James Ashley Straw Jr.

   Cause of his death was cancer.

  General Notes:

Sun, The (Baltimore, MD)
September 25, 1993
J. Ashley Straw, an expert on the woodcock in the Office of Migratory Bird Management of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in Laurel, died Wednesday of cancer at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 34.
He had worked for about three years on a management plan for the woodcock, a migratory game bird. Mr. Straw lived in Bel Air.
Earlier, he worked for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources as a district wildlife biologist in Salisbury and as a regional wildlife biologist in Bel Air, where he was active in the Upland Habitat Restoration Project.
Born in Gainesville, Fla., he grew up in Maryland. He was a graduate of the Wheaton High School and attended George Washington University before earning a degree in wildlife biology at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
He earned a master's degree at Pennsylvania State University, where he did research on the habitat of the woodcock.
He had been an a active member and an adult leader of religious youth groups. He started a youth ministry at the detention center in Blacksburg, Va., while a college student there. He was a leader of Campus Life in Easton and was active in Young Life and in a youth group at St. Luke's Christian Missionary Alliance Church in Secretary.
He and his wife were active in the youth ministry of the New Covenant Presbyterian Church in Abingdon, where services for Mr. Straw were to be held at 9:30 a.m. today.
He is survived by his wife, the former Joan Campbell; two daughters, Rebecca Avey Straw and Virginia Grace Straw, both of Bel Air; a son, Ashley Christian Straw of Bel Air; his parents, Grace and Dr. James A. Straw, both of Wheaton; and a sister, Sharon Straw Thomas of Fairfax, Va.

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