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Frank B. Zinn, 88, died May 2, 2009. Frank was born in Tucumcari, New Mexico in 1920, son of N.M. Supreme Court Justice A.L. Zinn, and Mable Surguy Zinn. Married for fifty-nine years to Anne Shaffer Zinn who died in 1999 and living most of his life in New Mexico, he had moved to Michigan to be near his son Alan and daughter-in-law Maxine Baca Zinn. He had one grandson, Prentice, and a great-grandson Edan. Frank was elected Attorney General of New Mexico in 1958. Appointed District Judge by Governor Burroughs, he resided in Gallup until his retirement from the N.M. bench in 1975. He continued in the judiciary for another twenty years serving on federal courts and as a special master and arbitration judge. A Purple Heart veteran, he served in the Army in Europe in WWII. He retired from the New Mexico National Guard as a Lt. Col. In 1981. He will be interred in the Santa Fe National Cemetery.
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