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She was born Martha Elizabeth Mansfield in Munfordville, Ky. She became an Army wife in 1951, when she married then-Lt. Col. Wallace Clement, who was stationed at Fort Knox. She and her husband lived at Army postings around the world until he retired in 1970. By then, the couple was living in Fairfax Station.

She was a volunteer with a number of Alexandria organizations, including the Salvation Army, the Alexandria Democratic Committee, the Campagna Center and Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill. She and her husband also sponsored a Vietnamese refugee family who immigrated to the Washington area in 1975.

Her marriage ended in divorce.

Survivors include five children, Sarah Clement of Alexandria, Ellen Mouri of Atlanta, Anne Clement of Amherst, Mass., Douglas Clement of Caldwell, Idaho, and David Clement of Louisville, Ky.; a brother; and seven grandchildren.

-- Joe Holley

Horace Z. Feldman CIA Officer

Horace Z. Feldman, 85, a retired CIA station chief and intelligence officer, died Feb. 23 at the National Lutheran Home in Rockville. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Mr. Feldman, a Potomac resident, held several leadership positions in the Directorate of Operations throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He was station chief in Tokyo and later in Tehran.

His final assignment, in 1981, was as CIA representative and senior faculty member at the National War College.

After retiring, he was a consultant on national security issues for government agencies and private firms, including a 16-year membership of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel.

Horace Zeigler Feldman was a native of York, Pa., and a 1943 magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where he also received a master's degree in Asian studies in 1948. In 1952, he received a doctorate in Asian studies at Columbia University with a specialty in Japanese literature.


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