, 2009 at 7:39am
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Jennifer Jones, 90, an actress who won an Academy Award playing a saint in "The Song of Bernadette" and became a popular sinner in Hollywood melodramas including "Duel in the Sun" and "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," died Dec. 17 at her home in Malibu, Calif.