Perry Hager Culley, Journalist And Diplomat, 87

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Perry Hager Culley, a journalist, diplomat and foreign medical aid
executive, died of complications from heart disease November 1, 2006,
at his home in Eastbourne, Sussex, in England, at the age of 87.

A native of Los Angeles, California, Mr. Culley attended Pasadena
[California] Junior College, George Washington University, Georgetown
University and Harvard College. Settling in the Georgetown neighborhood
of Washington, Mr. Culley became an editor at the old United Press wire
syndicate in Washington, and for Time Inc.'s "March of Time" newsreel
and its radio news programs. He also worked at WMAL radio in
Washington.

During World War II, he volunteered for the American Field Service and
was assigned to the ambulance corps of the British 8th Army in North
Africa and Italy.

In 1945, he joined the State Department's Foreign Service and was
assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Paris as an information officer. Over
the next 27 years, he was deputy chief of mission in Uruguay and
Ecuador, a senior Foreign Service inspector and deputy inspector
general. He retired from the diplomatic corps in 1972 as deputy chief
of mission in Paris.

Mr. Culley remained in Paris for five more years as president of the
American Hospital and its foundation.

He was recruited by Project Hope in 1977 to administer programs in
Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. By 1980, he had moved to the project's
headquarters in Millwood, Va., near Winchester, as director of African
and Middle East operations, until his retirement in 1984, when he and
his family relocated to England.

His marriage to Harriet Winston Pullen ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife, Patricia Elizabeth Culley of Eastbourne,
Sussex, England; two daughters from his second marriage, Dr. Catherine
Elizabeth Culley and Dr. Victoria Alexandra Culley, both of London,
England.

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