The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2015

88 JULY-AUGUST 2015 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL served on the Governing Board for five years, including two terms as retiree vice president. He also served for four years on the Editorial Board of The Foreign Service Journal and as chair of the AFSA Elections Committee. He received the State Department’s Superior Honor Award in 1989 for “persis- tence, dedication and courage in promo- tion of the national interests of the United States” in Chile. Amb. Jones is survived by his wife, Maria, of Fairfax, Va.; three sons: George F. Jones III of Baltimore, Md.; Robert A. Jones of Quito, Ecuador; and Dr. Michael A. Jones-Correa of Ithaca, N.Y.; a daughter, Mary Louise Blanton of Yorktown, Va.; and seven grandchildren. n Barbara Sommer Kelly , 92, wife of the late FSO James WilliamKelly, died on Dec. 16, 2014, in Portland, Ore. Mrs. Kelly was born and raised in Portsmouth, Ohio. She earned degrees in business administration and English at the College of Mount St. Joseph. She served in the U.S. Coast GuardWomen’s Reserve during WorldWar II. After the war, she worked for the Department of State as a foreign affairs officer for the U.N. Mission, where she met her husband, Jim. The couple spent 14 years overseas, with posts in Copenhagen, Dublin, Rome, Karachi and Kabul. During this period, Mrs. Kelly was a member of the AmericanWomen’s Clubs, sometimes as president. She worked to raise money for local charities and to sponsor cultural exchanges. In 1972, the family returned stateside and settled in Northern Virginia. Mrs. Kelly eventually moved to Portland to spend time with her sons and grandchildren. Mrs. Kelly enjoyed life and spending time with family and friends. Her family remembers that, having raised four boys while travelling the world, she always had a story to share, spiked with her wry sense of humor. A self-proclaimed “news junkie,” her day was incomplete without a proper, printed newspaper. Overseas, that newspa- per was usually the International Herald Tribune ; more recently, it was the New York Times. Mrs. Kelly was predeceased by her husband, Jim, and her sister, Ruth Hughes. She is survived by her four children: Chris- topher Kelly, his wife, Mary, and their two children, Nicholas and Gabrielle; Brendan Kelly; Timothy Kelly, his wife, Cynthia, and their two children, James and Elaine; and Kieran Kelly; and her brother, John Sommer Jr. n Baudouin (Butch) F. deMarcken , 74, a retired USAID FSO, died on April 12 in Babbitt, Minn. Mr. de Marcken was born on Oct. 21, 1940, in Louvain, Belgium, as a U.S. citizen. He was the youngest of nine children of Alix de Kerchove d’Exarde and Gustave RichardTheodore de Marcken. He spent his early childhood during WorldWar II in Belgium andmoved to the United States at the age of 13. He moved first to Brule, Wis., then joined his family in 1953 at their home, Stonehouse, outside Lakeville, Conn. Mr. de Marcken earned a B.S. in gov- ernment in 1962 fromColby College and anM.A. in political science in 1964 from the University of Michigan. After gradua- tion, he became one of the first U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers. He served from 1964 to 1967 in Sarawak, Malaysia, where he worked as a teacher in the jungle towns of Saratok and Belaga. There he met his wife, Gail, a fellow Peace Corps Volunteer fromMinnesota. Mr. de Marcken served in the Peace Corps for 19 years, first as a volunteer and then as Peace Corps deputy director inMalaysia (1968-1971) and as director in Chad (1972-1973), Mali (1977), Zaire (1978-1981), Morocco (1981-1982), Tunisia (1995) and Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (1996-1999). For years, Mr. de Marckenmanaged programs for the U.S. Agency for Interna- tional Development. From 1983 to 1987, he was the regional liaison officer in Burkina Faso, responsible for coordinating U.S. food assistance, disaster relief and rehabili- tation programs. From 1988 to 1989, he was mission director inMadagascar. From 1990 to 1991, he was deputy director in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and oversaw the restructuring of USAID’s programs in light of a deepening political and economic crisis. In 1992, Mr. de Marcken traveled to Russia as part of Operation Provide Hope, a U.S. effort to provide humanitarian assistance to the newly independent states after the fall of the Soviet Union. From 1993 to 1994, he covered Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania as USAID’s representative to the Baltics. After his retirement, as his health per- mitted, Mr. de Marcken continued to serve his community, first in Latvia with an orga- nization that supported street children. He andMrs. de Marcken eventually moved home toMinnesota, where he volunteered with the North St. Louis County chapter of Habitat for Humanity and as a tutor for students at the Northeast Range School in Babbitt. Family and friends recall Mr. de Marcken as a generous man who changed the lives of many people. They will miss his Belgian accent, his offbeat sense of humor and the smell of his pipe. Mr. de Marcken is survived by his wife of 46 years, Gail; three children: Carl de Marcken and his wife, Marina Meila- Predoviciu, and their daughter, Nina de