Obituaries

E. Douglass Ayer, 86, of Lexington died Saturday, June 27th, 2026. He was born November 13th, 1939 in Worcester, MA to Ruby H. Ayer and Everett D. Ayer, Sr.

John A. Lauder of Oakton, Virginia passed away on the morning of July 20, 2026. He is survived by his beloved wife of 50 years, Susan M. Lauder, his three children: Kristen (Peter), David (Michelle), and Jonathan (Dana), his cherished grandchildren (Abigail and Jacqueline), and his several much-loved grand dogs.

Born on May 23, 1958, at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, Sam was the son of career U.S. Navy officer James Morris Faddis and Violet Knighton Tucker Faddis.

Surrounded by love and family, C.V. Noyes, 97, passed away on July 11, 2026, at home in Adamstown, Maryland. Born November 23, 1928, in Rockville, Connecticut, he was the son of Elizabeth Cadwallader (Allen) Noyes and Richard Varnum Noyes.

R. James Woolsey, the former director of the CIA under former President Clinton who served a brief embattled tenure, died Wednesday. He was 84.

Former South African Navy Commodore Dieter Felix Gerhardt, who commanded the Simon’s Town naval dockyard before being unmasked as one of the Soviet Union’s highest-ranking spies in apartheid South Africa, died at his home in Noordhoek on Wednesday 8 July at 11.40am. He was 90.

Rennick (Ren) Victor Miller passed away peacefully in his sleep early in the morning of July 10, 2026 at his home in Great Falls, Virginia after a long pulmonary illness.

A former high-ranking MI6 officer who acted as an intermediary between the Government and the IRA during the Troubles has died. Michael Oatley passed away on Monday aged 90 at his home in England following a long illness.

Sergei Ivanov, a former Russian defense minister and former head of the presidential administration, has died at the age of 73. His death was announced by the VTB United League, a Russian basketball organization where he served as honorary president. The cause of death was not specified.