The Foreign Service Journal, March 2019

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2019 77 In retirement, Amb. Shlaudeman trav- eled with his golfing buddies to play the historic old courses of Northern Ireland and Scotland, cruised through the Baltic Sea to St. Petersburg with his wife, and checked out the icebergs and glaciers in Alaska. He was active in his local community, serving on the San Luis Obispo County grand jury and taking their official min- utes from 2002 to 2003. He also stayed involved in dialogue and discussions related to U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. Amb. Shlaudeman was a passionate football fan and a season ticket holder with the Washington Redskins, from their days playing at Griffith Stadium all the way to the mid-2000s. In his last months, as a 92nd birthday gift to himself, he arranged a solo train excursion for him- self to the Western Canadian Rockies. Amb. Shlaudeman was predeceased by his wife, Carol, in 2013. He is survived by his children Karl (and spouse, Shani Yuen), Katherine (and spouse, Peter Sutherland) and Harry (and spouse, Teresa), along with grandchildren Gabri- elle and Helena. Donations can be made in his name to the Senior Living Foundation of the Ameri- can Foreign Service at slfoundation.org. n Savannah Tunnell Walker , 88, widow of Ambassador Julius Waring Walker Jr., died on Dec. 26, 2018, at her home in Chevy Chase, Md. Mrs. Walker was born on Nov. 23, 1930, in Tahoka, Texas, to John Hansford and Lenore Muecke Tunnell, and graduated fromTexas Tech University in 1951 with a degree in journalism. After several years working as a teacher, she landed a job in the Washington, D.C., office of Con- gressman George H. Mahon (D-Texas), who went on to become chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. She met Julius, her future husband and a native of a small Texas town near her own, when as a new Foreign Service officer he stopped in to pay a call on his congressman. The couple lived in Africa during much of Ambassador Walker’s 33-year career. After his first overseas posting, in Malta, they learned French together at the Foreign Service Institute in Paris before heading to Usumbura, Rwanda- Urundi (which is today two separate countries, Rwanda and Burundi), where he served as political officer during independence from Belgium in 1962. The couple’s other postings included Chad, from 1966 to 1969; Liberia, where her husband was chargé d’affaires dur- ing Samuel K. Doe’s overthrow of the Americo-Liberian government in 1980; and Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), where he was the ambassador. Mrs. Walker was active in charity and other local causes while overseas. Dur- ing a tour in London from 1969 to 1971, while her husband served as U.S. liaison with the U.K. on issues relating to the Biafra War, she served as president of the American Embassy Wives’ Association. While in Washington, she continued her Capitol Hill career as administrative assistant in Rep. Mahon’s office. After the congressman retired, she worked as an executive assistant and manager at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. Mrs. Walker was predeceased by her husband in 2003. She is survived by her sister, Mary Margaret Stewart, of Waco, Texas; two daughters, Savannah Waring Walker, of Fleetwood, N.Y., and Lucile Lenore Walker, of Washington, D.C.; a son, George Julius Stewart Walker, of New York, N.Y.; and two grandsons, Walker Fountain and Laszlo Cline. n