https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1988/03/23/dr-patrick-steptoe-74-dies/39a50fb4-5955-44c8-9c9c-18df7d6c0bbe/

CARL SANTILLI

GAO Official

Carl Santilli, 79, a retired claims official with the General Accounting Office and an Army National Guard colonel who was active in volunteer groups, died of cancer March 20 at the Hospice of Northern Virginia. He lived in Arlington.

Mr. Santilli was a native of Washington. He worked for the GAO here for 38 years before retiring in 1967.

He joined the National Guard in 1927. He served on active duty with the artillery in this country during World War II and in Korea during the war there. He retired from the National Guard in 1964.

He had served on the board of the Good News Mission in Arlington, had taught Bible classes at the Arlington County jail, and had done volunteer work with Meals on Wheels. He also was a counselor with the Billy Graham Association.

Mr. Santilli had served on the board of the Arlington Memorial Church.

Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Mildred Coursey Santilli of Arlington; one son, Walter Godfrey Santilli of Vienna; three daughters, Gloria Hope Hawley of Fullerton, Calif., Gail Coursey Harwood of Angier, N.C., and Ellen S. Vaughn of Arlington; two sisters, Florence Felber and Cecelia Woodford, both of Washington, and four grandchildren.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1988/03/23/dr-patrick-steptoe-74-dies/39a50fb4-5955-44c8-9c9c-18df7d6c0bbe/

Carl Santilli (1909)