FORBES MANN

  
FORBES MANN "Ted"  
Forbes "Ted" Mann died peacefully at his home in Bethesda on November 30, 2014. He was born in Rochester, New York on September 25, 1918, and was raised in Paris until the outbreak of the Second World War. He attended Phillips Academy Andover, Peekskill Military Academy and Brown University. In 1940, he joined the Chance Vought Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation in Bridgeport Connecticut as a drafting engineer, supporting the war effort in the design of the F4U Corsair. He later moved to Dallas, Texas when Chance Vought established itself there as an independent company, where he ultimately became president of LTV Aerospace Corporation, the successor to Chance Vought. In 1972, he moved to Washington as the Senior Vice President of the parent LTV Corporation, from which he retired in 1980. He served on the Boards of the Wolf Trap Foundation, the National Security Industrial Association, the Texas State Society of Washington, the Lost Tree Chapel, and the Lost Tree Homeowners Association. An avid sportsman, he was a member of Burning Tree and Chevy Chase Clubs in Washington, and the Lost Tree Club in North Palm Beach, Florida. He is predeceased by his beloved wife of 72 years, Elizabeth Jones Mann. He is survived by his children Robin Mann Roth (Norman) and Richard Forbes Mann (Eileen McGarraghy), his grandchildren Timothy Andrew Gyovai (Trudi), Brian Lee Gyovai (Lisa), Forbes Mann II, Alexander Barrett Mann, and Catherine Kelly Mann, and great-grandchildren Joshua and Allison Gyovai and Reese and Adrienne Gyovai. Services will be at St. Gabriel's Cemetery, 10706 Alloway Drive, Potomac, Maryland on Friday, December 5 at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Georgetown Visitataion Preparatory School, 1524 35th Street NW, Washington, DC 20007.