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Sunday's Obituary: Jack Pendleton Lynn

Manassas Journal
October 25, 1918

DEATH OF JACK LYNN

Succumbs After a Short Illness of Pneumonia

Jack Pendleton Lynn passed away Wednesday, October 23, at the home of his brother, Mr. Charles Lynn, near town, in the eighteenth year of his age, a victim of pneumonia.  He was buried Thursday afternoon at the Sudley cemetery, Rev. H. Q. Burr conducting the funeral service.

The pallbearers were Messrs. Burchell Leachman, Percival Lewis, Clarence Meetze, Chas. Trimmer, Keith Leachman, and Ralph Larson.

Mr. Lynn was a son of the late Lewis C. Lynn and Mrs. Roberta Lynn.  He was born December 11, 1900, on the Sudley farm, Fairfax county.  He moved with his parents when he was several years of age to near Wellington, where his father died six or eight years later.  since then he has lived on the farm of his brother and with his mother in Manassas.

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Roberta Lynn, and a half-brother, Mr. Charles Lynn, of near town.


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