Harriett George Ekis

Teacher

Harriett George Ekis, 77, a former teacher, died of lung cancer Feb. 3 at the National Lutheran Home in Rockville, where she was living.

Mrs. Ekis, a former resident of Wheaton, was born in Norfolk. She graduated from Goucher College. As a young woman, she was technical director and publicity director for WAAM in Baltimore. She moved to the Washington area in the early 1950s.

For 15 years in the 1960s and 1970s, she was a preschool and kindergarten teacher in the Lanham and Bowie area. For most of that time, she taught at Grace Lutheran Church School in Bowie and Ascension School in Lanham.

Her husband, Sigurds Ekis, died in 1981.

Survivors include three children, Pauline "Polly" Wilson of Springfield, Shirley Harrington of Annapolis and Christopher "Kip" Ekis of Bowie; and three grandchildren.