The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
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DATE: Sunday, May 26, 1996                  TAG: 9605260017
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 
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GEORGE E. ZINSER

Lt. George E. Zinser, 39, of the 2900 block of Sugar Maple Drive, died May 22, 1996, in New York, N.Y.

Lt. Zinser, a native of Baltimore, Md., served in the U.S. Navy. He was a Catholic. He was a member of Preying Manitas, 1988, U.S. Navy, and a member of the Jaycees in New Port Richey, Fla. He was a 1974 graduate of Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore. He received his bachelor's degree in 1985 from Salisbury State University.

Survivors include his wife, Angela A. Zinser; a daughter, Lorinda A. Curry of Jacksonville, Fla.; his mother and stepfather, Helen G. Magruther and John V. Magruther, both of Holiday, Fla.; his father, George E. Zinser Sr. of Baltimore; two sisters, Barbara Ruark of Holiday, Patricia Morris of Port Richey, Fla.; maternal grandmother, Kunigunda Giese of Baltimore; three nieces; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.

A funeral Mass will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday by Father James J. Melley at Chapel of the Good Shepard, Naval Air Station, Oceana. Burial will be in Colonial Grove Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Great Neck Chapel, Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Navy Relief.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB