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The Celebration of Life will take place on Saturday, April 4, 2026 starting 11:00AM EST at the Howard University School of Law Dunbarton Chapel, located at 2900 Van Ness St, NW Washington, D.C. 20008. For those unable to attend the service in-person, you can participate remotely by viewing the live stream of the service (please scroll up to see the video).
Obituary
Winfred Raymond Mundle, the elder of two sons of the late Winfred Mundle and Juanita Dawkins Mundle, was born in Columbia, South Carolina on March 5, 1930.
At the time of his birth, his parents, both native South Carolinians, had recently been part of the Great Migration and were residents of Washington, D.C. Shortly after the birth of his younger brother Eugene, his parents relocated back to South Carolina, where Raymond would attend public school. He graduated from Mayo High School, in Darlington, S.C., at the age of 16, and then enrolled at Allen University, in Columbia. There, he would be initiated into the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity in December of 1947, and begin a life-long journey of both devotion and service to his fraternity.
After his sophomore year, Winfred R. Mundle transferred to Howard University, in Washington, D.C., where he would go on to earn a bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 1950. After graduation, he enrolled in American University, where he took graduate courses. In the fall of 1951, he was accepted into the Georgetown University School of Law’s Class of 1954, along with four other Black students, as part of only the second class of African Americans to be admitted into Georgetown’s law school. Winfred would graduate from Georgetown University with a Juris Doctor (J.D. degree) in 1954.
After graduating from law school, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and while stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, Private First Class Mundle attempted to enroll in a college course offered on-post thru the University of Georgia Extension School; but was denied. Rather than allow the African American soldier to take the course in criminology with white students, according to an article appearing in a June 1956 Washington Afro-American Newspaper, “…the University of Georgia permanently withdrew from on-post activity 1 June 1956.” When his military service was completed, he continued his studies at Georgetown, earning a Master’s in Law (L.L.M. degree) in 1959. In 1960, he was admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and later the Commonwealth of Virginia. He was also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.
In July of 1957, Raymond married his soulmate, the former Shirley M. Wyatt, of Fredericksburg, Virginia. After marriage, they made their residence in Washington, D.C. and welcomed two sons, Winfred Raymond, Jr. and Anthony Michael. During the summers, he enjoyed planning and leading the family on cross-country vacation road trips. He was a big Georgetown Hoya basketball fan and longtime Washington Bullets/Wizards fan and season ticket holder. It’s worth noting that Raymond’s first love was Jazz music; Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Ella Fitzgerald were his idols.
Brother Mundle, a lifelong member of Kappa Alpha Psi, became the fraternity’s first general counsel in 1972 and received the Elder Watson Diggs Award in 2003, presented for his achievement in human endeavors and exemplary service to the fraternity.
During a distinguished legal career spanning nearly six decades, Attorney Mundle moved seamlessly between full-time private practice and positions within both the District of Columbia and Federal Governments. In 1975, he became the first general counsel to the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics. His last government assignments were with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the District of Columbia Office of Personnel, and the D.C. Office of Human Rights. He also worked with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Additionally, he served as an elder in the Presbyterian Church (Sargent Memorial and Northminster) for more than forty years.
After a brief illness, God called him home to rest on Wednesday, February 4, 2026. He was forever dedicated to his family, his fraternity, and his community.
Winfred Raymond Mundle was preceded in death by his wife of 67 years, Shirley and his brother Eugene. He leaves to cherish his memory, sons, Winfred R. Mundle, Jr. (Katherine) and Anthony M. Mundle (Avia); grandchildren, Aman Mundle, Anthony Mundle, Jr., and Rachel Robinson; two nieces, Robin Mundle and Metisse Holness; brother-in-law Philip Wyatt, III; and a host of other family, colleagues, fraternity brothers, and friends.
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Winfred R. Mundle, Esq. Scholarship
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