Sidney L. Woollons
Retired U.S. Diplomat
Sidney L. Woollons, died on Memorial Day, May 28th, 2007. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio on January 24, 1925. At the age of 4, his father relocated his family back to Plymouth, England. In 1941, at the age of 16, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force and flew Boston bombers in Libya and Iraq. In 1943, he joined the U. S. Army Air Force and saw action in Normandy, the Ardennes and the Rhineland.
Upon separation from the U. S. Air Force in 1945, he embarked on a career with the United States Foreign Service in Belgium. He served in many posts abroad including Austria, Canada, Sweden, Germany, and on the island of Barbados, where he served as the Consul General. During assignment in Washington D.C., he taught law at the State Department. He was en route to Saigon to fill the post of the Consul General when the city fell to North Vietnamese forces.
He retired from the Foreign Service in 1977 and moved to Morgan Hill with his family. He is preceded in death by his wife of 61 years, Diana T. Woollons. He is survived by his daughters and their spouses, Christine C. Woollons of San Jose, Sandy and Brad Laue of Morgan Hill and Suzan and Jeff Blackden of Morgan Hill, and his sister Ruth Woollons of Plymouth, England.
