Leigh Alan Littleton died unexpectedly at his home on February 8, 2024.
Leigh had spent the years since his retirement enjoying his many interests – from music of all kind, live and recorded, vocal and instrumental, Shakespearean plays, reading mystery stories, and much more.
Leigh’s early life was as the son of a junior high school principal and mother who ran a proofreading department at the local daily newspaper. He was an expert .22 rifle shot, winning many competitions; a Boy Scout, a paper boy, and an avid reader.
He entered the University of Chicago after his high school junior year and joined the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. While there, he met his wife Kathleen and they had one daughter, Susan Eileen. He worked at the Lab for Astrophyics and Space Research an became an expert assembly language programmer. He earned a master’s degree from the University of Chicago.
While in Chicago, Leigh developed his life-long interest in sight hounds, and began raising and running borzois in field trials. He was a member of the Midwest Borzoi Club, and served as president and other positions.
Leigh moved to the east and settled in the Roanoke area where he lived the rest his life. He worked for several hospital systems, eventually heading a group which oversaw software for the Centra Health software systems. Leigh spent his free time taking his borzois to field trials, serving as field trial judge … his field champion and #1 Locket and Noelle. Among his many interests were photography and cameras, raising and selling bamboo and bromeliads.
Leigh is survived by his wife, Vickie Littleton (Fincastle); his daughter, Susan Littleton Sestini (Turin, Italy); and his sister, Sally Breckenridge (Stamford, CT).
