Lawyer Marshall Wiley Dies

Marshall W. Wiley, 72, a retired Foreign Service officer and former Washington lawyer who also was a past president of the U.S.-Iraq Forum trade association, died of leukemia Jan. 31 at George Washington University Hospital. He lived in Bethesda. Mr. Wiley, who was ambassador to Oman from 1978 to 1981, was a member of the Foreign Service from 1958 until retiring in 1981. He then became a parter in the Washington offices of the giant Chicago-based law firm of Sidley & Austin, and he later was of counsel to the firm from 1984 to 1991.In addition to serving as forum president, from 1985 to 1990, he also had served as board chairman of American Near East Refugee Aid and on the advisory committee of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. He was a member of Americans for Middle East Understanding.Nearly his entire Foreign Service career was devoted to the Middle East. In addition to his ambassadorship, he had served as U.S. deputy chief of mission in Saudi Arabia, chief of the U.S. interests section in Baghdad and North African Affairs director at State Department headquarters. Early tours had taken him to Yemen, Lebanon, and Jordan. He also had worked, on assignment from the State Department, for the Rand Corp. in California.Mr. Wiley, a Washington area resident since 1965, was a native of Rockford, Ill. A Navy aviator during World War II, he was a 1943 philosophy graduate of the University of Chicago and a 1948 graduate of its law school. He received a master's degree in business administration from the university in 1949.Before joining the Foreign Service, he had worked for the Ford Foundation, been a management consultant and university official.In recent years, Mr. Wiley had lectured widely on the Middle East and had appeared on numerous network news programs as an authority on the Middle East. In 1994, he received a master's degree in liberal arts from Johns Hopkins University.Survivors include his wife, Marjorie Eeane Wiley of Bethesda; and three children, Dr. Steven Wiley of Libertyville, Ill., Dr. Douglas Wiley of Manhattan Beach, Calif., and Cynthia Wiley Coleman of Falls Church. ROBERT B.W. SMITH Physician and ColonelRobert B.W. Smith, 73, a retired Washington internist and retired Air Force colonel who served as medical director of the National Science Foundation from 1985 to 1989, died of a heart ailment Jan. 30 at Bethesda Naval Hospital. He lived in Bethesda.Col. Smith was commissioned in the Air Force in 1949, serving in a variety of medical posts until retiring from active duty in 1971. He then practiced internal medicine in Washington until retiring from full-time practice in 1980.During his years in private practice, he also taught at George Washington University medical school. He received hospital appointments to Suburban, Holy Cross and Sibley Memorial hospitals, as well as the Washington Hospital Center.He was past president of the D.C. Thoracic Society and a past Air Force governor of the American College of Physicians. His other memberships included the College of Chest Physicians and the Japanese American Citizens League.Col. Smith was born in Recife, Brazil, to American missionary parents. He was a graduate of Harvard University and a 1949 graduate of Columbia University medical school. He served his internship in Denver and served his residency in internal medicine at Walter Reed Army Hospital from 1954 to 1958.During his Air Force years, he served in Japan and at Andrews Air Force Base. He had tours in the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General, where he was deputy director of professional services and chief of the consultants division.He lived in Clinton from 1964 until moving to Bethesda in 1971. His hobbies included ornithology and painting. His bird watercolors have been exhibited in the Washington area.Survivors include his wife of 45 years, Etsuko Yoshimura Smith of Bethesda; four sons, John Rockwell Smith of Gaithersburg, Bruce Robert Smith of Parker, Colo., Peter Francis Smith of Bethesda and Richard Warfield Smith of Chicago; a sister, Alice Born of St. Louis; and four grandchildren. MEREDITH DAVE' DAVIDSON Sr. CIA OfficialMeredith Preston "Dave" Davidson Sr., 77, an intelligence official with the Central Intelligence Agency for 25 years before retiring in 1974 who also was a retired colonel in the Army Reserve, died Jan. 30 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital. He had emphysema.Mr. Davidson, who joined the CIA in 1949, served on agency intelligence briefing teams to Presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. From 1961 to 1963, he was stationed in Honolulu, where his duties included analyzing data from U-2 flights over east Asia. He retired as an assistant to the deputy director of Central Intelligence.He was a 1941 graduate of Henderson State University in his native Arkansas. During World War II, he fought with the Army in such Pacific campaigns as the Solomon Islands and received the Purple Heart. He transfered from active duty to the reserves when he joined the CIA.Mr. Davidson had lived in Frederick for 13 years before moving to the Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg about three months ago.Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Sarah H., of Gaithersburg; four sons, Meredith "Davy" Davidson Jr. of Greeley, Colo., Hugh H. Davidson of Silver Spring and Arthur M. Davidson and H. Dudley Davidson, both of Rockville; a daughter, Elizabeth Seabrook of Annapolis; and eight grandchildren. WALLACE WALTER PRICE Army OfficerWallace Walter Price, 76, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who helped to start the Washington chapter of a national community service organization, died of prostate cancer Jan. 23 at Northern Virginia Hospice.Col. Price, a native of East St. Louis, Ill., had lived in Washington since 1982. In the 1980s, he was a among a group of people who organized the creation of a local office for EDGES, a nonprofit organization that promotes education and economic development.He graduated from Southern Illinois University and received a master's degree in education from Virginia State University. He also did doctoral work in school administration and law at the