DOUGLAS CHARLES SEELEY, 79, a retired civil engineer in the Bureau of Reclamation at the Interior Department, died of a cerebral hemorrhage March 27 at Suburban Hospital.
A resident of Kensington, Mr. Seeley was born in Brandon, Manitoba, and raised in Erie, Pa. He graduated from what now is Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and he earned a master’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Colorado. During World War II, he served in the Army in Europe and he retired from the reserves in 1967 as a major.
Mr. Seeley began his career with the Bureau of Reclamation in Denver about 1930. He later worked in Washington State, California and elsewhere in the country. He was transferred to Washington in 1953, and he retired in 1967. For the next five years, he was a consultant to the World Bank.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and an elder of Warner Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include his wife, Ann McKee Seeley of Kensington; two children, Jean Stripinis of Brockton, Mass., and Douglas Charles Seeley Jr. of Kensington; a sister, Mary Deisman of Creston, B.C., and three grandchildren.
Published in The Washington Post, (DC) – March 29, 1987, page B10
