Charles Morris Garland, mayor of Colonial Beach from the late 1970s to 1982 and a retired employee of the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory at Dahlgren, died Friday in a Fredericksburg hospital. He was 81 and lived in Colonial Beach.

The former owner-operator of Garland's Tailor Shop was elected to the Town Council in 1974 and served as vice mayor from 1984 to 1986.

Mr. Garland served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

He was a member of the Colonial Beach Lions Club, American Legion Post 329 in Dahlgren and Westmoreland Lodge 212 P.H.A.

A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Little Zion Baptist Church in Oak Grove.

Ardell Dickerson Hoban, Educator dies at 87.  In the early days of her teaching career, Ardell Dickerson Hoban often held the roles of teacher, janitor and cook in Westmoreland County's one- and two-room schoolhouses.

A funeral for Mrs. Hoban, who died Tuesday at age 87, will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Little Zion Baptist Church in Oak Grove. A Westmoreland County native, Mrs. Hoban had lived in the Oak Grove community for most of her life.

She earned a bachelor's degree from what was then Virginia State College and during the days of segregation taught in the county schoolhouses of Potomac School, Gravel Run, George Washington and Zacata Montross, also known as Mill Hill School.

She later taught at Oak Grove Elementary and Washington District Primary before becoming principal of Washington District in 1970. She earned a master's degree in education from the University of Virginia in 1975 and retired a year later.

Mrs. Hoban was the first black woman to teach in an all-white school in the county and also the first black woman to hold a principal's post in Westmoreland County, said local author Cassandra Burton. Burton has just finished a work documenting the history of African-American education in the county and had worked with Mrs. Hoban while doing research for the book.

"She was just an amazing person and had an incredible memory," Burton said. "Even in her later years she was still involved in so many things. She was always out to educate people every day. It was truly her life's work."

In retirement, Mrs. Hoban immersed herself in Christian education. A longtime Sunday School teacher at Northern Neck churches, she was a secretary for the Northern Neck Berean Sunday School Convention for 13 years. She was also a pianist for several local churches and was known for her work in organizing church choirs.

She was a volunteer at Riverside Tappahannock Hospital where she crocheted blankets for patients and often read books and magazines to the bedridden.

In 1991, the Black Business Professional Coalition in Westmoreland honored her as an "unsung hero."

Survivors include her husband, the Rev. Robert Hoban; two sons, Oswald Weldon of Colonial Beach and Medwyn Weldon of Fredericksburg; three sisters, Marjorie Charity of Jessup, Md., and Bernice Oliver and Cleo Mitchell, both of Meridan, Conn.; and a brother, Olga Dickerson of Oak Grove.

The Rev. Winston Scott DeVaughn, 66, a Baptist minister and retired employee of the Civil Service Commission, died Monday at his home in Washington after a heart attack.  He had retired in 1972 as a file clerk at the CSC after 31 years of service.

For the past 32 years, Mr. DeVaughn served as pastor of the Little Zion Baptist Church in Oak Grove, Va., and the Salem Baptist Church in Westmoreland , Va., spending his weekends in those communities.

He was born in Washington and graduated from Armstrong High School. He attended Howard University and Catholic University.  After his graduation from Washington Baptist Seminary in the early 1940s, Mr. DeVaughn was ordained a Baptist minister. He held an honorary doctor of divinity degree from the Baltimore Bible College.  He was a member of Gethsemane Baptist Church in Washington.

He is survived by his wife, Marie C., of the home; three sons, Robert S., Rudolph L. and Richard P., all of Washington; two daughters, Eva M. DeVaughn, of Washington, and Edith C. Spriggs, of Landover; a sister, Geraldine Anderson, of Washington; four brothers, Everett and Milton, both of Newark, N.J., and Joseph and Emmons, both of Baltimore; seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.