Private funeral services will be conducted for Asa Wynkoop, 71, of 480 Prospect Blvd., Pasadena, onetime director of publicity in New York for the first World War Food Administration.
    He died Wednesday night at Huntington Memorial Hospital following a brief illness. Dr Eugene Carson Blake, pastor of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church, will officiate at the services.
    Wynkoop was founder and editor of New York Libraries, director of the Library Institute, New York, and director of the library extension division.
    He also served as president of the New York Library Association in 1926 and was a member of Beta Kappa, Delta Upsilon and the Pasadena Valley Hunt Club. He was the author of "Library Commissions" and "State Aid and State Agencies."
    He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mae Wynkoop, and a son Stratton of Pasadena.

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Unknown, "Former Library Director Dies, Funeral Services for Asa Wynkoop Will Be Conducted Privately," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Friday, 23 October 1942, p. 12.