Obituaries

George L. West Jr.Foreign Service Officer

George Lybrook West Jr., 97, who retired from the Foreign Service and the U.S. Information Agency, died Sept. 4 at his home in Maplewood Park Place in Bethesda, where he had lived since 1996. He had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

He was born in Seattle and was a 1933 philosophy graduate of Stanford University. He then worked for Standard Oil in California for about four years.

In 1938, he joined the Foreign Service and served as vice consul in posts in Canada, Greenland, Sweden and Finland. He was in Washington at the State Department from 1945 to 1948 and then served as consul in Luxembourg, Bonn and Frankfurt.

In the mid-1950s, he worked at the State Department as desk officer for French and Iberian Affairs and deputy director of the Office of European Affairs. He served as charg? and counselor in Paris from 1957 to 1960.

He retired from the State Department in 1962 and from then until 1972 he was a cultural affairs officer with the USIA. He traveled around the world with such entertainers as the Alvin Ailey dance troupe, actress Celeste Holm and the Duquesne University Tamburitzans, an Eastern European music and dance group.

He was a member of DACOR, or Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired.

His marriage to Patricia Roscicni West ended in divorce. His second wife, Jacqueline Chadbourn West, whom he married in 1970, died in 1996.

Survivors include a daughter from his first marriage, Geraldine W. Boswell of Olney; three stepchildren, Cynthia James of Overland, Kan., and Claudia Chadbourn and Zan Benham, both of Sarasota, Fla.; and a granddaughter.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Mary-Turley DevineCommerce Program Manager

Mary-Turley Lemon Coulter Devine, 85, who headed an award program in the Commerce Department's Office of Economic Development, died Sept. 6 at the Fountains at Washington House in Alexandria, where she lived. She had Alzheimer's disease.