White House News Photographers Association, Washington, DC 
Michelle Robbins Saunders, 48, director of publications and editor of American Forests magazine, died Aug. 25 of pancreatic cancer at her North Beach home.
Mrs. Saunders, a journalist throughout her career, worked at a newspaper in Upstate New York and at the Winchester (Va.) Star in the early 1980s.
She switched to magazines and edited a computer magazine in Arlington County; the Reston-based magazine of the National Association of Biology Teachers; and, finally, American Forests.
She was born on the Eastern Shore, in Cambridge, in a family of watermen. She grew up in Vienna, Md., and Dagsboro, Del. She graduated from the University of Delaware with a degree in English.
Mrs. Saunders enjoyed travel and planned many trips, including two-week family sojourns to the American West and northeast through New York, the Catskills Mountains, Boston and Nantucket, Mass.
She also enjoyed working in her flower-and-vegetable garden, especially growing roses. She lived on the Chesapeake Bay and loved spending time on the water.
She was past president of the local PTSA and a volunteer at Friendship United Methodist Church in Friendship.
Survivors include her husband of 22 years, Ray Saunders of North Beach, assistant picture editor at The Washington Post; three children, Jacob Saunders and twins Michael and Maggie Saunders, all of North Beach; her mother, Leila Robbins of Salisbury; and a brother, Eric Robbins of Newark, Del.
