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Casimira (Cassy) Zak

Cassy Zak, age 100, died peacefully at the home she shared with her daughter, retired FSO Marilyn Zak, in Alexandria, VA. She was under the care of Capital Caring, a hospice service, and died of Alzheimer’s. Mrs. Zak was born April 20, 1912 in Chicago, Il. After becoming a Register Nurse, she worked at Cook County Hospital. When asked who was her most famous patient, she would smile and say “Al Capone. He was very good to the nurses and gave out $20 bills and chocolates to us.” Quite something during the Depression. In 1937 she married Robert A Zak, and in 1947 would move with her husband and two children, Robert T and Marilyn, to Everett Washington where she worked for more than 30 years as a nurse at Providence Hospital. Mrs. Zak helped establish the nurses association at the hospital, was active in civil defense activities and the guild of her church. When Marilyn first joined USAID in 1966, Cassy and her husband were devoted parents to their traveling daughter. They first visited her in Asuncion Paraguay. After the death of her husband in 1988, Mrs. Zak would visit her daughter who was then Deputy Director in Kingston, Jamaica for a month each year at Christmas to enjoy tropical weather and to dance the soca until early hours of the morning. When Marilyn was Mission Director in the Dominican Republic, she added the merengue and salsa to her dancing. Before the end of Marilyn’s tour, Cassy would come to live with her daughter. Mrs. Zak accompanied her daughter during her tour as Mission Director in Managua, Nicaragua from 1998 to 2002. Cassy was a lively participant in diplomatic life, USAID activities, and helped the victims of Hurricane Mitch. Mrs. Zak would celebrate her 90th birthday in Managua at home with with pink balloons everywhere and a Mariachi band. In June 2002 Cassy returned to the US to live with her daughter before Marilyn’s retirement in 2003. Cassy continued her love of dancing, and her daughter’s 95th birthday present to her was 2 one hour dance lessons with a very good looking Brazilian dance instructor, named Fabio, at the local dance studio. During her illness, Cassy never lost her sweetness or kindness to others. Cassy was buried July 13th next to her husband and sister in Everett Washington. Survivors include her daughter, a son and daughter-in-law in Vancouver WA, 2 grandsons, and 2 great grandchildren.
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Barbara Pillsbury

Barbara Linné Kroll Pillsbury Milne, Ph.D. age 69 of Malibu, CA, Washington, DC, and a citizen of the world, passed away on September 27, 2012, surrounded by her family. Born and raised in Bemidji, MN, Barbara graduated from Bemidji High School, attended the University of Minnesota receiving a B.S. in home economics with journalism minor, earned a M.A. in applied linguistics from Columbia University Teachers College and a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Columbia University where she studied with renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead. Her doctoral dissertation on Muslim Chinese was a pioneering study that remains the basis for the work of later scholars in the field. Barbara learned to speak fluent Chinese and combined that skill with her knowledge of Muslim societies and cultures, gleaned from her days at the American University in Cairo. She continued to contribute to the world of scholarship through numerous research papers and conference presentations as well as mentoring students seeking to follow her in the complex issues she so deftly maneuvered. Her career in cultural and medical anthropology spanned the globe, taking her to 100 countries, where she worked tirelessly to make the world a better place, through groundbreaking research and policy recommendations on women’s health and family planning issues in developing countries. Barbara left a profound contribution as a visionary leader in the areas of international development, reproductive and sexual health, HIV/AIDS education, child survival, and global gender issues. Never one to be left out of a conversation, she learned thirteen languages, with a particular love for Chinese and Swedish. Barbara has been an inspiration to young scholars by showing them an alternative career path in anthropology, aside from traditional academia. She was a pioneer in taking the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills out of the university setting and applying them to efforts to improve the welfare of people around the globe. Barbara helped found six organizations (most notably the Pacific Institute for Women’s Health) and has served on numerous boards of directors, including the American Anthropological Association, the Global Health Council, and the International Women’s Health Coalition. She held positions with many governmental and non-governmental organizations, including WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, USAID, the World Bank, International Planned Parenthood Federation, and the Rockefeller, Hewlett, Ford, Gates and Compton foundations. Preceded in death by her father Richard Kroll, Barbara was the daughter of her beloved mother Edna (Engvall) Kroll of St. Louis Park, MN; loving mother of Heather Milne (David) Cristman of Cincinnati, OH, and Kristina Milne of New York City, NY; dear sisters Connie Kroll Skildum of Eagan, MN and Anne Kroll (Doug) Dahlen of Burnsville, MN; plus many nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews, and countless friends and colleagues. A Celebration of Life service for family and close friends will be held at the Minnesota Humanities Center in Saint Paul, MN on Sunday, 1:00 p.m., October 7, followed by a California service for family & friends on October 13 at 10:30 am (8600 Westward Beach Road, Malibu CA). Memorials are preferred to The Molly Gingerich Fund (301-670-0994) or the SHARE Institute (http://www.theshareinstitute.org), two organizations that help young women around the globe.
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Everett Mosely

