SINNOTT

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Independent Journal
Tuesday, March 26, 1985
Section B, page 4

FLORENCE ‘PAN’ SINNOTT

A memorial service was to be held today at the Unity Center in Walnut Creek for Florence “Pan” Bowen Sinnott, an artist and patron of the arts who had lived in Mill Valley for 50 years.

Mrs. Sinnott, who was 94, died Thursday at Letterman Army Medical Center at the Presidio of San Francisco after a brief illness.

She was born and raised in Montague, Siskiyou County. In 1914, she married Philip J. Sinnott, a nationally known newspaperman. That year they came to San Francisco to represent Klamath County, Oregon, at the Panama Pacific Exposition.

They returned to San Francisco in 1919 and moved to Mill Valley in 1938. Mr. Sinnott died in 1975.

Mrs. Sinnott, in addition to her interest in art, for many years directed Campfire Girls activities in San Francisco.

An ageless and completely liberated woman of great spirit, she even chose her own day to die.

The morning of her death, she said, “If I must be confined to a sickbed, I will die today.” She died 30 minutes later.

Mrs. Sinnott is survived by her son, Philip J. Sinnott Jr. of Lafayette; five grandchildren, and one great-grandson.