Everette Severe

Everette Severe

Everette Severe, 85, a resident of North Sanbornton, New Hampshire,and a former resident of Hockessin, Delaware, passed away on January 23, 2013 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland following complications from a heart attack. Prior to his retirement in 1985 he was a marketing communications director for the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware.

Mr. Severe began his career in the Washington, D.C. area as programming director at NBC from 1949 through 1957. From there he was employed by the National Apple Institute from 1957 to 1960 before taking a sales position with the DuPont Company in Wilmington. During his employment of 25 years with the DuPont Company, he also taught a marketing communications course at night, for one year, at the University of Delaware in Newark.

He was born in Washington D.C. but grew up in Montgomery County, Maryland. After moving away to Salt Lake City, UT, for three years in the mid 1930's, he returned to Montgomery County and attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School during WWII, graduating in 1945.

After serving in the Army following high school, he entered George Washington University and started working for NBC where he became programming director. While working at NBC he graduated from GW University in 1954 with a business degree. While at the university he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Upon taking a position with DuPont in 1960, his work moved him first to Wilmington, DE, from 1960 to 1967, and then to Dallas, TX and Salem, NH before settling in Hockessin, Delaware, in 1973, for 25 years. In 1998 he moved to North Sanbornton, NH.

His wife of 19 years, Janet Beiderlinden Severe, died in 1978.

Survivors include three children, William Beiderlinden Severe of Alexandria, VA, Ann Severe Wickerham of Ijamsville, MD, Blair Goodall Severe of Bethesda, MD; two sisters, Doris Severe Bruffey of Gaithersburg, MD, and Murray Severe Wohlfarth of Williamsburg, VA; and five grandchildren.

Viewings will be held this coming Sunday, February 3, from 3-5 pm and from 7-9 pm, and a memorial service will be held this coming Monday, February 4, at 1 pm. Both the viewing and the memorial service will be held at the Pumphrey Funeral Home, located at 7557 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, Maryland. A burial in Arlington National Cemetery will follow at a later date.