June 22, 2009

World War II veteran John Lynwood Smith dies at 89  06/22/09 12:01 AM

John Lynwood Smith, a survivor of the World War II German air attack that sank the HMT Rohna, resulting in the largest loss ever of U.S. troops at sea, was laid to rest Sunday in Amelia Presbyterian Church cemetery in Amelia Courthouse. The Winston-Salem, N.C., resident, who retired in 1983 as senior vice president and manager of the Amelia office of Central Fidelity Bank, died Thursday at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem of complications after surgery for a broken hip. He was 89.

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