2006
Everett Eynon Jr., 74, an insurance executive and champion amateur golfer, died April 18 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers in
Aiken, S.C., where he lived. He had complications from surgery to implant a heart pacemaker.
Mr. Eynon was a native Washingtonian and a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School. He was an excellent athlete and
attended Wake Forest University in North Carolina on a baseball scholarship.
After serving in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, he was a pitcher in the minor league system of the Washington
Senators. His grandfather, Edward B. Eynon Jr., was the longtime secretary of the old Washington Nationals and Senators
baseball franchise under former owner Clark Griffith.
Mr. Eynon entered the insurance business in the mid-1950s and became a senior vice president of Weaver Bros. Insurance
Associates, where he worked for more than 40 years. He was a former president of the Washington Metropolitan Insurance
Association.
Both of his parents had been champion golfers, and Mr. Eynon followed in their path. In 1965, he won the men's golf
championship of Columbia Country Club and later won the club's senior title. In 1970, he and his son, Everett "Skip"
Eynon Jr., won the Maryland father-son tournament and repeated the feat in 1974.
Mr. Eynon retired in 1996 and moved to South Carolina, where he was a member of two golf clubs. Four days before his death,
he played a round of golf and shot his age, 74.
Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Nancy Appleman Eynon of Aiken; his son of Columbia, S.C.; two daughters, Victoria
McNair of Aiken and Elizabeth Crawford of Dallas; a brother, Keith Eynon of Springfield; and seven grandchildren.