Arthur E. Newman Jr.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008  Arthur Eugene Newman Jr., 63, who sold high-end color copiers for Compucel in Laurel until 2005, died May 11 at his home at Leisure World in Silver Spring. He had end-stage kidney disease and cancer. Mr. Newman was born in Elyria, Ohio, and grew up in Washington. He graduated from  Coolidge High School and attended George Washington and Howard universities.
He attended Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa, and was recruited during the 1965-66 academic year to play tackle on the Fort Dodge Community College football team. There he met his future wife, and they returned to the Washington area.
From 1966 to 1972, Mr. Newman was a journeyman meat cutter and a meat manager for Safeway in Washington. He and his wife then owned a Big Value  Supermarket in Northwest for three years and an Arnold Bread franchise from 1976 to 1982.
In the 1980s, Mr. Newman graduated with a computer programming degree from a Computer Learning Center in Virginia.
Mr. Newman was a fourth-generation Seventh-day Adventist and a member and former deacon of the Wheaton Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Rene Funk Newman of Silver Spring; two children, Dawn Cherie Newman of Columbia and Erica Newman of Greenbelt; and a brother.