Charles Grayson Kinnison

Suffolk – Charles Grayson Kinnison, born in Portsmouth, VA in 1955, passed away in his home surrounded by his wife and children on July 13 after a fight with pancreatic cancer.

Charlie graduated from Cradock High School in 1973, attended Tidewater Community College, and Old Dominion University in Career and Technical Education. Charlie was a 38-year veteran tech-ed teacher, printer, and yearbook advisor for Newport News Public Schools at Ferguson HS and Warwick HS before moving to Salem HS in VA Beach. “Moose,” as he was known in the scouting community was an Eagle Scout, Wood Badge recipient, former scoutmaster of troop 251 in Portsmouth VA, and Vigil Honor Arrowman of the Order of the Arrow, Blue Heron Lodge, #349. He met his wife, Dianne Hill Kinnison, at TCC in 1973. They married in 1980, and have two children, Nathaniel & Jackie. Charles was a proud “Moose” of seven grandchildren: Gabriel, Helen, Jack, Louis, Anthony, Charlie, and Liliana.

Please join us in celebration of his life on Saturday, July 22 at the Hellenic Center of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral on Granby Street in Norfolk at 11:00am.