04/03/2024

Eugene Lynn

Eugene Lynn began working for Orkin Exterminating Company in Wilmington at the age of 15 and later founded Surety Exterminating Company in Raleigh in 1957.  Gene assisted in lobbying the state legislature for passage of the North Carolina Structural Pest Control Law in the 1950s and was appointed by Governor James Hunt to be the Governor’s appointee for the Structural Pest Control Committee for a 4-year term in 1981. An active member of the North Carolina Pest Control Association, he was elected president of the North Carolina Pest Control Association in 1965.