Linda Muncy, 63, a resident of Potomac, Maryland, died in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 30, 2012. Mrs. Muncy was a career Foreign Service Officer of the U.S. Department of State and was serving in Afghanistan since January 2011 with her husband, Don, a U.S. Agency for International Development Foreign Service Officer, at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul where she succumbed to a sudden illness. Mrs. Muncy has served in the Department of State for nearly 27 years having been posted to Montreal, Bangladesh, South Africa, Yemen, and Washington, D.C. Her recent assignment was to be her final posting before retirement. Previous Government service included the U.S. Civil Service Commission and U.S. Department of Agriculture. A Duke University graduate (1970), Linda moved to the Washington area to begin her government career following graduation. Subsequently, she moved to Camp Lejeune, NC after her marriage to Don who was then a Marine Corps Officer. When Don finished his military tour, they returned to the DC area and both began their government service careers. As a Foreign Service Officer, Linda was posted in a number of capacities to Embassies around the world and in Washington. The call to serve one more overseas tour before retirement brought her to Kabul where she was able to join Don who had already been posted there Mrs. Muncy is survived by her husband of 40 years, Don, her son Michael and her daughter Laura of Rockville, her father Jackson Howard of Salisbury, North Carolina and her sister, Margaret of Ellijay, Georgia. Friends will be received at PUMPHREY'S COLONIAL FUNERAL HOME, 300 W. Montgomery Ave., (Rt. 28, exit 6A just off I-270) on Monday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Services will be held at Seven Locks Baptist Church, 11845 Seven Locks Roads, Potomac, Maryland on Tuesday, February 7, at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made in Linda's name to the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, Virginia 22312. Please view and sign family guestbook at www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
- Published by The Washington Post on Feb. 6, 2012.
Linda Muncy, 63, a resident of Potomac, Maryland, died in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 30, 2012. Mrs. Muncy was a career Foreign Service Officer of the U.S. Department of State and was serving in Afghanistan since January 2011 with her husband, Don, a U.S. Agency for International Development Foreign Service Officer, at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul where she succumbed to a sudden illness. Mrs. Muncy has served in the Department of State for nearly 27 years having been posted to Montreal, Bangladesh, South Africa, Yemen, and Washington, D.C. Her recent assignment was to be her final posting before retirement. Previous Government service included the U.S. Civil Service Commission and U.S. Department of Agriculture. A Duke University graduate (1970), Linda moved to the Washington area to begin her government career following graduation. Subsequently, she moved to Camp Lejeune, NC after her marriage to Don who was then a Marine Corps Officer. When Don finished his military tour, they returned to the DC area and both began their government service careers. As a Foreign Service Officer, Linda was posted in a number of capacities to Embassies around the world and in Washington. The call to serve one more overseas tour before retirement brought her to Kabul where she was able to join Don who had already been posted there Mrs. Muncy is survived by her husband of 40 years, Don, her son Michael and her daughter Laura of Rockville, her father Jackson Howard of Salisbury, North Carolina and her sister, Margaret of Ellijay, Georgia. Friends will be received at PUMPHREY'S COLONIAL FUNERAL HOME, 300 W. Montgomery Ave., (Rt. 28, exit 6A just off I-270) on Monday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Services will be held at Seven Locks Baptist Church, 11845 Seven Locks Roads, Potomac, Maryland on Tuesday, February 7, at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made in Linda's name to the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, Virginia 22312. Please view and sign family guestbook at www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
- Published by The Washington Post on Feb. 6, 2012.
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WIFE OF 1st LT. DONALD WAYNE MUNCEY
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