Jean Andrea Miller Aylor

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Jean M. Aylor, coordinator, volunteer


Published: June 1

     Jean M. Aylor, 91, a coordinator in the State Department’s Office of
Inter-American Affairs from 1940 to 1948, died May 17 at the Arbor at
BayWoods, an assisted-living facility in Annapolis, of complications from a
heart attack.
     
     Jean Andrea Miller, a native Washingtonian, was a 1936 graduate of
Western High School. In 1940 she received a bachelor’s degree in political
science from American University.

     During the 1960s, she volunteered with the Head Start program and at
the Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind.

     She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and the Glen Forest
Community Association, both in Fairfax County, which was where she had
been a resident from 1955 until she moved to Annapolis in 2005.

     Her husband of 53 years, John H. Aylor, died in 2001. Survivors
include three children, Cheryl Aylor of Greenbackville, Va., John R.B. Aylor
of Harwood, Md., and Joan A. Kirby of Burke; a sister; and four
grandchildren.


— Lauren Wiseman