Mr. William Ward Donohoe Jr.

William W. Donohoe

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - William Ward Donohoe, 91, died December 9, 2001, in Sibley Memorial Hospital of congestive heart failure.

He was born in Wilmington, Del., and had resided in New Jersey and Washington.

He was a graduate of the University of Delaware and took graduate courses at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University.

Mr. Donohoe was an employee benefits and pensions consultant for Standard Oil retiring after 16 years of service.After moving from New Jersey to Washington in 1965 he worked at Unemployment Benefit Advisors and the American Enterprise Institute.In 1971 and 1972 he was staff director for the National Commission of State Workmen's Compensation Laws.In the early 1940s he worked for the Bureau of Employment Security in Washington.

He was a communicant of St. Ann Church in Washington and a volunteer at the Washington Home and Hospice.

The widower of Alice (Dugan) Donohoe, his wife of 61 years who died in 1996, he is survived by four sons, Thomas Donohoe of Washington, David Donohoe of Potomac, William Donohoe Jr. of Alexandria, Va., and Paul "Fran" Donohoe of North Hampton; two daughters, Margaret Donohoe of Washington and Alice Langen of Tucson, Ariz.; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

He was predeceased by an infant son, Joseph, who died in 1942.

William Ward Donohoe

Benefits Consultant

William Ward Donohoe, 91, a retired Standard Oil executive who worked in the 1960s and 1970s as an employee benefits and pensions consultant in the Washington area, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 9 at Sibley Memorial Hospital.

After moving from New Jersey to Washington in 1965, Mr. Donohoe worked at Unemployment Benefit Advisors and the American Enterprise Institute.In 1971 and 1972, he was staff director for the National Commission on State Workmen's Compensation Laws.

Mr. Donohoe, a native of Wilmington, Del., was a graduate of the University of Delaware.He also took graduate courses at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University.

In the early 1940s, he worked for the Bureau of Employment Security in Washington.He had a 16-year career at Standard Oil before returning to the Washington area in 1965.

Mr. Donohoe had volunteered at the Washington Home & Hospice.

He had been a member of St. Ann Catholic Church in Washington.

His wife of 61 years, the former Alice Dugan, died in 1996.Their infant son Joseph died in 1942.

William W. Donohoe

WASHINGTON, D.C. - William Ward Donohoe, 91, a retired Standard Oil executive who worked in the 1960s and 1970s as an employee benefits and pensions consultant in the Washington area, died Dec. 9, 2001, at Sibley Memorial Hospital of congestive heart failure.

After moving from New Jersey to Washington in 1965, he worked at Unemployment Benefit Advisors and the American Enterprise Institute.In 1971 and 1972, he was staff director for the National Commission on State Workmen's Compensation Laws.

A native of Wilmington, Del., he was a graduate of the University of Delaware.He also took graduate courses at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University.

In the early 1940s, he worked for the Bureau of Employment Security in Washington.He had a 16-year career at Standard Oil before returning to the Washington area in 1965.

He had volunteered at the Washington Home and Hospice.

He had been a member of St. Ann Catholic Church in Washington.

His wife of 61 years, the former Alice Dugan, died in 1996.Their infant son, Joseph, died in 1942.