The Foreign Service Journal, May 2006

was killed along with his driver, Iftikhar Ahmed, when a suicide bomber, who had been stopped by consulate security, rammed his car into Foy’s vehicle in a car park adja- cent to the consulate. The blast pro- pelled the car over a wall and into the grounds of a nearby Marriott Hotel. Born in Fort Smith, Ark., Mr. Foy served for 23 years in the U.S. Navy and spent another two years as a civil- ian employee at Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, N.C., before joining the Foreign Service. While in the Navy, Mr. Foy was awarded the Navy Medal of Honor. At a memorial service in Golds- boro, N.C., on March 7, more than 200 friends, colleagues and family members remembered Mr. Foy fond- ly. “He was a good, ethical, hard working, dedicated guy,” recalled Chief Warrant Officer Eric Redd, who worked with Foy in Kyrgyzstan. “You could always count on him.” Jerry Reaves, a former colleague at Fort Bragg, recalled how he and Mr. Foy argued about politics. “He was a Clinton fan, and I was a Bush fan,” Reaves said. “He always made you laugh.” The Rev. Jim Whitfield described Mr. Foy as a hero, a patriot and a war- rior who served his country and adored his daughters. Mr. Foy had talked with his wife the weekend before he was killed, Whitfield said, and had been with the family for Christmas, when he met his grand- daughter for the first time. Whitfield then read from a list of memories pre- pared by Mr. Foy’s daughters: it included memories of a man who answered problems with food and long conversations, who addressed his elders as madam and sir, and who sang when a room got too quiet. “He spent his whole life serving our country. He always chose a path that took him down that way,” David Cushing, Mr. Foy’s brother-in-law and good friend told the Los Angeles Times. “Obviously, it was a rough year in Pakistan. He wished it was a little less contentious. He was aware of the risks, but he enjoyed his work.” In his spare time, Mr. Foy enjoyed golf and landscape painting. He is survived by his wife, Donna, of Goldsboro, N.C.; four grown daughters, Suzette Hartwell, Cherish Foy, Chandra Jackson and Tamar Foy; two grandchildren, Tyler James Elmo Jackson and Callie Hartwell; and three siblings. George Knight , 74, a retired FSO, died of lung cancer on March 4 at his home in Reynolds Plantation, near Eatonton, Ga. Mr. Knight was born in Pennsyl- vania. He worked as a comptroller from 1950 to 1952, and served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1954. After a brief stint in the Veterans Administration, Mr. Knight joined the State Department in 1956. He was assigned to Bonn as a code clerk in 1957, and transferred to Moscow in 1958. He served as general services officer in Sydney from 1959 to 1962, and in Salisbury (now Lusaka) from 1962 to 1964. After two years at State, he was assigned to Kampala as admin- istrative officer in 1966, and was transferred to Melbourne in 1970. He received his diplomatic commis- sion in 1972. After postings to Tegucigalpa and Wellington, Mr. Knight was assigned to Seoul in 1979 as counselor for administration — “the best admin officer I ever knew,” recalls a col- league in Korea at that time. He was assigned as counselor for administra- tion to Jakarta in 1982, and to Bangkok in 1985. From 1988 to 1992, he was a personnel counselor at State. His last assignment before retiring in 1994 was as administrative counselor in Canberra. Mr. Knight and his wife, Colleen, settled in Annandale, Va., for several years before moving to Georgia to be near their family. He traveled exten- sively and was active in church and community affairs. Mr. Knight is survived by his wife, Colleen of Eatonton, Ga., a son, a daughter and three grandchildren. Edward W. Mulcahy , 84, a retired FSO and former ambassador, died of complications from Alzhei- mer’s disease on March 12 in Win- chester, Va. Ambassador Mulcahy graduated cum laude from Tufts University in 1943 with a degree in history, and thereafter joined the U.S. Marines. In June 1944 he saw his first action in Guam, where as a second lieutenant, he led a company of the 21st Marines of the 3rd Marine Division in repelling a series of Japanese banzai attacks. He was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart for his actions in the liberation of Guam. After recovering from his wounds, Amb. Mulcahy was promoted to first lieutenant, and in February 1945 landed on Iwo Jima on the first day of the Marine assault on that island. Pinned down on the beach with his men by heavy Japanese bombard- ment, he was hit directly on his left shin by a mortar round. Fortunately, the shell did not explode, but his shin- bone was shattered. He awoke to see his medical corpsman pouring blood out of his boot. He received a second Purple Heart for his wounds on Iwo Jima. After the war, he was promoted to captain and placed in charge of the Marine detachment at the U.S. Navy M A Y 2 0 0 6 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 63 I N M E M O R Y u u u