2007
Robert Gunnell Hazard, 74, a retired allergist, died of a stroke Feb. 8 at Inova Loudoun Hospital. A former Potomac resident, he
had been living in Lansdowne in recent years.
Dr. Hazard was born in the District and graduated from Calvin Coolidge High School in 1952. He received an undergraduate
degree in psychology from the University of Maryland in 1956 and a medical degree from the University of Maryland Medical
School in 1964.
He trained at Providence Hospital and Children's Hospital in the District and served for two years in the Public Health Service at
the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. He returned to the Washington area in 1969 and was in private practice in Rockville
for 27 years.
In the early 1990s, he joined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a medical officer overseeing medical ethics of clinical
trials. He retired again in 1997.
When his children were younger, Dr. Hazard established a tribe of Y-Indian guides and was a member of Potomac Presbyterian
Church, where he served as a deacon. He also enjoyed family trips.
In retirement, still nostalgic for the first automobile he ever owned, he joined the Model A Ford Club of America and was hoping
to find a Model A to restore that was similar to the one he drove as a teenager. He also enjoyed sailing on the Chesapeake Bay
with his son and his brother.
Survivors include his wife of 49 years, Ann Hazard of Lansdowne; two children, Bob Hazard Jr. of Bethesda and Jeanne Hazard
Osborne of Oak Hill; and two granddaughters.