PETER SIEGWALD

1944 - 2021

PETER ALAN SIEGWALD  
Peter Alan Siegwald, 77, died at his nome in Arlington, VA, October 7, 2021 after a short illness. Mr. Siegwald was born February 13, 1944, in Clarksburg, WV, to Clyde Roy and Mary Rose Leuck Siegwald. He graduated from Jesuit High School in Tampa, FL, and was a 1966 graduate of Notre Dame University. After two tours in the Peace Corps (Thailand and Bolivia), he worked as a fundraiser for the American Lung Association in Virginia and the American Home Economics Foundation in DC, before meeting his wife, Susan Ann Clyde, in 1984 and joining her Foreign Service career. He worked as an Embassy contractor in Nicaragua, Portugal and Haiti, and in 1993 joined the Foreign Service himself as a general services specialist. He served in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Washington, DC, before retiring from the Department of State in 2007. He was a talented photographer, and held two expositions in SW France, where he and his wife owned a vacation home for 13 years. He was known for his kindness, generosity of spirit and ready smile. Besides his wife of 37 years, Mr. Siegwald leaves a sister (Linda Behrendt) and two brothers - David (Jolley), of Sarasota,,FL, and Thomas (Joan), of Mobile,AL, - 11 nieces and nephews, 26 great nieces/nephews and two great-greats, all of whom he adored. At his instruction, his body was donated to the Georgetown University's Medical School and his brain to the university's Brain Bank, which does research on diseases of the brain, such as Lewy Body Dementia, with which he had been diagnosed in early stages several months previously, although the immediate cause of death was an aggressive lymphoma. There will be no funeral service, but anyone wishing to honor his life may contribute to DC Central Kitchen (dccentralkitchen.org [dccentralkitchen.org]), a charity he supported for many years; Jesuit High School in Tampa, FL, (jesuittampa.org) whose scholalrships guaranteed him a good education despite his father's death when Peter was only 13; or the American Cancer Society. "Be not sad at the loss, but be joyous that he happened at all."