Winifred I. Flynn

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name
Winifred I. Flynn
aka
[Winifred Lynn Flynn, Winifred I. Dwyer, Winifred Dwyer]
sex
female
access
public
summary
Mother of Jerry Dwyer. By family memory she ran the books and the office of the Edwin C. Dwyer Company, the Seattle printing-machinery business, while her husband Edwin did the hands-on work. Born at St. Joseph, Missouri, one of the eleven children of the mail carrier William Clifford Flynn, she was a stenographer in San Francisco before marrying Edwin at Portland, Oregon, in 1935; she died at Seattle in 2003, aged 101.
born
date
1 Nov 1901
place
St Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[online-tree-ellingwood-ancestry, index-public-volume-2-flynn, census-1940-seattle-dwyer, index-social-security-death-flynn, census-1920-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn, census-1930-san-francisco-flynn, record-washington-death-flynn, census-1910-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn, index-find-a-grave-flynn, index-social-security-applications-claims-flynn, record-oregon-state-marriages-dwyer, census-1950-seattle-dwyer]
died
date
30 May 2003
place
Seattle, King County, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[record-washington-death-flynn, index-social-security-death-flynn, newspaper-seattle-times-dwyer-obituaries]
note
Aged 101.
buried
date
4 Jun 2003
place
Holyrood Cemetery, Shoreline, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[newspaper-seattle-times-dwyer-obituaries]
note
Section K, Lot 1009, Site 7, beside Edwin (Find a Grave 52396124).
residences
date
1910
place
St Joseph Ward 2, Buchanan, Missouri
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1910-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn]
note
Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
date
1920
place
St Joseph Ward 2, Buchanan, Missouri
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1920-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn]
note
Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
date
1930
place
San Francisco (Districts 251-409), San Francisco, California
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1930-san-francisco-flynn]
note
Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
date
1935
place
San Francisco, California
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1940-seattle-dwyer]
note
Where the 1940 census says they lived in 1935. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
date
1936
place
Los Angeles, California
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[other-california-voter-registrations-flynn]
note
Registered to vote here. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
date
1940
place
Seattle, King, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1940-seattle-dwyer]
note
Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
date
1941
place
Seattle, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[other-city-directories-flynn]
note
Listed in a city directory here. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
date
1950
place
Seattle, King, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1950-seattle-dwyer]
note
Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
father
id
william-flynn-1872
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[census-1910-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn, census-1920-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn, newspaper-st-joseph-flynn-family-of-13]
note
In the same household in a census the tree attaches.
mother
id
anna-paulson-1871
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[census-1910-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn, census-1920-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn, newspaper-st-joseph-flynn-family-of-13]
note
In the same household in a census the tree attaches.

Mother of Jerry Dwyer. Born at St. Joseph, Missouri, on 1 November 1901, the fourth of the eleven children of William Clifford Flynn, a mail carrier, and Anna Mary Paulson; she is among them in the newspaper's "Family of 13" photograph of about 1915 (in the Gallery). A stenographer in San Francisco in 1930, for paper jobbers (the census, as the online tree reads it), she married Edwin Dwyer at Portland, where her parents then lived, in 1935.

At Seattle she ran the books and the office of the family's printing-machinery business while Edwin did the hands-on work: so family memory has it, and the 1950 census lists her as its stenographer. After Edwin died in 1969 their son Jerome, who had worked in it under his father, took it over (family knowledge); her obituary calls her "the retired owner of Edwin C. Dwyer Co. of Seattle," so she may have kept a share in it (record). She died at Seattle on 30 May 2003, aged 101. Two of her sisters were nuns of the Sisters of the Holy Names.

In the records the tree attaches (not checked here):

  • 1910. St Joseph Ward 2, Buchanan, Missouri; marital status: Single; relation: Daughter (record)
  • 1920. St Joseph Ward 2, Buchanan, Missouri; marital status: Single; relation: Daughter (record)
  • 1930. San Francisco (Districts 251-409), San Francisco, California; marital status: Single; relation: Lodger; Occupation: Stenographer (record)
  • 1935. San Francisco, California (record)
  • 1936. Los Angeles, California; Occupation: Typist (record)
  • 1940. Seattle, King, Washington; marital status: Married; relation: Wife (record)
  • 1941. Seattle, Washington (record)
  • 1950. Seattle, King, Washington; Occupation: Stenographer; relation: Wife; marital status: Married (record)
  • 1951. bef. 1951; Washington (record)
  • 644 SE 20th Ave (record)
  • King, Washington (record)
  • Seattle, Washington (record)

Other records the tree attaches: Oregon, U.S., Marriage Indexes, 1906-2009; her father's obituary in the Sunday Oregonian, 27 Jan 1952, which names her as "Mrs. Winifred I. Dwyer, Seattle" (record).

