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Michael M. Flynn dies Saturday night

  KEOTA-Michael M. Flynn, 77, died Saturday evening at Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, of complications following surgery for a broken hip suffered in a fall at his farm home Sept. 2.
  The funeral will be Tuesday at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church at Keota with the Rev. C. S. Kempker officiating. Burial will be in the Keota cemetery. Friends may call at the family home. The rosary will be at 8 p.m. this evening at the Powell Funeral Home.
  Mr. Flynn was born Oct. 21, 1889, at Washington, a son of John and Abigail Swift Flynn. He attended Washington schools and was married Feb. 3, 1917, to Mary A. Taylor at Davenport. He farmed in the Washington area and moved to his present home at Keota Dec. 1, 1942. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church at Keota.
  He is survived by his wife; four sons: Taylor, John, Robert and Richard, all of Keota; and a daughter, Mrs. M. W. (Violet) Putman of Midland, Mich. There are 26 grandchildren surviving, also four brothers: W. F., George, Dennis and Leonard, all of Washington. He ws preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Katherine.
  The casketbearers will be six grandsons: Dan, Jerry, Kelly, Jay P., Tom and James Flynn.
(Washington Journal, Washington, Iowa, September 25, 1967)

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