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desk should be the rare occasion. Your time away from it should be the norm.” Mr. Rimestad retired in 1973, and moved to Fountain Hills, Ariz., where he served on the Maricopa County Planning and Zoning Commission for eight years. In 1997, he moved to San Diego, Calif., where he had vacationed for many years. There he especially enjoyed down- town walks. He was interested in antiques, travel and animals, Patricia Rimestad says. A lover of poetry, he was an avid reader until his vision was impaired by macular degeneration. Mr. Rimestad was married in 1940 to Ann Prestbo, by whom he had two daughters: Sanna Lee Solem of Bethesda, Md., and Karen Ann Chappelear of Kensington, Md. Ms. Prestbo died in 1979. He is survived by his second wife, Patricia Whitmore Jenkins, whom he married in 1981. Other survivors include two stepsons, Michael E. Jenkins of Seattle, Wash., and Mark W. Jenkins of Pleasanton, Calif.; a brother Sigurd Rimestad of Taylors Falls, Minn.; a sister Judit Jaynes of Apple Valley, Minn; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild; and many cousins, nieces and nephews. William Burton Sowash , 85, retired FSO, died of pancreatic can- cer Dec. 3, 2002, at his home in Bethesda, Md. Mr. Sowash worked for the State Department for 30 years, retiring in 1976 as deputy chief of mission in Tegucigalpa. Mr. Sowash began his diplomatic career in 1946 as a foreign affairs ana- lyst and served as Panama desk offi- cer from 1949 to 1956. He served as a political officer in Spain and El Salvador before assignment to Guatemala as an associate regional director of the Agency for Inter- national Development in the mid- 1960s. From 1970 to 1974, Mr. Sowash was counselor for political affairs at Embassy Buenos Aires. An Ohio native, Mr. Sowash was a 1939 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago, where he also belonged to Phi Delta Kappa and received a master’s degree in history. During World War II, he served with the Navy in the Pacific as a cryp- tographer. He studied Russian at the Navy School of Oriental Languages and attended the Inter-American Defense College. He later retired from the Naval Reserve as a lieu- tenant commander. Mr. Sowash was a recipient of the State Department’s meritorious and superior honor awards. His hobbies included travel and gardening. He is survived by his wife, Ruth M. Sowash of Bethesda, Md., whom he married in 1945; a daugher, Carolyn S. Mitchell of Portland, Maine; a sister; and two grandchil- dren. ■ 86 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / J U N E 2 0 0 3 I N M E M O R Y Please send your In Memory item to: FSJ , 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20037, or e-mail to journal@afsa.org , or fax to (202) 338-8244. Year-End Roundup of FOREIGN SERVICE AUTHORS As we have done each year since 2000, the November 2003 Foreign Service Journal will include a list of recently published books by Foreign Service-affiliated authors in a special section: “In Their Own Write.” FS authors who have had a book published either by a commercial or academic publisher last year or this year (2002-2003) that has not previously been featured in the roundup are invited to send a copy of the book, along with a press release or backgrounder with information on the author, to: Susan Maitra Associate Editor Foreign Service Journal 2101 E Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20037-2990 Deadline for submissions is Sept. 1.