Roy H Wampler
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Roy H. Wampler, 94, a resident of Asbury Methodist Village, Gaithersburg, MD since 2006 died Wednesday, October 13, 2021 in Rockville, MD. Son of the late Henry E. and Mamie F. (Derr) Wampler, he was Born May 30, 1927 in Westminster, MD. He is predeceased by a brother, William E Wampler, who died in 1937, and a sister, Mary Frances Wampler of Westminster, MD, who died in 2018.
He graduated from Westminster High School in 1943. Near the end of World War II, he was inducted into the United States Army and after service in the Army of Occupation in Germany was discharged in 1947. During the Korean War, 1950 to 1952, he was called up from the reserves for further active duty.
He attended Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA from 1943 to 1945, and received a B.A. degree from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) in 1949. Graduate studies were pursued at Yale University School of Music, New Haven, CT, from 1949 to 1950, and at University of Maryland, College Park, where he received an M.A. degree in Mathematics in 1963.
Subsequently he was employed as a mathematician by the National Bureau of Standards (Now the National Institute of Standards and Technology). During his tenure there he published a number of research papers in mathematical and statistical journals.
Occasionally he concertized on the piano and organ. An early such event was a piano recital at the Red Cross Club in Heidelberg, Germany while his military assignment posted him there at Third Army Headquarters in 1946. Later, in Westminster there was an organ concert in 1965, and a piano recital in 1980. In 2010, he presented a program of Chopin's Piano works at Asbury Methodist Village, Gaithersburg, when that composer's bicentennial was celebrated. As a young man, he played clarinet in the Westminster Band.
In retirement he published several genealogical histories covering the Derr family (1987-2003), the Wampler family (2000), and, with co-authors David H. May and John B. Haines, the May family of Tennessee and Maryland (2002).
In recent decades he was a member of several humanist organizations, including American Humanist Association and the Washington Area Secular Humanists.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Asbury Benevolent Care Fund, 201 Russell Ave. Gaithersburg, MD 20877.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Pumphrey Funeral Home, Bethesda, MD. Burial will be at the convenience of the family, at St. Benjamin's Cemetery, Westminster, MD.