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- George McLaren Brydon Jr., retired navy captain and a former business manager for the Virginia Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals, died Wednesday at Kenner Army Hospital at Ft. Lee. Brydon, 68, a resident of Richmond, was graduated from the J.S. Naval Academy in 1924. During 34 years of Navy service he served on various assignments, including sea duty from Iceland to Asiatic stations for 13 years. In World War II he estab- ished the Naval Supply Depot at Adak, Alaska, and was commanding officer of aviation supply depots in Norfolk, Hawaii and Alameda, Calif., and the .Naval Medical Supply Depot in Brooklyn.
After retiring in 1954, Brydon was appointed business manager of the mental hygiene department.;'^. July 1956. The post was abolished several months later in a reorganization of the department and he became a mathematics instructor at the University of Richmond and at Hermitage High School here. Surviving are the widow, the former Cleland Harris; two daughters, Mrs. Leveson-Gower Leslie Jr. of Lynchburg and Mrs. John Williamson Moore III of. Richmond; a son,. David MacLaren Brydon of Richmond; a sister, Anne Page Brydon of Charlottesville, and two brothers, Robert Brydon III and Nathaniel Coleman Brydon, both of Richmond. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
-- source: The Bee from Danville, Virginia on July 23, 1970 --
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