Marjorie Stephens Belcher of Plymouth, MA, died on May 28, 2011. She was 93.
A government employee for 35 years, Ms. Belcher served with the Agency for International Development (AID) and its predecessors for 25 years. Her assignments included AID liaison officer in the American Embassy in London; Attache for Regional Economic Affairs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Economic and Social Affairs Advisor with the US Mission to the United Nations in New York City and at the AID Mission in Ankara, Turkey. Her last AID post was as Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau of Technical Assistance in AID, in Washington. Prior to her years with AID, Ms. Belcher was with the Foreign Trade Division of the Office of the Supreme Commander, Allied Powers in Tokyo and Assistant to The Assistant to the President John R. Steelman, in the Truman Administration.
After retiring in 1978, she volunteered in the Washingtonian Division of the Martin Luther King Library and the Peabody Room of the Georgetown Branch Library.
A native of Plymouth, Ms. Belcher spent summers there at her cottage on South Pond. She was a member of the Historical Society of Washington, DC and of the Antiquarian Society, the Pilgrim Society and the Church of the Pilgrimage, all in Plymouth. She held BA and MA degrees from Mount Holyoke College.
She is survived by two sisters, Elizabeth P. Rogers of Urbana, IL, and Ruth S. Belcher of Plymouth, as well as by 11 nieces and nephews, 12 grandnephews and one grandniece. Her sisters Helen C. Belcher and Hilda Belcher Mortimer, and her brother Edward L. Belcher, preceded her in death.
Following cremation, burial will be in Vine Hills Cemetery, Plymouth, MA. Memorial gifts may be made to the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC, or to the Church of the Pilgrimage or the Pilgrim Society, both in Plymouth, MA.
Arrangements by the Richard Davis Funeral Homes of Plymouth and Manomet, Massachusetts.