Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:01:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Fwd: [fmzfen] RIP: George Flynn
To: WSFA members <wsfalist at wsfa.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

This was posted to one of the fan lists I subscribe to.

George Flynn was one of the more visible members of NESFA.
He'll be missed.

Rich

--- Geri Sullivan <gfs at toad-hall.com> wrote:

> To: fmzfen at yahoogroups.com
> From: Geri Sullivan <gfs at toad-hall.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:56:12 -0400
>
> I regret to report that George Flynn died Sunday after
> being
> hospitalized for most of the summer with various health
> problems. His
> brother, Jack, sent the following information about
> funeral and
> memorial arrangements:
>
> "He will be waked at Smith's Funeral Home, Church Street,
> Warren, RI
> from 5 to 8 Friday evening, September 4th.  On Saturday
> the funeral
> will begin at
> the funeral home at 9 am, to be followed by a Mass at St.
> Mary of the Bay
> Church, 645 Main St., Warren.  Contributions in his
> memory may be
> made to either
> St. Mary of the Bay Church or the New England Science
> Fiction Association.
> Your help in disseminating this information would be
> deeply appreciated.  He
> loved your Association and its individual members."
>
> George was a very private person, but one who clearly
> treasured
> fandom and his involvement in it. I will miss him greatly
> at this
> Worldcon, and in fanzine letter columns for years to
> come.
>
> I dedicate the missing "h" in "Massachusetts" on page 1
> of the
> Noreascon 4 Souvenir Book to his memory.
>
> Geri
> --
> Geri Sullivan     gfs at toad-hall.com
>

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