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Lois Critchfield of Williamsburg, VA died in late March 2025. She attended Miami Edison Highschool and Brenau College in Gainesville, GA, and she held BS and MA degrees in economics from the University of Florida. She retired from CIA in 1982, having lived in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. After retiring from CIA in 1982, she joined Tetra Tech International as a researcher and newsletter writer with a focus on OPEC and Middle East markets. She is the author of Oman Emerges: An American Company in an Ancient Kingdom (Selwa Press, July 2010), which is part memoir and part case-study of her late husband's time as a consultant for Sultan Qaboos bin Said. She also wrote a biography of her husband, James H. Critchfield: Hist Life's Story 1917-2003 (Author House, 2018). James Critchfield was also a career CIA officer, serving as Chief of the Near East and South Asia Division and as National Intelligence Officer for Energy.