Washington Post, October 31, 1990—Mary Ellen Tolsdorf, 39, a retired Navy Department budget analyst who was a member of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Springfield, died of cancer Oct. 29 at Alexandria Hospital.

She began working at the Navy Department in 1975 and retired because of ill health earlier this year.

Mrs. Tolsdorf, who lived in Springfield, was born in Philadelphia and came here as a child. She graduated from T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria and Ohio Wesleyan University.