The Foreign Service Journal, May 2012

60 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / M A Y 2 0 1 2 Mrs. Garrison is survived by two daughters, Libby Behrens (and her husband, Bret) of Courtenay, British Columbia, and Sarah Garrison (and her partner, Jane Bedell) of Bronx, N.Y.; two sons, Mark E. Garrison (and his wife, Marsha) of Ardmore, Pa., and Eric Garrison (and his wife, Becky) of Richmond, Va. The four families now include nine grandchil- dren and two great-grandsons. Home and Hospice Care RI en- abled Mrs. Garrison to spend her last weeks and days in her new home overlooking Narragansett Bay, with family around her. Contributions in her memory can go to that organiza- tion, at 1085 North Main Street, Providence RI 02904. Mary Hamilton Lee Horsey , 96, widow of the late Outerbridge Horsey IV, an FSO and President Kennedy’s ambassador to Czechoslovakia, died on Dec. 29. A descendant of Thomas Sim Lee, an early governor of Maryland, Mrs. Horsey’s father served with Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in Cuba and held several diplomatic posts in Cen- tral America during the early 1900s. Mrs. Horsey graduated from Man- hattanville College in 1938 and also ob- tained a library science degree from Columbia University. During the war, she served as a librarian with the Of- fice of Strategic Services. She married Outerbridge Horsey in 1946. The couple served for many years in Italy, as well as Japan and Czecho- slovakia, before Ambassador Horsey retired from the Foreign Service in 1970. For some years they had an apartment in Rome, and traveled ex- tensively. Amb. Horsey died in 1983. After his death, Mrs. Horsey con- tinued to travel, especially to visit her daughters, who are in or married to members of the Foreign Service. She included archeological digs in her ac- tivities and also did extensive volunteer work in Washington, D.C. In 2000 she married William Wright, a former college beau who had served as an officer in World War II and was an engineer for Corning Glass. He died in 2007. Mrs. Horsey is survived by her chil- I N M E M O R Y