Aileen Wakefield, 65, who worked in the Smithsonian Institution’s budget offices for more than two decades, died Feb. 15 at the Genesis nursing facility in La Plata.
The Waldorf resident had a brain tumor, said her husband, Richard Wakefield.
Mrs. Wakefield joined the Smithsonian as a payroll clerk and retired in 1999 as a budget analyst in the office of the undersecretary for finance.
Aileen Alexandra Flanders was born in Holyoke, Mass., and came to the Washington area as a teenager. She graduated from Oxon Hill High School in 1964.
Survivors include her husband of 39 years, Richard Wakefield of Waldorf; two children, Lisa Hudson of Hughesville and Richard Wakefield II of Apache Junction, Ariz.; a sister, Carol Fortier of Greenbelt; and a grandson.
— Emily Langer
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