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Wednesday, October 27, 2010; 12:33 AM
Martha Donohue, 89, the widow of F. Joseph "Jiggs" Donohue, a
prominent District lawyer who served in the early 1950s as president of the
Board of Commissioners, the District's pre-home-rule governing body, died
of respiratory failure Oct. 18 at Capital Hospice in Arlington.
Mrs. Donohue did secretarial work for the FBI during World War II and
later did volunteer work with the American Red Cross and was a candy
striper at the Andrews Air Force Base hospital. She was a past member of
the women's board at Georgetown University Hospital.
Martha Vey Apperson was a native Washingtonian and graduate of
Western High School.
She married Donohue in 1948. They divorced in 1957, only to remarry
several years later. He died in 1978.
Survivors include her companion of 30 years, John F. Jones of Washington.
- Adam Bernstein
Martha Donohue, 89, the widow of F. Joseph "Jiggs" Donohue, a
prominent District lawyer who served in the early 1950s as president of the
Board of Commissioners, the District's pre-home-rule governing body, died
of respiratory failure Oct. 18 at Capital Hospice in Arlington.
Mrs. Donohue did secretarial work for the FBI during World War II and
later did volunteer work with the American Red Cross and was a candy
striper at the Andrews Air Force Base hospital. She was a past member of
the women's board at Georgetown University Hospital.
Martha Vey Apperson was a native Washingtonian and graduate of
Western High School.
She married Donohue in 1948. They divorced in 1957, only to remarry
several years later. He died in 1978.
Survivors include her companion of 30 years, John F. Jones of Washington.
- Adam Bernstein