Sommerfield, Interpreter of Gen. Washington, Dies

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For 18 years, William A. Sommerfield spent several days each month in a military buff-and-blue uniform, looking out over the Potomac from Mount Vernon, Va. When tourists called him George, he replied: "Not even Mrs. Washington calls me George. You may call me General."

Sommerfield, 79, a George Washington interpreter, died of heart failure on Sept. 11 at the Watermark at Logan Square in Philadelphia. Until this summer, he had lived on Mount Vernon Street in the Spring Garden section of Philadelphia.

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Sommerfield, Interpreter of Gen. Washington, Dies

Sommerfield, who acted in community theater for years, began portraying Washington in the early 1980s as a favor to his wife, Pam. She was producing educational ...

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