Friday, January 12, 2007
Joseph N. Switkes, 83, an accountant who co-founded the Washington chapter of Accountants for the Public Interest in the
1970s, died of lung cancer Jan. 6 at Chesapeake Hospice's new Mandrin House in Annapolis.
He owned and operated an accounting firm in Bethesda and was a president of the D.C. Institute of Certified Public
Accountants.
Mr. Switkes was born in New Haven, Conn., and moved to Washington as a boy. He graduated from Eastern High School and
what was then Benjamin Franklin University, where he also received a master's degree in commercial science in 1948.
During World War II, he served in the Army artillery in Europe and fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
His wife of 56 years, Betty C. Switkes, died in 2004.
Survivors include three children, Ellen Switkes of Sherman Oaks, Calif., Harvey Switkes of Annapolis and Nancy Switkes of
Olney; a brother; and two grandchildren.