Richard G. Pinkham

The Baltimore Sun

Richard G. Pinkham, a retired banker who was a great-grandson of the 19th-century patent medicine maker Lydia Pinkham, died of dementia complications July 17 at the Presbyterian Home in Towson. He was 86.

Born in Lynn, Mass., he was a direct descendant of Lydia E. Pinkham, an entrepreneur who widely advertised her patent medicine, known as Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

Mr. Pinkham earned a degree at Brown University. During World War II, he served in the Army in the Philippines, where he used his Japanese language skills to monitor enemy radio broadcasts.

After the war, Mr. Pinkham joined Cleveland's Central National Bank and retired as an assistant vice president in 1982. He later moved to Towson.

Services will be held at 3 p.m. Aug. 4 at Valley Presbyterian Church, 2200 W. Joppa Road, Lutherville.

Survivors include two sons, Richard G. Pinkham Jr. of Towson and Douglas G. Pinkham of Oakton, Va.; a daughter, Diane E. Pinkham of Gillette, N.J,; and five grandchildren. His wife of 58 years, Elizabeth Lee Bartholomew, died in 2002.

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