Until early 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) showcased a memorial wall in the lobby of its Washington, D.C. headquarters, in the Ronald Reagan Building. The Trump Administration had it torn down and removed on April 30, 2025 in the process of removing USAID both from the building and from the government.
Depicted here is an image of that wall. Below are the names of the fallen American staff while serving abroad providing aid to poorer countries, employed by the U.S. government, USAID. This list includes staff from the beginning of the Four Points Program, the Truman era precursor of economic and technical aid to developing countries, in 1950 to USAID in 1963 to the end of the Agency in 2025. These 99 persons listed died while in service to their country in humanitarian assistance and international development. Peter Morris (former WHES Board Chair writes “I personally knew Tresja Denysenko, who worked with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and died while on a DART team in Haiti.” (This link to Linkedin is Tresja).
- Frederick J Abramson
- Ragei Said Abdelfattah
- Bijnan Acharya
- Debebe Agonafer
- Richard Aitken
- Margaret Alexander
- Marilyn Allan
- Rodrigo Santa Anna
- Bruce Bailey
- Rolando Barahona
- Thomas Blaka
- Robert W. Brown
- David Bush
- Anita Huovar Carroll
- Kevin Carroll
- Frederick Cheydleur
- Normal Clowers
- John Cone
- Lino De La Cruz
- Dresja Denysenko
- Susan Doria
- Chandler Edwards
- Walter Stanley Eltringham
- Stephen Scott Everhart
- Frank Fairchild Jr.
- Albert Farkas
- Richard Fineley
- Laurence Foley
- Robert Franzblau
- Donald Freeman
- George Gates
- Gladys Gilbert
- DAvid Gitelson
- Thomas Gompertz
- Dale Gredler
- Joseph W. Grainger
- John Granville
- Robert Handy
- Robert Hebb
- Charles Hengna
- Gustav C. Hertz
- Edward Hines
- Oscar Holder
- Robert Hubbard
- Peter M. Hunting
- James Hyde
- Lisa Isidro
- W.L. Jacobson
- Sydney Jacques
- Rudolph Kaiser
- Donald Kobayashi
- Kermit Krause
- Robert LaFollette
- Chaplain Lako
- Nancy Lewis
- Robert Little
- Hugh Lobit
- Jeffrey Lundstedt
- Justin B. Mahoney
- John McCarthy
- William McIntyre
- Luther McLendon
- Mark Mitchell
- Dan Mitrione
- Dominic Morris
- Dennis Mummert
- Michael Murphy
- John Nuhn
- Thomas Olmsted
- Dwight H. Owen, Jr.
- Dolph Owens
- John L. Oyer
- Donald J. Pareteau
- Carroll H. Pender Sr.
- Ed Planta
- Thomas Raggsdale
- Everette Dixie Reese
- Jerry Rose
- Abdelrahman Abas Rahama
- Francis Savage
- Richard A. Schenk
- Harold Sealock
- Garnett Simmerly
- Joseph Smith
- William D. Smith
- D.M. Sjostrom
- William Stanford
- Arthur Stillman
- Eugene Sullivan
- Clyde Summers
- Ralph Brownlee Swain
- Baudoin Tally
- Andrew Tombe
- Antoinette Beaumont Tomasek
- John Paul Vann
- Albert Votaw
- James Wallwork
- Jack Wells
- Roberta Worrick
- Thomas Worrick
Note: this listing and wall does not begin to include the larger number of American NGO workers or contractors who died while serving overseas.