Family memories

As her great-grandson remembers her (October 2026).

An independent woman, stubborn and active. She told her great-grandson of travelling across the United States on her own when she was young; her records fit a single woman on the move, in San Francisco by 1930 and registered to vote at Los Angeles in 1936. In her last years she lived alone in her own house in Ballard, Seattle, until her death, and on many days took the bus into town.

Open questions

  • Where she worked in San Francisco (1928-1935), and what share of the company she held after 1969.
  • Her travels, and her life before her marriage: the full text of her 2003 obituary, any newspaper notice of her 100th birthday (November 2001), and St. Joseph newspapers of the 1920s (see research/gedcom/ancestry-lookups.md).
  • When she moved to Ballard (her address at death).
  • A "Winnifred A. Flynn" at Long Beach, California, in 1994-1999 public records is very probably another woman.
  1. ---
  2. name: Winifred I. Flynn
  3. aka: [Winifred Lynn Flynn, Winifred I. Dwyer, Winifred Dwyer]
  4. sex: female
  5. access: public
  6. summary: >-
  7. Mother of Jerry Dwyer. By family memory she ran the books and the office of the Edwin C. Dwyer
  8. Company, the Seattle printing-machinery business, while her husband Edwin did the hands-on work.
  9. Born at St. Joseph, Missouri, one of the eleven children of the mail carrier William Clifford
  10. Flynn, she was a stenographer in San Francisco before marrying Edwin at Portland, Oregon, in
  11. 1935; she died at Seattle in 2003, aged 101.
  12. born:
  13. date: 1 Nov 1901
  14. place: St Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri
  15. basis: documented
  16. confidence: probable
  17. sources: [online-tree-ellingwood-ancestry, index-public-volume-2-flynn, census-1940-seattle-dwyer, index-social-security-death-flynn, census-1920-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn, census-1930-san-francisco-flynn, record-washington-death-flynn, census-1910-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn, index-find-a-grave-flynn, index-social-security-applications-claims-flynn, record-oregon-state-marriages-dwyer, census-1950-seattle-dwyer]
  18. died:
  19. date: 30 May 2003
  20. place: Seattle, King County, Washington
  21. basis: documented
  22. confidence: proven
  23. sources: [record-washington-death-flynn, index-social-security-death-flynn, newspaper-seattle-times-dwyer-obituaries]
  24. note: Aged 101.
  25. buried:
  26. date: 4 Jun 2003
  27. place: Holyrood Cemetery, Shoreline, Washington
  28. basis: documented
  29. confidence: probable
  30. sources: [newspaper-seattle-times-dwyer-obituaries]
  31. note: Section K, Lot 1009, Site 7, beside Edwin (Find a Grave 52396124).
  32. residences:
  33. - date: "1910"
  34. place: St Joseph Ward 2, Buchanan, Missouri
  35. basis: documented
  36. confidence: probable
  37. sources: [census-1910-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn]
  38. note: Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  39. - date: "1920"
  40. place: St Joseph Ward 2, Buchanan, Missouri
  41. basis: documented
  42. confidence: probable
  43. sources: [census-1920-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn]
  44. note: Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  45. - date: "1930"
  46. place: San Francisco (Districts 251-409), San Francisco, California
  47. basis: documented
  48. confidence: probable
  49. sources: [census-1930-san-francisco-flynn]
  50. note: Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  51. - date: "1935"
  52. place: San Francisco, California
  53. basis: documented
  54. confidence: probable
  55. sources: [census-1940-seattle-dwyer]
  56. note: Where the 1940 census says they lived in 1935. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  57. - date: "1936"
  58. place: Los Angeles, California
  59. basis: documented
  60. confidence: probable
  61. sources: [other-california-voter-registrations-flynn]
  62. note: Registered to vote here. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  63. - date: "1940"
  64. place: Seattle, King, Washington
  65. basis: documented
  66. confidence: probable
  67. sources: [census-1940-seattle-dwyer]
  68. note: Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  69. - date: "1941"
  70. place: Seattle, Washington
  71. basis: documented
  72. confidence: probable
  73. sources: [other-city-directories-flynn]
  74. note: Listed in a city directory here. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  75. - date: "1950"
  76. place: Seattle, King, Washington
  77. basis: documented
  78. confidence: probable
  79. sources: [census-1950-seattle-dwyer]
  80. note: Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  81. father:
  82. id: william-flynn-1872
  83. basis: documented
