Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dill, Francis Whitehurst April 5, 1979
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Virginian-Pilot April 6, 1979
NORFOLK — The body of Francis Whitehurst Dill, 73, was discovered by a rental 
agent in his apartment in the 300 block of West Bute Street Thursday about 5 
p.m.
Dill had been official photographer for the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences 
and continued to work in the same capacity when it became the Chrysler Museum in 
1970, remaining until 1975. Dill was also the photographer for the MacArthur 
Memorial.
The man who called photography his life and his first love illustrated two 
books. One involved a trip to Japan and another to Australia on books about the 
life of Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur.
Norfolk detectives said Dill had been dead for several days. They said that foul 
play was not suspected and that Dill died of natural causes.
Friends told police that Dill had not been seen for several days and that mail 
was piling up in front of his door.
He was an enigmatic man even to friends.
“There isn’t a great deal I can tell you about him,” said Leia M. Hine, a 
resident of Manteo Street and a former registrar of the Norfolk Museum.
“He did photography of the Second World War. He was quiet, intelligent, he read 
a great deal and walked a great deal, but he was a very private guy,” she said.
Ms. Hine remembered that his family originated in Princess Anne County, on a 
farm in what is now Virginia Beach.
“He loved motorcycles and always went to the races,” she said. "But photography 
was his life.”
Dill is survived by a cousin, Mrs. Carrie Weston of Santa Barbara, Calif.
The body was taken to H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments in Norfolk for cremation.


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