Mary-Turley Lemon
	2007
Mary-Turley Lemon Coulter Devine, 85, who headed an award program in the Commerce Department's Office of Economic Development, died Sept. 6 at the Fountains at Washington House in Alexandria, where she lived. She had  Alzheimer's disease.
Mrs. Devine was born in Hannibal, Mo., and moved to Arlington with her family during the Depression. She graduated from Roosevelt High School in the District and attended Strayer College.
She joined the War Department during World War II, and after the war, she was sent to Nuremberg, Germany, as a secretary for the war crime trials. After returning to the Washington area, she joined the Commerce Department. She retired in 1978.
After retiring from the government, she worked for the Daughters of the American Revolution in the registrar's office for about 10 years. She continued to volunteer for DAR after she left her paid job and was active in the docent program.
She was a member of the Colonial Dames and the Washington Assembly.
Her marriages to Robert William Coulter and Paul Salembier Devine ended in divorce.
Survivors include a daughter from her first marriage, Laura E. Coulter Thomas of Warrenton, and a grandson.
-- Patricia Sullivan