  84. confidence: proven
  85. sources: [census-1910-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn, census-1920-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn, newspaper-st-joseph-flynn-family-of-13]
  86. note: In the same household in a census the tree attaches.
  87. mother:
  88. id: anna-paulson-1871
  89. basis: documented
  90. confidence: proven
  91. sources: [census-1910-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn, census-1920-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn, newspaper-st-joseph-flynn-family-of-13]
  92. note: In the same household in a census the tree attaches.
  93. ---
  95. Mother of Jerry Dwyer. Born at St. Joseph, Missouri, on 1 November 1901, the fourth of the
  96. eleven children of William Clifford Flynn, a mail carrier, and Anna Mary Paulson; she is among them
  97. in the newspaper's "Family of 13" photograph of about 1915 (in the Gallery). A stenographer in San
  98. Francisco in 1930, for paper jobbers (the census, as the online tree reads it), she married Edwin
  99. Dwyer at Portland, where her parents then lived, in 1935.
  101. At Seattle she ran the books and the office of the family's printing-machinery business while Edwin
  102. did the hands-on work: so family memory has it, and the 1950 census lists her as its stenographer.
  103. After Edwin died in 1969 their son Jerome, who had worked in it under his father, took it over
  104. (family knowledge); her obituary calls her "the retired owner of Edwin C. Dwyer Co. of Seattle,"
  105. so she may have kept a share in it
  106. ([record](/files/sources/newspaper-seattle-times-dwyer-obituaries/)). She died at Seattle
  107. on 30 May 2003, aged 101. Two of her sisters were nuns of the Sisters of the Holy Names.
  109. In the records the tree attaches (not checked here):
  111. - **1910.** St Joseph Ward 2, Buchanan, Missouri; marital status: Single; relation: Daughter ([record](/files/sources/census-1910-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn/))
  112. - **1920.** St Joseph Ward 2, Buchanan, Missouri; marital status: Single; relation: Daughter ([record](/files/sources/census-1920-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn/))
  113. - **1930.** San Francisco (Districts 251-409), San Francisco, California; marital status: Single; relation: Lodger; Occupation: Stenographer ([record](/files/sources/census-1930-san-francisco-flynn/))
  114. - **1935.** San Francisco, California ([record](/files/sources/census-1940-seattle-dwyer/))
  115. - **1936.** Los Angeles, California; Occupation: Typist ([record](/files/sources/other-california-voter-registrations-flynn/))
  116. - **1940.** Seattle, King, Washington; marital status: Married; relation: Wife ([record](/files/sources/census-1940-seattle-dwyer/))
  117. - **1941.** Seattle, Washington ([record](/files/sources/other-city-directories-flynn/))
  118. - **1950.** Seattle, King, Washington; Occupation: Stenographer; relation: Wife; marital status: Married ([record](/files/sources/census-1950-seattle-dwyer/))
  119. - **1951.** bef. 1951; Washington ([record](/files/sources/index-social-security-death-flynn/))
  120. - 644 SE 20th Ave ([record](/files/sources/record-oregon-county-marriage-dwyer/))
  121. - King, Washington ([record](/files/sources/record-washington-death-flynn/))
  122. - Seattle, Washington ([record](/files/sources/index-public-volume-2-flynn/))
  124. Other records the tree attaches: [Oregon, U.S., Marriage Indexes, 1906-2009](/files/sources/index-oregon-marriage-flynn/); her father's obituary in the *Sunday Oregonian*, 27 Jan 1952, which names her as "Mrs. Winifred I. Dwyer, Seattle" ([record](/files/sources/newspaper-newspapers-com-obituary-flynn/)).
  126. ## Family memories
  128. *As her great-grandson remembers her (October 2026).*
  130. An independent woman, stubborn and active. She told her great-grandson of travelling across the United States
  131. on her own when she was young; her records fit a single woman on the move, in San Francisco by 1930
  132. and registered to vote at Los Angeles in 1936. In her last years she lived alone in her own house
  133. in Ballard, Seattle, until her death, and on many days took the bus into town.
  135. ## Open questions
  137. - Where she worked in San Francisco (1928-1935), and what share of the company she held after 1969.
  138. - Her travels, and her life before her marriage: the full text of her 2003 obituary, any newspaper
  139. notice of her 100th birthday (November 2001), and St. Joseph newspapers of the 1920s (see
  140. `research/gedcom/ancestry-lookups.md`).
  141. - When she moved to Ballard (her address at death).
  142. - A "Winnifred A. Flynn" at Long Beach, California, in 1994-1999 public records is very probably another woman.
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