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William E. Duggan, 83, a retired State employee, died of pneumonia on March 31 in Washington, D.C. Mr. Duggan spent most of his 40-year government career at the Washington Passport Agency and retired as the office's deputy director. In that capacity, he presented seminars on the detection of fraudulent documents
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Thomas P. Hamilton, 55, a Senior Foreign Service officer who retired in 1996, died of cancer on March 19 in Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Hamilton served in several southeast Asian posts, in Colombia and as director of the Office of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore Affairs during nearly three decades with State. He received the State Superior Honor Award for outstanding service.
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Ronald J. Lundy, 52, husband of Foreign Service officer Katherine Millard and a contract project director for the Office of Foreign Buildings Operations in Sri Lanka, died suddenly of a heart attack in Colombo on March 14. Mr. Lundy began his association with State in 1985 when he led a 13-man Navy Seabee detachment to the U.S. Embassy in Algiers to complete a public access control project for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Following his retirement from the U.S. Navy in 1989, he joined his wife on overseas assignments in Jamaica, Albania and Sri Lanka. At the time of his death, he was completing the construction of a $1 million warehouse complex for the embassy in Colombo.
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William T. Malone died on March 23 in Alexandria, Va., after knee replacement surgery. Mr. Malone began his government career at the Pentagon in 1956. Following a career that spanned 25 years, he retired in 1981 as a section chief in the Washington Passport Office. In April 1998 he was presented with the Bureau of Consular Affairs' Trailblazer Award. |
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Robert Miller Marr, 90, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on April 4 in Green Valley, Ariz. Mr. Marr joined State after World War II and served in Paris with the Marshall Plan and in Pretoria as an administrative officer. After an assignment as a Foreign Service inspector, he was posted to Buenos Aires as counselor for administrative affairs. He retired in 1968 with 25 years in the Foreign Service.
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James M. McDonald Jr., 75, a retired U.S. Information Agency public affairs officer, died of cancer on April 1 in Seattle. Mr. McDonald entered the Foreign Service in 1950 and served in Germany and France. He attended the Johns Hopkins European Center in Bologna, Italy, then served in Nicaragua. After graduating from the National War College, he served in the Dominican Republic and in Italy. He received the USIA Superior Honor Award and the Santa Cecilia Award from the Italian state radio and television network during his career. He retired in 1975.
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Jasmine Loring Skeete, 17, of Vienna, Va., died on April 2 after a long battle with cancer. Ms. Skeete lived with her Foreign Service mother, Pamela Loring, now in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and her sister Valerie in Beijing and Seoul before being medevaced in September 1996. While attending Seoul American High School, she was active in soccer and placed first on the track team. A senior at George Marshall High School in Falls Church, Va., she was looking forward to studying management in college and following her mother's career.
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Fred W. Trembour, 86, a retired U.S. Information Agency Foreign Service officer, died on Feb. 3 of pneumonia in Boulder, Colo. He served in Germany, India, Iran and Washington, D.C., before retiring in 1970.
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Azucena M. "Susie" Vasquez, 54, a retired equal employment opportunity manager, died on March 28 in Scottsdale, Ariz., after a brief illness. Ms. Vasquez began her federal career as an education specialist with the Job Corps in 1981. She served as an equal employment opportunity specialist with the U.S. Information Agency from 1984 to 1988. She joined State in 1988 and served as the Federal Women's Program coordinator and as manager for Hispanic program activities until she retired in 1998.
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H. Andre Weismann, 84, died on Feb. 23. After World War II, Mr. Weismann was appointed as a financial adviser in the Office of the U.S. High Commissioner to Germany. Subsequently, he held posts of increasing responsibility in the Foreign Service, such as deputy chief of International Financial and Monetary Affairs and director of the Office of Brazilian Affairs. He became director of the U.S. Agency for International Development program in El Salvador, then counselor for Economic and Commercial Affairs and director of the USAID program in Caracas. He retired in 1972 as director of State's Office of Commercial Affairs.
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Charles Edward Willis, 73, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on March 24 in Pocatello, Idaho. Mr. Willis joined the Foreign Service in 1965, serving as an electronics engineer with the Voice of America in the Philippines and Vietnam. He was captured by the North Vietnamese in January 1968 and was held as a prisoner of war for five years until his release in March 1973. He was presented with the Award of Valor on his return to the United States and retired in 1976.
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Robert Walter Zimmermann, 80, died on March 5 in Washington, D.C., of a heart attack. During his Foreign Service career as a political officer, Mr. Zimmermann served in Peru, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal. He retired in 1979 and spent 10 years as a part-time worker in the Department's declassification section.
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