Helen C. Metz

HELEN CHAPIN METZ  
Helen Chapin Metz, an editor and Middle Eastern analyst, died in Washington, D. C. on May 13, 2011, at the age of 83 years. Mrs. Metz was the widow of the Rev. Ronald I. Metz, and the daughter of the late Ambassador and Mrs. Selden Chapin (Mary Paul Noyes), and the sister of the late Ambassador Frederic L. Chapin, II. She was an alumna of the Potomac School, the Madeira School, Vassar College and the American University of Beirut. As a senior analyst at the Library of Congress' Federal Research Division, Mrs. Metz edited 15 Country Study handbooks. She was a former Senior Warden of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Washington. She is survived by three daughters and two sons-in-law: Mary Selden Evans and James F. Evans, III of Cazenovia, NY; Helen Winchester Metz of Minneapolis, MN; and Grace Chapin Metz and Christopher Hunton of Rockville, MD. She was predeceased by her son-in-law, Perry D. Ketchum, of Minneapolis. The date of a memorial service, to be held at St. Margaret's Church later this year, will be announced.