Raymond E. Kitchell, Foreign Service Officer, 85, Washington Post
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Raymond E. Kitchell Foreign Service Officer
Raymond Kitchell, 85, a retired Foreign Service officer and United Nations
official, died April 2 [2010] at Capital Hospice in Arlington of
complications from Alzheimer's disease. He lived in the Hollin Hills
neighborhood of Fairfax County.
Mr. Kitchell worked for the federal government for 27 years, beginning in
1948 as a budget analyst with the Civil Aeronautics Administration. He
joined the Foreign Service in 1953 and focused on projects in developing
countries, serving in Jordan, Cambodia and Brazil.
From 1961 to 1966, Mr. Kitchell worked at the Bureau of the Budget in
Washington, helping to plan and implement President Lyndon B. Johnson's War
on Poverty. He then joined the U.S. Agency for International Development,
serving as deputy chief of foreign-service personnel and as an evaluation
officer before retiring from federal service in 1975.
From 1975 to 1984, he was chief of evaluation for the United Nations
Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, Austria.
Raymond Elmer Kitchell was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. During World War II,
he served in Europe with the Army's 89th Infantry Division, which in April
1945 helped liberate the Ohrdruf concentration camp. It was the first such
camp to be liberated by U.S. troops in Germany.
He was a 1948 journalism and political science graduate of Syracuse
University in New York. In 1952, he received a master's degree in public
administration from what is now the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
He graduated from the National War College in Washington in 1970.
In retirement, he enjoyed working on a Web site to commemorate the 89th
Infantry Division.
Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Mary Ellen Thorpe Kitchell, of
Hollin Hills; three children, Cherie L. Kitchell of McLean, Melinda Kitchell
Malico of Annandale and Mark R. Kitchell of Amsterdam; and three
grandchildren.
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Emma Brown