Pioneer's Funeral Held in Sheridan
SHERIDAN, Wyo. — Funeral services were held Wednesday (Sept. 12, 1956) for Mrs. Vinnie Tynan, 80, Sheridan pioneer who died Sunday (Sept. 9, 1956) in a local nursing home.
Mrs. Tynan was born in Hopkins, Mo, and had been a resident of this area 73 years, coming with her family overland in 1883 from Missouri and homesteading on Big Goose Creek west of Sheridan.
Mrs. Tynan was the widow of Thomas T. Tynan, to whom she was married Dec. 25, 1890, (Sheridan County Marriages, Book 1, Page 50). Thomas T. Tynan was Wyoming state superintendent of public instruction from 1904 to 1910, and Mayor of Sheridan from 1914 to 1915. He died in 1925. She was a member of the First Christian Church, the American Legion Auxiliary and The Sheridan Woman's Club, and a charter member of the Sheridan Infants Welfare Club.
Survivors are a son, T. T. Tynan, and two grandchildren in Sheridan.
Funeral services were in charge of the Rev. E. Linwood Brandis, chaplain at the Sheridan Veterans Hospital. Burial was in Sheridan Municipal Cemetery.
The Billings Gazette, Thursday Morning, Sept. 13, 1956.
See also Joseph V. Tynan and Cicil Tynan.
Sheridan Municipal Cemetery
formerly Mount Hope
See also Cecil Melbourne Tynan, who might have been her son.
SHERIDAN, Wyo. — Funeral services were held Wednesday (Sept. 12, 1956) for Mrs. Vinnie Tynan, 80, Sheridan pioneer who died Sunday (Sept. 9, 1956) in a local nursing home.
Mrs. Tynan was born in Hopkins, Mo, and had been a resident of this area 73 years, coming with her family overland in 1883 from Missouri and homesteading on Big Goose Creek west of Sheridan.
Mrs. Tynan was the widow of Thomas T. Tynan, to whom she was married Dec. 25, 1890, (Sheridan County Marriages, Book 1, Page 50). Thomas T. Tynan was Wyoming state superintendent of public instruction from 1904 to 1910, and Mayor of Sheridan from 1914 to 1915. He died in 1925. She was a member of the First Christian Church, the American Legion Auxiliary and The Sheridan Woman's Club, and a charter member of the Sheridan Infants Welfare Club.
Survivors are a son, T. T. Tynan, and two grandchildren in Sheridan.
Funeral services were in charge of the Rev. E. Linwood Brandis, chaplain at the Sheridan Veterans Hospital. Burial was in Sheridan Municipal Cemetery.
The Billings Gazette, Thursday Morning, Sept. 13, 1956.
See also Joseph V. Tynan and Cicil Tynan.
Sheridan Municipal Cemetery
formerly Mount Hope
See also Cecil Melbourne Tynan, who might have been her son.
Pioneer's Funeral Held in Sheridan
SHERIDAN, Wyo. — Funeral services were held Wednesday (Sept. 12, 1956) for Mrs. Vinnie Tynan, 80, Sheridan pioneer who died Sunday (Sept. 9, 1956) in a local nursing home.
Mrs. Tynan was born in Hopkins, Mo, and had been a resident of this area 73 years, coming with her family overland in 1883 from Missouri and homesteading on Big Goose Creek west of Sheridan.
Mrs. Tynan was the widow of Thomas T. Tynan, to whom she was married Dec. 25, 1890, (Sheridan County Marriages, Book 1, Page 50). Thomas T. Tynan was Wyoming state superintendent of public instruction from 1904 to 1910, and Mayor of Sheridan from 1914 to 1915. He died in 1925. She was a member of the First Christian Church, the American Legion Auxiliary and The Sheridan Woman's Club, and a charter member of the Sheridan Infants Welfare Club.
Survivors are a son, T. T. Tynan, and two grandchildren in Sheridan.
Funeral services were in charge of the Rev. E. Linwood Brandis, chaplain at the Sheridan Veterans Hospital. Burial was in Sheridan Municipal Cemetery.
The Billings Gazette, Thursday Morning, Sept. 13, 1956.
See also Joseph V. Tynan and Cicil Tynan.
Sheridan Municipal Cemetery
formerly Mount Hope
See also Cecil Melbourne Tynan, who might have been her son.
SHERIDAN, Wyo. — Funeral services were held Wednesday (Sept. 12, 1956) for Mrs. Vinnie Tynan, 80, Sheridan pioneer who died Sunday (Sept. 9, 1956) in a local nursing home.
Mrs. Tynan was born in Hopkins, Mo, and had been a resident of this area 73 years, coming with her family overland in 1883 from Missouri and homesteading on Big Goose Creek west of Sheridan.
Mrs. Tynan was the widow of Thomas T. Tynan, to whom she was married Dec. 25, 1890, (Sheridan County Marriages, Book 1, Page 50). Thomas T. Tynan was Wyoming state superintendent of public instruction from 1904 to 1910, and Mayor of Sheridan from 1914 to 1915. He died in 1925. She was a member of the First Christian Church, the American Legion Auxiliary and The Sheridan Woman's Club, and a charter member of the Sheridan Infants Welfare Club.
Survivors are a son, T. T. Tynan, and two grandchildren in Sheridan.
Funeral services were in charge of the Rev. E. Linwood Brandis, chaplain at the Sheridan Veterans Hospital. Burial was in Sheridan Municipal Cemetery.
The Billings Gazette, Thursday Morning, Sept. 13, 1956.
See also Joseph V. Tynan and Cicil Tynan.
Sheridan Municipal Cemetery
formerly Mount Hope
See also Cecil Melbourne Tynan, who might have been her son.
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