The Foreign Service Journal, September 2019

80 SEPTEMBER 2019 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL and sometimes trade fairs for circula- tion in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Africa. His work enabled him to live abroad and to travel extensively, especially within Eastern Europe, an area he loved. While serving in Vienna with the U.S. Information Service, he managed exhibi- tions in Poland, the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and East Germany. Not simply an expert in international exhibits, Mr. Miller was an artist, crafts- man and collector. Throughout his life, he complemented his interest in art by creating drawings, paintings, prints and stained glass works. He also acquired a personal collection of works by artists of interest to him, especially abstract impressionists and pop artists. Friends and family members recall that Mr. Miller’s interest in the arts extended to a love of all beautiful things of life, including fine cuisine, wine, good conversation and beautiful places. After retirement he accompanied his wife, Foreign Service Officer Cynthia Fraser Miller, and their son Alexandre to her assignments in Vienna, Berlin, Bonn and Rome. He had a large coterie of friends who took joy in his kindness, humor and zest for living, and admired his unbounded courage in long years of battle with a devastating illness. Mr. Miller was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, Elin, and his brother. He is survived by his wife, Cynthia; his sons James (and his wife, Halima), Robert (and his wife, Kelly McAlinden) and Alex- andre; and his faithful dog, Sam. In accordance with his wishes, no services were held. Friends are invited to remember him by enjoying a cool drink on a sunny terrace, or by contributing to a favorite charity. n Charles “Chuck” Reynolds, 83, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on May 24 in Corvallis, Ore. Mr. Reynolds was born in Hillsboro, Ore., to Bessie and Harold Reynolds. When he was 6 years old, the family moved to Albany, Ore., where Harold was maintenance chief at M&M Plywood and Bessie was chief X-ray technician at Albany General Hospital. In high school, Mr. Reynolds’ principal activities were debate, honor society and orchestra. He was one of two students chosen to go to Boys’ State and participate in a mock session of the Oregon legislature at Willamette University. He played first violin in the state of Oregon high school honor orchestra and was the concertmaster. He graduated as valedictorian at Albany High in 1953. Mr. Reynolds attended Stanford Uni- versity, focusing on international politics, and was chairman of the 60-college Model United Nations in 1957. After completing a B.A. in history, he was awarded a Rotary International fellowship to spend a year in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1963, he married Judy White of Portland, Ore. Mr. Reynolds joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1965, and served overseas in Ecuador, Panama and Afghanistan. His last job for the State Department involved directing the Voice of America’s Afghan (Dari) language broadcasts. After retirement, he and Judy divorced. Mr. Reynolds then settled in the Marin area of California, where he worked for the Presbyterian Church of Novato. He married Janet Hansen in 1999; after a separation in 2002, Mr. Reyn- olds moved back to Oregon and settled in Corvallis, where he hiked, canoed, played the violin and sang in the choir. He served as deacon at the First Presby- terian Church in Corvallis. Mr. Reynolds is survived by his brother, Neil Reynolds, and his daugh- ters, Lisa Lawson, Holly Gallant and Julie Huffman. n Marion “Bobbie” Riedel (née Schoenfeld), 96, a former intelligence analyst for the State Department and widow of the late FSO Alf Bergesen, passed away on July 5 at Rockledge Regional Memorial Hospital in Rock- ledge, Fla., after a brief illness. Marion Reid Schoenfeld was born in 1923 in Vienna, Austria, where her father was posted with the U.S. legation. As she recounted in her self-published 2004 memoir, My Life in Capitals , she lived with her parents and her siblings in Finland and the Dominican Republic. In June 1940, she enrolled at Smith College. She graduated in December 1943, as part of a three-year wartime program. After working for the Office of Strategic Services for a few months, she resigned to travel to Hungary, where her father was sent in May 1945 to reopen the legation offices in Budapest. Later that year, she returned to the United States and took a job as an intel- ligence analyst at the State Department. In early 1951, Ms. Schoenfeld married Alf Bergesen, a Naval Academy gradu- ate and newly minted Foreign Service officer. The couple embarked on a long diplomatic career, with overseas post- ings in Rangoon, Vienna, Berlin, Phnom Penh, Bangkok, Lisbon, Saipan, Dacca (now Dhaka) and Port-au-Prince. The couple also served three tours in Washington, D.C., and one at the United Nations in New York City. After Mr. Bergesen’s retirement in