John Perdikis | Greek diplomat, 93

John Perdikis, 93, a Greek diplomat, World War II resistance fighter against Nazi occupation in Greece, and Washington-area real estate investor, died Sept. 9 at a health-care center in Potomac, Md. The cause was complications related to dementia, said his son Alex Perdikis.

As a Greek foreign service officer, Mr. Perdikis served in consular jobs and as a military attache in cities around the world, including Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Frankfurt, Germany; Ankara, Turkey; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; and Venice.

He was posted in Washington in 1973 and remained in the Washington region. He retired from the Greek foreign service in the 1980s. He was an investor in residential and commercial office real estate, and a U.S. correspondent for the Greek newspaper Eleftheri Ora.

Mr. Perdikis was born in Athens on Nov. 15, 1920. According to his family, he joined Greek resistance forces shortly after his country was overrun by the Germans early in World War II. His units also fought against Communist guerrillas, who captured him in 1943. He escaped the next year.

He later graduated from Panteion University in Athens and from the law school of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, then joined the foreign service. He became a U.S. citizen in the late 1990s.

- Washington Post