The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2015

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JANUARY FEBRUARY 2015 81 (c/o Ursinus College) or the Amb. Joseph H. Melrose Jr. International Scholarship (c/o NCCA). Mr. Melrose’s family respectfully requests that stories of his adventures be shared with jhmelrose@gmail.com to pass on to Nina. n A.David Miller , 60, a retired FSO with the State Department, died on Nov. 21 in Gaithersburg, Md., following a battle with cancer. Mr. Miller was born in Crystal Falls, Mich., on Aug.4, 1954, to Roy E. Miller Jr. and Jane (Fay) Miller. When he was 4 years old, his family moved to Iron Mountain, Mich. He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1976 and earned an MBA degree from the University of Minnesota in 1980. Mr. Miller joined the Foreign Service in 1983 and served in the economic cone, retiring in 2012. During his career, he was posted to the U.S. Consulate in Calgary and to embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Mos- cow, Stockholm and Port of Spain. He loved music, was a natural musi- cian and an accomplished pianist. Wher- ever he was posted, Mr. Miller sought out and joined a ne choir, including the World Bank Choir in Washington, D.C., performing many hours of choral music and solo work as a baritone. Friends and family remember Mr. Miller as a warm, gregarious man who has left many friends scattered across the world. He is survived by his wife, Maya; her daughter, Ekaterina Miller (and her hus- band, Julio Noguez) of Ann Arbor, Mich.; his two children, Andrew Roy Miller and Kristjana Laura Miller of Calgary; his mother, Jane F. Miller of Kingsford, Mich.; his sister, Marguerite J. Miller (and her husband, Robert Lees) of Washington, D.C.: and several cousins. n Harry I. Odell, 93, a retired FSO, died of cardiopulmonary arrest on Sept. 28 inMargaretville, N.Y. Mr. Odell was born in Cornwall-on- Hudson, N.Y. He graduated fromBrown University and earned master’s degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Harvard University. During July 1943, while a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps, his B-17 bomber was shot down in a raid over Germany, and he was held as a prisoner of war for almost two years in Stalag Luft III and other camps until the end of World War II. Mr. Odell joined the Foreign Service in 1949. In 1950, his 27-member entering class went as a group to Germany to serve as resident o cers of the occupation. He began his diplomatic career managing an entire district of Bavaria. Other economic and consular postings included Germany, Israel, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Greece, Jordan and Washington, D.C. Mr. Odell was chargé d’a aires in Jordan during the con ict between the Jordanian army and the Palestinian mili- tants. He concluded his 28-year Foreign Service career as deputy chief of mission at Embassy Bern. Following retirement in 1978, Mr. Odell became executive director at the Ameri- can Swiss Association based in New York City. He also worked part time for the State Department declassifying documents under the Freedom of Information Act. For many years he was a member of the Town Council of Glen Echo, Md., and a longstanding member of DACOR. He had split his time between homes inWashing- ton, D.C., and Margaretville, N.Y., since the late 1990s. Mr. Odell was predeceased by his wife of 51 years, Barbara Lohmann of Brooklyn, N.Y. He is survived by his daughter, Debo- rah Odell of Alexandria, Va., and Marga- retville, N.Y.; his son, David Odell (and his