The Foreign Service Journal, November 2009

68 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 9 realize that she had taken the first step of a worldwide odyssey that would span six decades. In 1946, she married U.S. Army Air Corps Captain John Viles in Munich. Mr. Viles joined the U.S. foreign aid program at its inception in postwar Europe as the Marshall Plan, and re- mained through its successive incar- nations: Point Four, USOM, ICA and, finally in the 1960s, USAID. For the next 30 years, Ann Viles accompanied her husband on diplo- matic assignments in Austria, Germany, France, Iran, Brazil, Nepal, Turkey, Greece and Vietnam. DuringMr. Viles’ unaccompanied tour in Yemen, she re- mained in Falls Church, Va., and also spent the first two years of his three- year Saigon assignment in Bangkok. The couple departed Saigon in 1975, two days prior to the rooftop evacuation from the U.S. embassy. After retiring to Dallas, they divorced in 1986. Mr. Viles died in 1998. Because of her security clearance and secretarial and organization skills, Mrs. Viles was employed as a local hire by the State Department at the ma- jority of her husband’s posts — espe- cially once their three daughters entered school. Yet she found time to play bridge, volunteer as a Girl Scout leader and participate in women’s clubs and various post organizations, as well. Family members recall that Mrs. Viles embraced the culture, language, people and cuisine of every country in which she lived. Her culinary skills were extraordinary. She could create a Thai feast or an authentic Middle Eastern repast with the same ease as flipping a burger. Inquisitive and ad- venturous, she wasn’t content simply to visit museums, ruins and temples. Rather, she explored every nook and cranny of her host nations. Her most memorable experiences included attending the Nuremberg trials; exploring postwar Europe; ski- ing the Alps; trekking over the Hi- malayas from Nepal to India; travers- ing Russia by rail; sailing the Amazon, in a small boat, to Brazil’s interior jun- gles; climbing the Great Wall of China and Machu Picchu; exploring Egypt’s pyramids; and combing the beaches of the South China Sea. Retirement didn’t slow Mrs. Viles down. She traveled extensively in the U.S., Canada and Mexico and contin- ued exploring the rest of the globe, vis- iting Egypt, Central and South Ameri- ca and the Far East, and revisiting Eu- rope. At 92, her final exotic journey was to the South Pacific and French Polynesia. Ann Viles was predeceased by her former husband and four siblings: Vi, Janice, Georgene and Bill. She is sur- vived by her three daughters: Lyn (and husband Bennie Bickers) of Dallas, Texas; Patrice (and husband Tom Perkins) of Kerrville, Texas; and Janna (and husband Gary Zeigler) of Hick- ory Creek, Texas; a brother, Roger Heise (and wife Janice); a sister-in-law, Lois Heise; and 19 nieces and neph- ews. ■ I N M E M O R Y Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (required by 39 U.S.C. 3685) 1) Publication Title: Foreign Service Journal 2) Publication No. 01463543 3) Filing Date: October 1, 2009 4) Issue Frequency: Monthly with July/August combined 5) Number of Issues Published Annu- ally: 11 6) Annual Subscription Price: $40.00 7) Complete Mailing Address of Known Office of Publica- tion: 2101 E Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037-2990 8) Complete Mailing Address of Headquarters of General Business Officer of Publisher: 2101 E Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037-2990 9) Full Name and Complete Mailing Address of Publisher, Editor and Senior Editor: Publisher: American Foreign Serv- ice Association, 2101 E Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037-2990; Editor: Steven Alan Honley, 2101 E Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037-2990; Senior Editor: Susan B. 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