FEAY, Herbert L. C 1902-1979

FEAY, HILMA

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall
Date: 4/28/2006 at 05:33:57

Herbert L. Feay, 77, a retired actuary with the General Accounting Office, died June 13 at the Chevy Chase Nursing and Convalescent Center. He had a liver ailment.

Mr. Feay was born in Larchwood, Iowa, and graduated from the University of Iowa. He moved to New York City, where he worked for an insurance company, and a year later to Albany, N.Y., where he became actuary for the State of New York. He held that position from 1930 to 1950.

He spent the next 19 years working for insurance companies in New York, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Baltimore. In 1969, he moved to Silver Spring and went to work for the GAO as an actuary. He retired about 1975.

Mr. Feay was a member of the Society of Actuaries, the American Academy of Actuaries and other professional groups. He also was a member of the All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington.

Survivors include his wife, Genevieve, of the home in Silver Spring; a son, Herbert E., of Philadelphia; a daughter, Joyce Hilma, of Silver Spring, and three grandchildren.

-Washington Post, Washington D.C., June 19, 1979