The Foreign Service Journal, April 2003

His wife, Margaret Elizabeth Bayer, died in 1952. One son, Timothy, died in 1969. He is sur- vived by another son, Philip, and a daughter-in-law, Jill O’Hara, of Mt. Bethel, Pa. Dr. Joseph Trotwood “J.T.” Kendrick , 82, retired FSO of Vail, Colo., died on Jan. 2 of complica- tions following surgery to repair a fractured neck. Dr. Kendrick was born and raised in the Oklahoma farm com- munity of Pryor Creek. Following two years at the University of Oklahoma, he joined the Foreign Service and was posted to Nicaragua in 1941. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy as a Russian-language intelligence officer. Dr. Kendrick returned to the Foreign Service in 1946, and served subsequently in Poland, the Soviet Union, Germany, Afghan- istan, France and Norway. He also worked at the Department of Defense and the Department of State in Washington, D.C. During this same period he earned a B.S. degree at Georgetown University and an M.A. at Columbia University. After leaving the Foreign Service, Dr. Kendrick wrote com- prehensive analyses for Congress on the process of consultation between the executive and legisla- tive branches regarding foreign affairs. He also earned a Ph.D. in political science at George Washington University, and pro- duced a book on the genealogy of the Kendrick family. In his late 60s, Dr. Kendrick, an avid trekker, realized his dream of climbing to the Everest base camp. He skied and played tennis throughout his 70s and, as he turned 80, rounded out his academic career with a year of classical studies in England at Cambridge University. On the eve of his death, he, along with a German and a British colleague, finished a book on their exploration and cultural study of remote areas of Afghanistan. Proceeds from the book, to be pub- lished in 2003, will go to Afghan charity. Dr. Kendrick is survived by a sis- ter, Betty; three daughters, Pamela, Juliette, and Katherine; and seven grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his son, Drew. A memorial celebration of Dr. Kendrick will be held later this year in Pryor Creek. For those wishing to make a con- tribution in memory of Dr. Kendrick, the family suggests a char- ity of the contributor’s own choice or an Afghan charity such as Humanitarian Assistance for Women and Children of Afghanistan (HAWCA), 1220 Venice Blvd., #315, Venice, CA 90390 (www.hawca.org). Thomas D. Lofgren , 62, retired FSO with USAID, died Nov. 23 at the Northern Virginia Hospice in Arlington, Va., of cancer. Mr. Lofgren was born in Greeley, Colo., on Jan. 10, 1940, to Vernon and Ann Lofgren. After receiving his early schooling in Greeley, he graduated in 1962 from the University of Colorado in Boulder with a degree in political science. Following graduation, he joined the Peace Corps and served two years in Zomba, Malawi, teaching history and English at the Malosa Secondary School. Upon returning to the United States, he earned a master’s degree in inter- national relations from the University of Pittsburgh, where he met his wife, Marcie. They were married there in 1971. Mr. Lofgren joined USAID in 1969. Accompanied by his wife, his career included tours in Vietnam, Kenya, Somalia, Malawi and Moldova, where he was country affairs officer. In addition to his wife, of Washington, D.C., Mr. Lofgren is survived by his mother and brother Jack, both of Greeley, and brother James, of Denver. Yvette Paule Francoise LeDain Munn , 75, wife of retired FSO Lewright Munn, died at her home in Reston, Va. of cancer on Dec. 18, 2002. Mrs. Munn was born on June 27, 1927, in Hanoi, Tonkin (then French Indochina) to the late Col. Paul LeDain and Albertine LeDain of the French Colonial Service. During World War II, the LeDain family were interned by the Japanese. Following the Japanese surrender, the family returned to their ancestral homes in Toulon and Chateau Chinon, France, later set- tling in Bellevue, a suburb of Paris. According to her obituary in The Reston Observer , Mrs. Munn met Lewright Browning Munn, a next- door neighbor of her aunt, during a visit to the United States in 1947 for medical care. While in Washington, D.C., Mrs. Munn worked as an executive secretary in the Office of the French Economic Mission with the Economic Cooperation 70 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / A P R I L 2 0 0 3 I N M E M O R Y