Earl Wallace Bellinger

Mr. Bellinger died May 4, 2003, at his home.

He was born Feb. 7, 1927, in Atchison, Kan., the son of Leo T. and Mary (Martin) Bellinger. He moved in the 1930s to Lawrence, Kan., and graduated in 1944 from Liberty Memorial High School. He later graduated from Kansas University and the American Institute of Foreign Trade, Glendale, Ariz.

Mr. Bellinger served in the U.S. Navy in 1945-46. He was chief of the retail branch of the American Forces, Europe Exchange Service, from 1950 to 1960, and served with the U.N. Mission in 1960-61 in Congo, then as a field representative. He served in the Army-Air Force Exchange Service in 1961-62.

He later joined the Foreign Service and served in various positions in Burundi, Chad, Tanzania, Nigeria, Germany, France, Egypt and Washington, D.C. In 1983 he was appointed counselor for administrative affairs of the joint administrative services in Brussels, Belgium.

Mr. Bellinger received a Superior Honor Award in 1966 and the Luther I. Replogle Award for Management Improvement in 1982.

He married Michele Daniel on Aug. 22, 1953, in Vierzon, France. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include two sons, Christophe, Paris, and Eric, Ingolstadt, Germany; a sister, Marguerite Bellinger Mills, Morton, Ill.; and a grandson.