Maurice Elmore Trout

Foreign Service Officer

Maurice Elmore Trout, 96, a retired Foreign Service officer, died peacefully on September 15, 2014, at Virginia Hospital Center.

Mr. Trout was born on September 17, 1917 in Clifton Hill, Missouri and attended public schools in Chicago, Illinois and Hillsdale, Michigan. In 1939, he graduated from Hillsdale College with a B.A. in History. Later that year, he joined the United States Coast Guard where he served throughout World War Two until December, 1945. He met his bride to be, Margie Marie Mueller, in St. Louis, Missouri in 1942 and they were married on August 24, 1943 at Overland Christian Church.

After leaving military service, he began graduate studies in St. Louis, Missouri. During his residence there, he earned two degrees; an M.A. in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Political Science from St. Louis University. Mr. Trout then entered the Foreign Service in July, 1950. He served abroad in Paris, Vienna, London, Vientiane, Munich, and Bangkok during his diplomatic career, primarily in either management or politico-military affairs. He retired in 1977 after completing a tour as Political Advisor to the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia.

Mr. Trout remained in the Washington D.C. area after his retirement but continued extensive travel abroad. During this period, his journeys took him to all seven continents from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica as well as to such places as the Timbuktu desert region of Africa and onto the mountains of Papua, New Guinea in the Far East. He has been listed in such publications as Who’s who in America, Who’s Who in Government, and Who’s Who in the World. He was also a member of DACOR (Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired), American Foreign Service Association, World Affairs Council, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Theta Phi, and Pi Gamma Mu.

Survivors include his wife of 71 years, Margie Marie Mueller Trout; a son, Richard W. Trout of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; a daughter, Babette Yvonne Dammon of Annapolis, Maryland as well as two sisters, Elinor (Mrs. George Verville of Tulsa, Oklahoma) and Rogene (Mrs. Lowell Slocum of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan), and three grandchildren. Visitation will be held Sunday, September 21, 2014 at Murphy Funeral Home, 1102 W Broad Street, Falls Church, VA, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., with funeral service beginning at 3 p.m. Interment will be at 11 a.m., Monday, September 22 at Rock Creek Cemetery, DACOR Memorial Section, Washington, D.C.

Arrangements under the direction of Murphy Falls Church Funeral Home, Falls Church, Virginia.