Michael R. Codel Writer, 70, Washington Post

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/27/AR2010012704195.html

January 28, 2010

Michael R. Codel Writer, public relations specialist

Michael R. Codel, 70, who did public relations work from 1975 to 1985 for
the American Health Care Association, an organization that represents state
health organizations, died Jan. 13 at his home in Arlington. He had lung
cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

Mr. Codel left the health-care association after being diagnosed with a
brain tumor and became a freelance writer.

Michael Richard Codel was born in Baltimore and raised in New York. He was a
1960 political science graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio.

He served in the Peace Corps in Nigeria in the early 1960s and then was a
reporter for the Associated Press in Africa and England. From 1969 to 1973,
he worked as an editor in Geneva for the publishing and advisory firm
Business International.

He settled in the Washington area in the mid-1970s and was a volunteer with
the Arlington County Democratic Committee and edited the newsletter for the
Madison Community Center in Arlington.

Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Birte Nielsen Codel of Arlington;
two children, Edward Codel of San Francisco and Kirsten Trego of Wading
River, N.Y.; and a granddaughter.

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Adam Bernstein