
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 15, 1990                   TAG: 9003152442
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

JAMES J. KILPATRICK TO LEAVE VA. FOR S.C.

James J. Kilpatrick, a former Richmond newspaper editor who has become a nationally known conservative columnist, says he is leaving Virginia after nearly 50 years to move to South Carolina.

Kilpatrick and his wife, Marie Pietri, plan to move from their 36-acre farm in Rappahannock County to Charleston, S.C., on March 23.

"My wife and I are getting to the point that we can't take care of this place," Kilpatrick, 69, said Tuesday by telephone from the farm in the community of Scrabble.

A native of Oklahoma City, Kilpatrick came to Richmond in 1941 straight from journalism school at the University of Missouri. He was editor of The News Richmond Leader from 1951 to 1967 before he became a nationally syndicated columnist and television commentator.

"I'm not madly happy about leaving Virginia after nearly 50 years," Kilpatrick said. "All my adult roots are here in Virginia. It is an uprooting, a painful process in a way. But every time I start worrying about the pain of leaving, I get caught on I-66 at 4 in the afternoon and say, `No way do I want to spend the rest of my days doing this.' "

- Associated Press

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