The Foreign Service Journal, September 2015

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 2015 89 cated to Washington State, settling in Port Ludlow. She continued to travel around the world to visit friends and family. She was an avid artist and a fine painter in acrylic, oil and watercolors, and skilled in torn paper art. She also made and sold jewelry, and was a clothing designer. In her free time, she knitted clothing for her children and grandchildren, was a level 2 Reiki master, part-time astrologer and genealogist with deep roots in the Olympic Peninsula. Mrs. Peters was a member of the Jef- ferson County Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution, the Port Ludlow Artists’ League, the Ludlow Little Theatre Group and other genealogical and historical societies. She supported the Chimacum School District’s music and scholarships program, her local Humane Society, Habitat for Humanity and the PL Fire Department. Mrs. Peters is survived by her five sons, seven granddaughters, two grand- sons and two great-grandchildren. Memorial donations may be made to the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion at www.dar.org . n David R. W. Raynolds , 87, a retired FSO, of Lander, Wyo., died on June 19 of heart failure. Mr. Raynolds was born on Feb. 15, 1928, in New York City to author Robert F. Raynolds and Marguerite E. Gerdau Raynolds. He enjoyed a rural childhood with his younger sisters, Ann and Bar- bara, in Newtown, Conn. He graduated in 1945 from the Putney School in Vermont and from Dartmouth College in 1949. Mr. Raynolds met Mary Alice Kean of Elizabeth, N.J., while she was attending Smith College and he was at Dartmouth. He courted her with his winnings from poker games. The couple married in 1951 and embarked on 64 years of shared adventure. Always together, they trav- eled the world, visiting many countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Their five children were born during over- seas postings and in Washington, D.C. After U.S. Army service in occupied Japan, where his first two children were born, Mr. Raynolds completed his M.A. at Wesleyan University, did pre-doctoral work at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and, later, graduated from the National War College in 1973. He joined the Foreign Service in 1956 and served overseas in El Salvador, France, Haiti and Pakistan, as well as in Washington, D.C. In 1966, he received the Meritorious Service Award from the Department of State. Following the trail of his great uncle William Franklin Raynolds, who explored the Yellowstone region, Mr. and Mrs. Raynolds “discovered” Lander, Wyo., and became familiar with the charac- ter and sinews of the west. In 1964, the family spent a year in Lander while Mr. Raynolds wrote a book on El Salvador’s economy. The couple settled permanently in the Lander area in 1975, and developed a bison herd at Table Mountain Ranch, perched above the Popo Agie River west of town. The Raynolds shared their buf- falo meat with the community through farmers markets and at the annual Fourth of July Buffalo Barbecue. Mr. Raynolds spent almost 40 years becoming deeply involved in the com- munity. He was especially proud of his 26-year membership on the steering committee of the Wyoming Business Alliance, with its Leadership Wyoming Program. The Wyoming Farm Bureau, Lander Leader, Wyoming Heritage Foundation, American Legion, Wyoming Historical and Archeological Societies and the Museum of the American West are a few of the organizations Mr. Rayn- olds joined. He served as president of the National Buffalo Association and Lander Rotary, and was a life member of the Explorer’s Club. He was proud to be listed in the Marquis Who’s Who list and will also be remembered for his letters to the editor in the Casper Star Tribune and other periodicals. Friends and family recall that Mr. Raynolds had a wonderful ability to soak up knowledge and share perspectives on a range of subjects. His generous and gregarious nature made him a valued member of the community and of the organizations he joined. A love of adventure took Mr. Raynolds and his family from the Serengeti to the Sweetwater. His last trip, in early June 2015, was to the south of France within the walled city of Carcassonne, where the couple introduced their granddaughters to the subtleties of croissants and the siege strategies of European armies. Mr. Raynolds was predeceased by his parents and sister, Barbara. He is sur- vived by his wife, May; his children, Bob (and his wife, Mary) of Longmont, Colo., Linda (and her husband, Elijah Cobb) of Cody, Wyo., Martha (and her husband, Sam Dashevsky) of Fairbanks, Alaska, Laura (and her husband, Alex Blackmer) of Fort Collins, Colo., and David (and his wife, Sharon Bolles) of Talent, Ore.; eight grandchildren, Will and Bobby Raynolds, Margi and Danny Dashevsky, Courtney and Lisa Blackmer-Raynolds, and Jasper Raynolds and Kyrianna Bolles; and a sis- ter, Ann Listokin (and her husband, Bob) of Winston-Salem, N.C. Memorial donations in Mr. Raynolds’ honor may be made to the Lander, Wyo., Rotary International Club, or to the Put- ney School in Vermont. n