The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2017

86 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2017 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL in one of the few buildings in central Rot- terdam to survive the Blitz. They married in 1948, at the Church of Saint Mary in Rotterdam. The Duffields’ first daughter was born in Rotterdam the following year. Mrs. Duffield became a U.S. citizen in 1950 in Boston, Mass. She accompanied her husband over the course of his career to Saigon (1950-1952), where their second daughter was born; Frankfurt (1952-1955), where their third daughter was born; Madrid (1955-1956); Porto (1956-1958), where their son was born; Washington, D.C. (1958-1962); and Porto Alegre (1963- 1967). By the time the Duffields settled in Potomac, Md., in 1967, Mrs. Duffield had learned to speak seven languages. After working as a clerical accounting supervi- sor/auditor in GEICO’s Washington, D.C., offices, she accepted a position in their newly opened Denver, Colo., office in the summer of 1970. She moved back to Bethesda, Md., in mid-1974, but returned to Colorado in mid-1977, where her career in the finan- cial sector moved her through the ranks at most of Denver’s largest banks. She retired in 1986. A long-time resident of Aurora, Colo., Mrs. Duffield was an enthusiastic ice hockey fan and enjoyed gardening, shopping and her grandchildren. She was thrilled to have met her first great- grandchild a few weeks before her death. A smoker for much of her life, she battled emphysema for many years. Mrs. Duffield was predeceased by her husband, who died in 1984. She is survived by her four children, Barbara Duffield of Concord, Mass., Judy (Klein) Greenberg of San Antonio, Texas, Caroline Duffield of Denver, Colo., and James Duffield of Aurora; four granddaughters, Meredith Klein of Santa Monica, Calif., Elaine Klein of Seattle, Wash., Lily Duffield of Washington, D.C., and Emily Duffield of Aurora; and one great-granddaughter, Eliora Rosenklein of Seattle. n Mary CatherineThompsonMar- tin, 89, a retired Foreign Service Office Management Specialist, died on Sept. 2 in Austin, Texas. Mrs. Martin joined the Foreign Service in 1950. Her first assignment was to Bonn, and that was followed by postings in Istan- bul and Madrid. In Istanbul, Mrs. Martin was chosen to be in a State Department recruiting film featuring a Foreign Service woman at work and play. While horseback riding with two Turkish cavalry officers during the film shoot, her stallion unexpectedly bolted and ran. She was rescued on film by one of the officers. The episode was covered in American newspapers, as well. During her assignment in Madrid, Mrs. Martin met a handsome Spanish surgeon on a train. She resigned from the Foreign Service (as was required at the time) to become his wife and the mother of three sons. In 1979, she returned to the Foreign Service and subsequently served as an OMS in Panama, El Salvador, Nigeria, Peru, Greece and at the department, retir- ing in 1994. With the sophistication and charmof a Southern belle, Mrs. Martin had person- ality and presence. She was a friend to everyone, Americans and foreign nationals alike, on the embassy’s staff. At the embas- sies and places she served, she was also known for her philanthropic activities. She volunteered with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, collecting food and clothing fromMission members and others for the needy, and met Mother Teresa herself twice. In Athens she orga- nized a community campaign to provide