The Foreign Service Journal, March 2020

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2020 73 Jewell Walsh of Oakland, Calif., and Patrick Jewell Walsh of Washington, D.C.; a large extended family; and a worldwide circle of friends. She was predeceased by her parents, Robert and Analee Jewell, and her brother, Byron Frank Jewell. n Richard Kinsella , 97, a retired For- eign Service officer fromWest Hartford, Conn., passed away on Nov. 13, 2019. Mr. Kinsella was born in Hartford on Feb. 15, 1922, the eldest of three sons, in addition to two daughters, of the late George F. and Dorothea (Mooney) Kinsella. After hitchhiking cross-country to California at the age of 18, and following the United States’ entrance into World War II in December 1941, Mr. Kinsella signed on with the U.S. Coast Guard for merchant marine training, reaching the level of deck officer when ordered to active naval duty in late 1950. When the Korean War began, he was assigned as a lieutenant junior grade to one of the Navy’s underwater demoli- tion teams (also known as “frogmen,” precursors of today’s Navy SEALs) until December 1952. He then attended Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, graduating with honors in 1955. During a summer session in Mexico City, Mr. Kin- sella met and married Conchita Harper Camacho, his wife of more than 60 years. On graduation from Georgetown, he worked for the Maritime Administra- tion/Federal Maritime Board until 1972, when he was selected by the Maritime Administration as foreign maritime rep- resentative/maritime attaché at the U.S. embassy in Caracas. In 1976 he was transferred to Consulate General Rio de Janeiro, where he remained until retiring in 1987. He then returned to Connecticut, residing first inWethersfield until 2005 and then inWest Hartford. In addition to his wife, Conchita, Mr. Kinsella is survived by three sons: Marco, Robert and John; a daughter, Dianne; two grandsons, Matthias and Maximilian; and four granddaughters, Liana (and her hus- band, William Eller IV), Alaina, Lili and Celine; and great-grandson William Eller. Charitable contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 DannyThomas Place, Memphis TN