The Washington Post
Friday, November 15, 2002; Page B07

Emily Graham Miller Lay,   Social Worker

Emily Graham Miller Lay, 89, a former social worker and teacher at Catholic University, died Nov. 8 at the Wilson Healthcare Center of Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg of a urinary tract infection.

Mrs. Lay, a resident of Gaithersburg, was born in Shelby, N.C., and graduated from Meredith College in North Carolina. She received a master's degree in social work at Smith College in Massachusetts.

She settled in the Washington area during World War II.

In the 1960s, she was a social worker at the Fairfax-Falls Church Child Guidance Clinic and at Catholic Charities of Northern Virginia. In the 1970s, she was on the faculty of the National School of Social Service at Catholic University.

She served on the boards of directors of the Fairfax-Falls Church Child Guidance Clinic and Camp Fire Girls of Greater Washington.

Her husband of 50 years, James S. Lay Jr., died in 1987.

Survivors include three daughters, Carolyn Dowd of Gaithersburg, Patricia Lay-Dorsey of Detroit, Mich., and Emily Paramonova of Los Altos, Calif.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.