Millicent Vogel Gough

2006
Millicent Vogel Gough, 81, a retired editor with the National Science Foundation.
Died of pneumonia April 25 at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville, Md. She was a former Chevy Chase resident.
Mrs. Gough was born in Washington and graduated from Wilson High School in 1943. She received a bachelor's degree in 1947 from Indiana University, where she was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority.
She joined the Army Map Service as an editor in 1947 and stayed until the mid-1960s, when she became a homemaker. She went back to work in 1982 as the chief editor for the Science Resource Study Division of the National Science Foundation. She retired in 1993.
Mrs. Gough was a former member of Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church and more recently Christ Episcopal Church in Kensington. She was a cancer survivor for 24 years and enjoyed playing the piano, cooking, reading, writing and listening to music. She also enjoyed her two dogs.
Her husband, Gaines Homer Gough, died in 1986.
Survivors include her daughter, Melanie Anne Cooley of Keymar, Md.; and four grandchildren.