

Survivors include a brother, Vernal Gabriel of Washington. His marriage to Gertrude Dory Gabriel ended in divorce. He was a member of Pi Lambda Phi social fraternity. Gabriel wrote numerous technical publications and helped low-income black students get scholarships to Dartmouth. He was a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War. He joined the Navy Department about 1980. Weather Bureau in the 1950s, and in the 1960s and 1970s, he was an electronics engineer for the Army Department's Harry Diamond Laboratories and at Fort Belvoir. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.

He received a master's degree in electrical engineering from the U.S. He was a 1952 chemistry, zoology and physics graduate of Dartmouth College and an electrical engineering graduate of Howard University. Gabriel, a Washington native and resident, was a graduate of Dunbar High School. Harter of Springfield and a grandson.īruce Gabriel Jr., 69, who retired from the Naval Air Systems Command in 1987 as a civilian electronic engineer and program manager, died of a liver ailment Nov. Survivors include her husband since 1990, Thomas Brown of Washington a son from the first marriage, John R. Holmes-Brown, who was born in Leesburg and grew up in Washington, was a graduate of Eastern High School.Īfter retiring from NIH, she did volunteer work through the early 1990s at Friendship Terrace Senior Center and Sibley Memorial Hospital, both in Washington. She had been at Manor Care about a month and had a home in Washington. 5 at the Manor Care nursing home in Chevy Chase. Ruth Mary Creal Holmes-Brown, 82, who did grants administration work for the National Institutes of Health from 1949 to the early 1980s, died of cancer Dec. Survivors include five daughters, Anna Earman Corder of Washingtonville, N.Y., Denise Fauteux of Herndon, Joanie Earman of Floyd, Va., and Mary Anne Glitz and Margie Earman, both of Falls Church five sons, James "Bing" Earman of Vienna, Wilson Earman of Colonial Beach, Va., Nick Earman of Reston and Joe Earman and Chris Earman, both of Falls Church two sisters 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Earman Jr., whom she married in 1944, died in January. She did clerical work for the City of Falls Church in the early 1970s before joining what was Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Earman was born in Scranton, Pa., and came to the Washington area during World War II to do secretarial work for the Army Quartermaster Corps. 3 at a hospital in Hollywood, Fla., after a heart attack.Ī former Falls Church resident, she moved to Hallandale, Fla., in 1994. Condolences may be shared at Claire Noto Earman, 77, who did secretarial work in the Washington area from 1978 to 1988 for what became Bell Atlantic, died Dec.

Burial will follow at Sebastian Cemetery.Īrrangements are under the direction of Boyd-Panciera Family Funeral Care, Hollywood, FL. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews and her pets Gretchen and Monkey.ĭebra was predeceased by her husband, Samuel Coburn in 2010.įriends may be called from 1-2 pm on Friday, Septemat Friendship Christian Community Church, 611 Schumann Drive, Sebastian, FL 32958 with Reverend Ron Thomas officiating. She is survived by her son Joshua Coburn of Vero Beach, FL sister Darlene Piatt-Basden of Raleigh, NC brother Ray Jones of Vero Beach, FL grandchildren Sam and Jacob Coburn both of Vero Beach, FL. Debra was a graduate of Vero Beach High School class of 1979.ĭebra was the owner and operator of Coburn & Company. She was born in Vero Beach, FL and was a lifelong resident. Debra Ann (Jones) Coburn, 59 of Vero Beach, FL passed away on Septemat Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, FL.
