The Foreign Service Journal, November 2009

N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 9 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 67 a desk officer for the International Energy Agency and later headed the State Department’s Office of Euro- pean Trade. In that capacity, she par- ticipated in negotiations throughout Europe to introduce U.S. businesses to those markets. She was a founding member of the Women’s Action Organization at the State Department and spearheaded the successful development of nurs- ery and child-care services for State Department staff. Mrs. Millar met her husband, the late John Y. Millar, “Jake,” also a diplo- mat, on a tennis court in Lagos. They married in 1972. The couple retired to Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1995 to be near their daughter and grand- daughter. In Colorado Springs, Mrs. Millar served on the Colorado Springs Opera board and was president of the local World Affairs Council. A mem- ber of Theatreworks, Hausmusik and The Pikes Peak Opera Society, she was also an associate member of the Cheyenne Mountain Country Club. She traveled widely during this time, loved entertaining, and cherished her many friends on both sides of the At- lantic. Mrs. Millar is survived by her daughter, Anne Lyon League, M.D. (and husband Michael S. League) of Colorado Springs; two grandchildren, Katherine Anne and John “Jake” League; and a younger brother, Thomas G. Johnson (and wife Sue). Donations in her memory may be sent to the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, Colo., in support of re- search for pulmonary diseases. Ann Heise Viles, 94, the former wife of the late FSO John L. Viles, died on Nov. 15, 2008, in Dallas, Texas. Verle Ann was born to Will and Emma Heise in Mt. Pleasant Town- ship, Minn., on Aug. 27, 1913, the sec- ond of six children. She grew up on the family’s dairy farm and, after schooling in Lake City, moved to Min- neapolis to work for the Chrysler Cor- poration and the Minneapolis Tribune . In 1944, she traveled to Paris with the American Red Cross. Little did she I N M E M O R Y