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Monday, November 16, 2009
Wilson L. "Bill" Darrow, 84, a retired director of administrative services at the National Academy of Sciences who was also a volunteer
firefighter and strawberry farmer, died Nov. 5 at his home in Glenn Dale, Md., of a degenerative neuromuscular disease.
Mr. Darrow worked at the Glenn Dale Hospital as a facilities engineer and at the D.C. Health Department as facilities chief before joining the
National Academy of Sciences in 1975. He retired in 1990
.
Wilson Lee Darrow, a native of Glenn Dale, was a 1943 graduate of what is now McKinley Technology High School. His parents owned a
farm in Glenn Dale where they grew strawberries, among other crops.
During World War II, he was a Navy pilot. He was chief of the Glenn Dale Volunteer Fire Department from 1953 to 1958. He received a
bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Maryland in 1968.
Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Janice Marcos Darrow, and their two daughters, Lee Darrow and Denice Darrow Kurtz, all of Glenn
Dale; and three grandchildren.
-- T. Rees Shapiro
Wilson L. "Bill" Darrow, 84, a retired director of administrative services at the National Academy of Sciences who was also a volunteer
firefighter and strawberry farmer, died Nov. 5 at his home in Glenn Dale, Md., of a degenerative neuromuscular disease.
Mr. Darrow worked at the Glenn Dale Hospital as a facilities engineer and at the D.C. Health Department as facilities chief before joining the
National Academy of Sciences in 1975. He retired in 1990
.
Wilson Lee Darrow, a native of Glenn Dale, was a 1943 graduate of what is now McKinley Technology High School. His parents owned a
farm in Glenn Dale where they grew strawberries, among other crops.
During World War II, he was a Navy pilot. He was chief of the Glenn Dale Volunteer Fire Department from 1953 to 1958. He received a
bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Maryland in 1968.
Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Janice Marcos Darrow, and their two daughters, Lee Darrow and Denice Darrow Kurtz, all of Glenn
Dale; and three grandchildren.
-- T. Rees Shapiro