In Memory/Obituaries

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The FSJ’s In Memory department, which is reserved for members of the Foreign Service and their immediate families, is published on alternate months. The obituaries average between 300 and 500 words in length, but that is a guideline and not a limit. We do not use photographs. You may write the obituary yourself, or send us the information and we will draft it.

Please be sure to include date, place and cause of death; details of the individual’s Foreign Service career (when entered, postings, when retired); and survivors and where they live. In addition, our readers are very interested in what their colleagues have done in retirement. You may also want to include birthplace, education and any other highlights of the individual's life.

Obituaries or inquiries concerning obituaries may be sent by email to journal@afsa.org, or by snail mail to: The Foreign Service Journal, 2101 E Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037.

April-May 2025

  • Morton I. Abramowitz
  • Hollis Spurgeon Summers III
  • John P. Becker
  • Warren Bruce Kinsey

March 2025

  • César Beltrán
  • Ellen Largent Perlman
  • Lo Pan Pamela Colm
  • Tracy Thiele
  • Robert Joseph “Bob” Palmeri
  • Derek Staughton Singer

January-February 2025

  • Ingrid Mack Byers
  • Neal P. Cohen, PhD
  • Sheldon Jack Krys
  • Thresia Martino
  • Thomas “Tom” Walsh Switzer