Richard Smith Kaynor, 88, retired International Development Consultant and author, died Monday, September 3, 2007, in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Savannah, Georgia.

He was born March 3, 1919 in Waterbury, Connecticut, the son of Warren Fox and Margaret Lane Smith Kaynor. He was a graduate of the Berkshire School, Sheffield, Massachusetts 1938, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 1942, and had a Masters of Science in Industrial Management as a Sloan Fellow in 1954 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also studied at the University of Havana and the Universidad de San Marcos in Lima, Peru.

During World War II, he served with the American Field Service as an ambulance driver with the British Eighth Army in the Middle East and the U.S. Army Air Corps as a cryptographer and interpreter in New Caledonia. In 1945, he became an officer of the Waterbury Companies, Inc. and in 1958 moved to Miami, Florida as President of South Florida Plastics. From 1962 to 1987 he worked in thirty-three countries around the world and served as a consultant to private industry, development institutions and foreign governments in Latin America, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Europe, India and Africa. He retired in 1988, returning to his home in Florida. He moved to Savannah in 2003.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Elizabeth Betty Heideman Kaynor, and his children Elizabeth Kaynor Albert John C. and Richard Smith Kaynor, Jr. Susan Ratcliffe both of Savannah, and Margaret Smith Kaynor Nolan Dr. Bruce of Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida; his brothers William Akin Kaynor Irene M. of Coconut Grove and Quogue, New York and Sanford Bull Kaynor Laura S. of Darien, Connecticut; his grandchildren Elizabeth Albert Monahan Quin of Savannah, Gerrit Christian Albert Leslie of Bluffton, South Carolina, Mary Faith Albert Bengry Shane of Midland, Michigan, Matthew Kaynor Albert Katherine of Baltimore, Maryland, Katherine Alyssa Nolan of Coconut Grove, Florida and Samuel Tyler and Matthew Fox Kaynor of Savannah and his five great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 pm Thursday, September 6, 2007 at Fox & Weeks Islands Chapel and a Memorial Service will be held on Friday, September 7, 2007 at 11:00 am at Christ Church, 28 Bull Street. Internment will be later in Riverside Cemetery in Waterbury, Connecticut.

Remembrances: AFS American Field Service Intercultural Programs, Inc. 71 West 23rd Street 17th Floor, NY, NY 10010-4102; The Chapel of the Venerable Bede, 1150 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 or Christ Church Outreach Committee, 18 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA 31401.