Retired International Representative James “Jim” Griffin died on October 19 from a heart attack at his home in Gambrills, Md. at the age of 69.
Griffin was born in 1957 in Chicago to Barbara Johnson Griffin and Hazen J. Griffin, the president of the Service Employees International Union Local 372. His obituary with Donaldson Funeral Homes says celebrations of life are being organized at a later date.
He worked as a news assistant at the Lexington Herald and was the vice president of the Lexington Guild before landing a job as a collective bargaining and research assistant at the Guild’s headquarters in 1982. Nineteen months later he was promoted to international representative.
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