The Foreign Service Journal, May 2012

M A Y 2 0 1 2 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 59 sons from his first marriage, Michael Cody of Valencia, Spain and Ryan Cody of Kirkland, Wash.; two daugh- ters, Cornelia Cody of New York City and Cecilia Cody of Silver Spring, Md.; eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. A son, Peter Cody, died in 1976. Elizabeth “Betty” Garrison , 80, wife of retired FSO Mark Garrison, died on Feb. 6 at home in Cranston, R.I., after living for many years with ovarian cancer. Mrs. Garrison met Mark, her future husband of 62 years, in high school in Kokomo, Ind. When he entered the Foreign Service in 1955, she embraced being an unpaid member of the For- eign Service team, a tradition at that time. It was in her nature to support and encourage those around her, be- ginning with families at post. But she also happily performed the many other tasks expected of that generation of Foreign Service spouses. In Hong Kong, Mrs. Garrison taught English in a Chinese school; in Moscow, she was board chair of the International School; and in Prague, she provided shelter and succor to American correspondents during the Soviet invasion that ended the “Prague Spring” and to embassy fam- ilies when a fire in the chancery dis- placed them. Raising four children in the 1950s and 1960s and nurturing the family as it matured and increased was Mrs. Garrison’s favorite career, however. She schooled her children at home in Sofia, where there was no alternative. During her husband’s assignments in Washington, D.C., she worked as ad- ministrator for a psychiatric halfway house and executive secretary of the Falls Church planning board. After Mr. Garrison retired from the Foreign Service in 1981, the cou- ple founded a foreign policy research center (now part of the Watson Insti- tute for International Studies) at Brown University. In retirement, they created a blueberry farm— a fa- vorite summertime destination for many Rhode Islanders — and Mrs. Garrison indulged her love of books and gardening. I N M E M O R Y