Heather Mapes Hurlock (Age 88)
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Heather Bruen Mapes Hurlock died on April 12, 2026, in Virginia Hospital Center. She was born in Manhattan, New York City, on March 1, 1938. She was a tenth-generation New Yorker, a direct descendant of Thomas Mapes, one of the founders (about 1647) of Southold, Long Island, NY. She was the daughter of the late Col. Douglas Stewart Mapes of New York City and Cathleen Hourigan Mapes of Buffalo, New York.
Heather first came to Alexandria, VA, in 1946, when her father was stationed here at the Pentagon as a staff officer of the Military District of Washington. After her father’s untimely death in June 1947, her mother took her and her sister, Rosemary, to Europe for schooling. Heather attended high schools in Geneva, Beirut, and Munich. Her freshman year of college was at the University of Maryland (now Global Campus) in Munich.
After returning to Alexandria in 1956, Heather joined the court reporting staff of Alderson Reporting Company in Washington, DC. As one of the staff members assigned White House duty, Heather accompanied incumbent Presidents, their staffs, and journalists, to Russia, Europe, and Saudi Arabia. She was later employed as a court reporter for the U.S. House of Representatives, eventually becoming the Chief Clerk of Reporters of Debate for the House of Representatives, a position she held until her retirement.
She married Warren Lee Hurlock, of Orange County, VA, and Arlington County in 1991. Mr. Hurlock died of cancer in 1995.
In retirement after her husband’s death, Heather joined the Arlington County Police Department, where she served as a volunteer for the next thirty years. Her first assignment was in pawn investigations. Later, as Lieutenant Hurlock, she was appointed head of the ACPD auxiliary volunteers, which grew to include about twenty individuals. Her activities as a police officer included creation and oversight of a bicycle registration program that serves the Washington metropolitan area. Her most recent activity with the ACPD was as a licensed NHTSA inspector of child safety seat installation. She became the only Certified Crime Prevention
Specialist in the ACPD, which included implementation of CPTED, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design.
She is survived by her sister, Rosemary Mapes Maloney of Alexandria, her nephew, John Mapes Maloney, PhD, of Arlington, and her stepdaughter, Kerri Lee Hurlock Wright of Arlington.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for Heather on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at the Arlington Catholic Diocese’s Cathedral of St. Thomas More by the Cathedral’s Rector, the Very Rev. Patrick L. Posey. Honors were rendered by the Arlington County Police Department. At the conclusion of the Mass, Police Chief Charles Penn spoke to the congregation about Heather’s impressive service to the community. A police motor escort accompanied the funeral procession to National Memorial Park, where additional honors were rendered before Heather was laid to rest with her late husband.
Submitted by Everly Wheatley Funeral Home
