The Foreign Service Journal, April 2003

Belgium, in Athens, and Mexico City. During this period their three sons — Christopher, Eric and Raymond — were born. When Bob retired from the Foreign Service in 1975, the Brandins moved to Jaffrey, N.H., where they both were very active in the community. Mrs. Brandin is survived by four children and six grandchildren. A memorial service will be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Mrs. Brandin’s favorite charities: Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, 5001 Angel Canyon Road, Kanab, UT 84741; American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), Membership and Donor Services, 424 East 92nd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 101298; or, Wolf Haven, 3111 Offut Lake Road, Tenino, WA 9858. To send condolences to the family or for more information, please visit the Web site: www.cournoyerfh.com. Consuelo Mata-Olalde Farmer , 66, wife of retired USIA FSO Guy W. Farmer, died Feb. 12 at the Evergreen Hospice in Kirkland, Wash., of pancreatic cancer. Mrs. Farmer was born May 26, 1936, in Mexico City. She graduated from high school and secretarial school there before emigrating to the United States in 1960 to work at the Mexican Government Tourist Office in Los Angeles. She and her husband were married in his home- town of Seattle later that year. After living in Klamath Falls, Ore., for two years, they moved to Carson City in January 1962, when he was named Associated Press correspondent in the Nevada capital. Mrs. Farmer became an American citizen in 1967, when her husband joined the Foreign Service. Together, over the next 28 years, they lived and worked in Bogota, Canberra, Caracas, Lima, Madrid, Mexico City, Newport, R.I., and Washington, D.C., while maintain- ing their permanent, legal residence in Carson City. Mrs. Farmer used her bilingual abilities as secretary to the first State Department anti- narcotics coordinator in Bogota, and also managed the American Embassy Commissary in Madrid, in addition to undertaking extensive charity work with embassy women’s organizations. The Farmers moved back to Carson City in 1995 following his retirement from the Foreign Service. During the past four years Mrs. Farmer volunteered at the Ross Medical Clinic, which provides free medical care to indigent patients. In addition to her husband of 42 years, Mrs. Farmer is survived by two children, Guy J. Farmer of Reno, Nev., and Maria Consuelo Farmer of Seattle; an older sister, Lucia Mata de Flores of Mexico City, and numerous nieces and nephews. A brother, Rodolfo Mata, preceded her in death. In lieu of flowers, the family sug- gests donations to the Ross Medical Clinic, c/o “FISH,” 131 E. Long St., Carson City, NV 89706 and/or the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, 1111 Stewart Ave., Bethpage, NY 11714. Ralph Anson Jones , 84, retired FSO, died on Feb. 10 at the Moravian Hall Square Nursing Home in Nazareth, Pa. Born in 1918 in Mount Bethel, Pa., Mr. Jones received his B.A. degree from Penn State University in 1938 and an M.A. degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1939. Mr. Jones entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1941, and during his 29-year career served overseas in Chile, Brazil, Poland, Thailand, Germany, Spain, the Soviet Union and Kenya. He also served in the Department of State in Washington as deputy director of the Office of U.S.-USSR Exchanges in the 1960s, during a critical time in U.S.-Soviet relations. After Mr. Jones was medically retired in 1970, he made his home in the Washington area, working for three years for the Conservation Foundation and for four years with the Gallup Poll. Mr. Jones was a longstanding member of the National Cathedral Association in Washington, and served as the NCA representative on the Committee for Selection and Supervision of the Cathedral Young Volunteers-in-Service. He taught at the Cathedral Medieval Workshop, and he worked on several D.C. Habitat for Humanity building pro- jects. His many civil rights activities included participation in Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1965 Selma to Montgomery (Alabama) freedom march and helping to desegregate Bethesda, Md. Boy Scout Troop 134 in 1963. He was scoutmaster of that troop from 1962 to 1966. During World War II, Mr. Jones served with the U.S. Army in the Philippines, China and Japan. He was a charter member of the Department of State American Legion Post 68, and a member of both the Sons of the American Revolution and the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War. A P R I L 2 0 0 3 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 69 I N M E M O R Y