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Montgomery Hill Colladay, 97, a retired Foreign Service officer, died Dec. 17 of pneumonia in San Diego, Calif. Mr. Colladay joined the Foreign Service in 1929 and served in Poland, Switzerland, Estonia, Canada, Ireland, Brazil, Trinidad and Spain. He served in London as second secretary of the Embassy to the Governments in Exile for the duration of World War II. He retired in 1953.
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Arthur Compton, 81, a retired Foreign Service officer, died Oct. 29 in Auribeau-sur-Siagne, France. He joined the Foreign Service in 1941 and served in Washington, D.C., Vienna and Manila and as consul general in Antwerp. He retired in 1966 and established the first overseas office of the state of Illinois in Brussels.
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Frank D. Durfey, 76, a retired Foreign Service officer, died Nov. 25 of cancer in Sequim, Wash. Mr. Durfey joined the Foreign Service in 1949 and served in the Diplomatic Courier Service until 1963. He then served as a Diplo-matic Security agent in France, Egypt, Panama, the Philippines, Côte d'Ivoire, Greece, Congo, Indonesia, Kenya, Washington State and South Africa. He retired in 1984, then worked as an annuitant for the State Department. Mr. Durfey served with the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II.
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Ann E. Endrizzi, 79, wife of retired Foreign Service officer Marino S. Endrizzi, died of leukemia Oct. 28 in northern Virginia. She accompanied her husband on Foreign Service assignments in Syria, Ethiopia, Spain and Morocco.
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William Hughes Hallman, 66, a retired Foreign Service officer, died Feb. 9, 1999, of cancer in Austin, Tex. Mr. Hallman joined the Foreign Service in 1957 and served in Mexico, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Argentina and El Salvador. During World War II, he served as a communications officer aboard a Navy destroyer in the Pacific.
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Patrick J. Henry, 25, an assistant regional security officer in Bogota, Colombia, died unexpectedly while jogging on Nov. 21. Mr. Henry became a special agent with the Bureau of Diplomatic Security in 1998 and served in the bureau's New York field office prior to his assignment in Bogota.
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Leslie A. Klieforth, 75, a retired Foreign Service officer, died July 23 in St. Petersburg, Fla. He served as consular officer and commercial attaché in Germany, South Africa, New Zealand, Iran, Belgium, Morocco and Vietnam. Mr. Klieforth also served as an interpreter in the U.S. Army during World War II. He retired in 1978.
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Wilma G. McElroy, 84, wife of retired Foreign Service officer Jesse D. McElroy, died Nov. 23 in Atlanta. From 1954 to 1970 she accompanied her husband to posts in Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Germany and Laos.
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Wilma C. Patterson, 89, a retired Foreign Service officer, died Oct. 27 of congestive heart failure in Indianapolis, Ind. Ms. Patterson transferred from the War Agencies to the State Department in 1945. She joined the Foreign Service in 1956 and served in Ecuador, El Salvador and Mexico as well as on many temporary assignments, in-cluding the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. She retired in 1970.
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David Garland Smith, retired Foreign Service officer, died Jan. 14. Mr. Smith served in Laos, Thailand, Togo, Guinea, India and Washington, D.C. He received the USIA Career Achievement Award following his duty at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C. Mr. Smith retired in 1985.
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Peter James Terbush, 21, son of Foreign Service officer James Terbush, died last June in a climbing accident in Yosemite Valley, Calif. Mr. Terbush, a geology student at Western State College in Gunnison, Col., traveled extensively with his Foreign Service family. He graduated from Singapore American School in 1996. He was an accomplished rock climber and is credited with saving the life of his climbing partner during the accident that took his own life.
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Willie Jo (Williams) Vickers, 74, a retired member of the Foreign Service, died Dec. 22 of Alzheimer's disease. She joined the Foreign Service in 1955 and served for 35 years. She was posted to Italy, Turkey, Lebanon, Sudan, India, China, Cuba, Guinea, Austria, Tunisia, Argentina and Washington, D.C.
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Joseph Robert Yodzis, 70, died Dec. 17 in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Yodzis joined the Foreign Service in 1960 and served in consular and personnel assignments in England, the Azore Islands, Washington, D.C., Switzerland, Norway and Guinea and as administrative conselor in Austria. Following his retirement in 1986, he began a series of temporary assignments for the Foreign Service and worked part-time for the U.S. Trade Representative in Switzerland.
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