Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Kitchin, Lee Coleman, Sr. September 16, 2018
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Virginian-Pilot September 18, 2018
Norfolk - Lee Coleman Kitchin, of the 1100 block of Cambridge Crescent, died on 
September 16th, 2018, at age 84. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, 
Virginia Lord Kitchin and their four sons: Lee Coleman Kitchin Jr.; Alexander 
Heard Kitchin; Lewis Cameron Kitchin and his wife Katie; and Robeson MacKethan 
Kitchin and his wife Leigh. He is also survived by seven grandchildren: 
Virginia, Carter, Robert, Chloe, Yates, Maisie and Norman Lee, all of whom he 
adored. He was predeceased by his brother, James D. Kitchin III M.D., and his 
parents, Margaret Lee Coleman Kitchin and the Rev. James D. Kitchin Jr. Mr. 
Kitchin was given the nickname Corky by the nurses at the hospital when he was 
born and was known as that by family and friends throughout his life. He 
attended Blackstone, Va., public schools, the University of Virginia and the 
University of Virginia School of Law. At UVA, Lee was a member of Phi Kappa 
Sigma fraternity and the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review. Lee pursued 
a life-long interest in literature and history. He loved regaling his family 
with stories of his childhood in small town Virginia during the Second World 
War. He enjoyed gathering friends and family at Sandbridge Beach, fall Saturdays 
in Charlottesville, gardening at home in Norfolk and time with his Labradors. He 
possessed a deep curiosity about the world and awaited the Sunday travel section 
of the New York Times each week to plan his next adventure with his wife and 
family. After graduation from law school, Lee joined the predecessor firm to 
Kaufman & Canoles. He departed in 1964 to work for Norfolk-Portsmouth 
Newspapers, now Landmark Media Enterprises. He was soon made Vice President and 
General Manager of the company's fledgling TeleCable Corporation where he 
managed the construction and initial operation of its cable television systems. 
He was selected to attend the Program for Management Development at the Harvard 
Graduate Business School in 1966 and was made President of Landmark's television 
and radio subsidiary in Norfolk the next year. He remained in that position 
until 1973, when he moved to Roanoke as President of the Landmark daily 
newspaper company, Times-World Corporation. Lee left Landmark in 1976, earning a 
master's degree from Hollins University and completing graduate studies at New 
York University Law School before joining the faculty of the University of 
Virginia Law School as Professor and Executive Director of the Law School 
Foundation and Alumni Association. Lee and his family moved to New York in 1978, 
where he became Vice President, General Counsel and a Director of Corinthian 
Broadcasting Corporation, then a New York City-based owner of major market 
television stations in California, Texas, Indiana and Oklahoma, and a television 
sports production company. During his tenure, the company acquired and later 
sold WVEC Television in Hampton Roads. Mr. Kitchin remained with Corinthian 
through the sale of its properties to A.H. Belo Corporation and the wind-up of 
corporate affairs in 1984. He then returned to Norfolk where he joined the 
Eastern Virginia Medical Authority before being named the first full-time 
Executive Director of The Norfolk Foundation, now the Hampton Roads Community 
Foundation. He retired from that position in 1999 after thirteen years of 
community leadership. In his retirement, he consulted with foundations assisting 
with Franklin, Va., multi-year flood recovery efforts after the devastation of 
Hurricane Floyd. Mr. Kitchin was a life member of the American Bar Association, 
the Virginia Bar and the Virginia Bar Association. He was a director of a number 
of civic organizations at various times and a founding board member of the 
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. Lee was a veteran of 
the U.S. Army, serving in Munich, Germany, and on extended temporary duty with 
7th Army Symphony and Soldier Shows. He completed his Army tour as resident 
manager of the Warner-Will Officers Club in Munich. Lee traveled the world 
during his lifetime, with a particular interest in returning to places of 
memory, history and art. A memorial service will be held on Monday September 
24th at 11 o'clock at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Norfolk. Reception will 
follow in the parish hall. A private burial will be at Elmwood Cemetery in 
Norfolk. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk, is handling arrangements. In lieu 
of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Hampton Roads Community 
Foundation, Chrysler Museum of Art or St. Paul's Episcopal Church. View the 
online memorial for Lee Coleman Kitchin.

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