The Foreign Service Journal, May 2015

66 MAY 2015 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL his compost piles and would sneak food to the deer without Lala knowing it. Mr. Niemeyer is survived by his wife, Lala; children: Vic, Ruth, Chris and Steve; nine grandchildren: Travis, Sarah, Michael, James, Cecilia, Carla, Erika, Carl and Sam; 11 great-grandchildren: Reed, Braden, Chase, Penelope, Lucas, Sabrina, Timothy, Franco, Nicolás, Lucia and Mateo; and nieces, Meredith Morton Moyer and Meme Morton Seay. Donations may be made in Mr. Nie- meyer’s name to the Rotary Foundation, Episcopal Relief and Development and the International Good Neighbor Council Foundation. n Herman T. Skofield , 93, a retired Foreign Service officer, of Walpole, N.H., died on March 14 at The Woodward Home in Keene, N.H. Born in Manchester, N.H., on Nov. 18, 1921, the son of Frank T. and Margaret C. Skofield of New Boston, N.H., Mr. Skofield graduated from New Boston High School in 1938. After working for two years, he entered the University of New Hampshire in the class of 1944. Following more than three years of service in the U.S. Army during World War II, during which he reached the rank of captain, Mr. Skofield graduated magna cum laude from UNH in 1947. He then attended Tuft University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, obtaining his M.A. degree in 1948. While continuing graduate studies for two more years, he taught part-time at a girls’ school in Boston and was an instructor in international relations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Skofield entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1950 and served in Berlin, Karachi, Vienna and Bern, as well as in Washington, D.C. His last overseas position was as political counselor in Bern. Before retiring in 1971, he served as deputy director of the Office of European Affairs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the State Department. Mr. Skofield is survived by his wife of 67 years, the former Jane G. Phipps of Walpole; and by four children, William Skofield of Walpole, Margaret S. Winters of Carlisle, Pa., James Skofield of Walpole, and Elizabeth Skofield of Snoqualmie, Wash.; six grandchildren; three great- grandchildren; a brother-in-law, Ray Rogers, of Ft. Wayne, Ind.; and a nephew, Douglas Rogers, of Virginia. Donations in Mr. Skofield’s memory may be made toThe Fall Mountain Food Shelf, PO Box 191, Alstead NH 03602; or to Our Place Drop-In Center, 4 Island Street, PO Box 852, Bellows Falls VT 05101. n Patsy Magee Turner, 91, a former FSO and wife of the late FSO Allen Turner, died on Feb. 13 in Santa Rosa, Calif. Mrs. Turner was born on May 25, 1923, in Springfield, Mo. She attended elemen- tary school in Springfield and went to high school in Warrensburg, Mo. She graduated from Central Missouri State College and joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, where she was first assigned to the prov- ince of Kiangsu (now Jiangsu) in China in 1946. She went on to join the Foreign Ser- vice and worked in the consulate general at Shanghai, where she met and married Vice Consul Allen Richard Turner in 1949. Following the communist takeover in Shanghai, the couple was assigned to Embassy Tokyo. The pair also served in Antwerp, Windsor, Havana, Caracas and London, as well as Washington, D.C. After Mr. Turner’s death in London, Mrs. Turner returned to Springfield in 1977 and worked as a certified legal sec- retary for a number of years. A firm believer in activism and volun- teer service, Mrs. Turner was especially interested in working with organizations serving youth. In London, she acted as the Girl Scouts representative from the United Kingdom on the North Atlantic Girl Scout Board in Heidelberg, and she served for many years on the Dogwood Trails Girl Scouts Council Board in Springfield. She was an early volunteer with Court Appointed Social Advocates and later served on the CASA Springfield Board. Mrs. Turner was also a Crosslines volunteer and an early member of the Springfield Friends of the Library, including helping in the Between Friends gift shop at the library center. She was a member of the Southwest Missouri Museum Associates, the Living Arts Group, the Art Museum Board and PEO Chapter IA. A long-time member of South Street Christian Church, she served as an elder. Family members and friends remem- ber her as a brave spirit who influenced many. Mrs. Turner was predeceased by her husband, Allen, and her parents, Gladys and Russell Magee. She is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Robert and Rosemary Magee, of El Dorado Springs, Mo.; daughter, Susan Turner, of West Plains, Mo.; son and daughter-in- law, Andrew and Judith Turner, of Santa Rosa, Calif.; daughter, Kathleen Turner, of New York, N.Y.; son and daughter-in-law, David and Amanda Wolfe Turner, of Wel- lington, New Zealand; granddaughters, Rachel Turner Weiss and Molly Turner; step grandchildren, Maya Aaron-Blue and Noah Aaron-Blue; and sisters-in law, Sarah Turner of South Carolina and Sally Turner of California. Memorial donations may be made in