Harold C. Hinton, 68, a professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and an authority on China and the Far East, died of a heart attack Sept. 24 at the Estes Park Medical Center in Estes Park, Colo.
He was the editor of "The People's Republic of China: A Handbook" (1978) and "The People's Republic of China: A Documentary Survey," a seven-volume work covering 1949 to 1984.
Dr. Hinton was born in Paris, where his father was a correspondent for the New York Times. He lived in Paris, London and New York before moving to Washington in 1932. During World War II, he served in the Army and was a military historian on Okinawa and in Korea.
He graduated from Harvard University, where he also received master's and doctoral degrees in Far Eastern history. In 1952, he went to Cambridge University, England, on a Fulbright scholarship. He also lectured at Oxford University.
In the 1950s, he taught at Georgetown University and at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute. In the 1960s, he taught at Trinity College in Washington and was a senior staff member of the Institute for Defense Analyses.
Dr. Hinton was a visiting lecturer at Harvard and Columbia universities and at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He often was consulted by the State Department and other government organizations and by the news media on developments in Asia, and he often spoke on radio and television shows.
Last spring, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Colorado.
Dr. Hinton was a member of the American Association for Chinese Studies, the Harvard Club of Washington, Phi Beta Kappa, the Cosmos Club and the parish of Annunciation Catholic Church in Washington.
His marriage to Virginia Stodder ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife of 17 years, Carolyn S. Hinton of Estes Park; two children from his first marriage, Dr. John R. Hinton of Miami and Page Bridges of Juneau, Alaska; and three grandchildren.
The above obituary is reprinted from The Post's Friday editions. The Friday obituary incorrectly reported Dr. Hinton's name.
LAWRENCE M. PETRUCELLI
NIH Scientist
Lawrence Michael Petrucelli, 61, a pharmacologist who retired from the National Institutes of Health in 1992 as head of a rheumatic diseases research program, was found dead Sept. 27 in the Georgetown Channel of the Potomac River.
The cause and circumstances of the death were under investigation by the D.C. medical examiner's office. Dr. Petrucelli had been missing for several days before his body was found.
Dr. Petrucelli, a resident of Chevy Chase, was born in Bridgeport, Conn. He graduated from Fordham University. He received a master's degree in pharmacology from Ohio State University and a doctorate in pharmacology from Georgetown University. He served in the Army during the Korean War.
Dr. Petrucelli moved to the Washington area in 1962. From 1968 to 1970, he had a postdoctoral fellowship in neuropharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh's medical school. He then returned to the Washington area and began his career at the National Institutes of Health.
He was secretary of the pharmacology study section in the divison of research grants until 1974, when he joined what is now the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Dr. Petrucelli was a parishioner of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Washington, and he was a lector and Eucharistic sentinel. He also was a past president the Washington chapter of the Secular Franciscans, a lay order.
Survivors include his wife of 31 years, Rosemarie Bifano Petrucelli, and a son, Michael J. Petrucelli, both of Chevy Chase; and his mother, Helen R. Petrucelli of Bridgeport.
LEONA GOLDBERG
Gaithersburg Resident
Leona Goldberg, 81, a New York native and resident of Gaithersburg who had lived in the Washington area for 20 years, died of a stroke Sept. 28 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital.
Survivors include her husband, Murray Goldberg of Gaithersburg; two sons, Stephen R. Goldberg of Potomac and Richard Goldberg of Darnestown; and four grandchildren.
MARY D. ATHERTON
Librarian
Mary D. Atherton, 54, a librarian at Ross Elementary School in Washington, died of cancer Sept. 29 at her home in Washington.
Mrs. Atherton was born in Montgomery, Ala. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In 1963 she moved to Washington. She worked in the office of Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.) until 1967 when she married Charles H. Atherton, the secretary of the Fine Arts Commission.
Mrs. Atherton received a master's degree in library science from Catholic University and since 1981 had been librarian at Ross School.
In addition to her husband, of Washington, survivors include three children, Sarah S. Atherton of Greensboro, N.C., and twin sons, Thomas H. Atherton and Charles H. Atherton Jr., both students at the University of North Carolina; her mother, Mary Davis of Charleston, S.C., and two sisters, Charlotte D. Fairey of Charleston and Catherine D. Vinel of Columbia, S.C.
ERNEST AUSTIN KING
Circulation Manager
Ernest Austin King, 71, a newspaper circulation manager who had worked at the Washington Times-Herald and the Washington Star, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 29 at Fairfax Hospital.
Mr. King was born in Washington and graduated from McKinley Technical High School.
He worked at the Times-Herald for 20 years before the newspaper was sold to The Washington Post in 1954, then worked 27 years for the Star until the newspaper closed in 1981.
A former resident of Alexandria, Mr. King moved to Nicholson, Pa., after the Star closed. He returned to this area in the spring of 1993 and lived in Springfield.
Survivors include his wife, Constance Ward King of Springfield; two children, Ernest Austin King Jr. of Tunkhannock, Pa., and Nancy Hall of Springfield; a brother, Theodore R. King of Fort Washington, and three grandsons.
JAMES W. 'JAZZ' BILLINGS
Hair Stylist
James W. "Jazz" Billings, 33, a hairstylist who owned and operated the All That Jazz hair salon in Gaithersburg, died Sept. 30 at his home in Gaithersburg. He had AIDS.
Mr. Billings was born in Endicott, N.Y., and moved to this area when he was 9. He was a 1978 graduate of Montgomery County's Seneca Valley High School.
