MEXICO CITY -- Diana Laura Riojas de Colosio, 34, an economist and widow of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the Mexican presidential candidate assassinated at a campaign rally in March, died of pancreatic cancer Nov. 18 at a hospital here.
Mrs. Colosio won the admiration of millions of Mexicans when she delivered a tearful eulogy before 10,000 mourners for her husband on March 25, two days after he was shot to death during a campaign stop in Tijuana. She was with him when he was shot.
"The bullets of hate, rancor and cowardice ended the life of Luis Donaldo ... but not the ideas for which he fought. ... The nation and liberty were his great passions. He had a hunger and a thirst for justice. My husband wanted change for Mexico. ... He wanted a Mexico without hate and violence," Mrs. Colosio said in the eulogy, broadcast on national television.
In the following months, she pushed for a thorough investigation of the assassination. Colosio's confessed killer, Mario Aburto, recently was sentenced to 42 years in prison.
The motive for the killing remains a mystery, but many Mexicans believe Colosio was slain as part of a struggle for power within the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Several weeks after his death, a Mexico City newspaper published a premonitory love poem it said he wrote to his wife March 23, hours before he was killed.
"If you love me, do not cry," it read.
"If you knew the unfathomable mystery of the heaven where I find myself ... you would never cry for me."
Mrs. Colosio was one of Luis Donaldo Colosio's students when he taught economics at Anahuac University. They met again years later when working together at the federal Budget and Planning Department and got married.
In the last months of her life, she sought spiritual solace in a visit to Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, accompanied by her son.
Mexican newspapers ran special editions to mark her death. One simply ran front-page photographs of the Colosios with the headline: "Together again."
J. CHARLES ST. CYR
Intelligence Operations Specialist
J. Charles St. Cyr, 73, an intelligence operations specialist who retired in 1976 after 26 years with the Army Department, died of colon cancer Nov. 17 at his home in Annandale. He had lived in the Washington area for 44 years.
Mr. St. Cyr, who also had been an intelligence analyst with the Army Map Service, was a native of Franklin, N.H. He was a graduate of the University of New Hampshire. He served with the Army in the Pacific during World War II.
He did volunteer landscaping work for the Fairfax County Park Authority at the Hidden Oaks Nature Center.
His wife of 47 years, Alice St. Cyr, died in 1993. Survivors include a son, Charles E. St. Cyr of Fairfax Station; a brother, Napoleon St. Cyr of Stratford, Conn.; two sisters, Theresa Nash of Milford, Conn., and Elmire Sexton of Norwalk, Conn.; and two grandchildren.
MORTON S. KRAUS
Engineer
Morton S. Kraus, 70, an engineer who operated his own environmental and urban design engineering firm, died of cancer Nov. 17 at Suburban Hospital.
Dr. Kraus, who lived in Bethesda, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. During World War II, he served in the Army in Europe, and he also served in the Korean War. He was a recipient of the Purple Heart.
He graduated from the University of Miami and received a master's degree in civil engineering from Columbia University. He received a doctorate in engineering from the University of Kentucky.
He was a civil engineer in New York before moving to the Washington area and starting his own business, Kraus Limited, in Silver Spring in 1973.
Dr. Kraus was a diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers.
He was national building chairman of the Jewish War Veterans, which awarded him the Joseph J. Zanet Award for outstanding service. He was a member of Disabled American Veterans.
His wife, Elaine J. Kraus, died in 1993. Survivors include a daughter, Joan Lynne Gelrud of Lexington Park; two brothers, Norman, of St. Catherine's, Ont., and Louis, of San Diego; and three grandchildren.
DAVID ALAN BISHOP
Organist
David Alan Bishop, 34, a church organist who had played in recitals at the Washington National Cathedral and the Kennedy Center, died Nov. 16 at home in Fairfax. He had AIDS.
Mr. Bishop was born in College Park. He graduated from Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke in 1978 and from the the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. In 1990 he received a master's degree in organ performance at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.
He was a church organist in New York and California, and he had won local organ competitions in California. For six months in 1992 he was substitute choir director and organist at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Burke.
He had given organ recitals in New York and Los Angeles. In December 1993, he returned to the Washington area from New York.
Survivors include his mother, Carol C. Bishop of Fairfax; his father and stepmother, Robert B. Bishop Jr. and Dorothy J. Mills of Fairfax; and a sister, Kathleen M. Bishop of Philadelphia.
LUCIA T. GREENWAY
Arts Supporter
Lucia T. Greenway, 78, a supporter of arts organizations who had also served on the board of the Children's Hearing and Speech Center, died of cancer Nov. 17 at her home in Washington.
Mrs. Greenway was born in Memphis. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. In 1949, she moved to Washington. She lived in Greece from 1951 to 1953 when her husband, Gilbert C. Greenway, was assigned to the U.S. Embassy there.
She had served on the board of the Lyford Key Foundation, a charitable educational organization that provides financial support for higher education for residents of Nassau.
She had supported arts organizations such as the National Council of the Metropolitan Opera, the Washington Opera, the Smithsonian Society and the Kennedy Center.
In addition to her husband, of Washington, survivors include three children, George Lauder Greenway of Bethesda, Nelse Greenway of Chevy Chase and Sara O'Dea of New York; and eight grandchildren. A son, Gilbert C. Greenway Jr., died in 1981.
ROBERT OLIVER ROGERS
Agricultural Economist
Robert Oliver Rogers, 73, a retired agricultural economist, died Nov. 15 at Goodwin House West in Falls Church. He had Alzheimer's disease.
Mr. Rogers was born in Jackson County, Tenn. During World World II, he served in the Navy in the Pacific. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and received a master's degree in agricultural economics from Washington State University. He also received a master's degree in economics from the University of Chicago.
In the early 1950s, he moved to the Washington area and began his career at the Department of Agriculture. His work there included brief assignments in Egypt and Iran. He retired in 1981. In retirement, he was a consultant in Swaziland for two years.
He was a member of Fairlington United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Sigrid J. Rogers of Goodwin House West; a daughter, Alice Thornton of Knoxville, Tenn.; and two grandchildren.
JOHN F. PITT
Dentist
John F. Pitt, 72, a dentist who retired in April after practicing in Silver Spring for nearly 50 years, died of cancer Nov. 15 at his Silver Spring home.
Dr. Pitt was a graduate of Georgetown University and its dental school. He served in the Army during World War II and the Navy during the Korean War.
He was an award-winning tree farmer at his second home for nearly 30 years, Hidden Valley Farm, near Lexington, Va. The restored pre-Civil War buildings at the farm were featured in a 1987 issue of Southern Living magazine.
Dr. Pitt was a founding member of the International Dental Health Foundation and a member of the Southern Maryland Dental Association, the Silver Spring Rotary Club, St. Luke Lutheran Church in Silver Spring, the American Forest Foundation and the Virginia Forestry Association.
Survivors include his companion, Judith Craig of Silver Spring; his wife, Jeanne Pitt of Columbia; a daughter, Judith Robbins of Washington; a brother, Richard Pitt of Naples, Fla.; and two grandsons.
