The Foreign Service Journal, November 2016

66 NOVEMBER 2016 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL a large home in the hills was no longer practical. She was, by then, spending a lot of time in San Francisco at the opera, the symphony and the ballet. So she found a condominium andmoved herself across the bay, where she lived the city life, tak- ing full advantage of her proximity to the vibrant cultural life. During her last couple of years Mrs. Kennon lived closer to her daughter, Naomi, enjoying the life and care at The Parkview in Pleasanton. Mrs. Kennon is survived by her daugh- ters Naomi (and her husband, James) Shand of Dublin, Calif., and Carol Kennon of Albuquerque, N.M.; grandchildren Laura Shand, Jennifer Gower, Nicole Hjelle and Calvin Hjelle; and three great-grand- children, Carter Gower, Elliot Stevens and Mallory Gower. n GeorgeMirick Lane, 87, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on June 7 at his home inMiddlebury, Vt., of cancer. Mr. Lane was born in Baltimore, Md., on Oct. 15, 1928. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1951 and anM.A. fromTufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1957. He served in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1954. He and his wife, Betsy, were married in Beirut, Lebanon, on July 14, 1955. After working for two years in the private sector, Mr. Lane joined the State Department Foreign Service in 1957. During their more than 60 years together, the Lanes lived in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Morocco, Libya, Swaziland and Yemen, where Mr. Lane served as U.S. ambassador from 1978 to 1981. Ambassador Lane ended his diplo- matic career as political adviser to the U.S. Military European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. Retiring toWestminster, Mass., he enjoyed a second career as a professor of Middle East studies at Clark University and the College of the Holy Cross. Amb. Lane served as selectman and as a member of the Westminster school board. In the summer of 2012, after nearly 30 years in his ancestral home, the Lanes moved to the Eastview retirement community in Middlebury, Vt. Friends and family members recall Mr. Lane’s enjoyment of tennis, wine, good conversation, music, poetry and well- tended fires. Amb. Lane is survived by his wife, Betsy; his children Susanne (and her husband, Yahya), Amy (and her husband, Danny), Jonathan (and his wife, Karen) and Judith (and her husband, Ethan); grandchildren Katie, Anna, Jake, Stuart, Tarik and Nadia; and great-grandchildren Juliana, Trae, Gabriel andMila. n Manuel “Manny” Marroquin, 72, a former Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, died on Jan. 3, 2016, after a long illness. Mr. Marroquin, who joined USAID in 2000, served in Bolivia, Botswana, Haiti andWashington, D.C. After several months as a development leadership intern, Mr. Marroquin served as an acquisition and assistance officer for six years, until his retirement in 2006. FromAugust 2006 toMay 2010, as an international assistance adviser to the State Department, Mr. Marroquin provided con- sulting and assistance in developing the Central America Free Trade Agreement. During 2010, as a management officer in State’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau, he provided emergency assistance in Port-au-Prince to Haiti’s law enforcement programs, police academy, drug enforcement, prisons and displaced persons camps following the country’s worst earthquake. In 2011, Mr. Marroquin served as management officer, contracts and grants officer andmanagement adviser to the State Department in Jerusalem. A former resident of Mission Viejo, Calif., Mr. Marroquin hadmoved recently to Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. Friends and family members recall his love of life and his devotion to this family and his faith. Mr. Marroquin is survived by his wife, Marlene (née Vreeland); his children, Dina (Meslovich) and Joseph; a brother, Frank, and sister, Lupe (Chirat); and grandchil- dren Annie, Amanda, Kristin and Josie. In lieu of flowers, the family requests a donation in his name toward cancer research. n Thomas DeglanMcKiernan , 95, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Sept. 29, 2015, inMarblehead, Mass. Son of Thomas Patrick and Ella Dil- lonMcKiernan of Lawrence, Mass., Mr. McKiernan was born in Holyoke, Mass., in 1920. He spent his childhood in Holyoke, Hartford, Salem and North Andover, Mass., graduating from Johnson High School in North Andover in 1937. In 1942, he graduated with honors from Boston University College of Liberal Arts, majoring in history and political science, and had already completed his first year in the School of Law. Mr. McKiernan later pursued professional studies at the For- eign Service Institute of the Department of State, Columbia University’s School of International Affairs, and the NATO Defense College. Enlisting in the Army in 1942, Mr. McKiernan was commissioned in 1943 and served as an intelligence officer in the North African and European theaters and in the occupation of Germany. He left active service as a captain in 1946. While stationed inMunich, he met andmarried Claire Helene Laube of New York City, a civilian employee of the War