Francis H. Lindley, L.A. Attorney, Dies
Francis Haynes Lindley, a longtime Los Angeles attorney active in his family’s Haynes Foundation, a philanthropic group interested in fostering social science research as it pertains to public policy, is dead.
The former deputy and assistant city attorney for Los Angeles was 87 when he died last Wednesday at his home here.
Lindley was active for years on behalf of Claremont University and at his death was an honorary trustee of the Claremont University Center. He held a similar position at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles.
A graduate of Harvard University and the USC School of Law, he had been president of Town Hall of Los Angeles, served from 1965 to 1967 as a Department of Water and Power commissioner and once headed the Section of Municipal Law of the American Bar Assn.
A widower, he is survived by two sons, Francis Haynes Jr. and Walter, and three grandchildren.
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