WILLIAM S. SEUFERT, 62, DIES

WAS LT. COLONEL IN AIR FORCE

William S. Seufert, 62, an associate broker with ReMax Properties in Arlington who was a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and combat veteran of two wars, died of cancer April 13 at the Hospice of Northern Virginia. He lived in Springfield.

Col. Seufert was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Chicago, where he received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering at Roosevelt University. He received another bachelor's degree, in aeronautical engineering, at the Air Force Institute of Technology in Ohio, and a master's degree in public administration at George Washington University.

Col. Seufert joined the Army Air Forces near the end of World War II. He flew 100 combat missions during the Korean War. In 1968, during the Vietnam War, he served as an operations officer and flew 159 combat missions.

In addition to his war service, his assignments included duty as an aircraft accident investigator in Europe and as a flight instructor in the United States. His last post was with the Air Systems Command at Andrews Air Force Base. He retired from active duty in 1976.

He then joined what was then Routh Robbins Realty in Springfield as a salesman. He went to ReMax in 1986.

His military decorations included three Distinguished Flying Crosses and 12 Air Medals.

Col. Seufert had been a past operations chairman of the Fairfax County Republican Party and a past scout master with the Boy Scouts in Springfield.

Survivors include his wife, Ione Seufert of Springfield; three children, James W. Seufert of Burke, Jane E. Arrington and John R. Seufer, both of Marietta, Ga.; his parents, Betty and Raymond Seufert of Elm Grove, Wis.; and six grandchildren.

EUGENE J. HERRING

Businessman

Eugene Joseph Herring, 55, a retired owner and operator of E.J. Herring & Sons, an Edgewater, Md., heating and air-conditioning business, died of cancer April 15 at his home in Edgewater.

Mr. Herring was a Washington native and a graduate of Western High School. Before starting his business in 1984, he had worked in the Washington area for more than 30 years for several heating and air-conditioning companies, including the R.E. Donovan Co. and Total Mechanical Contractors Inc., both in Rockville. He retired in 1989.

He was a member of Local No. 602 of the Steamfitters Union and the Marlin Club in Ocean City.

Survivors include his wife, Leanna Margaret Herring of Edgewater; four children, Joseph Earl Herring of Edgewater, Scott Eugene Herring of Dunkirk, Md., and Kim Marie Awad and Katherine Leanna Grauel, both of Edgewater; his mother, Ruth Marie Maykrantz, and his stepfather, George Maykrantz, both of Mayo, Md.; and 12 grandchildren.

ARTHUR L. OPPENHEIMER

Area Resident Since 1986

Arthur L. Oppenheimer, 97, an area resident since 1986 who had been a manufacturer's representative in Detroit for 57 years before retiring in 1986, died of congestive heart failure April 13 at his home in Silver Spring.

He operated his own business in Detroit for 36 years before joining the Abbott K. Schlain Co. in 1965. He worked for that Detroit concern until retiring.

Mr. Oppenheimer was a native of Grand Rapids, Mich., and a civil engineering graduate of the University of Michigan. He served with the Army in Europe during World War I.

Survivors include his wife of 67 years, Marie, of Silver Spring; and two daughters, Mary Oppenheimer of Bethesda and Nanci Oppenheimer of Warrenton, Va.

ERNEST H. STROUSE

Brick Mason

Ernest H. Strouse, 52, a self-employed brick mason since 1966 who was a member of Bricklayers Union Local No. 6 and the Sandy Spring Museum, died April 1 at Montgomery General Hospital after a heart attack.

Mr. Strouse, who lived in Ashton, was born in Olney. He graduated from Sherwood High School and served in the Army from 1961 to 1966.

Survivors include his wife, Phyllis A. Strouse of Ashton; and three children, Ernest A. Strouse of Beltsville, Daniel J. Strouse of Cheverly and Sabrina R. Strouse of Beltsville.

