| James C. Gaffney |
2009
James C. Gaffney, 73, a retired manager with a Maryland flooring firm, died Dec. 10 at Sibley Memorial Hospital after a heart attack.
He lived in Chevy Chase.
For 18 years, until he retired in 1994, Mr. Gaffney was a manager with Nash Floors of Rockville. During the Reagan and George
H.W. Bush administrations, he oversaw the flooring work in the Oval Office and the East Room of the White House, his wife said.
Before joining Nash, he sold life insurance and was a manager at lumber and cast-stone companies.
James Clark Gaffney, a lifelong District resident, graduated from St. John's College High School in 1952 and from Villanova
University in Pennsylvania in 1956. He then spent two years in the Army as a cryptographer in Frankfurt, Germany.
Mr. Gaffney was a Civil War enthusiast and enjoyed touring battlefields. He was a member of Christ the King Catholic Church in
Silver Spring, where he volunteered as an usher, lector and Eucharistic minister.
Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Mary Patricia Shea "Mary Pat" Gaffney of Chevy Chase; four children, John M. Gaffney of La
Jolla, Calif., James C. Gaffney of Acworth, Ga., Michael J. Gaffney of Bethesda and Mary G. Carey of Silver Spring; and 13
grandchildren.
-- Timothy R. Smith
James C. Gaffney, 73, a retired manager with a Maryland flooring firm, died Dec. 10 at Sibley Memorial Hospital after a heart attack.
He lived in Chevy Chase.
For 18 years, until he retired in 1994, Mr. Gaffney was a manager with Nash Floors of Rockville. During the Reagan and George
H.W. Bush administrations, he oversaw the flooring work in the Oval Office and the East Room of the White House, his wife said.
Before joining Nash, he sold life insurance and was a manager at lumber and cast-stone companies.
James Clark Gaffney, a lifelong District resident, graduated from St. John's College High School in 1952 and from Villanova
University in Pennsylvania in 1956. He then spent two years in the Army as a cryptographer in Frankfurt, Germany.
Mr. Gaffney was a Civil War enthusiast and enjoyed touring battlefields. He was a member of Christ the King Catholic Church in
Silver Spring, where he volunteered as an usher, lector and Eucharistic minister.
Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Mary Patricia Shea "Mary Pat" Gaffney of Chevy Chase; four children, John M. Gaffney of La
Jolla, Calif., James C. Gaffney of Acworth, Ga., Michael J. Gaffney of Bethesda and Mary G. Carey of Silver Spring; and 13
grandchildren.
-- Timothy R. Smith