The Foreign Service Journal, February 2005

in 1964, and enjoyed a second career in interior decorating. Upon retire- ment, she traveled extensively in Eastern Europe, Central and South America and Asia. Her health began to fail in 1995, when she moved to Livermore, Calif. Friends and family remember Mrs. Hinke as a fun-loving, gracious and hospitable person who deeply loved her family, her friends, her faith, and the world. There was no limit to her enthusiasm, curiosity and generosity toward her relatives and charities. Mrs. Hinke is survived by her step- daughter, Helen Karnes; a sister, Helen Skinner; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband Frederick W. Hinke and her stepdaughter Margaret Woods. William E. Knepper , 75, retired FSO and an expert in Latin American economics, died Nov. 4 at his home in Oakland, Calif. He had Parkinson’s disease. A native of Kansas City, Kan., Mr. Knepper received an economics degree from the University of Kansas. Following service during the Korean War in the Navy, he received a mas- ter’s degree in economics and political economy from Harvard University, and completed all but his dissertation for a doctorate in economics at Harvard. Mr. Knepper joined the Foreign Service in 1956, and in a 32-year career served in Monterrey, Santo Domingo, Montevideo and Wash- ington, D.C. He retired in 1988 with the rank of minister-counselor. In the early 1960s, Mr. Knepper was staff assistant to Secretary of State Dean Rusk. He was posted to Uruguay from 1967 to 1971, when threats from the Tupemaros terrorist group target- ing U.S. interests and representatives forced him to keep a pistol under his pillow and a shotgun in the corner of his bedroom. From 1978 to 1983, Mr. Knepper served at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research; he left with the title of deputy assistant secretary of State. At INR he was liaison to the intelligence community on Latin American intelli- gence, and helped prepare the Kissinger Commission report on Central America. He also conducted trade negotiations with members of Latin American delegations. Mr. Knepper’s final assignment was teach- ing economics at the Inter-American Defense College at Fort McNair. After retirement, Mr. Knepper edited the Washington Report , a news- letter of the Council of the Americas business group. He also served as vice president for research for Consumers for World Trade, a nongovernmental organization, and as vice president of St. Georges Corp., a Washington real estate investment firm. He was a member of the Cosmos Club and the Harvard Club of Washington. His hobbies included collecting pre- Columbian pottery and textiles. Mr. Knepper had a home in the Washington, D.C., area from 1956 to 1996, when he moved to Oakland from Annapolis. His marriage to Virginia Steven Knepper ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife of 17 years, Dr. Alberta Flashman-Knepper of Oakland; two sons from the first marriage, Christopher Knepper of McLean, Va., andMichael Knepper of Mill Valley, Calif; and five grand- children. Suzanne Dunning Manfull , 85, the widow of Ambassador Melvin L. Manfull, died of cardiac arrest at Sibley Memorial Hospital on Oct. 29, after a long illness. Born in Gonzales, Tex., Mrs. Manfull received a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the University of Texas. She came to Washington, D.C. in 1941 to study at The George Washington University, and while there met and married then U.S. Navy Lieutenant Manfull. During World War II, she worked as a relocation spe- cialist for the War Department, help- ing young secretaries who came to the city find a safe place to live. She danced with the Washington Ballet Company, and later became a special assistant for war correspondent Martin Agronsky. In the early 1950s, she worked as a congressional researcher. Mrs. Manfull accompanied her FSO husband to Paris in 1952, where they lived until 1958. She also trav- eled with him to postings in Saigon, London, Brussels, Bangui and Monrovia. She engaged in volunteer work at each posting. Mrs. Manfull had a passion for flowers (especially orchids), and left lovely gardens wher- ever she lived abroad. In the early 1960s, in Vietnam, Mrs. Manfull organized the South Vietnamese Chapter of the (Red Cross) Grey Ladies volunteers, and cared for children at Go Vap Hospital. She lobbied some of the high society women of South Vietnam to join the chapter. Later, in her Washington, D.C., living room, she taught English for Welcome to Washington, a group helping diplomatic spouses adjust to the American capital. Mrs. Manfull moved to McLean, Va., in 2002. Mrs. Manfull volunteered for the Washington chapter of the American Orchid Society, and was for years a docent at the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Georgetown, where she was an expert on its gardens. Her husband died in 2001. Mrs. Manfull is survived by three children, Lisa S. Harper of Rockville, Md., Gregory L. Manfull of Evergreen, Colo., and William T. Manfull of Portsmouth, N.H.; and three grand- F E B R U A R Y 2 0 0 5 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 67 I N M E M O R Y u u u