Obituaries

Frederick Forsyth, who has died at the age of 86, wrote meticulously researched thrillers which sold in their millions.

Vernon H. Dibeler, II, passed away on May 16, 2025, at the age of 80, unexpectedly. He was born in 1945 in Washington, DC and raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

William Francis Stevenson, Jr. passed away peacefully surrounded by family on June 6, 2025. “Bill” was born in Statesville, NC.

Richard H. Meade, a veteran and lifelong public servant, passed away on May 16, 2025.

Lois E. Dokken, 83, died at home in Falls Church on April 26, 2025, succumbing to fallopian tube cancer after a long and courageous fight.

Bernard Kerik, the New York City police chief who was hailed for leading the department during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Marthe Cohn, who has died aged 105, was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in France; she survived the Holocaust and after the liberation of Paris in 1944, joined the French First Army intelligence service and crossed over into southern Germany, posing as a German nurse looking for her fiancé.

Paulette Dietz Kachilla, age 69, passed away on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, surrounded by her family. She was born in Washington, DC.

Michael Ledeen, a provocative neoconservative who advised Washington policymakers to crush Islamic terrorists, disparaged a free press and helped instigate the Iran-contra arms-for-hostages scandal during the Reagan administration, died on Saturday in Austin, Texas. He was 83.