The Foreign Service Journal, May 2010

M A Y 2 0 1 0 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 73 can Women’s Association, the Parent Teacher Association, local orphanages and animal rescue shelters. She was an avid reader and gardener, and loved to bake and entertain. Mrs. Romeo was preceded in death by her father, Walter P. Davenport, and a sister, Vicki S. Davenport. She is survived by her husband, re- tired FSO Nick Romeo; her children, Francesco, Mark, Catherine Rose and Nicholas; her mother, Henrietta R. Davenport; her father-in-law and mother-in-law, Frank and Catherine Romeo; a sister, Carolyn Johnson (and her husband, Mark); brothers Paul Davenport (and his wife, Joanne) and Mark Davenport; two sisters-in-law, Bruna (and her husband, Joe) and Rose; and many nieces, nephews and devoted friends. Memorial contributions may be made to a charity of the donor's choice. Marie Elizabeth Johnson Sulli- van , 88, the spouse of retired FSO and former ambassador William Sullivan, died on Feb. 10 in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Sullivan was raised in Cuba and Mexico, where her father, Harold John- son, a World War I veteran and first- generation American of Swedish descent, worked for General Electric. As a youth, she became a competitive swimmer, setting several records in Mexico. She graduated from the Uni- versity of Texas in 1941 and returned to stay with her family in Mexico. But after Pearl Harbor, she joined the U.S. Marine Corps and was assigned to Santa Barbara, Calif. When the war ended, she entered the Fletcher School of Law and Diplo- macy at Tufts University, where shemet her future husband, a fellow veteran and aspiring FSO. Despite having her master’s degree and passing the exam, she was not allowed to enter the For- eign Service because she had admitted she was engaged to be married. Ms. Johnson and Mr. Sullivan were married in Mexico City in 1947 before shipping out on his first diplomatic as- signment, to Bangkok. The couple was then posted to Calcutta, during the par- tition of the Indian subcontinent. It was a turbulent time, and they proceeded to their next assignment, in postwar I N M E M O R Y