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Dear Family and Friends:

Thank you for visiting.

This site provides a way to share stories, photos, music, audio files, and videos about David Ransom. While Dad's been gone for nearly a decade, his legacy lives on in our memories.

Whether you knew him as Ambassador Ransom, Grandpa, David, or Dave, you are welcome to add to the site.

We welcome you to review the words said at his memorial service (click on the menu pages at the top), scroll through the photos (click on any photo to open the gallery), and to turn on the Hallelujah Chorus in the music player at the bottom (one of Dad's favorite pieces). And please feel welcome to leave comments on the site, or to email us through the contact us form above to suggest new additions to the site.

Sincerely, or as Dad would have written, "BR,"

Elizabeth, Katherine, and Sarah

Images from Dad’s Life

Clifford Fredic Ransom, circa 1950

Dad in Texas mud, 1943

Dad with marines at Quantico 1959

Dad profile Tehran 1966 or 7

Marjorie Ransom, Assistant Information Officer in Bombay, India in 1964

Engagement at Taj Mahal 1964

MAR and DMR in India, 1988, remembering site of engagement

David and Marjorie wed at Bolling Air Force Base, May 15, 1965

David dancing with mother Inez Ransom at wedding 1965

David and Marjorie dancing at wedding 1965

David and Marjorie in back yard of first house in Norfolk Va 1965

David and Marjorie with priest who presided over wedding

David and Marjorie in early days of marriage

Dad with baby Elizabeth in 1967

Dad with Elizabeth Feb 1969 in Beirut saying bye bye

Dad with Elizabeth in Beirut

Arthur Houghton and DMR canoeing article 1969

Dad and Mom with Katherine

Dad in USAID water engineer’s propeller airplane

Dad with two parrotfish caught in the Red Sea off Yemen

Smiling Dad in Salif Yemen 1970s

Dad at American Embassy in Damascus with rapper / grafitti artists in late 80s

Ransoms and Hirayamas in Japan 1986

Makoto Hiriyama and Dad in Japan 1986

Ransoms and Hirayamas, 1985

Ransoms and Tanakas, 1985

DMR in Japan, 1985

Cartoon about nomadic lifestyle

I had just bought a new place and was happy to host everyone for Christmas Eve dinner.

At Fire Island, 2001

West Virginia, 2001

Dad with Sheilagh Weir at Mom’s exhibition at Bead Museum

Dad after Sakina’s official grant of USA citizenship

Smiling Dad at home in 2002

Christmas Eve 2002

David in 2269 Garden

With grandson Ransom, probably 2002

Last photo of Dad –taken by Mary-T with Mom at Zoo House in late 2003

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