Kevin J. Sturm, a native of Baltimore who worked for the National Labor Relations Board, died April 20 at a hospice there after a long illness. He was 33 and lived in Washington.

A requiem mass for Mr. Sturm will be offered at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Ascension and St. Agnes Episcopal Church in Washington.

He was an examiner and investigator for the NLRB from 1978 until he went on sick leave last August. He started in Baltimore, but was transferred to Washington in 1988.

He was reared in Pasadena and graduated from Northeast Senior High School. In 1980, he graduated with honors from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

He is survived by his mother and stepfather, Naomi and Edward Bridges of Martinsburg, W. Va.; his father, Oscar E. Sturm of Baltimore; a brother, Bruce H. Sturm of Pasadena; a sister, Deborah L. Sturm of Pasadena; a nephew and a niece.