William B. Albert

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2009

William B. Abert, 88, who retired in 1982 as an executive with Silver Spring-based American National Bank of Maryland, died May 14 at Rockville Nursing
Home. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Mr. Abert began working for American National Bank in the early 1960s, and his positions included assistant vice president. The Rockville resident had
spent his earlier career with the State Department and other banks.

From 1987 to 1999, he was a mail courier for the Marriott Corp.

William Baldwin Abert was a Rockville native and 1938 graduate of
Gonzaga College High School in Washington. He graduated from Strayer business
college. During World War II, he served in the Coast Guard, and he participated in the invasion of southern France in 1944.

His memberships included St. Mary's Catholic Church in Rockville. He was a former president of a bankers association in Montgomery County. He was a
former treasurer of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Mary Margaret Garrett Abert of Rockville; two stepchildren, Tom King of Pine Knoll Shores, N.C., and Garrie
Black of Gaithersburg; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein