The Foreign Service Journal, June 2009

84 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 9 ford College, where she was a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority. After graduation she came to Washington to work for the District of Columbia Crime Commission. From 1967 to 1987 she accompa- nied her husband on his assignments to Jakarta, Hamburg, Rome, Paris and Amsterdam. Following her husband’s retirement, the couple settled in Darnestown, Md. Joyce Reynders was an executive assistant to Ambassador Bruce Lain- gen at the American Academy of Diplomacy from the late 1980s until 1993. From 1996 to 2001, she assisted General Alexander Haig at Worldwide Associates Inc. She also worked as an agent for Weichert Realty’s Potomac Village office from 2004 until 2008. Mrs. Reynders was a member of the Darnebloomers Garden Club, and her home and garden were featured on several of their holiday tours. She was also a member of the Altar Guild of All Saints Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase, Md. Her husband of 41 years, Thomas R. Reynders, preceded her in death by just over a month. She was also pre- deceased by their daughter, Siobhan Reynders, in 2002, and by her parents, Gordon and Ruby Mercer. She is sur- vived by many dear friends and several cousins and aunts. Martha Reed Skoug , 76, wife of re- tired FSO Kenneth N. Skoug Jr., died on Oct. 12, 2008, of pneumonia in Alexandria, Va. When suddenly taken ill, she had just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary and her birthday. Mrs. Skoug served with her hus- band in Germany, Mexico, Czechoslo- vakia, the Soviet Union, Venezuela (twice) and Washington, D.C., be- tween 1958 and 1990. From her first tour in Munich, where she was corre- sponding secretary of the German- American women’s club, she was proactive in outreach toward the host country and made friends readily. Having studied German and French at Randolph-Macon Women’s College, where she graduated as an art major, she acquired fluency in Spanish on her own and also spoke acceptable Czech and Russian. I N M E M O R Y