University of Pennsylvania.Col. Price served 22 years in the Army, beginning in 1942, and had assignments with military intelligence and later the Quartermaster Corps. He served in Korea during the Korean War and was later stationed in Japan, France and Germany.After his military retirement in 1964, he settled in the New York-New Jersey area, where he held management-level jobs for a variety of companies.His first wife, Hortense Price, died in 1980.Survivors include his wife, Adrienne Price of Washington; three children from his first marriage, Sandra Price of Silver Spring, Wallace Price II of Evergreen, Colo., and Catherine Counts of Plainsboro, N.J.; three stepchildren, Linda Rhodes, Mark McMurdock and David McMurdock, all of California; a sister; and eight grandchildren. FRANCIS RANKIN KING Golfer and VolunteerFrancis Rankin King, 81, an accomplished amateur golfer and longtime volunteer for the American Red Cross, died of cancer Jan. 25 at the Hospice of Northern Virginia.Mrs. King, a native of Stronghurst, Ill., had lived in McLean since 1964, when her husband, Army Col. Edward W. King, retired from the military. Earlier, she accompanied him on his military assignments across the United States and Europe.She took part in several amateur golf tournaments in the Washington area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She was a three-time winner of the Army Navy Country Club's Ladies 18-Hole championships and was captain of six consecutive Ladies Virginia State Teams that competed in interstate golf tournaments. She was a member of the Army Navy Country Club.She was a volunteer with the American Red Cross for 35 years. In the Washington area, she was Red Cross volunteer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Fort Myer Hospital.Her husband died in 1986. She leaves no immediate survivors. JOYCE JO' LANDRETH THORNTON Washington Area NativeJoyce Lee "Jo" Landreth Thornton, 43, a Washington area native who had worked as an assistant property manager, died of cancer Jan. 30 at a hospital in Charlottesville.Mrs. Thornton, who was born in Washington, grew up in Oxon Hill and attended Oxon Hill High School. She worked as a secretary for Wharton Construction in Suitland, then was an assistant property manager for a rental apartment building in Indian Head from about 1980 to 1991.She moved from Oxon Hill to Peterstown, W. Va., in 1991.Survivors include her husband, William Tinker Thornton of Peterstown; three children, Suzanna Rose Thornton and Jimmy "Thumper" Thornton, both of Peterstown, and Thomas Dane Thornton of Oxon Hill; and a granddaughter. MARGARET ELIZABETH DRAKE ClerkMargaret Elizabeth Drake, 80, who retired in 1993 as a clerk in Metro's treasury department, died Jan. 30 at the Hospice of Northern Virginia of injuries suffered in a fall a few days earlier at Sunrise Assisted Living in Sterling.Ms. Drake, a native of Blairs Mills, Pa., was a clerk for Trailways bus line in Baltimore before settling in the Washington area in the 1950s. She joined Metro in 1980.She had lived in Washington before moving to Sunrise Assisted Living in 1996.Survivors include a brother and a half-brother. DAVID JORDAN HARMON OpticianDavid Jordan Harmon, 27, an optician who worked for several optical shops in the Washington area since 1990, died Jan. 21 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital of cardiac arrest. He had asthma.Mr. Harmon, who lived in Rockville, was born in Bethesda and grew up in Gaithersburg. At Seneca Valley High School, from which he graduated in 1988, he was a member of the Adventure in Science and ROTC programs.He later majored in engineering and studied criminal and corporate law at Montgomery College.A part-time job at Pearl Optical led to his interest in optometry. He became a certified optician of the American Board of Opticianry and worked at Lens Crafters, Pearl Vision Center and Four Eyes. He was an optician with Eye's NOW for several months until December.Survivors include his father, David Ervin Harmon Sr., of Gaithersburg; a half-brother, Dr. David Ervin Harmon Jr. of Upper Marlboro; a half-sister, Carla M. Harmon of Upper Marlboro; and a maternal grandmother, Alethea Jordan Wells of Farrell, Pa. DOUGLAS GRAHAM ROBIN Air Force CaptainDouglas Graham Robin, 66, a retired Air Force captain who later worked as a corporate pilot and hospital furniture salesman, died of cancer Jan. 23 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He lived in Middleburg.Capt. Robin, who was born in White Plains, N.Y., grew up in Greenwich, Conn. He graduated from the University of Maryland and served 15 years in the Air Force beginning in 1954.During his military career, he was a pilot in a program to test nuclear weapons, and he served in the Vietnam War. After his military retirement in 1963, he became a corporate pilot with Hillenbrand Industries in Batesville, Ind., and later joined the company's sales division. He came to Washington in 1973 and retired from Hillenbrand about 10 years later.He was active in the theater group Middleburg Players, St. Stephens Catholic Church in Middleburg and the Middleburg Tennis Club.Survivors include his wife, Betty Bopst Robin, and their daughter, Mary Robin Petersen, both of Middleburg; and a grandson. EMMA H. LaMACCHIA SecretaryEmma H. LaMacchia, 79, who had been a secretary with the Library of Congress and the University of Maryland Mathematics Department during the 1960s, died of cardiac arrest Jan. 22 at the Rockville Nursing Home.Mrs. LaMacchia was a New York native. She came to the Washington area in 1940 and lived in Greenbelt before settling in Berwyn Heights, where she had lived since 1952. In Berwyn Heights, she belonged to scouting and homemakers groups. Also, she belonged to the sodality of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Berwyn.Her husband of 56 years, Philip J. LaMacchia, died in 1996.Survivors include five children, John T. LaMacchia of Cincinnati, Evelyn LaMacchia Kelley of Potomac, Kenneth R. LaMacchia of Timonium, Md., Air Force Maj. Richard F. LaMacchia, who is stationed in Panama, and Michael P. LaMacchia of Gilbert, Ariz.; two sisters, Evelyn Grignon of Vero Beach, Fla., and Gloria Weber of Lutherville, Md.; and 14 grandchildren.