The Foreign Service Journal, November 2013

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2013 61 School of Law & Diplomacy in 1949. He also studied at the American University in Beirut, Oxford University and the National War College. During World War II, Mr. Hoffacker served in the Pacific theater as a first lieutenant (77th Infantry Division). He was wounded on Okinawa and awarded the Purple Heart. In 1950 Mr. Hoffacker joined the U.S. Foreign Service, serving as desk officer for Greece. He subsequently served in Tehran, Istanbul, Paris, Elisabethville and Leopoldville (both in the Congo), Algiers, Yaoundé, Santa Isabel, Norfolk, Va., and Washington, D.C. He retired in 1975 as special assistant to the Secretary of State as coordinator for combating terrorism. Mr. Hoffacker’s last foreign assign- ment was as ambassador to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea (1969-1972). The government of Cameroon named him a Commander of the Order of Valor. Following his retirement from the Foreign Service, Mr. Hoffacker joined Shell Oil Company in Houston, Texas, as a consultant on international affairs, and was active in the arts and international affairs in that city. He retired to Cape Cod in 1988 and served as a volunteer at the U.S. Forest Service’s Cape Cod National Seashore and the Hospice Association of Cape Cod. In September 1995, he moved to Austin, Texas, where he served on the board of directors of Hospice Austin. He was an active volunteer, as well, helping patients and families in their homes, and at Christopher House, where he shared his love of natural beauty by helping maintain the garden. Mr. Hoffacker was preceded in death by his brothers, Burnell and Dale Hoffacker. He is survived by his daughters, Anne (and her husband, Jeff) Bradley of Boise, Idaho, and Rebekah Hoffacker of Atlanta, Ga.; and siblings, Virginia Allen of Wil- liamsburg, Va., and Fred Hoffacker of Hermitage, Pa. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Hospice Austin or Conspirare Austin. n Susan Crais Hovanec, 72, a retired Foreign Service officer died at her home in Oxford, Md., on Oct. 10