https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/12/18/obituaries/69992aa0-0f82-4827-b02b-474556fc4f62/?utm_term=.b03c9f94396e

Bayard F. Griffin Jr.

Navy Captain, Management Consultant

Bayard F. Griffin Jr., 80, a retired Navy captain who had a civilian career as a management consultant, died Dec. 6 at his home in Virginia Beach after a heart attack.

Capt. Griffin, who served in the Navy from 1938 to 1953, was a Grumman Hellcat fighter pilot in the Pacific during World War II. He received two Distinguished Flying Crosses and five Air Medals, partly for his efforts in downing two Japanese aircraft and sinking a Japanese warship.

He also took part in the battle known as the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, in which his plane was shot down.

Capt. Griffin, a native of Boise, Idaho, and a marketing graduate of what is now San Diego State University, lived in Bethesda for about 30 years before moving to Virginia Beach in 1993.

As a management consultant, he worked for General Dynamics in San Diego and Management Technologies Inc. and Advanced Management Planning Inc., both in the Washington area. He retired in 1975 after four years as a program analyst with the Defense Department.

He was a Mason and past president of the Bethesda chapter of the Masonic National Sojourners.

His wife of 45 years, Mary Irene Durham Griffin, died in 1992.

Survivors include his wife, Margaret N. Griffin of Virginia Beach; five sons from his first marriage, Michael G., of Germantown, Patrick S., of Flagstaff, Ariz., Jeffrey F., of Arlington, Bayard F., of Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Thomas J., of Germantown; two sisters; and 11 grandchildren.

Bayard Griffin (1919)