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Washington, D.C., in 1941. There
she met and married Martin (Marty)
Manch, who joined the State Department
in 1952 as an administrative officer,
becoming an FSO in 1955. Mrs.
Manch accompanied her husband in
postings to Cairo, Athens and Washington,
D.C.
In 1971, Mr. Manch retired and
the couple settled in Fairhope, Ala.
There Mrs. Manch was an active
member of Fairhope United Methodist
Church, the Thomas Hospital
Auxiliary, Sundial Garden Club and
Eastern Shore Woman’s Club. She
was also a member of the American
Foreign Service Association and
Diplomatic and Consular Officers,
Retired.
Following the death of her husband
in 1995, Mrs. Manch moved
from Fairhope to Fredericksburg, Va.,
to be near her grandchildren.
She is survived by four children:
Maryann Irion and Jacqueline Manch
of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Martin
Manch IV and his wife Susan, of
Fredericksburg, Va.; and William
Manch and his wife Susan, of Mc-
Lean, Va.; five grandchildren; and one
great-grandchild. She also is survived
by two sisters, Eunice Boozer of
Selma, Ala., and Rosemary Doucette
of Satellite Beach, Fla., and numerous
nieces, nephews, other relatives and
wonderful friends.
The family requests donations in
her memory be made to HospiceCare
of Southeast Florida, Inc., 309 SE
18th St., Fort Lauderdale FL 33316.
Joseph E. O’Mahony, 82, a retired
Foreign Service officer, died on Nov.
26, 2007, at his home in Bethesda,
Md., after a long illness.
Mr. O’Mahony was born in
Indianapolis, Ind., and grew up in
Utica, N.Y., where he enjoyed hiking,
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camping and fishing in the nearby
Adirondacks. He was an Eagle Scout
and an assistant Scoutmaster.
In 1943 he joined the Army, serving
in combat for which he was
awarded the Purple Heart and the
Bronze Star.
Mr. O’Mahony joined the State
Department in 1952, becoming an
FSO in 1956. During a 32-year
career, he served overseas in Seoul,
Hong Kong, New Delhi, Santiago and
Port of Spain. He retired in 1988.
He is survived by his wife, Merle,
of Bethesda, Md.; two sons, Devin of
Chevy Chase, Md., and Brian of
Brewster, N.Y.; a daughter, Kerry
Shea Dall, of Annapolis, Md.; a brother,
Thomas P. O’Mahony of Burlington,
Mass.; and five grandchildren.
David D. Newsom, 90, a retired
FSO, three-time ambassador and former
under secretary of State for political
affairs, died on March 30 in
Charlottesville, Va.
Mr. Newsom was born on Jan. 6,
1918, in Richmond, Calif. He received
his B.A. degree in English
from the University of California at
Berkeley in 1938 and an M.S. degree
in journalism from the Columbia
University School of Journalism in
1940. At Columbia, he was the recipient
of a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship,
which enabled him to visit
Japan, China, the Dutch East Indies
(Indonesia), India, South Africa,
Argentina and Brazil in 1940–1941.
Mr. Newsom worked as a reporter
for the San Francisco Chronicle
before joining the U.S. Navy in 1942.
He was assigned to Naval Intelligence
and was stationed in Hawaii during
World War II. Upon his discharge
from the Navy as a lieutenant in 1946,
he and his wife, the former Jean
Frances Craig, published the Walnut
Creek (California) Courier-Journal.
He left the newspaper business to
enter the Foreign Service in 1947.
As a career Foreign Service officer,
he served in Karachi, Oslo and Baghdad
before returning to Washington
in 1955 to become officer-in-charge
of Arabian Peninsula Affairs. In 1959,
he attended the National War College
and in 1960 was posted to London as
first secretary (with responsibility for
Middle East and Africa). From 1962
to 1965, he served in Washington as
director of Northern African Affairs.
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson
appointed him U.S. ambassador
to Libya. He returned from that post
in 1969 to serve as assistant secretary
of State for African affairs. From 1973
to 1977 he served as U.S. ambassador
to Indonesia, and was the U.S. ambassador
to the Philippines from November
1977 to April 1978.
Ambassador Newsom was named
under secretary of State for political
affairs in 1978 and served in that position
until February 1981, when he
was appointed Secretary of State ad
interim between the Carter and
Reagan administrations. He retired
from the Foreign Service with the
rank of career minister in February
1981.
After retirement, Amb. Newsom
became director of the Institute for
the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown
University. There, he also served
as the Marshall B. Coyne Research
Professor of Diplomacy in the School
of Foreign Service. In the fall of
1986, he became the John Adams
Fellow under the Fulbright program
at the Royal Institute of International
Affairs in London. In 1991, he inaugurated
the Hugh Cumming Chair of
International Relations at the University
of Virginia. He retired in 1998,
and resided in Charlottesville until his
death.
Mr. Newsom is the author of sev-