Mary Lee O'Neal Chatrnuck
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2008
Mary Lee O'Neal Chatrnuck, 81, who served as administrative support for six presidents, died of complications of heart surgery
March 3 at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park. She was a former resident of Montpelier and lived most recently in
Riderwood Village in Silver Spring.
Mrs. Chatrnuck began working for the federal government in 1962, under President John F. Kennedy, and held positions in the
National Security Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. She retired in
1987 during the Reagan administration.
She was born in Philippi, W.Va., and moved to Washington in 1942. She was a graduate of Eastern High School. She
graduated from George Washington University in 1960 with a bachelor's degree in zoology.
She actively supported Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and her college sorority, Delta Zeta. She was a member of the board
of ATLAS Charitable Corp. in Laurel and a past president of the Montpelier Community Association.
She enjoyed playing bridge and reading historical novels. She was a member of the Riderwood Village Church.
Her husband, Stephen Chatrnuck, whom she married in 1949, died in 1995.
Survivors include a sister.
-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb