NEW YORK TIMES
New York City, New York
July 18, 1991GUY FERRI, A DIPLOMAT AND A U.N. OFFICIAL, 69
Guy Ferri, a Foreign Service Officer from 1954 to 1972 and then the deputy representative of the International Atomic Energy Agency to the United Nations from 1972 to 1983, died on July 8 at his home in Palm Coast, Fla. He was 69 years old.
He died of cancer, a family spokesman said.
Mr. Ferri's overseas posts in the Foreign Service included the United States Embassies in Buenos Aires; Saigon, South Vietnam, and Asuncion, Paraguay, as well as many State Department assignments in Washington. Besides English, he was fluent in Italian, French and Spanish.
Mr. Ferri was born in Loreto Aprutino, Italy, and grew up in Hamburg, Pa. He was an Army sergeant in North Africa and Europe in World War II and later served in the Air Force Reserve, rising to captain. He earned a bachelor's degree at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a master's degree in public administration at Harvard.
Survivors include his wife of 36 years, the former Teresa Bursley; two daughters, Victoria Healy of Rye, N.Y., and Deborah Lynch of Rye Brook, N.Y.; his mother, Assunta of Palm Coast; two sisters, Lucy McAlpine of Palm Coast and Elsa Rentschler of Clifton, Va., and five grandchildren.
