RICHARD PEARD DIES - The Washington Post
The Rev. Richard T.C. Peard, 50, the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va., and a former associate rector of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Washington, died of cancer May 11 at his home in Upperville.
Mr. Peard was born in Okmulgee, Okla., and raised in Mansfield, Ohio. He graduated from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and received a master's degree in education from Ohio State University.
He moved to the Washington area in the early 1960s to study at the Virginia Theological Seminary. In the summer of 1964, he was an interim chaplain at the prison at San Quentin, Calif. After graduating from the seminary in 1966, he was a social worker for the D.C. government and a counselor for the Labor Department, where he worked with unemployed people.
In 1970, Mr. Peard was ordained an Episcopal priest. He was an associate pastor at St. Alban's in the 1970s and started a community house and an ecumenical youth group. In 1978 and 1979, he was the interim pastor of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Washington.
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In 1979, Mr. Peard was named pastor of Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville. He also was a chaplain to Foxcroft School and a member of the Fauquier County Mental Health Board and the boards of the Piedmont Child Development Center and the Middleburg Child Care Center.
He leaves no immediate survivors.
WILLIAM F. E. CABANISS
CIA Engineer
William F. E. Cabaniss, 85, a retired civil engineer with the Central Intelligence Agency, died April 23 at his home in Albuquerque, N.M. He had myelofibrosis, a disease that affects bone marrow and white blood cells.
Mr. Cabaniss was born in Augusta, Ga. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he majored in civil engineering. During World War II, he served in the Navy in the Pacific.
After the war, he worked for the Bureau of Reclamation in Denver until moving to Washington in 1953 and joining the CIA. As an engineer, he worked on construction projects in Iran, Somalia, Ethiopia, Pakistan, the Philippines and Vietnam.
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Mr. Cabaniss retired in 1971 and moved to Royal Oak, Md. He had lived in Albuquerque since 1986.
His wife, Adelaide H. Cabaniss, died in 1988.
Survivors include two children, Gerry H. Cabaniss of Albuquerque and Eve C. Webster of Osterville, Mass.; and five grandchildren.
JOHN VAN REED LEBKICHER
John Van Reed Lebkicher, 72, a retired editor at the Catholic News Service here, died of cancer May 14 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital. He lived in Gaithersburg.
Mr. Lebkicher retired from the news service in 1984 after 12 years as chief copy editor. During 35 years with CNS, he was a reporter, foreign editor, news editor and assistant manging editor. Before joining the news service, he was assistant economics editor at U.S. News and World Report.
A native of New York City, he attended Georgetown University and received a bachelor's degree from George Washington University.
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His marriage to Monica Christel Lebkicher ended in divorce.
He is survived by two sons, Michael Lebkicher of Germantown and Paul Lebkicher of Silver Spring; two daughters, Anne Lebkicher of Gaithersburg and Monica Seaton of Washington; a sister, Suzanne Robinow of Munich; and five grandchildren.
NORMA H. GREENSIDES
Club Member
Norma H. Greensides, 94, who was active here in the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Washington Club, died of cardiac arrest May 14 at Suburban Hospital. She lived in Bethesda.
A native of Constantine, Mich., Mrs. Greensides was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College. She was a school teacher in Kansas for several years after her graduation.
Mrs. Greensides lived here during World War II and had lived here permanently since 1957.
She belonged to the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, the American Association of University Women and the Federated Women's Clubs.
Her husband, Neil G. Greensides, died last year. Survivors include two daughters, Beverly Schnitzer of Washington and Mary Jacobson of Bethesda; three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
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