He received his law degree at the University of Notre Dame, where he was editor in chief of the law review. Gregory, a resident of Vienna, was in Omaha for talks with officials of Omaha Mutual Insurance Co.Ī native of New York, he graduated from St. 14 at an apartment the firm maintains in Omaha. Gregory Jr., 51, managing partner of the Washington law firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan and an authority on insurance law, died of a heart attack Jan. Survivors include his wife, the former Ernestine Sherman, a Foreign Service officer who is stationed in Madras two daughters by his first marriage, Elizabeth Tompkins Heck of Washington and Judith Kingsbury Heck of Baltimore and a sister, Thayer Heath of Altamont, N.Y.įrancis M. His marriage to Elizabeth Heck ended in divorce. Heck was a recipient of the State Department's Distinguished Service Award. He was deputy chief of mission in Tehran from 1970 to 1974. Overseas assignments had included tours as a political officer in New Delhi, consul general in Istanbul and deputy chief of mission in Katmandu, Nepal, and then Tehran. Over the years, he had served in the United States as country director for India, Ceylon, Nepal and the Maldive Islands and had attended the National War College. He was chief of State's biographic information division from 1945 to 1952. He began his State Department career in 1943 as an assistant in its world trade intelligence division. Heck, who was born to American parents in Bern, Switzerland, was a 1941 graduate of Yale University. Also in the 1970s, he had served as director of the State Department's counter-terrorism office. He was ambassador to Niger from 1974 to 1976 and to Nepal from 1977 until retiring in 1980. Douglas Heck, 74, a retired State Department Foreign Service officer who had served as ambassador to two countries, died Jan.
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