Former USAID Inspector General Everett Mosely passed away on Thursday, October 18, 2012. Everett was a charismatic man who embraced and enjoyed life every single day. Hailing from Mississippi, he attended Grambling State University before embarking on a career as an auditor, manager, and inspector general for the federal government. He loved his work, professional and collegiate sports, humor, and every manner of electronic gadget – but most of all he loved his family and friends. He is survived by his best friend and wife of 43 years, Alice P. Mosley; son and daughter-in-law, Damian Mosley and Raegan McDonald-Mosley; brother, Alonzo Mosley; nephew, Troy Mosley; niece, Monica Croft; sister-in-law, Velma Mosley; cousin, Juadine Cleveland; and his best buddies, grandchildren, Idris and Indigo Mosley.

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Nadine Hogan

Nadine Hogan, 70, a former associate director for domestic operations of the Peace Corps and mission director for Central America and Panama of the U.S. Agency for International Development, died Dec. 29 at a hospital in Miami.Her husband, R. James Hogan Jr., said she died of complications from an infection after hip surgery in 2006, aggravated by a fall at their winter home in Key Biscayne, Fla. They lived in Alexandria. Mrs. Hogan came to Washington as a White House personnel officer in 1981 after having worked in Colorado for the Ronald Reagan presidential campaign. She went to the Peace Corps in 1982 and remained there until 1985 when she joined USAID, where she served until the end of the George H.W. Bush presidency in the early 1990s. Nadine Maye Davis was born in Centralia, Ill. She graduated in 1964 from what is now Saint Louis University nursing school in Missouri and received a master’s degree in communications at the University of Colorado in 1978. Since leaving USAID, she had done consulting work and served on several boards, including the Pan American Development Foundation and Caribbean-Central American Action. Her first marriage, to James Plaster, ended in divorce. Survivors include her husband of 25 years, R. James Hogan Jr. of Alexandria; a daughter from her first marriage, Patricia Ann Picado of West Springfield; and a grandson.

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William Bacchus

William I. Bacchus, a personnel specialist who retired in 2001 from the U.S. Agency for International Development after serving as executive director of two management councils, died Jan. 23 at Capital Caring hospice in Arlington. He was 72 and an Arlington resident. He had esophageal cancer and liver cancer. His wife, Mary Bacchus, confirmed the death. Starting in 1975, Dr. Bacchus spent more than 15 years working in personnel management at the State Department. He played a key role drafting the sweeping Foreign Service Act of 1980 that covered employment, career advancement and grievance procedures, among other major administrative procedures. He helped oversee a management study used in the transition from the George H.W.Bush administration to the Clinton White House in 1993. He then joined USAID as executive director of the Quality Council and later was executive director of the agency’s Management Council before retiring. He worked as a consultant in foreign affairs until his death. William Ivar Bacchus, who was a nephew of the science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Albuquerque. He was a 1962 graduate of Princeton University. After Navy service, he received a doctorate in political science from Yale University in 1970. Early in his career, he was an assistant professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and a senior staff member of the Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy. His honors included the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award. His books included “Foreign Policy and the Bureaucratic Process” (1974) and “The Price of American Foreign Policy: Congress, the Executive and International Affairs Funding” (1997). Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Mary Dreiling Bacchus of Arlington; and a brother.

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Bob Queener

Robert S. Queener, 74, an official at the U.S. Agency for International Development who had served in Brazil, Thailand and Jamaica, died March 12 at his home in San Mateo, Calif. He died of complications from Parkinson’s disease, said his son Brett Queener. Mr. Queener worked for USAID from 1970 until he retired in 1997. His career included service as director of the agency’s mission in Jamaica. He retired after having held several consulting assignments. Robert Sharp Queener was a native of Nashville and a 1961 graduate of Cornell University. In 1966, he received a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University. He worked for the Ford Foundation in New Delhi before joining USAID. A former resident of Gaithersburg, he moved in 2002 to Kilmarnock, on Virginia’s Northern Neck, and then in 2011 to San Mateo. Survivors include his wife, whom he married in 1965, Carolyn Wickham Queener of San Mateo; two sons, Brett A. Queener of Redwood City, Calif., and Mark E. Queener of Springfield; a sister; and four grandchildren.
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Brian Wickland

Brian Wickland, 75, who retired as a senior desk officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2000, died March 23 at his home in McLean. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his daughter, Jennifer Wickland. Mr. Wickland was a senior desk officer for Europe and Eurasia for 12 years at USAID. Before that, he worked for the State Department, specializing in disaster programming. In the 1970s, he was loaned to the United Nations as a senior officer on refugee and disaster-relief programs. In 2002, he was hired as a part-time political and military affairs consultant for the State Department. He retired a second time in 2008. Brian Wickland was a native of Glendale, Calif., and a 1958 international relations graduate of Stanford University. He received a master’s degree in economics and international law from the University of London in 1962. Mr. Wickland was an executive officer at the U.N. Refugee Agency in Geneva before moving to the Washington area in 1978. He was involved with clubs at the Vienna and McLean community centers. Survivors include his wife of 44 years, Sonja Grung Wickland of McLean; two children, John Wickland of McLean and Jennifer Wickland of San Jose; his mother, Josephine Wickland of McLean; and two grandchildren.
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John Ulinski

