The Foreign Service Journal, April 2009

A P R I L 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 61 Kong, Yaounde, Alexandria, Cotonou and Paris before returning permanently to Alexandria in 1998. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1986. Mrs. Moran gave birth to their three children on three different continents, and kept the household together in Alexandria during her husband’s unac- companied tours of duty in Kinshasa and Bujumbura. In 1999, she began a new career as a secondary school teacher of French at Edison High School in Fairfax County, Va., completing her teacher certification coursework at George Mason Univer- sity. She was a longtimemember of the American Association of Teachers of French and continued the teaching she loved at EdisonHigh School until three weeks before her death. Mrs. Moran traveled extensively throughout her life for both pleasure and education. Her most recent for- eign travel was to Morocco (2006) and Quebec (2007). Her last trip was to San Francisco in August 2008. She also loved gardening, photography and painting. Besides her husband of 28 years, she is survived by her mother, Ray- monde Jeanne Vermeil (née Valleix), of Grasse, France, and by three daugh- ters: Sister Audrey Frances, an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales in Childs, Md., and Claire Francine Moran and Va- lerie Anne Moran, both of Alexandria, Va. Contributions in Colette Moran’s memory can be made to the American Cancer Society. Lillian “Solie” Tootle Reinhardt , 88, the widow of the late retired FSO and former ambassador G. Frederick Reinhardt Jr., died on Feb. 4 in Mill- brook, N.Y. Born in Bethany, W. Va., to Harry King Tootle and Jessica Campbell Nave, she attended the Mount de Chantal School in Wheeling, W. Va., and the Knox School in Cooperstown, N.Y. During the Second World War, Mrs. Reinhardt worked for the Red Cross in the North African and Euro- pean theaters; afterward, she worked with the Marshall Plan in France. In 1998 she published a collection of her wartime letters to family members in a book titled VMail . Family and friends recall her abounding energy and sense I N M E M O R Y