He operated All That Jazz for about the last seven years. Earlier, he had been a hairstylist for other hair salons.
Survivors include his parents, Walter and Mae Billings of Pennsville, N.J.; and two sisters, Diana Roberts of York, Pa., and Denise Rizzo of Pennsville.
SHERRY LEE BRADY
Marriott Employee
Sherry Lee Oberdick Brady, 28, who did marketing work for the Marriott Corp. in Bethesda from 1988 to 1992, died of pneumonia Sept. 23 at the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital.
Mrs. Brady, who lived in Rockville, had lost her spleen while suffering from Hodgkin's disease in the 1980s.
She was born in Washington and grew up in Rockville. She was a graduate of Villanova University.
Mrs. Brady was a member of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Germantown.
Survivors include her husband, David, and a daughter, Leanne, both of Rockville; her mother, Sandra Van Landingham of Annapolis; her father, James Oberdick of Springfield; a brother, M. Scott Oberdick of Shady Side; two sisters, Deanna Oberdick of Annapolis and Lisa McDaniel of Germantown; and two grandparents, Mary and retired Navy Capt. Emmett Van Landingham of Fort Belvoir.
LEON R. YOURTEE III
Army Colonel
Leon R. Yourtee III, 51, an Army colonel who was commander and division engineer of the trans-Atlantic division of the Corps of Engineers, died Sept. 27 at a hospital in Winchester, Va., after a heart attack. A resident of the Washington area off and on for about 20 years, he lived in Winchester.
Col. Yourtee was born in the Panama Canal Zone and first lived in Northern Virginia as a child. He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and received a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also was a graduate of the Naval War College and the Army Command and General Staff College.
He served three tours in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He served in command posts in this country and abroad and in executive positions at the Pentagon.
His military honors included three awards of the Legion of Merit, four Bronze Stars, a Purple Heart, four Air Medals and the Army Commendation Medal. He was a member of the Society of American Military Engineers and the Maryknoll Catholic Missionary Organization.
Survivors include his wife, Roberta Lee Davis Yourtee of Winchester; his parents, retired Army Col. Leon R. Yourtee Jr. and Claudia Bragin Yourtee, both of Brownsville, Md.; a sister, Ann Selnick of Ellicott City; and a brother, Michael W. Yourtee of Brownsville.
MARY LEE CASHELL
Government Secretary
Mary Lee Cashell, 88, a retired government secretary who was a member of Woodside United Methodist Church in Silver Spring, died Sept. 29 at Wilson Health Care Center of the Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg. She had cancer.
Miss Cashell, who lived in Silver Spring for 50 years before moving to Asbury Methodist Village about a year ago, was born on a farm in Redland, Md. She graduated from Rockville High School and was a stenographer in Rockville in the early 1930s, before joining the government.
She worked for 30 years as a government secretary with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and its predecessor agencies before retiring in 1964.
Survivors include a sister, Nellie T. Cashell of Gaithersburg.
JULIET MULHOLLAND
Illustrator
Juliet Mulholland, 94, a magazine and children's books illustrator, died of pneumonia Sept. 30 at Friends Nursing Home in Sandy Spring.
Mrs. Mulholland was born in Alexandria and attended St. Paul's Episcopal School there. She moved to New York in the 1920s and attended art school there. During the 1930s and 1940s, she was a book and magazine illustrator.
During World War II she also did volunteer work for the Russian War Relief Center. Later, she worked for the United Nations Association.
After the death in 1960 of her husband, Charles Joseph Mulholland, she researched antiques. She worked for New York antiques dealers in New York and also at antiques shows at cities along the East Coast. In 1981, she returned to this area and lived in Washington until her death.
She leaves no immediate survivors.
ORVILLE K. BRACK
Engineer
Orville K. Brack, 73, a retired Goddard Space Flight Center design engineer, died of cancer Sept. 27 at his home in Sebastian, Fla.
Mr. Brack was born in Barton County, Kan., He served in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II. In 1956, he moved to this area from Barton County, Kan., and began working at Goddard. He retired there in 1985.
A former resident of Riverdale, Greenbelt and Annapolis, he moved to Florida upon retirement.
His first wife, Mary Rita Brack, died in 1978. Survivors include his wife, E. Ann Brack of Sebastian; three sons from his first marriage, David L. Brack of Boca Raton, Fla., Dennis Allen Brack of Phoenix and Glenn Raymond Brack of Lake Oswego, Ore.; 17 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
GERALD M. DEUTERMAN
Convention Sales Executive
Gerald M. Deuterman, 41, a former convention and hotel sales executive, died of cancer Sept. 29 at his home in Woodbridge.
He retired on disability this spring after three years as a sales executive with the Washington office of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
During the 1980s, he directed sales and marketing in Washington for the Potomac Hotel Group, the East Coast office of the Alexis Park Resort Hotel in Las Vegas, Sheraton National Hotel, Sheraton Inn Washington, Williamsburg Hospitality House and Capitol Park International. He was also an account executive with Atwood's Gray Line/Gold Line and worked in construction.
Mr. Deuterman was born in Alexandria. He was a graduate of T.C. Williams High School and Florida State University, where he majored in economics.
He was a member of the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives, Society of Government Meeting Planners, Meeting Planners International, American Society of Training and Development and Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Arlington.
Survivors include his mother, Charlotte Deuterman of Manassas; three sisters, Sandra Dove of Manassas, Joanne Lowe of Reston and Crystal Herbert of Marshall, Va.; and two brothers, Steve Deuterman of Winchester, Va., and Mark Deuterman of Manassas.
