PAUL B. 'RED' FAY JR., 91
Confidant of President Kennedy's
Paul B. Fay Jr., a confidant of John F. Kennedy's from their service together during World War II to his tenure as a high-ranking Navy Department official in the Kennedy administration, died Sept. 23 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at his home in Woodside, Calif.
Mr. Fay, a San Francisco businessman after his years as Navy undersecretary during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, got to know Mr. Kennedy in the fall of 1942, when Mr. Fay was a Navy ensign assigned to the PT Boat School in Melville, R.I.
Both men were dispatched to the South Pacific, where they were part of the same squadron - Mr. Kennedy as skipper of PT 109, Mr. Fay as executive officer of PT 174 and subsequently captain of PT 167, based at Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
