James Armsey

URBANA – James W. Armsey, a Ford Foundation executive from 1956 through 1977, died on Nov. 2, 2008, at Clark-Lindsey Village, a retirement community near the University of Illinois in Urbana, where Mr. Armsey had lived since 1981. He was 90.

Mr. Armsey was born in Olney, Ill., on Dec....