SYLLA

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Marin Independent Journal
Saturday, December 12, 1987
Section A, page 4

Service set for James Sylla, president of Chevron USA

A memorial service for James R. Sylla of Kentfield, president of Chevron USA in San Francisco, will be at 2 p.m. Dec. 20 at the First United Methodist Church in San Rafael.

Mr. Sylla died Monday, Dec. 7, 1987, in the crash of a Pacific Southwest Airlines jet near San Luis Obispo. He was 53.

Mr. Sylla was raised in Chicago Heights, Ill., the son of a school superintendent. He had lived in Kentfield for the past seven years and in San Anselmo for five years before that.

He served in several executive capacities with the Chevron Corp. He was named president of Chevron USA, a 25,000 employee subsidiary of Chevron Corp., in June 1984. At the time of his death, Mr. Sylla was also corporate vice president and a member of the corporation’s executive committee.

Mr. Sylla served on the awards committee of the Marin Educational Foundation in 1983 and 1984 and on the foundation board in 1985.

He is survived by his wife, Virginia; two sons, John Sylla of Palo Alto and Tom Sylla of Southern California; and a daughter, Mary Sylla of Rhode Island.

The family prefers that memorial contributions be sent to Sunny Hills Children’s Services, the San Francisco Symphony or Golden Gate University in San Francisco, which has established a scholarship in Mr. Sylla’s name.