Family
Oakley married another Foreign Service Officer, Phyllis Elliott, in Cairo, Egypt, in June 1958. Under then-prevailing rules, Phyllis Oakley was obliged to resign. The Oakleys have two children, Mary Kress, and Thomas Oakley (one married, one divorced) and five grandchildren, Robert Kress, Andrew Kress, Peter Kress, Graham Oakley, and Josephine Oakley. Phyllis E. Oakley returned to the Foreign Service in 1974.
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