The Foreign Service Journal, February 2009

Bethesda, Md., maintaining a residence there for 42 years. Mrs. Stephens’ raised four children and worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., as a sec- retary. While her husband served as a full professor for 18 years at the Inter- national College of the Armed Forces of the National Defense University, at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., Mrs. Stephens earned a certificate in gemology in 1968 and an associate de- gree in fine arts in 1974 from Mont- gomery College. She was a jewelry designer, painter and sculptor and loved to go to art museums and gar- dens. She designed and imported lovely capes of vicuña wool from Peru. The couple moved to SouthMiami, Fla., in 2000. After her husband of 60 years died in 2003, Mrs. Stephens re- mained there until 2007, when she re- turned to the Washington area to live in McLean, Va. Virginia Stephens is survived by her four children: Rochelle S. Ames of Cheyenne, Wyo.; Diana S. Watkins of McLean, Va.; Julia Stephens Knapp of Chapel Hill, N.C.; and Robert Hunter Stephens of McLean, Va. She also is survived by nine grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. F E B R U A R Y 2 0 0 9 / 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 E-mail your “In Memory” submission to the Foreign Service Journal at FSJedit@afsa.org, or fax it to (202) 338-6820. No photos, please.