Edmund Calvert Lynch Jr.

EDMUND CALVERT LYNCH, Jr. Son of Signa Fornaris and Edmund Calvert Lynch; brother of the late Vernon Merrill Lynch and Signa Lynch Read of VT. Born in N.Y.C. January 11, 1928, he died May 19 at his summer home in Newport, RI. He attended St. Paul's School and graduated with the class of 1948 at Yale. He is survived by his loving wife of twenty-four years, Alice (Treibick); three children from a previous marriage: Edmund, III, Virginia Dean, and Case. In addition, he is survived by three stepchildren: Jane Paquet, Douglas Braff, and Andrew Teller; and seventeen grandchildren. Mr. Lynch's father was a founder of Merrill Lynch & Company and Mr. Lynch, himself, was a partner and officer of the firm for many years. He also served on the Executive Committee of the Chi Psi Fraternity and served on the Board of its Educational Trust. In recent years, Mr. Lynch devoted considerable time to financing medical research projects in the cancer field. In lieu of flowers, kindly make contributions to: Edmund C. Lynch, Jr. Cancer Fund, C/O Jeffrey A. Gelfand, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Suite #801, Boston, MA 02114. Funeral Mass will be held on Friday, May 23 at 11 AM Saint Augustin's Church, Newport.