BETTY GOUGH

GOUGH BETTY CATHERINE GOUGH Betty Catherine Gough, a Foreign Service Officer and specialist in international organization affairs, died on October 24, 2018 in Roseville, CA at the age of 98. Miss Gough retired from the Department of State in 1977 after thirty-four years of service, with career rank of minister-counselor. Thereafter, for fifteen years she served as a member of the International Narcotics Control Board, a United Nations body established to carry forward work begun in the League of Nations. She served as that Board's first woman member and for three terms as its President. Betty Gough's career with the State Department began in 1943 in a unit established to study the creation of a new international organization to succeed the League of Nations. She held the position of documents officer in that unit and served in the same capacity as a member of the United States delegations to the Dumbarton Oaks Conversations on International Organization held in Washington in 1944, to the San Francisco Conference at which the United Nations Charter was adopted in 1945, and to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations which met in London in 1945-1946. Subsequently, Miss Gough served as an adviser on United States delegations to sessions of the United Nations General Assembly held from 1946 through 1957. Thereafter, she held the position as adviser on United States delegations to innumerable international conferences and to meetings of various organs of the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies. Miss Gough was appointed a Foreign Service Officer in 1955. Her postings abroad included the position of deputy in the United States Permanent Delegation to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization at Paris; adviser in the United States Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency at Vienna; and, Counselor for Narcotics Affairs in the United States Mission to the United Nations and Other International Organizations at Geneva. Miss Gough was twice the recipient of the State Department's Superior Honor Award in recognition of service in the advancement of United States policy objectives incident to the participation of the United States in the Specialized Agencies of the United Nations and in the area of international drug control. In connection with her work as a member of the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board, she also received in 1996 the United Nations Serge Sotiroff Memorial Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of international drug control". Miss Gough was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She received a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and was the recipient of its distinguished alumni award in 1982. She pursued graduate studies at George Washington University and Georgetown University. She was a member of DACOR (Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired). She was also a member of the parish of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. Survivors include one brother, Gerald F. Gough of Roseville, California; and twenty-one nieces and nephews. Friends may call at DeVol Funeral Home 2222 Wisconsin Ave., N.W. Washington DC (Complimentary Valet Parking) on Monday, November 5 from 5 to 7 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be offered on Tuesday, November 6 at 10 a.m. at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, 1725 Rhode Island Ave NW Washington DC, Interment Rock Creek Cemetery.Friends may call at DeVol Funeral Home 2222 Wisconsin Ave., N.W. Washington DC (Complimentary Valet Parking) on Monday, November 5 from 5 to 7 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be offered on Tuesday, November 6 at 10 a.m. at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, 1725 Rhode Island Ave NW Washington DC, Interment Rock Creek Cemetery.