Charles W. Grover, Foreign Service Officer, 80, Washington Post

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/20/AR2009032003279.html

Charles W. Grover Foreign Service Officer

Charles W. Grover, 80, a retired Foreign Service officer who worked in
political, consular and economic sections, died February 26, 2009, at a
hospice in Charleston, S.C., of brain cancer.

Mr. Grover spent almost 30 years in the Foreign Service before retiring in
1985 as consul general in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He spent much of his career in
South America, including assignments as deputy chief of mission at the U.S.
Embassy in Santiago, Chile.

In retirement, Mr. Grover worked for many years in the program division of
Meridian International Center, a Washington organization that promotes
international understanding.

Charles Wyman Grover was born in Waltham, Mass., and grew up in
Gloversville, N.Y. He was a 1951 history graduate of Antioch College in
Ohio, and he received a master's degree in U.S. history from the University
of Oregon in 1953.

At the university, he was president of the Young Democrats chapter and a
charter member of the university's NAACP chapter. He served two years in the
Army before entering the Foreign Service.

He had been a Bethesda resident for 48 years. He was also an amateur
genealogist and a member of many historical and genealogical societies.

His wife of 48 years, Janet Halsten Grover, died in 2005.

Survivors include four children, Marisa G. Mofford of Altadena, Calif.,
Charles H. Grover, a Foreign Service officer assigned to Charleston, Michael
E. Grover of Boston and Ellen G. Reber of East Douglas, Mass.; a sister; and
10 grandchildren.

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Rebekah Davis

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I HAVE JUST READ, WITH SADNESS, THIS PIECE AB OUT MY OLD FRIENDS, CHUCK AND JANET GROVER. MY FORMER HUSBAND, BILL KNEPPER, AND I WERE CLOSE FRIENDS OF CHUCK AND JANET FOR MANY YEARS IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE, AND LOST CONTACT AFTER BILL AND I WERE DIVORSED IN 1984. I LIVE IN A COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF SAN FRANCISCO NOW, AM AN ARTIST, AND AM PARTICIPATING IN AN ART EXHIBIT FOR BLIND ARTISTS IN CHICAGO CALLED "SECOND SENSE." ONE OF THE ARTISTS IS NAMED CHARLES GROVER, AND I WONDERED IF THAT COULD BE THE CHARLES GROVER THAT I KNEW. BUT, ALAS, HE WAS NOW.

I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO THE FAMILY THAT CHUCK AND JANET WERE EXEMPLERY PEOPLE AND FRIENDS, AND WE VALUED THEIR FRIENDSHIP VERY MUCH.

VIRGINIA KNEPPER DOYLE