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Patricia Perryman
Rehberg
The Washington Post, Sunday, July 23, 2006; C08
Patricia Rehberg Foreign Service Spouse
Patricia
Rehberg, 78, a Foreign Service secretary and later spouse who opened her
Old Town Alexandria home to guests from around the world, died June 28 of
pulmonary failure at Inova Alexandria Hospital.
She was
born Patricia Perryman in Mayfield, Ky., and moved with her family to
Walterboro, S.C., when she was 12. She attended Limestone College in
Gaffney, S.C., before graduating from the University of South Carolina.
In 1950,
she joined the State Department as a secretary and was assigned to
Jakarta, Indonesia. There she met Ralph C. Rehberg, a Foreign Service
officer, whom she later married. They spent the next 23 years with the
Foreign Service in Washington, as well as in the Dominican Republic, the
Netherlands, Bulgaria, Japan and Turkey.
In 1972,
they bought a home in Old Town Alexandria. Since the early 1990s, Mrs.
Rehberg had been a member of a local bed and breakfast network.
She
volunteered at a Prevention of Blindness thrift shop and was active in the
Mount Vernon Garden Club.
Her husband
of 26 years died in 1977.
Survivors
include two children, Celie McGurk of Palmyra, Va., and Eric Perryman of
Denver; a brother, James H. Perryman Jr. of Sautee, Ga.; and seven
grandchildren.
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