The Memorial Service for Beth will be at 1 pm, Saturday, May 1, at Vienna Presbyterian Church, 124 Park Street, NE, Vienna, VA. A reception will follow in the church hall.

As a reminder, Beth's family requests that any memorials be made to her favorite charities in honor of Beth L. Duff:. They are listed below:

Miriam's Kitchen, 2401 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20037 Tel: (202) 452-8926, Fax: (202) 835-8376, Email: info@miriamskitchen.org www.miriamskitchen.org

Heifer International, 1 World Avenue, Little Rock, AR/USA 72202 Tel.: (800) 422-0474 www.heifer.org

Central Asia Institute P.O. Box 7209 Bozeman, MT 59771 https://www.ikat.org/make-a-donation

Obituary from the Washington Post, April 7, 2010

Beth Duff Interior Department Employee

Beth Duff, 63, an Interior Department employee who helped coordinate conservation programs and policy, died March 17 at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. She had metastatic melanoma. Mrs. Duff, an Oakton resident, joined the Interior Department in 1970, working in its main library in Washington. She later worked for the mapping division of the U.S. Geological Survey and since 2003 had been a program and policy analyst in the office of the assistant secretary for policy, management and budget. She received the department's Meritorious Service Award in 2002. Beth Linscheid was born in Detroit. She graduated in 1967 from the University of Michigan, where she also received a master's degree in administration from George Washington University in 1975 and a master's degree in information systems from George Mason University in 1993. She was a member of Vienna Presbyterian Church, where she was a trustee, elder and Sunday school teacher. She coordinated the church's group of monthly volunteers to Miriam's Kitchen, a soup kitchen in Washington. Her marriage to Peter R. Fodor ended in divorce. Survivors include her husband of 25 years, James R. Duff, and their two sons, Lawrence M. Duff of Charlottesville and Alexander C. Duff, all of Oakton; and two sisters.