LYNCH, Emzy H. (Swede)

Emzy H. "Swede" Lynch, 83, who was a member of the first Arizona Wildcat football team at the University of Arizona in 1914 under coach J. F. "Pop" McKale, died July 4, 1979, in Good Samaritan Hospital. My Lynch, 1622 N. 11th St., left college to serve in the Army in World War I. He returned to the UofA, became captain of the Wildcats and graduated with a degree in mining engineering in 1919. His career included work as a mining engineer for Inspiration Copper Co. at Miami. He also taught physics and was athletic coach at Northern Arizona University. In 1930 he became a federal marshal until he was appointed Arizona commander of the Civilian Conservation Corps. During World War II he served as a captain of the Arizona Induction Center, was on two tours of duty in Japan and was commanding officer of the Prisoner of War Camp at Florence. He retired as a lieutenant colonel after 37 years in the Army and in 1955 became a bailiff in Judge Henry Steven's court. He was adult probation officer when he retired I 1966. He was a member of the UofA Alumni Association, Kappa Sigma Fraternity, a WWI Veterans Barracks and American Legion Post I. Mr. Lynch, who came to Arizona in 1900 in a covered wagon from his native Texas, is survived by his wife, Faye Isaac Lynch; daughter, Gwendolyn Gale Grimes and two grandsons. Services in A. L. Moore & Sons Memory Chapel, 333 W. Adams. Published in the Arizona Republic Friday, July 6, 1979, p. C-5.