The Foreign Service Journal, May 2016

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MAY 2016 79 attaché in Belgrade from 1982 to 1985. He was a co-author of Yugoslav-American Economic Relations Since WorldWar II (1990) and a consultant to andmember of the U.S.-Yugoslav Economic Council. He served on the Board of Examiners before retiring in 1986. A love of music dominated his life as well as his activities in retirement, when he joined his wife Rose Taylor in Austin, Tex. He was a member of the Austin Lyric Opera, the University UnitedMethodist Church and choir, andThe Texas Foreign Service Group. Mr. Prickett was preceded in death by his wife, Rose, and had returned to North- ern Virginia this past summer to be near his family. He is survived by his daughters Chris- tine Prickett (and her husband, Miroslav Kovacevic), Sylvia Prickett (and her hus- band, David Case), Suzanne Prickett and Katherine Prickett (and her husband, Jeff Brown); five grandchildren and two great grandchildren; his brother Gordon Prickett (and his wife, Jean) and sister Joyce Kirk (and her husband, Pat Nobles); as well as loving nieces, nephews and other extended family members. Donations may be made in his memory to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Uni- versity UnitedMethodist Church, Austin, Tex.; WETA/Classical Radio, Washington, D.C.; or in support of any music program. n Mary Ryan , 101, the spouse of the late retired Foreign Service officer and former ambassador Robert Ryan Sr., died on Feb. 10 at her home in Daytona Beach, Fla., after a brief illness. Born on Dec. 27, 1914, in Northamp- ton, Mass., Mary Frances O’Leary was the sixth of seven children. She grew up in that area, graduating from Saint Michael’s High School and Northampton Commercial College. She married Robert Ryan in 1938.