JUNO YOLANDA AUGUSTINE
Passed away on February 10, 2017 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, after a brief illness.
She was born in 1927 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, the daughter of José Benigno DeCastro and Lydia (Kaufmann) DeCastro, and attended the experimental high school of the University of Puerto Rico. Skipping three grades, she then began college at the University of Puerto Rico in 1942, and later transferred to New York University, after moving to New York City with her widowed mother. After graduating in 1946, she worked as a laboratory assistant at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
She married Reginald Cooper Augustine, Jr. of Decatur, Illinois in 1950. The couple moved to Washington, DC, where her husband worked for the federal government until his retirement in 1973. They bought a house in Takoma Park, MD, in 1953, where she resided until her death. She found great joy in sharing her historic home and garden with friends and family all of her life. In 2007, the Montgomery County Historic Preservation Commission recognized her and her husband's achievements in preserving the historical integrity of their home, built in 1913.
Known to her friends as Yolanda, Mrs. Augustine was actively involved in the United Methodist Women at the Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church of Washington, and for many years led the Trippers, a church-run organization that organized outings for seniors. In the early 1970s, she was engaged in the campaign against the building of the North-Central Freeway through Takoma Park. She was a person of great dignity, integrity, independence, intelligence, and devotion to family, and will be deeply missed.
She is survived by her daughters, Dolores Augustine and Nancy Augustine Oppenheim; by her sons-in-law, Claude LeBrun and Adam Oppenheim; by her grandchildren, André and Caroline (Cameron) LeBrun and Annabel and Harold Oppenheim, and by her nephew, Walter Clark Dove. She will be laid to rest alongside her husband at Arlington National Cemetery, later this year.
Published in The Washington Post on Mar. 16, 2017
JUNO YOLANDA AUGUSTINE
Passed away on February 10, 2017 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, after a brief illness.
She was born in 1927 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, the daughter of José Benigno DeCastro and Lydia (Kaufmann) DeCastro, and attended the experimental high school of the University of Puerto Rico. Skipping three grades, she then began college at the University of Puerto Rico in 1942, and later transferred to New York University, after moving to New York City with her widowed mother. After graduating in 1946, she worked as a laboratory assistant at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
She married Reginald Cooper Augustine, Jr. of Decatur, Illinois in 1950. The couple moved to Washington, DC, where her husband worked for the federal government until his retirement in 1973. They bought a house in Takoma Park, MD, in 1953, where she resided until her death. She found great joy in sharing her historic home and garden with friends and family all of her life. In 2007, the Montgomery County Historic Preservation Commission recognized her and her husband's achievements in preserving the historical integrity of their home, built in 1913.
Known to her friends as Yolanda, Mrs. Augustine was actively involved in the United Methodist Women at the Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church of Washington, and for many years led the Trippers, a church-run organization that organized outings for seniors. In the early 1970s, she was engaged in the campaign against the building of the North-Central Freeway through Takoma Park. She was a person of great dignity, integrity, independence, intelligence, and devotion to family, and will be deeply missed.
She is survived by her daughters, Dolores Augustine and Nancy Augustine Oppenheim; by her sons-in-law, Claude LeBrun and Adam Oppenheim; by her grandchildren, André and Caroline (Cameron) LeBrun and Annabel and Harold Oppenheim, and by her nephew, Walter Clark Dove. She will be laid to rest alongside her husband at Arlington National Cemetery, later this year.
Published in The Washington Post on Mar. 16, 2017
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