2005
Elizabeth Eustace Earll Verlie 

Elizabeth Eustace Earll Verlie, 85, a native Washingtonian who worked as a teacher and social worker in Ohio, died of cancer Dec. 15 at her home in   Oberlin, Ohio.
A fourth generation Washingtonian, Mrs. Verlie was a member of the 1937 inaugural graduating class of  Woodrow Wilson High  School.
She went on to graduate from Swarthmore College and was an employee of the Agriculture, Labor and Justice departments during World War II.
After the war, she and her husband settled in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where they lived for the next 40 years. She taught English as a second language and worked as a social worker with an agency that provides assistance to recent immigrants.
In the 1990s, she helped create a volunteer clearinghouse to match volunteers with the needs of a community. In 2003 she described the structure of the organization as a guest speaker at the Washington headquarters of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
Survivors include her husband, E. Joseph Verlie of Oberlin; two daughters, Anne Vollbrecht of Dexter, Mich., and Joan Hall of Gross Pointe, Mich.; a brother, Robert E. Earll of Chevy Chase; a sister, Letitia Earll Pfanz of Gaithersburg; six grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
A daughter, Carolyn Kent, died in 1988.