Mr. Stone, a resident of Woodbridge, was born in Detroit. He served in the military on two tours of duty in Vietnam and was awarded the Purple Heart. He began his 32-year career at HUD in 1979 as an evaluator in Des Moines. He came to the Washington area in 1988 when he began working for HUD’s Program System Management Office in Multifamily Housing.
Edward Rowell, Ambassador
Edward Rowell, 90, who spent 38 years in the foreign service, served as ambassador to Bolivia, Portugal and Luxembourg before retiring in 1994 and later served as president of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training as well that of Dacor, an organization of former diplomats and consular officers, died April 14 at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. The cause was bullous pemphigoid, a rare skin condition, said his wife, Le Rowell.
Mr. Rowell was born in Oakland, California, and spent part of his childhood in Rio de Janeiro, where his father was stationed as a diplomat. He entered the foreign service in 1956 and served as a political officer in Argentina and Honduras in the mid-to-late 1960s. After postings based in Washington, he worked as Deputy Chief of Mission in Lisbon from 1978 to 1983, spent two years as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, then began his terms as Ambassador. He received the Superior Honor Award, among other honors.
Caroline Cook, environmental consultant
Caroline Cook, 45, who had been a senior associate at Environmental Incentives, a government contractor working on environmental conservation issues, died April 6 at her home in Takoma Park, Maryland. The cause was brain cancer, said her husband, Jonathan Cook.
Ms. Cook was born Caroline Simmonds in Philadelphia and grew up primarily in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi and Deputy Director of the East Africa Coastal Program of the World Wildlife Fund before joining Environmental Incentives in 2014.
