Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, August 06, 2006 at 05:27:53 :
Independent Journal
Wednesday, March 6, 1963
Page 4
GEORGE H. LYNOTT RITES HELD
Funeral services were held yesterday for George Harring Lynott, 72, of Greenbrae, a retired Standard Oil Co. executive and lithography firm official, who died in a San Francisco hospital Sunday after a long illness.
He lived with his wife, Marie Meredith Lynott, at 378 Via Casitas in Greenbrae.
Lynott had a varied career, one of which landed him in the Santa Tomas Prison Camp for two years before being released by the Japanese during World War II.
He leaves a brother, Jack P. Lynott of Tucson, Ariz; and two stepchildren, Mrs. Jeanne Madson of San Rafael and Robert Meredith of Palm Springs.
Lynott was a 1915 graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis and also graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He represented Standard Oil Co. in the Far East for several years, then joined American Bank Note Co. of New York in Shanghai, working up to vice president.
Late in 1941, he was commissioned to deliver $260 million dollars in bank notes to the Chinese Nationalist government, but the ship wad diverted to the Philippines. Lynott succeeded in destroying the notes to keep them from Japanese hands. He was interned for two years at Santa Tomas.
Lynott retired in 1951, settled in Oregon, then moved to Marin several years ago. He was a member of the Olympic Club in San Francisco.
Inurnment was at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Colma.
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