Barbara Cheryl Terio-Simon, the widow of Reston founder Robert E. Simon and a community activist and lawyer, died Friday, the Reston Patch reported. She was 81.
In 2004, Terio-Simon married Robert Simon, who founded Reston in the 1960s. The pair remained together until Simon’s death in 2015 at the age of 101.
Terio-Simon was a longtime Reston resident and an active member of the community. She contributed to the effort to get Lake Anne Village Center added to the National Register of Historic Places, according to Patch.
She also wrote the book Community Is What It Is All About, an Ode to Lake Anne, in collaboration with Eric MacDicken, in 2022. The book is for sale through the Reston Museum.
“We were so sad to hear of the passing of Cheryl Terio Simon this past Friday. Cheryl was a 50+ year resident of Lake Anne, a community she cherished and supported,” Lake Anne Plaza posted on Facebook. “We will miss her dearly.”
Terio-Simon served on the Reston Association’s Design Review Board, Lake Anne Condominium Association, and Reston Historic Trust Board of Directors, Patch reported. She was also legal counsel at the American Institute of Architects, the Associated General Contractors of America, and Ballard Spahr. She chaired an American Bar Association Forum and was on the board of the National Mall Coalition.
Feature image of Lake Anne Plaza courtesy Reston Association
