88 APRIL-MAY 2025 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL If you would like us to include an obituary in In Memory, please send text to journal@afsa.org. Be sure to include the date, place, and cause of death, as well as details of the individual’s Foreign Service career. Please place the name of the AFSA member to be memorialized in the subject line of your email. its forces in the South. He also was the State Department’s representative on an interagency task force analyzing possible cease-fire outcomes for the war. Mr. Kinsey took leave from government service while he studied at the University of Virginia’s Darden School, earning an MBA. In 1973 he resigned from the State Department to pursue a career in business, working first for the New York consulting firm Cresap, McCormick, and Paget, and later for Congressional Quarterly and other publications. He was a longtime member of the Direct Marketing Association of Washington and served on its board for several years. In 2000 Mr. Kinsey retired and moved with his wife, Joan Anderson, to Golden Pond Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The farm became a frequent unofficial assembly point for civilian and military veterans of the Vietnam pacification program. At the time of his death, he was writing a detailed history and analysis of Vietnamese pacification efforts, based partly on recollections of many Vietnamese-speaking pacification advisers. It was to be titled “Good Guys.” Mr. Kinsey’s first marriage ended in divorce. In 1981 his second wife, Nancy Norman, perished in a house fire, along with the couple’s son, Matthew. Mr. Kinsey is survived by his wife, Joan Anderson; son Scott Graves, of Salt Lake City, Utah; daughter Jacqueline Norris, of Castle Rock, Colo.; son Geoffrey Howard Kinsey, of Bothell, Wash.; and by a surfeit of supremely talented grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Memories can be shared on the Heishman Funeral Home website at www.valleyfs.com. n
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