Seymour Daily Tribune
January 10, 2002
Mary Edith Lynch
Mary Edith Lynch, 88, Franklin, died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2002, in Franklin.
She moved to Franklin in 1978 from Seymour, where she had lived for 20 years. She also had lived in Indianapolis for 16 years. She was a graduate of Champaign High School in Illinois. She was employed by Quality Bakery in Indianapolis and later at Cake Box Bakery in Seymour as a baker and cake decorator and in sales, retiring after 30 years. She was a member of Second Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and Senior Citizens in Nineveh. She enjoyed sewing and quilting.
Born May 4, 1913, in Champaign, Ill., she was a daughter of Scott Wilson and Sadie Dunn Blaine. On Jan. 15, 1932, she married Ansel S. Lynch, who died in March 1974.
Survivors include two sons, Jack L. Lynch, Franklin, and Richard N. Lynch, California; a daughter, Diane Bennett, Whiteland; a sister, Erma Hord, Scottsdale, Ariz.; 15 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by a son, Daniel Lynch; two daughters, Jane Kortzendorf and an infant; a grandson, Garry Lynch; a granddaughter, Karen Kortzendorf; and a brother, Edward Blaine.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at Flinn and Maguire Funeral Home, Franklin. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery, Seymour.
Friends may call from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be given to the American Heart Association Midwest Affiliate, Memorial and Tributes Program, Dept. 77-3968, Chicago, IL 60678-3968.