The Foreign Service Journal, May 2012

drenMary Lee Russell; Sarah Horsey- Barr, a retired Foreign Service officer; Anita Gannon; and her son, Outer- bridge. She was buried in the family plot at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church in Petersville, Md., a few miles from the farm on which she was raised. Kevin Morgan, 49, a Foreign Service specialist with the Department of State and winner of AFSA’s 2006 Tex Harris Award for Constructive Dissent, died on Dec. 3, 2011, after battling brain cancer. The youngest of four children, Mr. Morgan was born at Fort Monroe, Va., on Jan. 16, 1962, and was raised in a military family in Hawaii and Northern Virginia. He established roots in Fair- fax, graduating from Lake Braddock High School in 1980 and fromGeorge Mason University with a B.A. in ac- counting. As a young man, he enjoyed exploring the area, hunting and fishing with his father and backpacking with his brother. Reserved by nature, Mr. Morgan nonetheless took an expansive ap- proach to life. From back-country camping in the American West to sky- diving, he loved adventure. His love of travel led him to leave his early ca- reer as a certified public accountant with the National Science Foundation and join the Foreign Service in the 1990s. After six years with USAID’s Regional Inspector General’s Office in Budapest, he transferred to the State Department and was posted to Zim- babwe, Yemen, Belarus and Poland. In 2006, Ambassador William Har- rop presented Mr. Morgan with the American Foreign Service Associa- tion’s Tex Harris Award for “extraordi- nary accomplishment involving initia- tive, integrity, intellectual cour- age and constructive dissent.” Mr. Morgan had taken a brave stand to protect the rights of a local employee in Belarus. Family, friends and colleagues uni- versally remember Mr. Morgan as a genuinely good guy who will be sorely missed. Mr. Morgan is survived by his wife, Tatiana, and their daughters, 8-year- old Valentina and the newborn Alexan- dra, whom he did not live to see; his parents, James and Mary Morgan of Annandale, Va.; two brothers, Sam Morgan of Shiloh, Ill., and James Mor- gan of Alexandria, Va.; a sister, Caro- line Morgan of Annandale; and numerous nieces and nephews. Susie J. Tucker , 71, a retired For- eign Service officer, passed away in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 31. The Reverend Dr. Tucker was a member of the Foreign Service for 25 years. Her distinguished career in- cluded overseas assignments in Ma- drid, Manila, Riyadh, Dhahran, Abu Dhabi, Jeddah, Kingston, Damascus, Athens, Taipei, Bangkok and Seoul. After retiring from the Foreign Service, Dr. Tucker received her bach- elor’s degree in political science, her master’s degree in divinity and her doc- torate of ministry from Howard Uni- versity in Washington, D.C. She enjoyed participating in religious work- shops, Bible study, reading and writing. Dr. Tucker is survived by her daughter, Nichole Walton (and son-in- law Timothy) of Stone Ridge, Va.; three grandchildren; five sisters and one brother; and many nieces and nephews. 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 61 I N M E M O R Y CHANGE OF ADDRESS Moving? Take AFSA With You! Change your address online, visit us at http://www.afsa.org/ address_change.aspx Or Send change of address to: AFSA Membership Department 2101 E Street NW Washington, DC 20037