Created by: Ann
Record added: Sep 07, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 58310314
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U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010:
Name: James Lynn
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 7 Mar 1949
Death Date: 18 Aug 1981
Branch 1: NAVY
Enlistment Date 1: 9 Jun 1971
Release Date 1: 18 Jun 1976
U.S., Select Military Registers, 1862-1985:
Name: James Jefferies Lynn III
Birth Date: 1949
Age: 26
Military Date: 1 Jul 1975
Residence Country: USA
Title: Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Naval and Reserve
Publication Date: 1 Oct 1977
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Georgiana Burns (Wheeler)
Jimmy was a really nice person. What a shame to lose him.
Stephen Sealy
The last time I saw Jimmy was 1968, and we were both in uniform. We happened to be on the same flight from Baltimore to Charlotte, both returning home for Christmas. He was a midshipman at the Naval Academy; I was a seaman at school in Bainbridge. It one of those strange coincidences, with a happy, brief greeting in the aisle before taking our separate seats, and later, going our separate ways.
I remember when my parents told me about his death in 1981, such a promising life cut short. Whenever I think of him now, I remember the greeting on the plane. That, and his ninth-grade science project, an atomic cloud chamber, which was so very cool.