The Foreign Service Journal, March 2022

84 MARCH 2022 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Vietnam, where she was working with the orphanages, and he was serving as vice consul. They married after their evacua- tion and the fall of Vietnam in 1975. The Scotts served overseas in Wash- ington, D.C., and in Italy, New York City, Swaziland, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Kenya and The Gambia, where he was ambassador from 1995 to 1998. They were also posted to the Naval War College and again at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations for 15 years after 9/11. Throughout that period, Ambas- sador Scott was asked annually to be the senior adviser on African affairs on the U.S. delegation to the General Assembly. Ms. Scott was mother to three children (one son died in childhood) and was an exemplary diplomat’s wife. She regularly worked with local charities, especially those dealing with sick and disabled children, and she volunteered to teach English in local schools. After Amb. Scott’s retirement, the couple were both accepted into the Order of Malta, of which Ms. Scott was a Dame of Grace and Devotion. She participated as a nurse on 13 Malta pilgrimages to Lourdes and volunteered a week’s service for seven years with Hospitalité Notre Dame de Lourdes, helping to staff the shrine during the pilgrimage season. Ms. Scott was a member of the Colony Club in New York and of the Woman’s Club in Richmond. She is survived by her husband and their two sons, Charles and Michael; by her twin sister, Margaret, of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire; and by her brothers, Matthew and Richard. n JoAnne Shankle, 89, wife of the late Foreign Service Officer and former AFSA President Arthur Perry Shankle, died on Oct. 24, 2021. Ms. Shankle was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 15, 1932, the daughter of a police officer. She met and married her husband, and they embarked on a lifetime of adven- ture and travel to many countries includ- ing Ecuador, Spain, Chile, Bolivia, Mexico and the Bahamas, where Mr. Shankle was the deputy chief of mission. On returning to the United States, the couple made their home in Bethesda, Md. Ms. Shankle worked as an educator all over the world and as a successful real estate agent in the D.C. metro area. After her husband’s death, she retired to their home on the Chesapeake Bay in Mathews County, Va., with dear friends and her dog, Chessie. She lived a life of love, enthusiasm and joy, and loved her family and friends fiercely. Ms. Shankle was preceded in death by her husband, Arthur Perry Shankle Jr.; her son, Joe Shankle; and her sister, Paula Karnopp. She is survived by her daughter, Susan Gordon (and her husband, Michael); her son, Steven Shankle (and his wife, Marianne Acuna); her daughter-in-law, Meredith Shankle; and grandchildren Danny, Emily, Casey, Perry, Anne, Caleb, Olivia, Lainey, Flor and Steven. n Keith L. Silver, 52, a Foreign Service officer, passed away on Nov. 29, 2021, in Salem, Mass., after a battle with cancer. Born on Feb. 8, 1969, in Chelmsford, Mass., Mr. Silver graduated summa cum laude fromNew England College and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama before earning his master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1995. He joined the Foreign Commercial Service with the U.S. Department of Com- merce in 2000. Overseas assignments included Buenos Aires (2001-2004), St. Petersburg (2005-2009), Madrid (2012- 2017) and Athens (2017-2021). He also served at the U.S. Export Assistance Center in Miami, Fla. A valued member of the Foreign Ser- vice community and a respected leader, Mr. Silver worked on several high-profile visits while serving abroad, including that of President Barack Obama to Madrid; Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to Thessaloniki; and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Athens. He played an integral part in orga- nizing the participation of the U.S. as the “honored country” at the weeklong Thessaloniki International Fair in 2018, for which he and his staff received the International Trade Administration’s distinguished bronze award. Mr. Silver worked tirelessly to bring numerous international investors to the United States, and to create American jobs by improving and growing trade rela- tions between the U.S. and the countries in which he served. Mr. Silver deeply valued his Foreign Service career and appreciated learning about the countries and regions in which he was posted. He especially enjoyed traveling with his wife and daughter, try- ing different cuisines and practicing the languages he learned. Remembered as kind, friendly and wel- coming, he enjoyed old and new friend- ships, great conversations and good wine. Mr. Silver is survived by his wife, Margarita Gokun Silver, and his daughter, Eliana Silver. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to the BeThe Match Foundation at BeTheMatch.org. n Kenneth N. Skoug Jr., 90, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Dec. 5, 2021, at his home in Harleysville, Pa. Mr. Skoug was born in Fargo, N.D., in 1931. An accomplished collegiate run-