IN MEMORY
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town. Having always been interested
in oceans and marine life, Mr. Codi also
greatly enjoyed being a docent for the
University of Delaware’s College of
Marine Studies.
In 2003, the Codis moved to Naples,
Fla., for the warm weather and to be
near their son, Alan, who cared for
them during the last five years of their
lives. Marguerite passed away in early
2008 after a long fight with an infection.
Mr. Codi is survived by his son,
Alan, of Naples; his daughter, Suzanne,
of Washington, D.C.; and four grandchildren.
Charles O. Hoffman, 78, a retired
Foreign Service specialist, died on July
23 at the Geisinger Medical Center in
Danville, Ga. He had been in failing
health since April.
Born in Derry Township, Ga., Mr.
Hoffman was a 1948 graduate of Danville High School. He served with the
U.S. Army from 1948 to 1952, working
with the Army Security Agency during
the Korean War and, following his discharge, from 1952 to 1956.
Mr. Hoffman joined the Foreign
Service in 1956. He traveled as a regional communications electronic officer, serving in Beirut (1956-1959); London (1959-1964); and Bangkok (1964-
1968). From 1968 to 1975, he was assigned to the Office of Communication’s Engineering Division, and from
1975 to 1980 he was posted to Bonn.
He was then assigned to the OC Security Division in Washington, D.C.,
from 1980 until his retirement in 1981.
In 1982, Mr. Hoffman returned to Danville and began a series of contract assignments for the Department of State
at embassies and missions around the
world.
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Mr. Hoffman was a member of the
Washingtonville Lutheran Church; the
Danville Moose Lodge; the Frank Sidler Post of the American Legion and
the VFW Post, both of Danville.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Dorothy C. Anderson, with whom he
celebrated his 58th wedding anniversary on Jan. 6; a daughter, Ruth Mary
(and husband Edward P. Spohn) of
Lawrenceville, Ga.; a brother, Donald
W. Hoffman (and wife Jeanne) of New
Port Ritchey, Fla.; a sister, Helen M.
Gerringer, of Danville; and several
nieces and nephews.
Edward C. Howatt, 86, a retired
FSO, died on Sept. 14 in Henderson,
Nev.
Born Dec. 20, 1922, in Springfield,
Mass., Mr. Howatt was the son of W.
Harold Howatt and Mildred Howatt.
He studied at American International
College, graduating in 1944 after a brief
stint in the U.S. Army, and went on to
earn an MBA degree at the University
of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in
1945. He married Edwina, known as
“Teddy,” his wife of 62 years, on Aug. 2,
1947, a year after they had met at the
wedding of a mutual friend.
After working as an insurance agent,
a department store executive and a junior college teacher, during which time
the couple lived in Springfield, Mass.,
and Barrington, R.I., Mr. Howatt joined the State Department in 1950 and
they moved to Alexandria, Va. He
transferred to the Foreign Service in
1956. More than 20 years of world
travel followed, with assignments in
Cape Town, Lagos, Melbourne, Helsinki and New Delhi.
The Howatts retired to San Diego,
Calif., in 1973. After 20 years they
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moved to Tucson and, in 2002, resettled in Las Vegas, Nev. During their retirement, the Howatts continued to
travel extensively in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Mr. Howatt was an award-winning
photographer and a published newspaper columnist. He maintained an avid
interest in U.S. and world politics
throughout his life, recently adding
computers and the Internet to his field
of attention. Family and friends recall
his quiet but sharp sense of humor with
special fondness.
He is survived by his wife, Edwina,
of Las Vegas, Nev.; his sons, Kenyon
(and wife Pamela), also of Las Vegas,
and Douglas (and wife Marlene) of San
Mateo, Calif.; and grandchildren Cassandra, Brittany and Trevor. Another
son, Stephen, predeceased him on May
13, 1971.
Janice Lyon Millar, 74, a retired
FSO, died on June 11 in Paris from
complications of chronic lung disease.
Mrs. Millar was born on Oct. 3,
1934, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Barney and Ruth Glanville Johnson. She
graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the
University of Utah in 1956, and
worked in New York City as a tour
guide at the United Nations before attending Radcliffe and Georgetown
University, where she earned a master’s degree in economics.
During a 20-year career in the
Foreign Service, Mrs. Millar served
overseas first with the U.S. Agency for
International Development in Rabat,
and then as a diplomatic officer in
Lagos and Paris. During tours at the
State Department in Washington,
D.C., she became an expert on the
Caribbean region. She also served as
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