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Obituaries
Sari E. PartridgeCIA Language Analyst
Sari E. Partridge, 90, a retired language analyst at the CIA, died of pneumonia Dec. 23 at Manor Care Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Arlington. She was a longtime Arlington resident.
Mrs. Partridge was born in Whaleybridge, England, and moved as a child to Hungary with her parents. In 1944, she and her mother secretly crossed the border into Austria, where friends gave them sanctuary. They later moved to Wheeling, W.Va.
She graduated from Wellesley College. Fluent in Hungarian and German, she was immediately hired by the CIA, where she stayed until her 1988 retirement.
Her first marriage to Count Steven D. Haller ended in divorce.
She was an avid swimmer and met her second husband, Daniel Partridge III, while both were surfing rough seas off the Delaware coast. He died in 1974.
Survivors include a daughter, Ilona Gants of Falls Church, and a granddaughter.
Linda MorseAID Health Administrator
Linda Morse, 55, a global health administrator for the Agency for International Development, died Jan. 1 of complications from a heart attack at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. She lived in Arlington.
She had been an employee of AID for 30 years and, two months ago, received the Administrator's Distinguished Career Service Award, the agency's highest award. She had won the Presidential Meritorious Honor Award in 1989 and 2000.
For the past two years, she was AID's senior deputy assistant administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, in charge of 225 people and allocation of $1.2 billion in assistance.
She previously was senior deputy assistant administrator of the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, director of AID in India, deputy assistant director of the Asia and Near East Bureau, and deputy director of AID in Morocco and Haiti. She had also held several previous positions as a health adviser in AID and with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
She was born in Worcester, Mass., and graduated from Barnard College. She received a master's degree in social work from the University of Michigan in 1974 and a master's degree in public health from Harvard University in 1975.
She had lived in the Washington area since 1976.