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University in Morgantown and came to Washington in 1950 to work for the government. There she met and married her husband, who, after serving in in the US Army during WWII, was a fresh graduate of the Harvard Soviet Studies Program. The two went to Munich in 1952 where Paul was a founder of Radio Free Europe. In 1958 they moved to Turkey and joined the US Foreign Service where they served in diplomatic posts abroad. Meanwhile they produced six children. Wherever they lived Martha was an ardent student of languages, local culture, customs and handicrafts. In Turkey she gained expert knowledge of carpet- and textile weaving and, on return to Washington, became associated with the Textile Museum. Later, in Ethiopia during the final years of Emperor Haile Selassie, she continued a wide range of volunteer work, becoming a prominent member of the Ethiopian Women's Welfare Organization, for which she was given an award by the Emperor when she left. Paul returned to Washington in 1977 to become an assistant to Zbigniew Brzezinski in the National Security Council. At that time Martha joined Academic Travel Abroad (ATA) as manager of educational travel abroad. During the years after Paul’s retirement from the government she headed the West European Department of ATA and then specialized in Turkey, where she took dozens of Americans to all parts of the country during the 1980s and 1990s. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she pioneered tours to the Caucasus and Central Asia as well as to Xinjiang, the Central Asian region of China.
Paul and Martha Henze bought an old farm at Rock Mills in Rappahannock County in 1969. In subsequent years, with the help of their children, they renovated a revolutionaryperiod house and eventually helped four of their children establish themselves on the property. Martha continued leading educational travel tours until 2001, when she took two dozen Americans to all three newly independent Caucasian republics. Meanwhile she continued travel and textile research in Ethiopia, discovering histone trade links between Turkey and East Africa which brought valuable Turkish carpets to remote parts of Ethiopia. She made her last visit to Ethiopia in 2006. The international textile journal, Hall, recognized her accomplishments with an award in 2008. Children: John, Fredencksburg VA
Elizabeth, Rock Mills, Rappahannock County VA
Martin, Rock Mills VA
Mary, Fairfax VA
Alexander, Rock Mills VA
Samuel, Brussels, Belgium The family requests, in lieu of flowers or other tokens of sympathy, contributions to the Textile Museum in Washington DC and the Aamsale Gesesse Memorial Foundation (aamsale@aol.com)
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