Windle Francis Jarvis
2006
Windle Francis Jarvis, 91, a lawyer and association executive, died Feb. 28 at College View Center treatment center in Frederick.
Mr. Jarvis, a Washington native, attended Gonzaga College High School and graduated from  St. John's College High School. He was a graduate of Georgetown University and, in 1939, of Georgetown's law school.
Early in his career, he was an investigator for the radio program Court of Missing Heirs before joining the old Washington law firm of Burkinshaw, Maher and Murray. During World War II, he served in an Army intelligence unit.
After the war, he was special counsel to the House Small Business Committee. He later worked as chief of the claims and appeals section for the Army Corps of Engineers.
Mr. Jarvis then organized and managed trade associations and business institutes. After moving to the Detroit area in 1961, he served as executive secretary of the Automotive Exhaust Research Institute and Spring Research Institute. In those positions, he helped coordinate safety features for automobiles. He later founded and managed a company that provided roadside assistance to drivers. He returned to the Washington area in 1971 and engaged in a private law practice until his retirement in 1980.
Mr. Jarvis volunteered for Big Brothers and as a driver for elderly residents.
He lived in Bethesda and later in Potomac before moving to Frederick about five years ago.
His wife of 25 years, Harriet Connell Jarvis, died in 1973.
Survivors include three daughters, Kathleen J. Markley of Ellicott City, Evelyn T. Jarvis-Ferris of Atherton, Calif., and Jeanne P. Vasold of Frederick; a brother; and six grandchildren.