Marie T. Sullivan, 85, a homemaker, Air Force wife and a secretary with several federal agencies, died Feb. 10, 2006 of complications of
bypass surgery at the National Naval Medical Center. She had lived in Fort Washington for the past 20 years and before that for many years
in the District's Congress Heights neighborhood.
Mrs. Sullivan was born in Washington, on the last working farm in Southeast. She graduated from Eastern High School in 1937 and went to
work in 1939 for the regulation and enforcement division of the Civil Aeronautics Administration. During her husband's Air Force career, she
lived in Missouri, Massachusetts, Australia and New Zealand.
From 1955 to 1962, she worked as a secretary in the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations. From 1965 until her retirement in 1974,
she worked in the Office of Industrial Security for the Defense Security Agency.
She was a member of St. Columba Catholic Church in Oxon Hill.
She also was an avid golfer at Hinson Creek in Oxon Hill, and her family relied on her to run its annual football pool, a duty she happily
fulfilled until last season.
Her husband, John P. Sullivan, died in 2000.
Survivors include three children, Patricia M. McGarvey of Adelphi, John L. Sullivan of Oxon Hill and Drew T. Sullivan of Springfield; three
sisters, Zora Zurowski of Fort Washington, Emily O'Leary of St. Leonard and Patricia Shook of San Diego; 11 grandchildren; eight
great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren