TOWAMENCINÂ â He has been gone for almost a year now, but local officials in his native Towamencin will never forget Jim Sinz.
And township officials recognized the late veteran and supervisor with a special presentation to Sinz s widow Jeanie earlier this month. He was willing to give his life for this country, as a pilot in the Navy, serving as he did. And then when he got out of the Navy, in his heart he still felt he needed to serve, said Veterans Committee Chairman Michael Lewis.
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Sinz was a U.S. Navy pilot starting in 1968, flying the P3 Orion in deployments to Vietnam, Bermuda and the Mediterranean, before working as an instructor pilot from 1973 through 1994, finishing his career with an assignment at the Naval Air Warfare Center in Warminster. It was during that deployment that the Sinz family settled in Towamencin, where Jim was elected to a post as township supervisor in 2003, then served nearly three full six-year terms until his passing in M