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Bill Kitchen dies at age 78
Bill Kitchen, the former Miami Herald cartoonist, has died at the age of 78 of pancreatic cancer. Bill began working for the Herald in 1960 and officially retired in 1985 but continued to freelance to the paper until 2000. The Herald reports that in the 1960s, Bill was so popular that if he took a vacation, “bereft readers would call to make sure he was all right.”
The story doesn’t say if he got his request, but it notes that Bill wanted “a cartoon of himself etched on his tombstone, at a drawing board.”
He is survived by his wife, children, 3 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.
Hat Tip: Mike Rhode.
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Community Comments
August/29/2007 @ 5:58 pm
I’m so sorry for your loss Donna, he was a great man, and he was like family to me, and I will miss him so much. I love you Billy..
Donna I love you,
Laura
October/5/2007 @ 11:33 am
Gladys,
My condolences. Bill gave me my start at the Herald.
Octavio Diaz
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