GISELA HANNELORE DASCHKEY AHERN
Born in Neuendorf, East Prussia (now part of Poland) on August 10, 1940. She passed away on March 17, 2017 at the age of 76. She was raised in Offenbach am Main in then-West Germany.
She is survived by her husband of 52 years, Thomas L. Ahern, Jr.; a daughter, Christine Oswald; two grandchildren; and a half-brother, Guenter Schaupmeier.
Gisela earned a business degree in Offenbach before joining the German Foreign Ministry in 1961. The next year, she was posted to Saigon, South Vietnam, where she met her future husband, US Embassy officer Thomas L. Ahern, Jr. They married in Offenbach in 1965.
There followed a series of foreign assignments, first to the Philippines, where their daughter was born in 1967, then to Cambodia, Nigeria, and Germany. Gisela joined the CIA in 1980, and retired in 2001. She then worked as an analyst at the National Counter-Terrorism Center until December 2016. She also did volunteer work as an ombudsman at an assisted living facility in Arlington and as assistant treasurer of the Guild of the Washington Concert Opera.
For more information, go to AdventFuneral.com. A gathering of family and friends will be held at a later date. Inurnment will take place at Arlington National Cemetery at a time to be determined.
Published in The Washington Post on Mar. 26, 2017
GISELA HANNELORE DASCHKEY AHERN
Born in Neuendorf, East Prussia (now part of Poland) on August 10, 1940. She passed away on March 17, 2017 at the age of 76. She was raised in Offenbach am Main in then-West Germany.
She is survived by her husband of 52 years, Thomas L. Ahern, Jr.; a daughter, Christine Oswald; two grandchildren; and a half-brother, Guenter Schaupmeier.
Gisela earned a business degree in Offenbach before joining the German Foreign Ministry in 1961. The next year, she was posted to Saigon, South Vietnam, where she met her future husband, US Embassy officer Thomas L. Ahern, Jr. They married in Offenbach in 1965.
There followed a series of foreign assignments, first to the Philippines, where their daughter was born in 1967, then to Cambodia, Nigeria, and Germany. Gisela joined the CIA in 1980, and retired in 2001. She then worked as an analyst at the National Counter-Terrorism Center until December 2016. She also did volunteer work as an ombudsman at an assisted living facility in Arlington and as assistant treasurer of the Guild of the Washington Concert Opera.
For more information, go to AdventFuneral.com. A gathering of family and friends will be held at a later date. Inurnment will take place at Arlington National Cemetery at a time to be determined.
Published in The Washington Post on Mar. 26, 2017
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