JOHN M. "BUD" BAYHA

Typesetter

John M. "Bud" Bayha, 70, a retired Commerce Department typesetter, died April 14 at a hospital in Las Vegas after a heart attack.

Mr. Bayha, who had lived in Las Vegas since 1979, was a native of York, Pa. During World War II, he served in the Army. He settled here in the mid-1940s when he joined the Commerce Department. He retired in the mid-1970s.

Survivors include his wife, Avinell L. Bayha of Las Vegas; three sons, Gerald Bayha of Akron, Ohio, Martin Bayha of Las Vegas and Michael Bayha of Laytonsville; two sisters, Sarah E. Compton of Las Vegas and Martha F. Wise of Silver Spring; a brother, Franklin H. Bayha of Ypsilanti, Mich.; and three grandchildren.

BERNICE MIREE LOEWER

Office Manager

Bernice Miree Loewer, 67, an office manager at Lynch Wilde & Co., a Washington financial management firm, died of cancer April 14 at her daughter's home in Hellertown, Pa. She lived in Greenbelt.

Mrs. Loewer, who was a native of Washington, was a graduate of Roosevelt High School and attended the College of William and Mary. During World War II, she worked as a secretary at the War Department and as an expediter with the U.S. Maritime Commission.

She lived in Baltimore and Pennsylvania from 1946 to 1952. She then returned here. She joined Lynch Wilde & Co. in 1976 as a secretary.

Her marriages to Alvin Conrad Loewer Jr. and Eugene O. Clapp ended in divorce.

Survivors include two children by her first marriage, Lynne Miree Paul of Hellertown and Douglas George Loewer of Berlin, Md.; and two grandchildren.

DEBORAH P. BYROADE

Fitness Instructor

Deborah Price Byroade, 37, a former fitness instructor and office manager who had been a member of Annandale Methodist Church and its choir, died April 14 at Arlington Hospital. She had Hodgkin's disease.

Mrs. Byroade, who lived in Arlington, was born in Washington. She was a graduate of Annandale High School and attended Northern Virginia Community College.

From 1986 to 1987, she taught physical fitness classes for the elderly at the Woodland Hill retirement home in Arlington. From 1987 to 1989, she was an aide to head of the New York Festival Committee, which promotes New York businesses and interests in Washington. In 1988, she also had been office manager of the Dahlia Foundation, a spiritual group, in Washington.

Survivors include her husband, Jon, a son, Joby, and a daughter, Melissa Byroade, all of Arlington; her parents, Helen and Joseph Price of Annandale; and a sister, Linda Brillhart of Burke.

FRED A. BLOCH

Lumber Executive

Fred A. Bloch, 84, a retired lumber business executive who managed the Washington office of Dant & Russell Sales Co., a West Coast forest products organization, died of cancer April 8 at Sibley Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Bloch, who lived in Chevy Chase, was born in Mannheim, Germany.

He was in the lumber business in Germany before immigrating to Washington and opening the Dant & Russell office here in 1941. Initially, he was the firm's liaison officer with the U.S. government. Later, he specialized in the wholesaling of West Coast forest products in Washington, Maryland and Virginia. He retired in 1978.

He was a member of the choir at Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington and had also served as chairman of the church's finance committee, as a trustee and as a member of the church council.

Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Lydia E. Bloch of Chevy Chase, and a brother, Henry W. Bloch of New York.

JACQUELINE B. BEALE

Alexandria Resident

Jacqueline B. Beale, 75, a resident of Alexandria for nearly 50 years and a member of environmental and animal-rights groups, died April 16 at her home in Alexandria. She had emphysema.

Mrs. Beale was born in Switzerland. She came to the United States in the early 1930s and settled in Alexandria.

She was a member of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the National Humane Education Society, the Doris Day Animal League and Greenpeace.

Her husband, Marcellus T. Beale, died in 1988. Survivors include four sons, D. Anthony Beale of Springfield, Oliver E. Beale of Fort Washington, Douglas T. Beale and Allen S. Beale, both of Alexandria; a sister, Christianne Conty of France; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

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