John A. Ulinski Jr., 89, a former officer of the U.S. Agency for International Development, died April 30 of congestive heart failure at a health-care facility in Hendersonville, N.C. A daughter, Carol Freeman, confirmed his death. Mr. Ulinski began his federal career with the old Bureau of the Budget in 1948, but three years later, he was lent to the State Department. He spent most of his career in foreign-aid assignments, both in Washington and overseas, including postings in Indonesia, India, Vietnam and Liberia. He retired from USAID in 1980 as director of the Office for Private and Voluntary Cooperation, serving concurrently as executive director of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. John Anthony Ulinski Jr. was born in Buffalo. During World War II, he was a cryptographer with the Army Air Forces in the Pacific, and he participated in the landings at Leyte in the Philippines. He graduated from Cornell University in 1948 and later attended Georgetown University’s law school and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Mr. Ulinski, a former McLean resident, moved to Hendersonville when he retired. Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Anne Franke Ulinski of Hendersonville; five children, Carol Freeman of Alexandria, Susan Ulinski of New York City, Anthony Ulinski of Raleigh, N.C., Judith Rodriguez of Dumfries and Matthew Ulinski of Ithaca, N.Y; and eight grandchildren.

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Jacob Krulfeld

Jacob M. Krulfeld, 87, a desk officer who worked for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1957 until his retirement in 1982, died April 27 at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. He had a stroke, said his son, Michael Krulfeld. Mr. Krulfeld was an Arlington resident. Mr. Krulfeld traveled extensively for his work and served as a representative to the Organization of American States. In the 1950s, he worked for the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington and in Brazil, where he also co-owned a gemstone business. Jacob Mendel Krulfeld was born in Chelsea, Mass. He served in the Army in Europe during World War II and received decorations, including the Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Infantryman’s Badge. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Vermont in 1950 and settled in the Washington area in 1957. For work and for pleasure, he traveled around the world four times, his son said.

Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Ruth Pulwers Krulfeld of Arlington; and his son, Michael Krulfeld of Arlington.

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Bill Garrity

Loving mother and sister, passionate and committed professional and dear friend died suddenly on July 25, 2013, at home. She was 62 years old. She was born and raised in Aberdeen, Washington and had a distinguished career in international health and education working for AED, Peace Corps and USAID. She was an international woman, speaking Spanish fluently, comfortable in many countries and living long-term in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia. She was committed to improving the health and saving lives of those less fortunate and leaves a legacy of significant improvements in nutrition, maternal and child health, and HIV programming. She is preceded in death by her parents, Thomas and Barbara Berken and her brother, Todd Berken. She is survived by her daughters, Lea, 28 and Rosina 18, her sister, Bly Berken, and brothers, Scott (Lori) and Peter Berken, and nephews Caleb and Jared Berken.

Janet will always be remembered for the passion, generosity and laughter that were part of everything she did.

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William Garrity, of Washington, DC, died June 7, 2013, at Georgetown University Hospital from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Bill was born February 21, 1936, near Davenport, Iowa, to Eileen Honore Quinn and Harry Patrick Garrity. He grew up in Davenport, and received his English literature and history degrees from Marquette University. In 1957, he entered Georgetown University, where he earned his law degree, and has lived in Washington since then. He served as Assistant Commissioner of the U.S. District Court in Washington for 13 years, as a contracting officer for the Department of Energy and the Department of Interior, and, for 10 years before his 1997 retirement, at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

He was a fount of information on history, world events, and the performing and fine arts in Washington, as well as on the many cultures he had the opportunity to explore. He attended and volunteered at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, and enjoyed the company of his wonderful friends there, especially Fr. Jack Hurley.

Bill is survived by three brothers, Harry Lee Garrity (wife, Shirley) of DeWitt, Iowa, Michael J. Garrity (wife, Diane) of Dubuque, Iowa, and Joseph G. Garrity (wife, Bonnie) of Galena, Illinois; one sister, Nancy Jo Waack (husband Jim) of Rutledge, Missouri; 11 nieces and nephews; and an enormous contingent of devoted friends. He was preceded in death by his long-lived and infinitely-loved dachshunds, Tuam and Cleo Louise. A memorial mass will be held at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington, DC, at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 17, with visitation beginning at 9:30 a.m. Interment will follow at a later date beside his parents in Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Davenport, Iowa. In lieu of flowers, and because of his love for music and theatre, memorial contributions may be made to St. Matthew’s Cathedral music division and Church Street Theatre.

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