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Washington, D.C., in 1941. There she met and married Martin (Marty) Manch, who joined the State Depart- ment in 1952 as an administrative offi- cer, becoming an FSO in 1955. Mrs. Manch accompanied her husband in postings to Cairo, Athens and Wash- ington, D.C. In 1971, Mr. Manch retired and the couple settled in Fairhope, Ala. There Mrs. Manch was an active member of Fairhope United Metho- dist Church, the Thomas Hospital Auxiliary, Sundial Garden Club and Eastern Shore Woman’s Club. She was also a member of the American Foreign Service Association and Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired. Following the death of her hus- band in 1995, Mrs. Manch moved from Fairhope to Fredericksburg, Va., to be near her grandchildren. She is survived by four children: Maryann Irion and Jacqueline Manch of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Martin Manch IV and his wife Susan, of Fredericksburg, Va.; and William Manch and his wife Susan, of Mc- Lean, Va.; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. She also is survived by two sisters, Eunice Boozer of Selma, Ala., and Rosemary Doucette of Satellite Beach, Fla., and numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and wonderful friends. The family requests donations in her memory be made to HospiceCare of Southeast Florida, Inc., 309 SE 18th St., Fort Lauderdale FL 33316. JosephE. O’Mahony , 82, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Nov. 26, 2007, at his home in Bethesda, Md., after a long illness. Mr. O’Mahony was born in Indianapolis, Ind., and grew up in Utica, N.Y., where he enjoyed hiking, camping and fishing in the nearby Adirondacks. He was an Eagle Scout and an assistant Scoutmaster. In 1943 he joined the Army, serv- ing in combat for which he was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. Mr. O’Mahony joined the State Department in 1952, becoming an FSO in 1956. During a 32-year career, he served overseas in Seoul, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Santiago and Port of Spain. He retired in 1988. He is survived by his wife, Merle, of Bethesda, Md.; two sons, Devin of Chevy Chase, Md., and Brian of Brewster, N.Y.; a daughter, Kerry Shea Dall, of Annapolis, Md.; a broth- er, Thomas P. O’Mahony of Burling- ton, Mass.; and five grandchildren. David D. Newsom , 90, a retired FSO, three-time ambassador and for- mer under secretary of State for polit- ical affairs, died on March 30 in Charlottesville, Va. Mr. Newsom was born on Jan. 6, 1918, in Richmond, Calif. He re- ceived his B.A. degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley in 1938 and an M.S. degree in journalism from the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1940. At Columbia, he was the recip- ient of a Pulitzer Traveling Fellow- ship, which enabled him to visit Japan, China, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), India, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil in 1940–1941. Mr. Newsom worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle before joining the U.S. Navy in 1942. He was assigned to Naval Intelligence and was stationed in Hawaii during World War II. Upon his discharge from the Navy as a lieutenant in 1946, he and his wife, the former Jean Frances Craig, published the Walnut Creek (California) Courier-Journal . He left the newspaper business to enter the Foreign Service in 1947. As a career Foreign Service officer, he served in Karachi, Oslo and Bagh- dad before returning to Washington in 1955 to become officer-in-charge of Arabian Peninsula Affairs. In 1959, he attended the National War College and in 1960 was posted to London as first secretary (with responsibility for Middle East and Africa). From 1962 to 1965, he served in Washington as director of Northern African Affairs. In 1965, President Lyndon John- son appointed him U.S. ambassador to Libya. He returned from that post in 1969 to serve as assistant secretary of State for African affairs. From 1973 to 1977 he served as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, and was the U.S. ambas- sador to the Philippines from Novem- ber 1977 to April 1978. Ambassador Newsom was named under secretary of State for political affairs in 1978 and served in that posi- tion until February 1981, when he was appointed Secretary of State ad interim between the Carter and Reagan administrations. He retired from the Foreign Service with the rank of career minister in February 1981. After retirement, Amb. Newsom became director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at George- town University. There, he also serv- ed as the Marshall B. Coyne Research Professor of Diplomacy in the School of Foreign Service. In the fall of 1986, he became the John Adams Fellow under the Fulbright program at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. In 1991, he inau- gurated the Hugh Cumming Chair of International Relations at the Univer- sity of Virginia. He retired in 1998, and resided in Charlottesville until his death. Mr. Newsom is the author of sev- 84 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / J U LY- A U G U S T 2 0 0 8 I N M E M O R Y u u u