Richard C. Sughrue
Lawyer
Richard C. Sughrue, 79, a lawyer who specialized in intellectual property and who was a founder of the law firm now called Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak and Seas, died Nov. 20 at Powhattan Nursing Home. He had suffered strokes.
Mr. Sughrue, whose home was in Grasonville, Md., was born in Nashua, N.H. He was a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, studied chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a law degree from Georgetown University.
He served in the Navy in the Atlantic during World War II.
He first practiced patent, trademark and copyright law in Washington at the firm of Stevens, Davis, Miller, and Mosher. He was in sole practice until Sughrue & Rothwell was founded in 1957.
Mr. Sughrue volunteered with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and was a member of Phi Kappa Theta fraternity.
His wife of 25 years, Ruth Marie Schultz Sughrue, died in 1975.
Survivors include four children, Karen M. Sughrue of New York, Maura J. Sughrue of McLean, Timothy M. Sughrue of Grasonville and Matthew B. Sughrue of Alexandria; a sister; and two granddaughters.
Linda Louise Summers
Program Officer
Linda Louise Summers, 54, a program officer with the U.S. Information Agency for 11 years, died of cancer Nov. 17 at home in Indian Head.
Ms. Summers was born in Washington and graduated from Surrattsville High School in Prince George's County.
She retired in 1997 from the USIA's international visitors grant program division.
She had done volunteer work with the Ladies Auxiliary of the Accokeek Volunteer Fire Department.
Her marriage to Jim Summers ended in divorce.
Survivors include a son, Donald W. Summers, and her mother, Lillian Raybold Green, both of Waldorf; three sisters; and a granddaughter.
Edith Marie DeVoe
Navy Nurse
Edith Marie DeVoe, 79, a Navy nurse from 1945 until retiring as a lieutenant in 1960 stationed in Oakland, Calif., died of lung cancer Nov. 17 at Cherry Lane Nursing Center in Laurel. She had a home in Washington.
A native Washingtonian, Lt. DeVoe was a graduate of Dunbar High School and a 1942 graduate of the old Freedmen's Hospital nursing school. She took public health nursing classes at St. Phillips Hospital in Richmond and worked with the Visiting Nurses Association before joining the Navy.
She was a member of Campbell African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington.
Survivors include two sisters, Sadie D. McNair of Washington and Elizabeth D. Young of District Heights.
