George Petrell, Developed Safety System At the Pentagon, 68

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George Aloysius Petrello, an occupational health and safety manager who
helped develop an integrated safety and fire prevention management
system at the Pentagon, and who lived in Bowie, Maryland, died of
cancer October 29, 2005, at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham,
Maryland, at the age of 68.

Mr. Petrello had worked at the Pentagon for the past 27 years, most
recently for the Defense Facilities Directorate of the Washington
Headquarters Services.

He was born in Washington DC and raised in what is now Hyattsville,
Maryland. He was a 1955 graduate of Bladensburg High School.

After working at his father's fence company, he joined the Navy Reserve
and served a few years as a D.C. police officer.

In later years, he was a fourth-degree member of the Knights of
Columbus and a founder of the Knights of the Clown Table, a group of
volunteers who marched in parades, made animal balloons and visited
children in hospitals.

He played the piano and the accordion, enjoyed gardening (especially
roses), and donated 96 pints of blood to the American Red Cross in his
lifetime.

His marriages to Nancy McConnell Petrello and Anna Catherine "Cathy"
Barthel Petrello ended in divorce.

Survivors include his companion, Alice Stewart of Bowie, Maryland; four
children from his first marriage, Timothy Petrello of Oak Harbor,
Washington, Joseph Petrello of Waitsburg, Washington, and Anna Christen
and Marie Petrello, both of Walla Walla, Washington; a daughter from
his second marriage, Angela Petrello of Bowie, Maryland; a sister; and
eight grandchildren.

Washington Post

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The correct name is Petrello.