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The ~,t~shing~cn Post, Sept~.-~er 18, 1995 ALFRED H. LOONEY Government Chemist ALfred H. Lo~rey, 56, a Naval Research Laboratory research chemist for the Last 30 years, died Sept. 3 in Silver spring. A Hontg0cery County Police spokesman said he felt fro~ the Northwest Branch bridge over interstate 495. A spokesman for the Maryland medica| examiner's office said the death was a suicide. Dr. Lo~rey, a resident of Greenbelt and the District, was a native of Glenviea, Ill. A Stanford University graduate, he received a doctorate theoretical physics fro~ Yale University. He ~as the author of more than 50 technlcat ~orks on such subjects as molecular structure and the pobtic health risks of environr~entaL tobacco smoke, He served as an expert ~itness on such smoke exposure in Legal actions. in the 1990s, he served as an adjunct professor of biophysical che~nistry at the Uniformed Bervices University in Bethesda. He also served as board chairman of the Naval Research Laboratory's federal credit union and aas a past parent director of the old Partridgeberry School and a member of Paint Branch Unitarian Church. His hobbies included travel, cooking and punning. His marriage to Barbara Lowrey ended in divorce. Survivors include his companion, Arabe[La DriscoLL of Greenba[t and ~ashington; a son, Jefferson, of Beloit~ gis.; a daughter, Kirsten Lo~rey of Lafayette, Ind.; and a sister~ Lucy Jentz of Green Bay, ~is. SIDNEY L. PARKER District Official Sidney L. Parker, 67, uho uorked for the District government for about 25 years before retiring in 1980 as after-care services division chief in the Deportment of Human Services, died of cancer Sept. 11 at Holy Cross Hospital. He Lived in Bo~ie. He joined the Oistrict government in 1954 as a playground director in the Department of Recreation. Later assignments took him to the Lorton Correctional Complex, ~here he was a poro|e officer. In the early 1970s, he spent about a year as a federal probation officer before returning to D.C. government. Fr~ the early 198gs to early 1990s, he uas a bus driver with Prince 6eorge=s County public schools. Hr. Parker, ~ho gas born in North Carolina, greg up in Uashington. He was a 1948 graduate of Cardozo High Scheoi, where he played varsity football as a halfback. He ~as a 1952 education gra~Jate of Central State University in Ohio, ~here he also played football as a hatfbock and vas e~ected to the schoot,s athletic halt of f~. ~ w~s a ~ber of Florida Avenue B~ptist Church in gashingtcn. He betcn;ed to the ~shin~tcn chapter of Central State's alumni organizatic~. T!40180798