Obituaries

Gary Charles Lepore, age 67 of Manassas, VA passed away peacefully on December 20, 2020 surrounded by his loved ones. He is survived by his loving wife Maudie Lepore, one daughter Angela (David), three sons Joey, Michael (Nardy), Matthew (Mari) and 4 grandchildren Ava, Elijah, Adriana and Natalia. Three brothers, George Lepore (Delores), Dan Lepore (Karen), Tim Lepore (Sandy), one sister Robin Lutz (Steve) and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father George Elviro Lepore, mother Jean Myers, and sister Patty Lepore.

Gary was born on January 4, 1953 in Altoona, PA. He graduated from Altoona Area High School in June 1971. He then went on to serve in the United States Army for 6 years with a tour in Korea. He was Honorably discharged and went on to work for the Defense Intelligence Agency and was highly skilled in maintaining the stability of large modem main frames. To expand his knowledge and experience he was assigned to work in the Central Intelligence Agency on their computer systems. With his technical skills he was often called upon regardless of time to help correct computer outages. Gary was a very devoted technician and very easy to work with. He was well liked by everyone and enjoyed his many friends in the D.I.A and C.I.A. He retired after serving 35 years in Defense of the Nation.

William G. Kelly, 91, of Dale City, died December 21, 2020 in his home.

The family will receive friends  11am Monday, January 4, 2021 at Mountcastle Turch Funeral Home, followed by the Life Celebration service at 12pm.  Interment will follow at Quantico National Cemetery at 2pm.

Allison Anne Stofko, 33, of Montclair, VA, passed away on December 15, 2020.

Allison was fun-loving, incredibly artistic, and saw the world in vivid color through her beautiful blue eyes. She loved her son deeply and the two lit up the room when they were together. She loved her family and holidays and traditions we shared. She loved the company of her friends and gatherings that included music, her favorite of which was techno music.

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Of the many adjectives used to describe him, David Edwin Long was perhaps most proud of being labeled irascible and irreverent. Independent and with a strong moral sense, he spent his life ignoring social convention and doing what he considered to be right. After 83 years, that life ended as he passed away peacefully at his home in Lake Ridge, Virginia on Tuesday, December 15, 2020, surrounded by his family.

David was born on November 21, 1937 in Washington, Georgia, and grew up as the younger son of a Presbyterian minister. At one point he described himself as a Professional Student, earning a bachelor’s degree from Davidson College in North Carolina, a master’s from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, another master’s from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston, and a PhD from the George Washington University in Washington DC. He married Barbara Ellen Baggett on December 28, 1962, and immediately whisked her away to the Middle East to begin a long career as a Foreign Service Officer and then civil servant at the State Department. Moving to Washington DC around 1970, he became one of the country’s leading experts on Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. His honest and direct assessments did not always endear him to management, but he was widely respected. He authored and co-authored over a dozen books, including one of the most widely used textbooks on the Middle East. He became a recognized expert on international terrorism, serving as Deputy Director of the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism during the late 1980s. He loved teaching, and taught at several universities including Johns Hopkins, American University, the University of Pennsylvania, the US Coast Guard Academy (where for a while he was acting chair of the Humanities Department), and Georgetown (where he was the first Executive Director of the newly formed Center for Contemporary Arab Studies). And he never lost his love of travel: from trekking through the deserts of Sudan, to diving off the coast of Saudi Arabia, to traveling though all 50 states in the US, he loved experiencing new places and connecting with people from all walks of life.

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