The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2010

78 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 1 0 U.N., and a Volag (2000); a novella and related short stories, Coping with Lust and the Colonel: Wartime Korea from Sokchang-ni (2000, expanded and up- dated in 2005); and an art photo book, Southeast Asian Portraits (2002). Mr. Barnes is survived by his wife, Mai Tang Barnes, and their three chil- dren, An, Kim and Kevin; four chil- dren by a previous marriage, Christo- pher, Ross, Karen and Shannon; and seven grandchildren, Thanasi and Niko Pantazides, Mina and Aylin Cakirkaya, Bailey and Ana Marie Ostrowski and Kai Barnes. Malcolm Perry Hallam , 90, a re- tired FSO, died on Dec. 21, 2009, at his residence in Auburndale, Fla., after an extended illness from chronic ob- structive pulmonary disease. Mr. Hallamwas born in Fort Pierre, S.D., on Dec. 15, 1919, to Paul Loren- zo and Rose Swanson Hallam. He graduated from Pierre High School in 1937 and attended the University of Michigan for three years. He joined the State Department in 1943. During a 30-year Foreign Service career, he served in Baghdad, Athens, Durban, Cardiff, Rio de Janeiro, Ponta Delgarda, Sao Paulo, Saigon and Washington, D.C. While posted in Greece, he met and married Marjorie Whiting, who also worked at Embassy Athens. Following his retirement in 1973, the couple settled in Auburn- dale, Fla. In 1983, Marjorie passed away. Mr. Hallam married Eileen Huntington in 1997. In retirement, he enjoyed writing his memoirs, playing cards, and travel- ing (to Alaska, Europe and South Africa), as well as watching Michigan, Florida and Mizzou football. Mr. Hallam was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife and three stepsons: Sam, Richard and Raymond. He is survived by his wife, Eileen, of Auburndale; children, Kitty and Steve; a sister, Marge, of Oklahoma City, Okla.; stepdaughters Rita (and her husband, David) Redditt of Dade City, Fla., Darcy Wheatley of Dothan, Ala., and Cindy Parker of Tallahassee, Fla.; granddaughters Michelle Wilson and Laura Grossman of Carollton, Mo.; grandsons Dallas Hallam of Los Angeles, Calif., and Forrest Hallam of Des Moines, Iowa; as well as many nieces, nephews and great-grandchil- dren. Mary Hance Owen , 89, wife of the late FSO Bob Owen, died on April 18 at Navesink Harbor in Red Bank, N.J. Born in Long Branch, N.J., on June 8, 1920, Mrs. Owen attended Freehold High School and then went to Dou- glass College, where she majored in journalism, graduating in 1941. In col- lege, she made many lifelong friends, among them Robert I. Owen, an ath- lete, engineering student at Rutgers and a good dancer, whom she married in a military ceremony at Rutgers Chapel in August 1942. While her husband was an engi- neering officer in the Navy stationed in the South Pacific, Mary worked at Fort Monmouth, N.J., as a training coordi- nator. When he returned from the war, Mr. Owen joined the Foreign Service. Mrs. Owen traveled along with him, learning multiple languages, adapting to life in one foreign culture after another, and raising their family. She raised four children, each of whom was born in a different country. Jim, the eldest, was born in the Do- minican Republic; Ellen was born in Germany; John was born in the United States; and Jeff, the youngest, was born in Russia. Upon Mr. Owen’s retirement from the Foreign Service in 1971, the cou- ple moved to West Long Branch, N.J., settling into an old Victorian farm where Mrs. Owen’s uncle, Owen Woolley, and her mother, May Hance, had lived before their deaths. Ready to make her own mark on the world, Mrs. Owen became deeply involved in the community, investing countless hours in her church, the First United Methodist Church in West Long Branch, and in service to envi- ronmental organizations and causes. She was a pioneer in promoting recy- cling in Monmouth County and began the first such program in West Long Branch. After farming the land for a time, Mr. Owen joined in her conser- vation efforts. Mrs. Owen developed close rela- tionships with people in numerous en- vironmental groups and got to know local and state politicians on a first- name basis. Passionate about green spaces and gardening, the couple ob- tained a conservation easement on the fields adjoining their farmhouse and donated these eight acres to the town of West Long Branch for use as com- munity gardens. In their 80s, when the farm became too much for them to manage, Mr. and Mrs. Owen moved to Navesink Har- bor. Mr. Owen died in 2003, after 51 years of marriage. On her own, Mrs. Owen continued to support her favorite environmental and political causes to the extent she could. Family and friends remember her affection and support for her chil- I N M E M O R Y